As if adjusting to life without Drew Brees wasn’t enough, the New Orleans Saints will have to travel from their temporary practice home in Texas to Florida to play their season opener that originally was scheduled for New Orleans.
Displaced by Hurricane Ida, they’ll play their Sept. 12 opener against the Green Bay Packers in Jacksonville after practicing in Dallas for the better part of two weeks — a scenario reminiscent of their 2005 season of displacement after Hurricane Katrina struck.
The NFL announced the venue change three days after Ida battered the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 hurricane and left the entirety of New Orleans in darkness until small pockets of the city began to get power back Wednesday.