Superdome Will Pay Saints Owner Benson Fraction Of Subsidy
Superdome officials indicated that they will pay Saints Owner Tom Benson “only
a fraction of a $15[M] subsidy for 2005 because of home games lost to Hurricane
Katrina,” according to Tom Orsborn of the SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS. The officials
said that they calculated the prorated $3.3M subsidy “based on the team having
played only two preseason games at the Superdome,” eight fewer than scheduled.
Saints officials declined comment. Phil Wittmann, the attorney representing the
team’s interests in Louisiana, said, “Don’t try to read anything between the lines
there. We have not made any decisions about next year at all, nor do we know whether
the Superdome can be renovated” (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, 10/13).
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Saints Using Nick Saban’s
Return To Push Tickets |
NICK OF TIME: In Shreveport, Glenn Guilbeau reported the Saints “will be
pushing the Nick Saban angle as much as” the team to sell tickets for the October
30 game at LSU’s Tiger Stadium against the Dolphins and the former LSU coach.
Saints VP/Administration Arnold Fielkow said, “When we called this by the way
on Thursday night, I didn’t think our top running back [Deuce McAllister] would
be out for the season and I didn’t think we’d be going into the [Falcons] game
off of [a 52-3 loss to the Packers].” Fielkow said of the four games in Baton
Rouge, “Starting it off with the [Dolphins] game brings a lot of marketing possibilities
to it unrelated in some ways to the Saints that I think will create some excitement”
(SHREVEPORT TIMES, 10/12). Fielkow added that despite 50,000 tickets remaining
for the Dolphins game, the Saints are “confident Louisiana fans will make [the
game] a financial success.” In New Orleans, Jimmy Smith noted the team put six
staff members in Baton Rouge for pregame sales, “a number that will swell after”
Falcons-Saints in San Antonio on Sunday. Fielkow said that the Saints “will spend
considerable resources in marketing the four games in Baton Rouge.” Saints Regional
Sales Dir Mike Feder said that the team “will continue to concentrate its efforts
on a regional pitch.” Feder said 30% “of all season ticket holders come from an
area 50 miles outside of New Orleans. We’ve always been a regional franchise”
(New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE, 10/12).
BAR NONE: In Baton Rouge, Scott Dyer reports the Metro Council has decided
not to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages in East Baton Rouge Parish bars on
the four Sundays the Saints will play at Tiger Stadium. Metro Council member Mickey
Skyring had “introduced a resolution to suspend enforcement of the Sunday bar
closing law” (Baton Rouge ADVOCATE, 10/13).
HOW ‘BOUT THEM COWBOYS: In San Antonio, David Flores reported KABB-Fox,
which “had the option to carry” Falcons-Saints this Sunday, will broadcast Cowboys-Giants
instead. KABB GM John Seabers “expects the Cowboys ratings to remain in the high
teens to the 20s.” Seabers: “That’s traditional for the Cowboys, regardless of
the game that is against them. ... Of the e-mails we got concerning the Cowboys
and the Saints and who we should show, it was 200-to-1 in favor of the Cowboys”
(SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, 10/13).
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