Obviously we need to get businesses up and running any way we can. If we don't start somewhere, where do we start?

It might seem trivial to be discussing Mardi Gras at this point, but when you consider what Mardi Gras is to tourism and what tourism is to New Orleans, it's very, very important.

We politely argued our case, but we lost.

It's certainly some millions of dollars in damage that we have sustained. But it's nothing that's going to stop us. We're ready to roll.

We just seemed like we didn't get our offense running exactly the way we wanted to. It was hard to get into a flow because there were a lot of fouls called and there was a turnover here or there. But you play good defense, you give yourself a chance to win games.

We were just running. We had been playing so well defensively.