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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell just announced that New Orleans will be the host city for Super Bowl XLVII in 2013.

It will be New Orleans' 10th Super Bowl, which will tie it with Miami for the most ever. Miami will host its 10th in 2010.

"I think this is a great statement about the spirit of the people of New Orleans and the great relationship the NFL and the Saints have with that community," Goodell said.

The NFL will announce the site of the 2013 Super Bowl later Tuesday afternoon (reportedly around 4:30 PM ET) and word on the Tweet, at least according to Saints' owner Tom Benson via NFL Network's Scott Hanson, is that you can go right ahead and lock New Orleans in to host.

See, Hanson is on-scene at the owners meetings and even had breakfast with Benson, afterward quoting the Saints owner via tweet.

Two things have haunted residents of Louisiana since the state began to return to normalcy after Hurricane Katrina: 1) What happens when (not if) the next big one hits?, and 2) Will the Saints and the state ever come to a long-term agreement? The first question is more pressing and widespread than the second, but not by as wide of a margin as you may believe.

While the local and federal governments ashamedly haven't done enough work to at least quell concerns about future disaster preparation, the state of the Saints finally seems close to resolution, as the team and Louisiana have come to an agreement that will keep the Saints in place through 2025. Aspects of the agreement still have to pass through legislation, but though there will be resistance the deal should get pushed through. Still, the deal depends on other factors for it to be a success.

Here's a little story you probably never thought you'd be reading on a Sunday morning.

According to a reliable source close to PFT, a few Saints left their natural calling cards on more than one of owner Tom Benson's vehicles.

Benson, in addition to the Saints, also owns some new car dealerships. And a few times a season, Benson brings a few of the new cars up to the practice facility and stadium in hopes of luring a wandering eye over to the shiny new ride.

The problem is, a lot of his employees, including the players, hate this act, because he doesn't give them any sort of a deal. So, at least two players decided to cover a few of the new cars with feces. No, seriously.

UPDATE: The Times-Picayune confirms the report.

When thinking about the big cities in our great country, the easy names pop in your head. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Phoenix. All are pretty enormous and all have multiple sports teams occupying the land. What you may not know is San Antonio is the seventh most populated city in the United States and only hosts one professional sports team, the Spurs.

All that may change in the coming years as NFL commissioner Roger Goodell visited San Antonio yesterday and talked about the hope of bringing a football team to the Alamo.

"There's no question the growth is extraordinary here," Goodell said. "You see it as soon as you come into the city ... The vision the leaders have here to grow this community has been very positive. I think that will provide new opportunities.''

So, I'm driving around running some errands and decide to listen to the local sports talk radio. I live in Cincinnati now, so most of the talk is pretty bad. Fans are tired of talking about all the little reasons why the Bengals are bad. The main reason is something that cannot be fixed: owner Mike Brown.

Brown is one of those cheap owners who inherited his organization (from his legend of a father) but doesn't know how to organize it. The story keeps on going, but it just ends with him being a bad owner (just one winning season in the 16 full seasons he has owned the team). Even his Wikipedia page says he is one of the worst owners in professional sports.

On the radio today, they were discussing the sad fact that fans would actually be cheering Mike Brown dying and the team being run by someone else. What? You'd cheer a man's death just so your football team can be better?

It happens. Remember how fans booed during a moment of silence for Chicago Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz a year ago? Wirtz was very unpopular and fans viewed his death as a great moment for their hockey club.