does baton rouge/lsu dislike new orleans/saints?

id put more blame on north la for those numbers. Some of the saints fans that are only saints fans do push others away with silly ideas though.

anyone against that deal has to be either clueless or brain dead. It was a win-win for both parties

I grew up in Baton Rouge as a huge Saints fan. So were all of my friends. That being said, there are quite a few BR folks who have idiotic zero-sum mentalities about LSU sports and by extension the Saints.

The Manships, who own the Advocate, are clearly in this mold. They publish editorials ripping the Saints every time an opportunity presents itself.

But they aren't representatives of everyone outside of New Orleans.

I think the big picture, as someone else stated, is that while almost all of Louisiana (minus masybe Shreveport and North Louisiana's Cowboy whores) support the Saints just as much as the next guy, their priorities are more about things that directly affect them. More specifically education and health care.

In the end, I love the Saints and will support them as long as they are in NOLA, but despite their potential income into the state, we shouldn't be handcuffing the state financially when there are much more critical problems at hand.

Always been and LSU and a Saints fan and in that order. Maybe the issue has to do more with the fact that the state (the taxpayer) is subsidizing a private business that pays its employees (atheletes) millions of dollars per year, has a pretty good lease deal on the Dome and still charges its fans, patrons, customers, etc. a lot of money for three hours of entertainment. Don't know, just throwin' out a possibility.

im not mad about the deal at all. i always hated the fact the every other year benson would threaten to move the team. now they have them locked up til 2025. but i can understand why people not from nola are pissed. they see politicians all the time doing for new olreans and not other areas of the state.

my mom is from nola and my dad is from avoyelles, so i've heard both sides before.

I am from north LA and love LSU....I used to love the saints too, until Benson pulled his bullshite during the hurricane....I still pull for them, but no longer watch them every sunday like I did for decades...

to be clear, I don't think there is a big connection between liking the saints and the numbers the numbers that you posted.....I like the saints, but am not in favor of making the benson family richer while the state ponders budget cuts...

i don't really dislike or like the saints...i'll pull for them i guess, but could care less if they lose a game

as far as lsu goes, my night's borderline ruined if lsu loses...basically i'm a huge lsu fan, and couldn't care less about the saints

but a guy i know, from LA, is a very big saints fan, and hates lsu...hates with a passion...i really believe that it's just penis envy b/c lsu has had recent success, and the saints really haven't, at least to the extent of lsu. it's sad though, b/c he makes me hate the saints and pull against them simply b/c he pulls so hard against lsu

it was funny though, after the '03 season, this guy became a huge usc fan, and apparantly is still to this day...it's pretty pathetic

There does seem to be a bit of rivalry directed from Baton Rouge and rural Lousiana towards the city of New Orleans

Some of it seems political or cultural - I guess some is historical