Sportshour at Super Bowl LIX: New Orleans edition

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Katie Smith is in New Orleans on the eve of Super Bowl LIX to bring you the atmosphere and the stories ahead of Philadelphia Eagles v Kansas City Chiefs. Katie meets Jackie Wallace who had it all, but the three-time Super Bowl star had a demon he could not deal with. After retirement, he slipped into addiction and lost everything. New Orleans is the home of Jazz, and the father of Jazz is Fats Waller. His great grandson, Darren Waller was a big name in the NFL. He retired last year to turn his mind to music. We catch up with him to talk about football, fame and his family's musical heritage. Plus, New Orleans is known as the party capital of the South, but in August 2005 that all changed. Now when people think of New Orleans, they think of Hurricane Katrina. Doug Thornton was, and still is, the manager of the Super Dome, and through his eyes we will learn what it was like to be in the Super Dome when Katrina hit and how it was rebuilt.

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0:00.0	New Orleans, a party town, if ever there was one.
0:09.1	And yet a place of unimaginable horror.
0:12.4	And with much of New Orleans now underwater, authorities are focused on search and rescue before it's too late.
0:18.9	The Big Easy, home of Mardi Gras, and now an 11th Super Bowl.
0:25.7	The sight of terror and pain, man-made and natural.
0:30.4	There is a house in New Orleans.
0:41.9	They call the Super Dog Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:46.2	I'm Katie Smith with this bonus episode of the podcast I host, Sports Hour.
0:51.5	Now if you're not a sports fan, don't be put off by the title. Over the next hour,
0:55.9	we'll transcend sport. It has warmth, it has heartache and it has joy.
1:03.8	This is Nola, the birthplace of jazz.
1:11.2	And funeral marches.
1:17.2	We'll take you around this city that's had to endure seismic tragedy that threatened its entire existence and hear from those
1:29.5	who nearly lost everything. It's still just, it's just so fresh. And I can't really understand why
1:37.5	it's been 20 years and those who stay to rebuild it. It was a very emotional time for both of us.
1:44.8	Should we go or should we stay?
1:46.4	I said, you know, I just don't know if we're going to be able to rebuild the dome.
1:49.5	I don't know if the city's going to be able to come back.
1:51.7	I mean, we had these moments where we were really shaken to the core and did some soul searching.
1:57.8	On Sunday, a back-to-back Super Bowl champions, Kansas City,
2:02.3	are aiming for an historic three-peat.
2:05.1	And Mahomes do it.
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