One guy asked me why we wouldn't just want to tear down the Dome because it harbors so many bad memories of the storm, but we had 30 years of good memories here before the hurricane. It could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans, something people could rally around.

He is the one guy who would try to run through a wall if I asked him and not ask any questions.

I don't think we've had a good game since we've been here (at the Dome). We're bound to have one good game.

What's it about,' I asked, and he said, 'It's about a guy selling watermelons,' ... I said, 'You're gonna put a black man on stage selling watermelons?' And August said, 'He's trying to buy some land.

They said he had a minor tear in his cartilage but I had one of them and couldn't walk. Sometimes you have to exercise your other muscles and he has done that so well that there is no problem now. He couldn't have an operation at the end of the season anyway because he wants to go to Germany.

If you were to walk through it now you would say it's not that bad and could possibly be repaired. The thing you don't know is how many of those electrical panels and transformers have been damaged beyond repair and have to be completely replaced; the same thing for the plumbing. And we still don't know what we're going to find when we start tearing down that Sheetrock.