CNN Breaking Louisiana Superdome likely to be torn down

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Louisiana Superdome, where thousands were stranded after Katrina, is likely to be torn down, state official tells CNN. More soon.

http://www.cnn.com/

[CottonBear]

1. Why? It survived the storm. The roof skin can be replaced.

Are they worried about the new symbolism and meaning of the place?
Will they tear down the Convention Center too?

[CountAllVotes]

10. because it became ...

and it is a toxic pit unfit for anything to go inside of muchless a human or animal. It is contaminated. The waters surrounding it have 1,000X the level that is considered acceptable. People going inside of it or anyone in the area is being exposed as I type.

It must be torn down by people wearing HAZMAT suits. So goes the rest of NO, that is the REAL REASON the Salvation Army and all of these other places/buses/etc. were not allowed to go inside.

That is what I think anyway.

[Nikki Stone 1]

2. This is bizarre. Are they afraid the ghosts of the mistreated dead will

haunt them? That actually seems to fit the macabre gestalt of New Orleans.

[maine_raptor]

3. I was wondering about that

probably cheaper than actually cleaning it.

[Barack_America]

4. It's a symbol of a national disgrace...

...and I wonder how structurally sound it was after all...

[Mr_Spock]

5. "damage worse than they expected"

It is history...

[greenman3610]

6. they'll never get the stench out

seriously

[merbex]

20. I think you're correct

My neighbor left her car door open unloading groceries and a skunk got in and sprayed

The car was a total - they couldn't get rid of the smell. Insurance got them a new car

I bet some expert said the same thing about the Superdome

[Richard Steele]

9. "Opportunity to steal money from taxpayers greater than expected"

Like all the stadiums of the last decade or so,
the new one will be built at public expense
for private PROFIT.

[DS1]

14. Bingo

It costs more to rebuild

[milkyway]

7. I was surprised they didn't "pull" it during the storm so they could

collect the insurance money. The Saints owner wanted to leave New Orleans anyway.

[cascadiance]

8. So does this mean that the NO Saints will move to L.A.?

and be the LA Saints instead?

[Field Of Dreams]

11. Saints will move to San Antonio from what I have heard

[LTR]

12. Everything's up in the air

Practice and daily business will originate from San Antonio for the time being.

Their home opener has been moved to New Jersey.

They would prefer to locate their home games to LSU in Baton Rouge:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2153564

As for the long-term future, who knows? A new stadium will take years to build. Heck, the city will take years to rebuild.

Would they permanently move to San Antonio? The Alamodome is NFL-ready, but it is not the kind of money-making stadium that NFL owners threaten local officials for (i.e. not enough skyboxes). Owner Tom Benson is from San Antonio, though.

Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge? Possibly, considering that the city has virtually doubled it's population in the last week.

Los Angeles? If this did happen, it would be years down the road. And after finding that it would be too difficult to continue in Louisiana.

[cascadiance]

18. I guess I was thinking LA could as an abbrev could apply to

both locations... And L.A. could use a team now too.

I guess it really depends on how soon they anticipate New Orleans will be back to where it was as a city.

[petronius]

19. Benson is a money-grubbing asshole

My bet is that now that LA can't afford to give him any more money, he'll move the team to some other gullible city just as soon as he can do it without too much negative publicity. Still, it's a good thing Foster isn't governor anymore - I imagine the very first thing Foster would want to (re)build in N.O. would be a big shiny new stadium for his hunting buddy...

[dweller]

13. 60 Minutes on Sunday

i believe reported this. I know i wrote about it in a thread then (if it was 60 Mins.) Could have been another report, but it was several days ago.

CNN just getting to it?

dp

[Desertrose]

15. tear the damn thing down...who'd want to go there now anyway?

who in their right mind that is.....

shameful place...get rid of it....we don't need it to remember what was done thre....

[wellstone_democrat]

16. good= sow the soil with salt

and let it stand as a memorial to inhumanity and murder by government

Mr. W_D

[Karmadillo]

17. Now we see the real looting begin. Billions of federal relief and not

a cop in sight.

[Drewskie]

21. I don't buy some of these theories...

I don't care if it takes guys in spacesuits with ghostbuster ectoplasm guns... you would think the place can be sanitized. If it's just the water, then the same "house condemned" label would have to apply to everything downtown. There must be some type of structural damage we don't know about.

[youngdem]

22. site should become a memorial

[B Calm]

23. Who gets the job tearing it down? Halliburton??