re: Report: NFL considering games at Notre Dame, Alabama

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Seems like none of the Saints games at Tiger Stadium were well attended

This one had a few good seats available.

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Yeah, but everyone was recovering from Katrina. Even though Baton Rouge didn't have the direct impact that New Orleans did, the indirect impact was still considerable. The national guard was running a command center from the PMAC, there were 50,000 extra cars on Baton Rouge streets, so traffic was a dystopian nightmare, so many people in Baton Rouge were helping friends and family in New Orleans mud out their homes, or they were hosting families who were temporarily homeless or busy volunteering at shelters.

There's no way to look at the lack of crowds for those games and say anything about how an NFL game would do there.

All that said, Tiger Stadium is only an hour away from the Superdome, so it'd be stupid to play more NFL games in Tiger Stadium. The allure of Tuscaloosa, for example, is that it isn't close to an NFL stadium and might draw people who've never watched an NFL game in person.