Info for Cowboy Fans heading to New Orleans this weekend

[BOSSHOG]

New Orleans has had 22 inches of rain in December (as of 0900 this AM.) The normal total for the first 15 days of December is 3 inches. Heavy flooding all over Southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi right now. More rain forecast this week, but Saturday and Sunday are sposed to be clear with fairly cool temps.

[joeybee12]

1. Some more info for Cowboy fans heading there...

...you're screwed.

[KamaAina]

9. Also, there are other streets in the French Quarter besides Bourbon

as well as plenty of other interesting neighborhoods to explore, many along the famed St. Charles streetcar.

I was living down there during the run-up to the Niners/Broncos Super Bowl years ago. On Bourbon, Niners fans somewhat outnumbered their Broncos counterparts -- but on the side streets, where a lot of the coolest and least overpriced places are, it was all Niners.

Naturally the Niners won the game 55-10. :-)

[joeybee12]

12. Oh, I know...even if you get closer on Bourbon to the Esplanade...

...even Bourbon isn't Bourbon Street anymore!

[Auggie]

2. Early spread: Saints +7

[BOSSHOG]

3. Saints have been away from home for two weeks

Saturday night in the Dome will be like a Sailor returning home from a six month deployment. I wouldn't take Dallas and Seven.

[madinmaryland]

7. Only by 7??

Unless there really is something wrong with the Saints that we don't know about.

:shrug:

[Auggie]

10. Good question...

The Saints can clinch home field advantage through the playoffs with a win this weekend. It's the games after this one (provided they win) that I would expect to see smaller margins.

[El Supremo]

13. Rumor is that Jerry Jones won't be there.

Thus allowing Wade Phillips to call the game on his own.

:rofl:

[BOSSHOG]

4. And if ya come

Check out the Christmas Display in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel on Canal. It is an incredible sight.

[El Supremo]

15. I stayed at The Roosevelt years ago.

The lobby was so dark that any Christmas display would be a improvement.

[TZ]

5. Hey Boss...

I just started reading a book about Katrina called "The Great Deluge". Very interesting insights into the culture/politics of NO. Have you read it?

[BOSSHOG]

6. Hey TZ

Haven't read Deluge but an interesting (sad) account of Katrina is "One Dead in Attic" by Chris Rose. A first hand account by a very good writer for the local paper on leaving then returning to the city after the Hurricane. It also has some very interesting pictures. The city is doing relatively well but there are still parts of town that look like the Hurricane happened last week. Drew Brees and his wife have been a Godsend, great on the football field and fantastic in the community. And Thank God the city gets a new Mayor next May.

[KamaAina]

8. Ironically, author Douglas Brinkley bailed for Houston shortly after writing that

:eyes:

[BOSSHOG]

11. Yeah

Brinkley never was one of my favorites. Maybe he was a fine researcher but he just had that "you'll be pissed off knowing me" aura about him.

[TZ]

14. Well it's still a well written book

And I could never condemn someone for leaving a place of such death and destruction. PTSD isn't just a problem for soldiers you know.