superdome rafters on fire during game

Was against the 49ers - I remember Madden and Sumerall had the call.

Less infamous than the Hornets/Spurs playoff fire.

Yep-49ers. I was sitting pretty much at eye level from it since I was in the very top row of one of the end zones.
I remember Montana was hurt and so was Steve Young so the Niners started Steve Bono.

nice find but one of the strangest Saints related videos I've seen

That is some pretty random, obscure footage. I've never seen that viewpoint of the Dempsey kick.

The guy that went into the rafters to put it out made the All-Madden team that year.

I was there ('91). They had indoors fireworks during halftime and somehow they ignited straps of burlap that was used to support sections of the "gondola" or metal framework that hung from the ceiling. A dude from the fireworks company climbed across the gondola to try to beat the fire out but all he had was another piece of burlap. THAT burlap caught fire and fell to the turf, where it was put out with a bucket of Gatorade. The NOFD station on Girod St. (?) watched all this of TV and started suiting up so they could hit the road when the call came.

i remember it... not looking at the video but was it vs the bears or 49ers

I was there.

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I remember my grandfarther watching and yelling just burn the whole thing down

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Had that happened ten years earlier, they might have done just that.

I was there in 1991 on sidelines in my Saintsation uniform! The fire department showed up after they saw the "blaze" on TV. The turf had some burn marks on it afterwards. I think the smoke finally cleared early in the 4th quarter