Saints Home Games Determined

The New Orleans Saints now have one less issue to worry about as it was announced yesterday that they will play four (Miami, Chicago, Carolina, Tampa Bay) of their seven remaining home games at Tigers Stadium in Baton Rouge and the other three games(Buffalo, Atlanta, Detroit) will be played in the Alamodome in San Antonio. I was personally happy to see the Saints pull out the victory against Carolina on Sunday and I'm sure that the people of the Gulf Coast felt that they had something to celebrate about for a change. It would have made entirely no sense not to have any of their home games in San Antonio, seeing that the city has become their de-facto headquarters since the Saints left New Orleans before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina some three weeks ago. The NFL was initially opposed to having any of their home games being played in San Antonio, but decided in the best interests of all parties involved that it wouldn't hurt to have to Saints play roughly half of their home schedule in the Alamo City. I'm not exactly a big fan of San Antonio and don't exactly see them as a pro football town, but this would be a golden opportunity for the city of San Antonio to show that they can draw the kind of crowds that would be consistent with a pro football city, even with Dallas and Houston both being a couple hours away and having NFL franchises, and therefore could be a possible future home for an existing franchise looking to relocate (like the Saints were investigating about a month before Katrina hit) or even hosting an expansion franchise (very unlikely). At the very least, it'll be an interesting experiment and I look forward to see how it unfolds.