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CNN reporting Superdome to be torn down
9/6/05 | GeorgiaDawg32

Posted on 09/06/2005 4:03:08 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32

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To: GeorgiaDawg32

A billion dollar white elephant that lasted just 30 years. Thank Edwin Edwards, Carlos Marcello, Moon Landrieu and all the rest of the LA Mafia for this wonderful place. Now if only the LA Dems would come crashing down, the state could enter the modern world


261 posted on 09/06/2005 6:14:27 PM PDT by Figment
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To: PAR35

That's part of the package - according to the San Antonio Express newspaper.


262 posted on 09/06/2005 6:17:30 PM PDT by mcg2000 (Wolf Blitzer: "They're all so desperate, so poor, and so black.")
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To: dennisw

yes... he who furnishes the gold makes the rules. they want a new dome, they should raise the money themselves. state bonds, whatever, but not a dime from congress beyond what would be needed to fix up the old dome. first order of business for us tax money spent there should be to control the water situation in NOLA as best as humanly possible.


263 posted on 09/06/2005 6:17:38 PM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: MikeinIraq

" (assuming the Saints don't skip town on them)"


Reported on WDSU Sunday, the Saints are gone. A high placed exec said they are looking for bidders in San Antonio or L.A. will never retun to NO


264 posted on 09/06/2005 6:18:26 PM PDT by Figment
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To: MikeinIraq

Any Oakland Raider fans still inside the building? :P


265 posted on 09/06/2005 6:18:50 PM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: mcg2000

i wonder how much of that is speculation and how much of that was actually stated by the saints.


266 posted on 09/06/2005 6:19:23 PM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: The Red Zone
Dude, Much like you, I Hate Taxpayer Fund to Go To Sports Stadiums, but this is one of those rare circumstances where I approve of rebuilding both. Both those Arenas are Huge sources of revenue for the city, and the City of N.O. needs that head start to get to normal again. Just My Opinion......
267 posted on 09/06/2005 6:20:42 PM PDT by cmsgop ( I DON'T C.A.I.R. !!!!!!!!!)
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To: The Red Zone
A monument near the Dome, a formal rededication of the Dome, a moment of silence prior to games

If what I've read about the gruesome happenings inside the dome is true, then I would like to see the dome demolished and all traces removed from the earth.

A monument? Then let us build monuments to anarchy--to murderers, theives, rapists, and child molesters--let us build monuments to hell.

268 posted on 09/06/2005 6:21:12 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: The Red Zone

Research the history on http://www.nola.com ...

it's very real and according to Sean Salsbury; "It will happen very soon. Once the dome is confirmed to be demolished, it's lights out in The Big Easy."


269 posted on 09/06/2005 6:22:45 PM PDT by mcg2000 (Wolf Blitzer: "They're all so desperate, so poor, and so black.")
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

They all need to keep dreaming.


270 posted on 09/06/2005 6:23:02 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: dfwgator
"...LA has a team, they're called the Chargers...."

And the Chargers are going to lose to the Dallas Cowboys Sunday.

Isn't it a bit early to start making assessments as to which major structures are to be condemned? To make the decision to bring the Superdome down now seems a bit premature. I feel for the Saints. No team has had to go through what they are about to embark on. 16 roads games is not conducive for a winning season.
271 posted on 09/06/2005 6:25:13 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH!)
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To: Wolverine

"Taxpayers will pay $300 million for a new stadium...courtesy of the Federal Government"

Where's your sense of fairness? That stadium was built with $1 BILLION in 1970 dollars. Edwin Edwards is spinning in his jail cell at that suggestion.


272 posted on 09/06/2005 6:26:20 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Figment

I can't say that isn't a bad idea. fresh start, faciliites in place, in a state that is football crazy (2nd only to Ohio)...


273 posted on 09/06/2005 6:26:50 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Ohio State vs. Texarse, Sept 10th)
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To: Age of Reason

Monuments to the storm victims, not the criminals (in some cases persons may have been both, but we don't know that). Sufficiently broad wording should cover the sum of all the tragic deaths that occurred citywide in the immediate wake of hurricane Katrina - not just in the Dome. As for the criminals themselves, let them go down to ignominy, unless they repent.


274 posted on 09/06/2005 6:28:32 PM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: BurbankKarl
They just said no public schools in Orleans or Jefferson Counties til Sept 2006.

If they actually said county, they have established that they don't know what they are talking about.

275 posted on 09/06/2005 6:29:46 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

The next 'dome will be on pontoons.


276 posted on 09/06/2005 6:33:05 PM PDT by Translates
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To: uncbob
"SUPERDOME cost 550 million in today's $$$$"

Superdome cost twice that much in 1970 dollars. Cost overuns you know. The only stadium that cost more was Montreals Olympic Stadium (slated to be completed any time now)
277 posted on 09/06/2005 6:34:15 PM PDT by Figment
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To: mcg2000

How do you search in their news stories?

I did find a recent editorial in Times-Picayune pleading with the Saints to refurbish the Dome as a sign of triumph over the times.


278 posted on 09/06/2005 6:34:42 PM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: PAR35; The Red Zone
San Antonio must have promised to build them a new stadium.

We didn't and can't.  You'll see a quick-as-you-please referendum . . . and a hellava fight over it, as always . . . but in the end, the San Antonio Charros will get their new playpen.  Toyota will buy the naming rights to go right along with the new plant.

Heck, the governor will call the legislature back into special session to make it all constitutional.  This is Texas Friday-Night-Lights football lovin country.

The Alamo Dome isn't even up to major college standards for a football stadium.

The Alamodome will be hasta-la-bye-bye, pretty darn quick.

And if you are trying to suggest that SA doesn't have any corrupt politicians or under the table deals ....

We don't.  They're all in federal and state prisons or on probation.

Oh . . . I got it . . . you mean them replacement players.  Wael, they're just rookie crooks.  They don't matter . . . yet.

279 posted on 09/06/2005 6:35:52 PM PDT by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Are there any photos of the inside of the
Superdome since the people left it?


280 posted on 09/06/2005 6:38:23 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH!)
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