Wow! Superdome Likely to be Torn Down!

[DomCasual]

I don't have a link, but CNN is reporting that the Superdome is going to likely have to be torn down - I guess from damages incurred during the hurricane.

You have to wonder when, if ever, the Saints are ever going to go back there. Are there any other places in New Orleans they could play, assuming the city got back on its feet?

You have to wonder how safe the Superdome was during the hurricane.

[Dr. Broncenstein]

The superdome is just the beginning.... might as well drop an A-Bomb on what was New Orleans.... who wants to re-inhabit a structure submerged in sh#t for X months?

[ludo21]

I don't have a link, but CNN is reporting that the Superdome is going to likely have to be torn down - I guess from damages incurred during the hurricane.

You have to wonder when, if ever, the Saints are ever going to go back there. Are there any other places in New Orleans they could play, assuming the city got back on its feet?

You have to wonder how safe the Superdome was during the hurricane.


During the storm pieces of it were falling on ppl inside. So not as safe as first guessed by officials. I dont think any unjuries happened in there, but still rather unsafe for those guys that were in there.

This is sick, but this storm gives Benson(?) the owner more reason to move the team to his hometown San Antonio. That sux, caz NO is a great city and has given the NFL a lot in terms of revenue for the SB. Hopefully its a minor miscaculation and the Saints can play as soon as next year there. Thats my wish at least.

This could pssibly give Texas 3 teams.

[BroncoMatt]

The dome will have to be torn down but I would think it would be the last thing they need to think about rebuilding right now. Roads, schools, hospitals, homes, businesses etc all would have to be placed about a new football stadium. People may vilify Tom Benson and the NFL for moving the team but it will be years before that city could support an NFL franchise, they barely could support one before the hurricane.

[MNBronco]

The dome will have to be torn down but I would think it would be the last thing they need to think about rebuilding right now. Roads, schools, hospitals, homes, businesses etc all would have to be placed about a new football stadium. People may vilify Tom Benson and the NFL for moving the team but it will be years before that city could support an NFL franchise, they barely could support one before the hurricane.


Great point. Plus, you're not talking about a major city to begin with. With less than 500K people, where are they going to get the funds for all that AND a stadium?

[maven]

who wants to re-inhabit a structure submerged in sh#t for X months?


10 million cans of Lysol couldn't rid the stench of sh*t in the Superdome.

[MNBronco]

10 million cans of Lysol couldn't rid the stench of sh*t in the Superdome.

...and that was BEFORE the hurricane!

[Dr. Broncenstein]

10 million cans of Lysol couldn't rid the stench of sh*t in the Superdome.

New Orleans smelled like sh#t before the flood..... just imagine... blugh....

[watermock]

They would never get the stench out. At least it wasn't renovated first. First the hurricane, then the flood, then the disaster of people tearing it up.

I totally expected this, and that isn't even considering that it's structural integrity may be compromised. You can't even get to bedrock down there. Where the arkansas farm is in the delta, the mud is 200 feet thick...the mud doesn't hit rock till all the way to Little Rock and the Ozarks...that's how many times the mississippi has historically flooded. The city was a disaster waiting to happen.

[Needa Pass Rush]

Saints Coach Changes Mind About Playing Games In SA

POSTED: 9:49 am CDT September 6, 2005
UPDATED: 9:58 am CDT September 6, 2005

SAN ANTONIO -- New Orleans Saints head coach Jim Haslett said Monday that it makes sense for the team to play the majority of their home games at the Alamodome.

"Obviously, the best situation for us is to play games right here, because we're working here," Haslett said.

But Haslett also said he would like to play one or two games in Baton Rouge, La., due to the Saints' ties to the state.

Over the weekend, Haslett and the Saints general manager indicated they wanted most of their home games played in Louisiana.

The NFL has not made a decision where the Saints will play most of their home games.

The first home game will be played Sept. 19 at Giants Stadium in New York.

Also on Monday, the Saints held their first practice at the Spring Sports Complex, their permanent practice facility.

The Saints also learned that the Louisiana Superdome will have to be torn down due to the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.


http://www.ksat.com/sports/4939407/detail.html

[El Guapo]

no one is going back there anyway. I say open the gates and let the rest of the water in, it'll save money and time/effort. New Atlantis.

[Sodak]

Funny thing though. The Superdome was one of the nicest buildings in NO. That place was a cesspool before the hurricane...

[missingnumber7]

I can't believe that more people aren't making a deal out of the Giants saying that they would ALLOW the Saints have their home opener in NY. How convenient for them. The superdome is going to have suprises for people when the power comes back on in there. I would dare say that they will probably even find a dead body or two when the power comes back on. But the stench will stay. I don't know how many of you have been around flooded areas but I spend quite a bit of time in Grand Forks ND which flooded in the spring of 1997 and it STILL have some nasty smells. It will take a long time for that stench to be removed out of that area.

[watermock]

I don't know if the smell will ever go away. There are going to be dead people, tons of dead pets, fish, snakes, gators, nutria, rotting wood, chemicals, oil spills, all sinking into the bottom a putrid mudhole. People thinks it stinks now, wait till it gets drained. They are going to wish they hadn't. What is going to be uncovered is going to be even worse when the water is eventually pumped out. They might scrape the bottom after they level the city to build the levees up, then try to fill the bowl of NO. This would cost two hundred billion probably. I don't really know. But there is no reason not to relocate the city at this point.

[RhymesayersDU]

Well, this basically makes it official, the Saints are gone.

It sucks for the people in NO, but they can't support the team financially, and won't be able to do so for a long time.

[Bronx33]

Sad to say but the whole place/county will have to be replaced.......

[ro_50]

As someone who's been there at least 25 times, the city needs to be rebuild along with Slidell, a city near and dear to me.

[Hogan11]

So much distatse by some for a city now in ruins :nono:

If anything, it gives Benson and the State the open door needed to build the stadium he wanted in the first place....hey, it's all part of the city's reconstruction and it would be included as such.

Bulldoze the dome, let the team play where ever for however long it takes and then let them return to a new stadium in a newly renovated and rebuilt city of New Orleans...that's what I say.

[Broncoman13]

The scariest thing in all of this is the cost for rebuilding the city. I don't think Mock was too far off with his 200 billion dollar estimate. Look at what a hole we're in from the war. I liked the city as much as the next and have great compassion for all people, especially those from New Orleans...but at what point to you sever ties and cut your losses. Again, I don't want to sound dispassionate, but as a Government Employee I see first hand more than most the affects from these spending woes.

[Hogan11]

The scariest thing in all of this is the cost for rebuilding the city. I don't think Mock was too far off with his 200 billion dollar estimate. Look at what a hole we're in from the war. I liked the city as much as the next and have great compassion for all people, especially those from New Orleans...but at what point to you sever ties and cut your losses. Again, I don't want to sound dispassionate, but as a Government Employee I see first hand more than most the affects from these spending woes.

Cut your losses? C'mon...if you think for a second they're just gonna up and abandon the place without rebuilding...you're delusional.

They'll rebuild and people will continue to live there regardless of the cost.

[watermock]

The 200 Billion was in FEDERAL STATE AND LOCAL aid.

The problem is really this. If your a real estate developer, are you jumping onto the bandwagon to rebuild New Orleans? If you want to locate your corporate headquarters...are you looking at New Orleans as a Hub?

The fact of the matter is private investment isn't going to happen. It will go to Pensacola, even Mobile drains, and it's a swamp. Even Galveston was built up to be over sea level. This was a disaster waiting to happen.

Anything that went under water for any amount of time is ruined, end of story. Do you understand that place never freezes to at least halt insects for a month or two? It's like the Amazon down there. I have lived there. I have seen Mobile. It's a freaking swamp that goes up into the continent for hundred miles. Gulfport was a incredibly important port. It's where we went to get our semi runs to Sioux Falls. The warehouse is destroyed, state of the art it was. WAS.

The private sector will have that up and running right away, along with as much of the oil sector. The residential, business office sectors isn't to come back to New Orleans. They would have to be insane.

[broncoblue]

I was listening to a chat show here last evening and they had a 10 minute US sports slot and they chatted to a man in usa who reckoned the saints would be moving to LA?how much truth would there be in that story?

[Mr. Trout]

During the storm pieces of it were falling on ppl inside. So not as safe as first guessed by officials. I dont think any unjuries happened in there, but still rather unsafe for those guys that were in there.

This is sick, but this storm gives Benson(?) the owner more reason to move the team to his hometown San Antonio. That sux, caz NO is a great city and has given the NFL a lot in terms of revenue for the SB. Hopefully its a minor miscaculation and the Saints can play as soon as next year there. Thats my wish at least.

This could pssibly give Texas 3 teams.


OH THERE WAS INJURIES..PEOPLE GOT SHOT AND LITTLE GIRLS WERE RAPED BUT I GUESS THAT WASN'T STRUCTURAL INJURIES.

[Mr. Trout]

I was listening to a chat show here last evening and they had a 10 minute US sports slot and they chatted to a man in usa who reckoned the saints would be moving to LA?how much truth would there be in that story?


They will end up in san antonio..Tom Benson the saints owner has strong ties there and I am sure they are hungry for an NFL team.

[Mr. Trout]

Cut your losses? C'mon...if you think for a second they're just gonna up and abandon the place without rebuilding...you're delusional.

They'll rebuild and people will continue to live there regardless of the cost.


It may be rebuilt to a 1/4 of its old self by 2010..mark my words.