Selling Playoff Tickets--A Proposal
New Orleans has a reputation as a nice place for visitors to take a warm weather vacation while the snow piles up in the north. Saints fans are the best at welcoming opposing teams and their fans. The tourist dollars brought in is enormous to the citizens of the state and city. The tourists stay longer if they are warmly encouraged to come, whether or not the Saints are top notch or basement dwellers. The Saints ticket holders who are looking for a profitable sale will be giving out of town guests the ability tonot only get tickets but book their flights, restaurants, hotels and excursions.
NO is a tourist destination city. If we have a problem with visitors coming to the dome to cheer for their team, but only allowed to loiter on Poydras Street, it doesn't exemplify the gracious NO traditions and our team spirit.
Edit I think places like Buffalo, SF, and Philly where the fans are jerks to the limited amount of brave or foolish opposing fans that show up there are shameful to their team, their city, and the league. That is not what we want to become in NO.