Superbowl Delay

A New Orleans judge has postponed a trial because he is convinced that everybody in the city will be too distracted by the local American football team's forthcoming performance in the Superbowl championship. Judge Michael Bagneris ordered a delay in a hearing of an asbestos lawsuit until so-called Saintsmania -- local excitement over the Superbowl contenders, the New Orleans Saints -- had died down. "Many prospective jurors for the parish of Orleans, several attorneys involved in this litigation and court personnel plan on travelling to the promised land-the Superbowl in Miami, Florida," the judge wrote in his court order.