WTF MNF?
Can anyone explain to me how the decision to move a Saints home game against the Giants to the Meadowlands is fair at all to the New Orleans franchise? And by "at all," I mean how it isn't the most stupefying kick in the balls to a team who's already down. Seriously, why not just tell the Saints that their dome is inaccessible because it was used to house thousands of city residents in a hurricane disaster, so they have to forfeit. If anyone can explain this to me in a rational manner, I'm all ears.
posted by Whitney at 9/19/2005 06:03:00 PM
2 Comments:
Whit-
I don't understand your objection. First, you have to find a practical place to play the game and Giants Stadium was as good as any because it is ready to go. It is also a good choice because it was a perfect place to stage the Katrina relief aspect of the game. New York is a media center and you can shoot all of the public service ads and get all of the hall of famers to a studio to answer phones alot easier than if they played it elsewhere. They likely just gave the Saints home team status as a courtesy, a small gesture to an organization that has gone through alot. How does making them forfeit promote fairness? The league should always strive to have the games played.
The forfeit idea was sarcasm, something we tried to introduce in Pi Lam in the late 80's to little avail. My point was something akin to they might as well have kissed the Saints, because they sure did fuck 'em.
You could just as easily do the Katrina relief bit in NYC and have the game played somewhere else. Presuming there was a geographic link between the two is silly. Find a site that either plays to a New Orleans home field advantage or is at the very least neutral. As Mike Wilbon said, "Here's what I know to be true about Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, the states where Saints fans could drive and see their team if they want to: They've got football stadiums." He wrote a pretty reasonable diatribe on the NFL decision to give the G-Men 9 home games this season.
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