Super Bowl games in Big Easy? The 80,985-seat concrete stadium was built in 1926 on the university campus and became the first home of the New Orleans Saints. Tulane football was once a big deal and the stadium, though it was located in the Uptown neighborhood a few miles from the French Quarter, was the center of sports in the Big Easy. “It put New Orleans in the rotation,” said Bill Curl, who was the sports information director at Tulane at the time. “We had an open-air press box, and the media had numb fingers, banging on their Olivetti typewriters,” Curl said. [...] the next time New Orleans hosted a Super Bowl, on Jan.