Congratulations to the Saints.
Still, after a long drawn out and possibly more festive MardiGras this year, New Orleans will face the same reality--it´s anincreasingly irrelevant city except for its French Quarter partyenvironment. A quick trip through the Garden District and a fewhurricanes in a Bourbon Street dive, and you´ve been there, donethat. Big Oil and other energy businesses had been moving out longbefore Katrina, an exodus that won´t be reversed. Sorry, the SuperBowl victory may provide a shot of painkiller, but that´s all.
Poor Indianapolis lost the game and has its own problems stuckas it is off the global pathways and mired in the dismalmanufacturing heartland. At least New Orleans enjoys temperatewinters. To put it charitably, this city has few prospects forgetting on a high growth track.
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