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This article makes a pretty good argument for the Super Dome having the most historic significance over multiple sporting events.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=jh-hart_superdome_represent_new_orleans_033112
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NEW ORLEANS – The first thing you notice on the drive into New Orleans is the giant bronze spaceship that’s landed at the foot of a modest skyline. It’s sleek, shiny, windowless, and in a town bursting with old-world character and charm, fits in like a disco ball in a room full of rocking chairs.
At first glance, it’s an oddity more than a marvel, which is maybe why, despite all the evidence in its favor, no one’s really noticed that over the last 30-plus years the Superdome has become the most historically significant sporting venue in America.
You want seminal moments? The Superdome is where a college freshman named Michael Jordan nailed a jumper to lift North Carolina over Georgetown; it’s where Roberto Duran told Sugar Ray Leonard, “No más
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=jh-hart_superdome_represent_new_orleans_033112
(Getty Images)
NEW ORLEANS – The first thing you notice on the drive into New Orleans is the giant bronze spaceship that’s landed at the foot of a modest skyline. It’s sleek, shiny, windowless, and in a town bursting with old-world character and charm, fits in like a disco ball in a room full of rocking chairs.
At first glance, it’s an oddity more than a marvel, which is maybe why, despite all the evidence in its favor, no one’s really noticed that over the last 30-plus years the Superdome has become the most historically significant sporting venue in America.
You want seminal moments? The Superdome is where a college freshman named Michael Jordan nailed a jumper to lift North Carolina over Georgetown; it’s where Roberto Duran told Sugar Ray Leonard, “No más
