XLVII – 2013
Since I’m the lone sports nut here here at HumidCity, allow me to announce that the NFL SuperBowl site selection committee has chosen New Orleans as the host city for SuperBowl XLVII in 2013!
New Orleans won out over Miami, FL and Glendale, AZ, and this will be the tenth NFL Championship hosted by our fair city. We are tied at nine apiece with Miami who will host it’s tenth next year. The Louisiana Superdome currently holds the record of hosting venues with six.
Depending on who you listen to, the SuperBowl brings an estimated 400-600 million dollars to the host city economy. Not only that, but the SuperBowl has become much more than just a football game. It is now a week-long celebration of the NFL with attractions, special events, live remotes and literally something for everyone. Essentially, January 28th to February 3rd, 2013 will be a week-long commercial for the City of New Orleans culminating in a five hour worldwide broadcast which will reach over one-billion people.
Now some of you die-hard bead whores might notice that the dates above coincide with Mardi Gras kickoff weekend but fear not. We already had a similar situation in 2002 when the Big Game fell on Bacchus Sunday and if ever there were a chance for catastrophe, that was it, but we pulled off both celebrations with grace and charm.
Not mentioned is the fate of the AFC-NFC Pro-Bowl which the NFL is currently experimenting with. Traditionally the PB is held after the SB but this year it will be played in Miami one week prior to the SB. This will mark the first time since 1980 that the PB will be held outside of Hawaii. For 2011 and 2012 it will return to Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, but plans for 2013 are still undefined. I would suggest the local boys who helped swing the SuperBowl deal get cracking and convince the NFL to bring the Pro-Bowl here as well.
Regardless, mark your calendars kids, this is going to be one hell of a week in the Big Easy!
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I for one am Psyched as well, the only thing better than hosting it here would be for dem dats to play in it as well….I know, I know…..but a big Who Dat anyway & a huge Bless you Boys, one & all.
full disclosure: i couldn’t sleep last night because i was so giddy. :D
there’s so much good about all this i don’t even know where to start.
so… i’ll just say.. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
geaux saints!
geaux N’awlins!
Aww, that full disclosure gets me every time!
OK, I’m a Steeler Fan first, Saints Fan second. Sorry guys, but I was born in the ‘Burgh and that’s just the way God made me. Please don’t egg my pirogue! But… if EVER there were a time for the Saints and Steelers to meet in the Big Dance, this would be it!
Geaux Stillers! Geaux Saints!!
(Hmmm… that gives me an idea… A sports foodery dedicated to the Saints and Steelers, alternating Black & Gold color schemes, serving fusion Polish/Cajun treats… Pirogue’s Pierogis?)
HA! i love it!
i’ll give you a break on being a Steelers fan :p
only because you write awesome posts.
and now….
more good news…
http://www.wwl.com/Old-New-Orleans-star-shines-bright-again/4434887
i swear, i just can’t stand myself today.
this is all so wonderful!!!!!
And that Stybbie, is why you are our official Sports Correspondent as well as a resident ranter.
Miss you man….
Good link termite. I was just about to add a post about that. But now will we refer to it as the Old Fairmont? I think not.
I love the number crunching: they spent eight-and-a-half times the purchase price on renovations! Wish I could be there for the opening!
Thanks for the link, Mighty Termitey.
I’m a sucker for that old time classy stuff.
Can’t wait to see the Blur Room.
Let’s go Rat Packin’….
Blur Room….lol
silly rabbit.
[i still have the ashtray i stole from the Blue Room in high school - sue me. call the popo] :p
keep digging and you’ll find some treasures in the news…
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/orleans_parish_leap_scores_sho.html
i’m just sayin’
Good God, don’t get me started on the LEAP tests! Crap. Too late.
Hooray! Only 40% of our fourth-grade children can’t read, write or add simple numbers! Last year it was 45%. We fixed half a kid in every ten! Woo-hooooo!
Considering that the schools spend a sizable chunk of time “preparing” the kids for the test I would think we could do better. Yes, yes, the numbers do show improvement, but it’s still terrible. Do any of you remember what the letter grade was for a 55-60% on your high school tests?
My mind shudders at the thought of essays written by the youth of today: “Then Lincoln turns around an’ sez to Booth, ‘WTF dude! Did you just pop a cap in my azz?’ Booth replied ‘LOLZ biotch and death to tyrants!’ then he split the hizzy”
termite, if I weren’t married I’d ask you to marry me.
I have read your ‘Comments’ for years. You my dear have always been
a wonderful ray of sunshine. Your other half must be a very lucky man.
Well, Steve, I consider myself a very, very, lucky man (as other halves go). She’s even more wonderful that you all could ever glean from the fleeting glimpses you get of her here. To continue your ray of sunshine analogy its like watching an eclipse though a shoebox. A direct look would burn her into your soul.
Besides, she’s already agreed to marry me.
:D
(that should keep you busy for a few days my sweet Lizzy de Termite)
@ Termite;
Not being all gentlemanly (as you well know), I don’t care about any significant others….I’m asking you anyway! And it’s not just because I love a Monkey with a Football, either. Although the Pink Scooter may have a lot to do with it.
Wow. You’re becoming like the Princess Leah of Humidcity Blogs. Neato.
~m. styborski – oh dear Lord, the leap year scores.. were they testing how many New Orleans kids knew how often a leap year occurs?
if it wasn’t so incredibly pathetic, i’d be laughing. *sigh*
drink up Shrines!
~steve, Oh Snap!
~my buddy L.D. how dull my life would be without your friendship.
but it seems someone has beaten you to the question..
some Monkey with a butcher knife…. :)
“…some Monkey with a butcher knife.”
In front of that statement there just has to be a long and hilariously twisted joke.
There just has to be.
:D