Ousting the Saints from the Alamodome...

[IdahoBoy]

This was brought up once before, but starting to make more news, lately.

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Personally, as unfortunate as it the situation is, the only way that the Alamodome draws very well is if some of these pro football players go off at the mouth about volleyball displacing them... OR, if some macho guy says something like... "we're definitely going to watch! You see those hot women in spandex?"



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abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=1364043


SAN ANTONIO Dec 1, 2005 — The one place the New Orleans Saints could call home during this hurricane-displaced season was the Alamodome.

And now that's about to change the NCAA takes over the Alamodome next week for its women's volleyball tournament.

The football team's locker room will move to a high school baseball field. The weight room will go into a tent on the field's parking lot. The front-office personnel will relocate to a city water works building.

"We've been doing this moving around all year," offensive guard Kendyl Jacox said. "So, at this point, nothing surprises me."

"This would be acceptable if I was in high school," he added. "As far as a professional team, no, it's not."

Saints officials knew this was coming when the team agreed to move its headquarters to San Antonio after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans three months ago. The NCAA event has been scheduled for more than a year, and it requires almost all the space in the Alamodome.


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seattlepi.nwsource.com/football/2020AP_FBN_Saints_Cold_Practice.html

Freezing temps again displace the Saints

By TIM PRICE
FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN ANTONIO -- Weather displaced the New Orleans Saints again Thursday, and it's getting on the nerves of quarterback Aaron Brooks.

Freezing temperatures caused the Saints to move a morning walkthrough from a downtown parking lot back to the Alamodome, where the team was forced out earlier this week so the stadium could prepare for the NCAA women's volleyball tournament.

Following the walkthrough - held on the Alamodome's bare concrete floor and staged near a volleyball court - the Saints returned to the high school baseball field where their newest locker rooms are located.

It was just the latest disruption for the Saints, who haven't had a place to call their own since Hurricane Katrina uprooted them from New Orleans in late August.

"Weird," Brooks said after finishing dressing at his locker behind the dugout on the third-base side. He expressed frustration at the number of moves.

"We move one more time and I'm quitting," he said.

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Since the storm displaced the Saints, they practiced near San Jose, Calif.; at the Alamodome; and at two high school fields in San Antonio. They've also had "home" games at the Alamodome, Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La., and Giants Stadium in New Jersey.

When the Saints moved their locker room, training equipment and front offices to the Alamodome in September, team officials knew they would have to move everything out when the NCAA set up the volleyball tournament.


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www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories/MYSA120905.1D.FBNsaints.future.1c9ddff3.html


On a day in which their bizarre season graduated to absurd — with a morning walk-through moved because of parking-lot puddles, a circus tent for a weight room and a press box for a training facility — the New Orleans Saints did their best to laugh through more inconvenience Thursday.

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[The Bofa on the Sofa]

The problems that the Saints are having is the result of the incompetence of the NFL commissioner's office to deal with the situation.

I think the players have a legitimate beef considering how they have been treated by the NFL for circumstances well beyond the control of the players and team.

The NFL office needed to step in right away and create the Saints a condition that was conducive to that befitting an NFL franchise. Instead, they just ignored the Saints, and left them to flounder.

[sexy]

pablo said:

The NFL office needed to step in right away and create the Saints a condition that was conducive to that befitting an NFL franchise. Instead, they just ignored the Saints, and left them to flounder.

and after they stop feeling sorry for themselves - they can go to their nearest exotic car dealer store and spend some of their money there

[Gorf]

I'm not sure if it is the NFL commissioner or the team owner(s) that made the deal with the Astrodome.

Regardless though they knew when they signed the deal that it was going to happen.

It will be interesting to see if their quarterback actually does quit after "one more move" since they will be moving back into the Astrodome after the tournament.

[BearClause]

gorf said:

I'm not sure if it is the NFL commissioner or the team owner(s) that made the deal with the Astrodome.

Alamodome. The Astrodome is still standing, but it's outdated.

[Gorf]

Ah, right..

Still they will be moved back into the Alamodone after the NCAA volleyball tournaent is completed.


Perhaps we can give the Saints a new cheer for when they return - 'Remember the Alamodome!".

[ugopher]

I would assume that had the roles been reversed - the Alamodome destroyed by a natural disaster and the volleyball tournament moved to New Orleans - the Saints' players would have been more than accommodating to the volleyball players.