Super Dome Lives Tonight!

[Canesluver]

Anybody watching the pre-show for the Saints?

It's so cool to see that building alive again. When I was in grad school and living in N.O., we went to see a few Saints games.

I'm getting teary. It's so symbolic to have the Saints back home.

They were just talking about an organization called Music Rising that's getting musical instruments, amps, etc. back to a lot of the N.O. musicians who lost everything in Katrina.

[Canesluver]

Saints score first! What a flukey goal!

Atlanta's punting, but the Saints defense rushes the kicker--blocking the kick which knocks the ball back behind the kicker. The Saints grab the ball and run only a few yards to score (since Atlanta was so far back on their end)!

7-0, Saints!

[apolinar]

I'm bawling like a baby. Pregame, and now that touchdown. Who dat?!!!??

[Canesluver]

I just went out to my car and grabbed my old Saints stadium blanket (I keep it there, in case of emergencies). The 'Canes throw I keep on the upstairs couch is getting temporarily demoted.

I'm crying, too, Ap-- it's just so emotional. The pictures--testimonials-- all that's getting to me.

"Who dat say gonna beat them Saints!" :beatup:

[apolinar]

I have my saints golf shirt on tee hee. Did you bring champagne poppers when you went to the game too? ;) I sat at the way top where people made paper airplanes and got cheered if it made it all the way to the field. And where people threw the lids of the dominoes pizza cartons down on the rich people below. I had my favorite ticket connection in front of Charity Hospital ;)

[Canesluver]

Wooo! Hooo! An former LSU tiger runs in it--- and the extra point is good!!

14-3, Saints!

[Canesluver]

I have my saints golf shirt on tee hee. Did you bring champagne poppers when you went to the game too? ;) I sat at the way top where people made paper airplanes and got cheered if it made it all the way to the field. And where people threw the lids of the dominoes pizza cartons down on the rich people below. I had my favorite ticket connection in front of Charity Hospital ;)

Oh yeah-- we sat in the nosebleeds-- no other choice-- too expensive elsewhere. What I remember most, was these metal panels on the wall that would rattle really well, if you banged on them-- so we'd just pound on them. That--- and my friend, Bernard. He and his girlfriend, Louise, were(are) from Montreal, and had these wonderful French-Canadian accents. Bernard couldn't say "third" It always sounded like, "turd." So, when he'd go with us, I loved hearing him say, "Turd down".... "Turd quarter".... :lol:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

I'm so glad to see them winning this game, so far! Hope they can keep it up. Wonderful to see that building filled for a game again.

[apolinar]

I guess I won't be seeing any games this year. THEY SOLD OUT THE ENTIRE SEASON.

[CANESFREAKinDET]

I guess I won't be seeing any games this year. THEY SOLD OUT THE ENTIRE SEASON.

WOW! Good for them seriously. I'm so glad those in the area can come together once again and enjoy something FUN. Mardi Gras, and now the Saints are back! :D They deserve lots of happiness in New Orleans after the last year and I'm glad to see them having some!

[SouthernHockeyChick]

ROFLMAO!!!

Did anyone else just hear the annoucer on the Saints game mess up and say "He must have seen something that caused him to take it out of his pants."
:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

He was referring to the ref throwing a flag. All the announcers started laughing. Hilarious. That's a once in a lifetime kind of thing to hear. :laugh:

[CANESFREAKinDET]

:laugh: :lol: !!! That's what I THOUGHT I heard!!! OMG...

[StormShaman]

I bleed Redskins maroon and gold, but I will be absolutely thrilled if the Saints wind up going all the way and bringing the Vince Lombardi Trophy to N'awlins. The good people of that town deserve some great happiness after all the sh*t that's been dumped on them.

Even if they have to beat my beloved 'Skins along the way. :kiss:

[Canesluver]

ROFLMAO!!!

Did anyone else just hear the annoucer on the Saints game mess up and say "He must have seen something that caused him to take it out of his pants."
:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

He was referring to the ref throwing a flag. All the announcers started laughing. Hilarious. That's a once in a lifetime kind of thing to hear. :laugh:

Awe, man! Missed it! I slept through part of the 3rd, and most of the 4th period. I just can't make it through Monday Night Football.

That's the trouble with football to me -- too damn long. Almost 4 hours to play 60 minutes-- ridiculous!

Glad the Saints won! :D I'd love to see them rise above being the 'Aints that I remember from the early '90's. (or just about most of their existence!)

[caneshockeychick]

SS, I don't think the Saints will have to beat the 'Skins...they are doing that to themselves too well ;)

I was glad to see that game last night. Hate that I missed the opening but I'm glad for the State of Louisiana that pro football is back. I have a feeling the Saints, with all they have on that team now, will be a good team this year. They have a lot behind them.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

That's the trouble with football to me -- too damn long. Almost 4 hours to play 60 minutes-- ridiculous!


Yet you like baseball?!?! :lol: ;)

Yeah, I think the Saints may do very well this year. It was just awesome after the game....not a player left the field, no one left the building. 30 minutes after the game is over the crowd is still there and still loud. Just awesome. Weird to cry so much during football that doesn't involve Jake Delhomme, though. :lol:

[StormShaman]

SS, I don't think the Saints will have to beat the 'Skins...they are doing that to themselves too well ;)

Don't remind me. :p

[CanesChic]

I was bawling last night too and didn't see this thread until now..I kept taking "breaks" from watching so I wouldn't be the only one with puffy eyes at the end of a week 3 game. I was a mess from the moment that U2 and Green Day came out...better than most recent SuperBowls!

The last time I cried over football was what - '93? I remember standing out in the harsh Buffalo winter at dusk when the Bills beat the Chiefs in the AFC Championship game..and we knew again that we were going to the Superbowl...my family was there and the lights had gone on in the stadium, snow was falling and not one person of the 82,000 there seemingly moved..we were going to Superbowl XXIX in Atlanta..and all of a sudden the speakers started blaring "Georgia On My Mind"..and 82,000 people started swaying back and forth, hugging, and singing this song at the top of their lungs...it was one of those perfect football moments that should only happen when you can see your breath, can't feel your nose or fingers and can see the snow coming down...

*sigh* Sorry for the trip down memory lane...

Course. We did lose. AGAIN. 30-13 to those %^&$# Cowboys. But I digress.

Goooooo Saints! ;)

[Canesluver]

Just saw this:



Celebs turn out for reopening of Superdome

U2, Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr. join celebration of Saints' return

NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans saxophonist, Branford Marsalis, didn't even check his ticket to see where he'd be sitting for Monday's New Orleans Saints-Atlanta Falcons game at the Louisiana Superdome.
"I could be in the nosebleeds. It doesn't matter," he said just a few hours before kickoff.
Marsalis was one of a number of celebrities and musicians with a ticket for the first true regular season home game for the Saints since the 2004 season — the grand reopening of the dome after Hurricane Katrina.
Harry Connick Jr. decided at the last minute to attend the game. Connick and Marsalis were in town checking on the progress of the Musicians Village, a Habitat for Humanity project launched in December to provide affordable housing for the city's musicians and others who lost their homes in Katrina's flooding.
"There's a certain level of symbolism involved," Marsalis said. "This is just one huge symbol of the city returning to some sort of normalcy."
At halftime, Spike Lee, who directed "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," a documentary about Katrina, shook hands with players on the field.
Musical performances by rock bands The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day and U2 added to the hype.
It wasn't the first performance for U2 at a football game in the Superdome. The Irish band played during the 2002 Super Bowl halftime show to commemorate the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The band's guitarist, The Edge, has worked to help the city's musicians since Katrina struck. He is one of the founding members of Music Rising, a charity launched to provide replacement instruments to more than 2,000 musicians who lost theirs in the flooding.