18,000 to 20,000 Eagles fans in New Orleans??? {just a rumor - merged}
I was at the Eagles game and while they did bring a good bit, there is NO #$%^& way they brought 5-10,000, that is a pure joke!!!
Maybe a thousand or two even that I don't know. Every game this year has been PURE Black and Gold, anything else is flat out wrong.
Oh and thanks for setting them straight bclemms, I love when these idiots around the country try to speak on things they don't have a clue about, they look at the population of the city itself and assume that's where the only saints fans come from, not realizing that a HUGE amount of fans come from the surrounding areas of Jefferson(400,000 people) St Tammany(250,000) not counting South Mississippi and the rest of Louisiana, these places are pure Saints country.
Fans support is definitely not a problem with or without Katrina.
Like you said its the business community that has always been the question mark.