{"id":1018768,"date":"2026-10-04T23:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T23:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1018768\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T23:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T23:27:18","slug":"watch-pat-swilling-explain-why-he-wanted-to-rebuild-new-orleans-east-after-katrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1018768\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Pat Swilling explain why he wanted to rebuild New Orleans East after Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Pat Swilling explain why he wanted to rebuild New Orleans East after Katrina<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791156438_777_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Metia Carroll\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Twenty years ago, the New Orleans Saints returned to the Superdome to face archrivals the Atlanta Falcons in a newly reopened stadium following the devastation from Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">On Sept. 25, 2006, WDSU was on air for the entire day, marking the historic moment fans were welcomed back to cheer on the Saints.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Pat Swilling of the &#8220;Dome Patrol&#8221; spoke with WDSU in 2006 and explained why he wanted to rebuild New Orleans East after Hurricane Katrina. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">You can watch that report in the video player above.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">You can watch the Domecoming rematch on WDSU on Oct. 5 at 7:15 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch Pat Swilling explain why he wanted to rebuild New Orleans East after Katrina Twenty years ago, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1018769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[10104,132627,254,14239,130274,52511,130255,132603,7,12538,896,133084,55,2572,2571,6,25593,18400,397,17627,8138,52517,14645],"class_list":["post-1018768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-saints","tag-air","tag-archrival","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-cheer","tag-devastation","tag-domecoming","tag-domecoming-rematch","tag-entire-day","tag-football","tag-katrina","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-east","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanssaints","tag-nfl","tag-pat-swilling","tag-saint","tag-saints","tag-sept","tag-stadium","tag-superdome","tag-wdsu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117385235287050145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}