This is not to say having your football team play inside of a mathematical absurdity isn't an altogether attractive idea on some level. But, at the same time, one wonders, who the hell did they hire to write this stuff?
Work is proceeding at a "fast and furious" pace on Dome Square, the new "urban tailgating" entertainment area adjacent to the Superdome, with the delivery date expected in 30 days, the Louisiana Superdome and Exposition District Commission was told Wednesday.
Urban tailgating. Now there's a phrase that conjures up images of rugged, sporting confidence if ever there was one. And by rugged and sporting I mean,
But maybe I'm behind the curve here. After all we live in a time when professional athletes get their own Hollywood style awards ceremony and nobody blinks an eye.
Besides, everyone knows this isn't exactly football season yet. It's football celebrity tell-all book publishing season which a) is awesome and b) happens to coincide with my birthday (today, in case you were wondering). And so I was momentarily bemused but not altogether surprised to learn that the copy of Sean Payton's Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life Menckles bought for me prominently features on the back cover one of the stupidest things I've ever seen a grown man say to large crowd of people.
During the NFC Championship Trophy presentation an emotionally exhausted Payton ineloquently stated
"This stadium used to have holes in it and it used to be wet. It's not wet anymore."
This prompted many assembled Saints fans to momentarily pause from their euphoric weeping to think to themselves "Huh?" (Later they would think to themselves, "Maybe it was the Vicodin talking" but that's a story for another time.) At a later moment that I am unfortunately unable to Google up this morning, Payton would admit that he didn't choose his words as well as he would have liked. Which is why the misstatement's appearance on the back of his book is so strange. I guess we'll just consider it another paradox. That is, unless squared domes have some special moisture-repelling feature we're not aware of.
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