MINNEAPOLIS -- This was supposed to be our Super Bowl.
The world was supposed to be in New Orleans this week to kick off the city's tricentennial celebration with America's grandest annual sporting spectacle.
Considering our boil-water advisories and pesky toilet-flow issues, maybe it's not such a bad thing that we lost Super Bowl 52 to Minneapolis four years ago.
By all accounts, New Orleans' bid for the 2018 Super Bowl was superior financially to the one Minneapolis submitted and there was widespread sentiment among NFL owners to put the game in New Orleans as part of the city's tricentennial celebration.