The specifics are now foggy for Saints GM Mickey Loomis, mostly because the night wasn’t really the first time he felt the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina to the city.
In the hours before, during and after what became a spiritual New Orleanian revival, he was already in his seventh year with the team, his fifth as general manager, and had lived in a downtown condo through the monumental storm in late August 2005. But he remembers walking to the Superdome three or four hours before the team’s Week 3 Monday night game against Atlanta would kick off, an hour or two earlier than he normally would.
