Peter Finney of The Times-Picayune called last Monday's reopening of the Superdome, and the subsequent 23-3 beating that the hometown New Orleans Saints put on the visiting Atlanta Falcons, "the greatest day in the history of this city's NFL franchise" in his September 27 piece entitled "Homecoming wasn't supposed to be this happy."

Interest in the game, and the story of the Saints coming back home and what life is now like for New Orleans citizens a year after Hurricane Katrina ...