A major football game will kick off at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Monday night, but it won’t feature the New Orleans Saints. Instead, the LSU Tigers and Clemson Tigers will kick off the College Football Playoff National Championship Game in front of a raucous home crowd, and the Superdome has been decorated for the occasion.
The first look at the dressed-up Superdome comes from Nola.com director of photography David Grunfeld, who shared a photo from the LSU end zone to his official Twitter account. The Superdome is covered in LSU purple and Clemson orange, with College Football Playoff logos on just about every surface. See it for yourself:
This game is kind of poignant — it will be the last kickoff in the Superdome before major renovations sweep through the building this offseason, with further updates and construction planned for next year, too. It’s all part of a larger agenda to maintain pace with other top-tier venues around the country, which will allow New Orleans to continue hosting major events like college football bowl games and playoff championships, Super Bowls (the next NFL title game will be played in New Orleans in 2024), Wrestlemania, Monsterjam, landmark music concerts, and of course, Saints home games. The Superdome will look different the next time Saints fans crowd its halls.
