45 Quotes by Tom Benson

The only hope they got left is this football team. They need us.

Sean impressed me with his attention to detail, and his work ethic.

So it went back and forth to see what could be done. The Alamodome has some restrictions on what games could be here. LSU had restrictions, too. So it was a lot of conversations about different games.

I'd like to thank the commissioner of the National Football League for stepping up to the tremendous problem we have, not only the Saints, but the NFL, of getting this behind us so now we know what our schedule (is), where we are going to play the rest of the season.

I don't know what the NFL would have done if San Antonio hadn't taken us in.

I expect these games to be televised nationally and it could make me not only proud of our football team, but it would also make the (San Antonio) mayor proud to show what kind of great city you have here in San Antonio. This effort and this schedule will help rebuild Louisiana and the Gulf South.

Jackson, since it represented Mississippi, it represented what we needed to do in getting the whole state of Mississippi ... to be in our corner.

I think the fact of what San Antonio did for us -- we had no other place to go where something like this was set up -- that's what made this happen.

I think this is really outstanding in the fact that we're here today and we're coming backto help make this a greater city than it was ever before.