Hurricane Katrina left the New Orleans Saints without a usable home stadium for the 2005 season. Their designated home games were split between New Jersey, San Antonio and Baton Rouge while the Superdome was repaired. This Tracespot follows that displaced season across the three temporary venues and back to New Orleans, where the Saints returned on 25 September 2006. Steve Gleason’s blocked punt came early in a 23–3 win over Atlanta, but the geography of the previous year explains why the night meant so much to the city and the team.
Eighteen celebrated circuits that once staged Formula 1 World Championship races but no longer appear on the calendar. Some survive as active venues; others are public roads, fragments or memories. Together they show how safety, politics, money and changing host cities reshaped the sport.
From a courtyard pitch in Rosengård to a farewell under the lights of San Siro, these places trace Zlatan Ibrahimović’s rise through Sweden, Europe and Los Angeles. It is a story of reinvention, spectacular goals and an ambition large enough to fill every stadium he entered.
Tigst Assefa returned to Berlin on 27 September 2026 with two victories and a former world record already attached to the city. She ran the first half in 1:04:57 and remained within reach of another world record late into the race. Around 40 kilometres, her stride changed and she began to limp. She still reached the finish in 2:11:04, improving her own Berlin course record by 49 seconds and winning for a third time. From the start on Straße des 17. Juni to the final approach through the Brandenburg Gate, these checkpoints follow a fast race whose closing kilometres changed its outcome.
In 1980, twenty-one-year-old Terry Fox set out to run across Canada on an artificial leg, asking Canadians to fund cancer research one dollar at a time. This trace follows selected documented milestones from the Atlantic at St. John’s to the highway outside Thunder Bay, where cancer in his lungs forced him to stop after 143 days and 5,374 kilometres.
From 17 September to 5 November 2006, Dean Karnazes covered a marathon distance in every U.S. state on fifty consecutive days. This compressed trace uses thirteen editorial milestones to make the continental scale legible while naming all fifty states; several weekend runs were live races, while most weekday efforts followed established marathon courses outside their normal event dates.
19 September 2005
Former Giants Stadium site, East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States
The Saints’ first game after Katrina was officially a New Orleans home game, but it was played at Giants Stadium against the New York Giants. The league had moved the game to New Jersey after the Superdome was damaged and New Orleans was still dealing with the disaster. The arrangement made the displacement visible immediately: a team from Louisiana was listed as the home side inside its opponent’s stadium, more than a thousand miles from New Orleans.
40.8137°N · 74.0744°W
October–December 2005
Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas, United States
San Antonio became the Saints’ main temporary base during the 2005 season. The Alamodome hosted three of their designated home games: against Buffalo on 2 October, Atlanta on 16 October and Detroit on 24 December. For months, the team trained and worked far from New Orleans while questions grew about where the franchise would play in the future. The city’s football season had become part of the wider uncertainty created by Katrina.
29.4169°N · 98.4789°W
October–December 2005
Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Four Saints home games were moved to LSU’s Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge. The first, against Miami on 30 October, brought the team back to Louisiana for a home date, although New Orleans was still about eighty miles away and the Superdome remained closed. The remaining Baton Rouge games came against Chicago, Tampa Bay and Carolina. By the end of the season, the Saints had played their eight designated home dates in three different stadiums.
30.4120°N · 91.1838°W
25 September 2006
Caesars Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
After ten months of repairs, the Superdome reopened for football on 25 September 2006. The Saints hosted Atlanta on Monday Night Football, their first game in the building since December 2004. Early in the first quarter, Steve Gleason blocked Michael Koenen’s punt and Curtis Deloatch recovered it in the end zone. New Orleans won 23–3. The play became the lasting image of the night, but the return itself closed a season in which the Saints had been a home team in New Jersey, Texas and Baton Rouge.
29.9508°N · 90.0811°W