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Article: If the Superdome goes, so do the Saints.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2005
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Byline: Mark Whicker
In 1967, Louisiana governor John McKeithen attended a baseball game in Houston's Astrodome. ``I want one of these, only bigger," McKeithen said, and he wasn't talking about the beer.
In 1975, the Superdome opened in New Orleans, a structure so fantastic and unimaginable that it could have been the Astrodome's cup holder, and it could swallow up St. Peter's Square, too.
It cost a preposterous $163 million and featured six TV screens, each of them 22 feet by 26 feet. It had four 90-foot scoreboards. Its founders talked seriously of holding eight basketball games inside it simultaneously, with the officials blowing whistles of ...