We posted on Sunday an item regarding the joint efforts of Drew Brees and Marshall Faulk to help secure funding for the 9th Ward Field of Dreams, a project aimed at building a new football stadium and track in the poverty-stricken region of New Orleans.
With $1.1 million raised and $800,000 to go, we assumed that Sunday’s win by the Saints would get more of you to donate $10 by texting “DREAM” to 50555.
But according to the project’s web site, roughly $600,000 is still needed.
So make it happen, Saints fans. Celebrate your team’s win by helping New Orleans continue its road to recovery following Katrina. The intangible benefits of the Super Bowl victory mean nothing unless they prompt tangible progress — and there’s an easy way to make tangible progress.
Text “DREAM” to 50555. I just did. It took like ten seconds.
If you’d like to donate more than that, click here and let the money flow.
They should use the money to help buy homes for the homeless and just play in the old stadium.
Or send it to FEMA.
I understand that this is for a good cause and that Faulk and Brees are doing a good deed to the community — but what is keeping them from doing it themselves? I mean, I always see athletes starting up funding, or donating a few grand to an existing fund. Why don’t any ever make a hugely significant contribution, what with the tens of millions of dollars in their bank accounts?
co-sign Steve-Mo.. Brees got what an extra 50k+ for playing all those playoff games he should donate all of it into the stadium and more housing in NO.. and people should be trying to help the city of NO more than a stadium, that city still needs help
FEMA will just waste it.
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if you build it, they will destroy it anyway.
Thanks for the reminder, it slipped my mind during the game.
Text “DREAM” to AlDavis. I just did. It took like ten seconds.
hahahahahahahahahah!
But seriously, the athletes could use the money they get from endorsements to help pay for the cost.
I agree with sniperhare, use the money for something important, like homes for people to live in.
I thought when America’s Team won the Super Bowl it was going to automatically solve all the cities problems? Is that not the case? You mean a Lombardi trophy doesn’t instantly erase years of drunken debauchery and replace homes? But no one has ever deserved a Super Bowl more than the Saints…. Aren’t things supposed to get better when you get what you deserve?
I think that’s a great idea. Did anyone see Rex Ryan in arolina tonight? J. Pepps in N.Y. what, whut!!!
I would like to help them and hati out but lost my job a few months ago after 29 years. come to think of it I could use some funding to help pay off my debts and get a new car so feel free to send your donations to me and I promise the money will go to that cause!
because Steve-mo you do it for one.. you have to do it for all… These guys could easily hand over checks.. but ask any charitable organization.. they’d much rather have guys like Brees putting his name to the cause instead of signing a check
after betting the over…i’m tapped out, sorry haiti, sorry 9th ward ( how long ago was the storm ) nice city gov’t you’ve got in nola…it’s time to sh*t or get off the pot, nowlins
Why can’t they do both? Oh, it’s so hard on a player to commit his name to an organization…please.
Another question…why do they have a donation deadline? What are they going to do in four days when the deadline hits and they don’t have the money?
And why are they spending all this money on a freaking football field with seats and a track? Use it on something that matters…like, oh I don’t know…THE SCHOOL THAT WAS DESTROYED! They’re building a field for a school that’s in ruin? Man…first you build a city below seas level, then you develop a football field when the school is destroyed…that’s the message to send to your kids!
Does the stadium float? It doesn’t seem like a great idea to rebuild there unless they’re going to build it up above sea level.
Gee PFT, I seem to remember you Moral Police criticizing Vick after the Va Tech shootings for not giving enough.
Now you pimp Brees and Faulk and beg for more money for New Orleans from the rest of us?
NICE.
Dianenfl we don’t want to end the drunken debauchery, we’ve only just begun!!!
Or, Saints players could each donate 1% of their salary and it would be funded in record time!
Maybe Angelina and Brad could front the money. Lord knows they have the means and the area is one of their pet projects too.
Look i love the Saints as much as anyone else. But let me tell ya, there are better places to build a field in New Orleans or other surrounding areas who need it. If the field is built in the 9th ward it will be run down in less than 2 years. The 9th ward is mostly where N.O gets it’s bad rap from. I’m not saying there aren’t any good people there, but there definitely are a lot of bad. Speaking of that, what is the population of that area anyway? How ofter will it be used? NOT A GOOD IDEA! They have good intentions but just the wrong location.
(geezer) Bah. Let the nippers play on broken bottle-strewn sandlots like we did. That big pile of German Shepherd dog crap is the midfield marker, the Strohs bottles are your end zone and the Burger King bags are my end zone. (/geezer)
Hey Florio,
I’d imagine your income and networth are higher than that of your average reader, why dont you step up to the plate and make a real donation instead of $10 measly dollars?
Dianenfl says:
I thought when America’s Team won the Super Bowl it was going to automatically solve all the cities problems? Is that not the case? You mean a Lombardi trophy doesn’t instantly erase years of drunken debauchery and replace homes? But no one has ever deserved a Super Bowl more than the Saints…. Aren’t things supposed to get better when you get what you deserve?
——————————————————HEY DIANE: quick question, are you really this jaded and pathetic of an individual? Great comment really I’m sure you are just an absolute pleasure to be around!
(A) The players, including Brees, have donated tons of money. Ask Lusher High why they have an athletic program right now.
(B) The reason for the field is as follows – Louisiana is a talent rich area, especially per capita. A lot of the kids in poverty stricken neighborhoods have football as their way out. It’s very important to those kids to have athletics. It’s great to be able to send them back to school, but they also need athletic programs.
And all that aside, sports keep kids out of trouble. They teach them life lessons. They give them something to really look forward to. This field has undeniable benefits, and as more houses pop up, there becomes more need for a return to normalcy in the area. And as schools and athletic programs rebuild, more houses will pop up. It’s a symbiotic relationship between the 2, and you can’t have one without the other.
Help a child out who has nothing. You can hate FEMA, New Orleanians in general…. whatever. But don’t hold that against an 8th grader that just wants a field to play on.
(A) The players, including Brees, have donated tons of money. Ask Lusher High why they have an athletic program right now.
(B) The reason for the field is as follows – Louisiana is a talent rich area, especially per capita. A lot of the kids in poverty stricken neighborhoods have football as their way out. It’s very important to those kids to have athletics. It’s great to be able to send them back to school, but they also need athletic programs.
And all that aside, sports keep kids out of trouble. They teach them life lessons. They give them something to really look forward to. This field has undeniable benefits, and as more houses pop up, there becomes more need for a return to normalcy in the area. And as schools and athletic programs rebuild, more houses will pop up. It’s a symbiotic relationship between the 2, and you can’t have one without the other.
Help a child out who has nothing. You can hate FEMA, New Orleanians in general…. whatever. But don’t hold that against an 8th grader that just wants a field to play on.
“And all that aside, sports keep kids out of trouble. They teach them life lessons. They give them something to really look forward to. This field has undeniable benefits, and as more houses pop up, there becomes more need for a return to normalcy in the area. And as schools and athletic programs rebuild, more houses will pop up. It’s a symbiotic relationship between the 2, and you can’t have one without the other.”
Sooooooo what happens next time a hurricane decides to roll through town? Talk about a “life lesson”, eh? Don’t tug on Superman’s cape, don’t spit in the wind and don’t (re)build below sea level if you’ve got water on three sides and you’re in a hurricane zone.
I’m flat broke. I know much of the country is too. I don’t think this is a serious enough issue to be asking for donations from working class (& those out of work) America.
Since there are so many Vikings fan on here let me ask a question. Who will be the QB next year? The Saints will be lead by DREW BREES, you know the SUPER BOWL MVP. Oh, that’s right yall have now idea. Good luck….lol. Lovin it.
So this thing is essentially for local high schools that don’t have fields?
Good idea. Maybe once Brees gets his new contract, he can donate the rest of the money himself.
OR
by having people donate, it turns the product into something where the stadium belongs “to the people, to the community”?
I wish I could understand the significance of this better. The culture of NY/NJ and NO is so different it almost seems exotic haha
Again, congrats. I went there as a kid, it was amazing. NO is one of the most unique cities in the world, it’s just great it bounced back.
Drew will get my money.
Saints fans probably don’t have any money to give. I think they spent it all on trips to Miami and the Superbowl.
That said, it’s admirable what Brees and Faulk are trying to do, but is a football field really the top priority there? Shouldn’t homes come first?
Brees & Faulk should be able to foot the whole bill…way more important things need to be addressed than a stadium for kids.
How many kisp play in a stadium anyway?
Usually just a field…that’s not good enough for these kids?
I’m all for spending money on the youth, but s football field does seem a little targeted to one group of kids. If the goal is to provide a better experience and better life to the kids of the 9th ward, what about those who don’t play sports? I say this as a huge football fan and someone who played all kinds of sports in high school, but it does seem sort of isolating.
Want to help the kids, and make a difference? Why not a cause that benefits ALL the kids. How’s the condition of the school that they sit in day in, day out? The age of the text books and other teaching supplies? You know, the tools needed to educate these kids. It’d be a shame to see a state-of-the-art football stadium used by a couple hundred kids when a couple thousand are inside and utilizing 15 year old textbooks.
The culture of Pity Orleans will never change.
That is why the down gets more run down as time goes on.
They want stuff given to them.