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Posted on Tue, Feb. 2, 2010
Bob Ford: For New Orleans, Super Bowl remains just a game
By Bob Ford
Inquirer Sports Columnist
If you access the powerful Nexis search engine, the standard for information collected from most major publications in North America, and keyword “New Orleans Saints” and “Katrina” and “long-suffering,” the result is a list of 51 recent articles each pimping the idea that civic renewal can be accomplished within the space of a professional football game.
That was just yesterday. Certainly, there will be more instances by this morning.
It is a familiar, if threadbare, concept, and that same basic idea – including the same adjectival description of local sports fans – has also been applied to economically ravaged Detroit, which was going to be saved by a Michigan State win in the Final Four, and to New York, which was to have its shattered resolve somehow mended by the New York Yankees in the 2001 World Series.