At first, the chance for New Orleans getting a Super Bowl was not nearly as good with questions about the Superdome being up-to-date and up to the standards for the NFL’s biggest game. There was also the factor of getting the New Orleans Saints locked up in the city of New Orleans for the long haul. This was one of the major issues keeping NFL owners from even considering New Orleans as a possible host. Also, what would downtown be like? Would it be able to accomodate the officials, the fans, everybody involved in putting on this show.
Well, after continuous, vigorous, and tireless work from the Saints organization and the New Orleans convention and visitors bureau, New Orleans seemed to have everything in place. The Saints are in New Orleans until 2025. The newly signed deal will revitalize downtown to make for the best possible football experience for all fans, and the Superdome is promised to get an upgrades which will include more seats and bring it up to the current Super Bowl standards. The only thing left to do after that was sit and wait but New Orleans’s unique way of partying and know-how to host big events together with a stellar bidding presentation made it an easy decision I believe.
Congratulations to New Orleans! Laissez le bon ton Roulez
The secondary, like so many other units have been in the past for the New Orleans Saints, will be changed greatly in 2009 with 3 of 4 defensive backs switched out of the lineup. Sure there is still a lot of competition to get through before the final decision of whose gonna start is handed down by P-Diddy Co, but it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that it’s new cornerbacks Jabari Greer from free agency and Malcolm Jenkins, unless Jason David needs to fill in until he proves himself. I don’t see how he could be any worse coming out of the gate, but oh well. At safety it would be these two guys up in this picture. Cudos to Mickey (mouse) Loomis for giving me something else to rhyme about. Darren Sharper and Roman Harper should start at the safety position. Besides their last names, Darren has shown before he can play better than any wannabe high-school caliber halfassed safety we could ever hope to comes close to getting our financially strained hands on otherwise, and Roman Harper has proven himself before as a Saint, playing with high energy, always being around the ball, and hardly ever missing a tackle. These two would make the perfect D-back tandem.