New Orleans may lose Super Bowl LVIII, gain Super Bowl LIX
 

Ben Fischer of Sports Business Daily reports that the confluence of a 17-game season and the dates for Easter and in turn Ash Wednesday and in turn Mardi Gras could result in the NFL shifting the Crescent City’s next Super Bowl from early 2024 to early 2025.

The problem, per the report, is that Mardi Gras currently is due to happen two days after Super Bowl LVIII, due to the extra week of the regular season and the delay in the NFL’s championship game that happens because of it. Mardi Gras has become one of the biggest annual events in New Orleans, with parades and gatherings and thousands of people who will be in town for reasons unrelated to football (if the world ever gets back to that point).

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...per-bowl-lvix/

Re: New Orleans may lose Super Bowl LVIII, gain Super Bowl LIX
 

Extra week?

What two byes?

Re: New Orleans may lose Super Bowl LVIII, gain Super Bowl LIX
 

Superbowl Licks.... LIX ... fits NOLA better, neaux?

Re: New Orleans may lose Super Bowl LVIII, gain Super Bowl LIX
 

Part of the trade off on making the deal was to give the players an extra bye week. That means the actual season will be 19 weeks instead of the current 17. They are also eliminating one of the preseason games, thus netting out to the entire season, including preseason, being one week longer.

This is a win/win for fans as we now get two more weeks of real football AND one less meaningless preseason game!

Re: New Orleans may lose Super Bowl LVIII, gain Super Bowl LIX
 

Mardi Gras is for looking at breasts....not getting sick.

Re: New Orleans may lose Super Bowl LVIII, gain Super Bowl LIX
 

Well, that's just great! :argue:

The New Orleans Saints are notorious for our slow starts after the bye week. Lately we seem to always come back very flat footed, sluggish, incohesive, and it takes way too much time to get our rhythm back. I can only imagine how much tougher it will be keep the team cohesive with two bye weeks. I guess that's on Payton to fix. He is a good motivator but everyone's message eventually gets stale. Nonetheless, I believe that he will pull out every nuance of coaching that he has this year.