Maybe the NFL can find a way to fly up the Saint fans who had tickets, I know its doesn't sound easy but just provide a couple planes for those willing to travel to New York. Probably won't happen, but nice to think they're trying.
Talk about kicking a city while there down.....Its one thing to have your home game at a neutral site, but at your opponents field. I guess the season ticket holders will be refunded?
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taw856 wrote:Totally agree with the above comments. Utterly unfair.
Astrodome (Houston), Relient (Houston), Alamodome (San Antonio), Legion Field (Birmingham), Independence Bowl (Shreveport), Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge)...
One of those places simply HAD to be a better option than giving the Giants 9 home games and the Saints only 7.
It's not like its guaranteed that they could have played at any of those places. Just because its a better alternative doesn't mean that it would have been possible.
No quarrel with that awwchrist, but there are plenty of other stadiums that aren't in NY. Even if they couldn't keep them close to home... let them play their home games against non-NY teams in the Meadowlands but play the Giants on at least a neutral field.
MZimm, all I'm sayin' is that there's no way NY was the ONLY possibility.
Hell, if the whole NFL has to make sacrifices, have them play some games in St. Louis, Arizona, Dallas, Indianapolis, etc.
There are also tons of colleges with stadiums big enough to hold an NFL game... Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, etc.
Obviously not all of those are options... but I just can't believe not a single one of those could pan out to keep New Orleans from playing an extra road game.
A neutral site is still infinitely more fair than the solution they're going with now.
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by awwchrist » Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:04 pm 
