It was Week 3 of the 2005 preseason. The Saints were playing the Baltimore Ravens in a Saturday game at the Superdome, just days before Hurricane Katrina landed its destruction.
“I remember at halftime, there were whispers going around that a storm was approaching," Texans director of equipment services Mike Parson said. "We knew we were going to go somewhere, we just didn’t know where at the time.”
Ten years later, Parson recalls the day like it was yesterday.
Back then, he was just a 26-year-old equipment intern working for the New Orleans Saints. He’d been a training camp intern for the team while in college.