ARLINGTON, Texas – The New Orleans Saints will play their first season against the Green Bay Packers at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida, according to several sources in the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Lawyer.
The game will be held in the same time slot at 3:25 pm CT on Sept. 12, according to sources.
The Jacksonville Jaguars play on the road against the Houston jeans that day and there are no concerts or other conflicting events on the arena’s schedule.
There were no places closer to New Orleans that day, as Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium and Houston’s NRG Stadium host the two NFL games. The AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, has a concert scheduled for the same week and will need the building to install it that day.
Other NFL venues in the southeastern United States, such as Carolina’s Bank of America Stadium and Nissan Stadium in Tennessee, were also unavailable due to the games. Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, hosts the Buccaneers and Cowboys a few days earlier Thursday night.
The game was supposed to take place at the Caesars Superdome, but the aftermath of Hurricane Ida forced the Saints and the NFL to change due to infrastructure damage in Louisiana.
The Superdome suffered no structural damage during the storm, but the city of New Orleans remains largely without electricity, and the city’s Sanitation and Water Board has urged citizens and those in the city to reduce their power consumption. ‘water.
The Saints will continue to practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth area next week. The team is set to practice on the TCU campus in Fort Worth ahead of the Packers game, The Times-Picayune reported | New Orleans Lawyer. The team exercised at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Monday and Tuesday.
The Saints evacuated Dallas on Saturday ahead of Hurricane Ida, and rented two planes to take about 300 people, including players, coaches, staff and their families out of danger.
Ida made landfall twice on Sunday, around noon in Port Fourchon and near Galliano around 2pm as a Category 4 catastrophic hurricane with sustained winds of 150 mph.
The storm slowly moved to land and traversed southeastern Louisiana at 10 miles per hour before its harshest effects were noticed in the New Orleans area. The entire parish of Orleans ran out of electricity at 7:15 p.m. after Entergy New Orleans transmission lines had suffered “catastrophic damage.”
A full assessment of the destruction is still ongoing, but a preliminary estimate by AccuWeather said the total damage from Hurricane Ida could reach $ 70 billion to $ 80 billion.
Power has slowly begun to return to parts of eastern New Orleans on Wednesday. Entergy New Orleans said about 11,500 customers in the Little Woods neighborhood had restored power Wednesday. Although, it is still unknown when power will return to other neighborhoods in the city.
Saints coach Sean Payton said Tuesday that the team would not return to New Orleans until power was restored in most of the city, reiterating that he did not want to return the team with New Orleans still in the dark.
This story is being developed and will be updated.