Football Saves New Orleans

It's a truism that those who spend most of their lives within a subculture attempt to attach some inflated importance to it, but I find it appalling that every time a sporting event occurs in New Orleans, or can in some way be related to it, prognosticators suggest that a victory would be a really big boost for the city. I mean, I can understand a reluctance on the part of the networks to bring up governmental incompetence and hypocrisy during the pre-game, but is such boneheaded obliviousness really necessary? Only after all neighborhoods have been restored and the levees built to scientifically accurate specifications ought we to attach any relevance to sports and athletes.