Reggie Bush comments on Hurricane Katrina as well as...

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Reggie Bush comments on Hurricane Katrina as well as...

#1 Postby Steve » Mon May 15, 2006 2:48 pm

Former University of Alabama Captain Roman Harper who the Saints drafted in the second round (From Len Paquerelli's ESPN piece. Lenny spent the weekend in New Orleans). Harper's comments involve his 200 mile drive down from Prattville, AL on the I-65 and then the I-10.

"Nothing you've seen on TV comes close to describing it," said Harper, clearly taken aback by his encounter with the post-Hurricane Katrina landscape. "It's hard to process. I mean, you think to yourself, 'Wow, it's been almost a year, and there are places that still look like this?' It's a rude awakening. All the stuff you've heard? Well, the reality is a lot worse. You wonder, for some people who are still there, if things will ever get back to normal."

Reggie Bush

“ If you don't see it for yourself, you can't understand it. Cars on top of cars. Houses on top of houses. Like a battle zone. It really hits you. It's hard not to come away thinking, like, 'OK, what can I do?'”

Reggie, to his credit, is paying for new turf at Tad Gormley Stadium in City Park. He's also donating $50,000 to Holy Rosary Catholic School which had cared for kids with serious disabilities and such. The school was going to close its doors because the archdiocese didn't have the money to run it any longer. Good job by both Saints to immediately understand the community they're now a part of.

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#2 Postby Aquawind » Mon May 15, 2006 5:41 pm

Excellent! :D
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#3 Postby Javlin » Mon May 15, 2006 6:35 pm

I know what you mean Steve and we have had some here try to minimize the event and destruction.Unless you see you just don't know it.
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#4 Postby Pearl River » Mon May 15, 2006 6:50 pm

I have said it in the past that seeing is the only way to comprehend it and have been verbally assaulted by people on this board who said they don't need to see it, they have friends or co-workers here that said it wasn't bad.

Kudo's to Reggie Bush and Roman Harper.
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