Outside the Beltway

New Orleans Saints Set Season Ticket Sales Record

James Joyner · Friday, May 19, 2006 · 2 comments

The New Orleans Saints have set a new franchise season ticket sales record–despite a population half what it was before Hurricane Katrina.

This is especially heartening considering that a few months ago there was serious talk of the Saints not returning to town.
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FILED UNDER: General, college, Hurricane Katrina

About James Joyner

James Joyner is a Security Studies professor at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm vet. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

Comments

Christopher says:

Friday, May 19, 2006 at 12:15

I hope they move out of NO. There’s no people there! They all live in Houston now. Heck, that’s why the picked Reggie Bush, to move the team to LA.

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