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Article: Sugar & spice: Salt Lake, New Orleans are night and day in comparison to each other
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- December 30, 2008
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NEW ORLEANS -- Because Ute football coach Kyle Whittingham was
discussing Sugar Bowl matchups this week, I decided this would be a
fine time to bring up a truly fascinating comparison: Salt Lake vs.
New Orleans.
Two cultural titans, in their own quirky ways.
Whittingham knows both cities well. He lived in New Orleans as a
grade-schooler while his dad was playing for the Saints, then
returned to play for the New Orleans Breakers of the USFL.
So he seemed the perfect guy to compare the cities.
At first he noted how much he and his wife enjoyed living in New
Orleans when he played here. Then he offered a bemused look and a
short laugh.
"In comparison to Salt Lake?" he said. "They're very, very ...