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New Orleans cleared the final hurdle towards an unencumbered Super Bowl game when a court upheld yesterday the city's ordinance banning discrimination by owners of bars and taxis, despite protest from 80 white bar owners.
Some civil rights groups had threatened to appeal to Pete Rozelle, the pro football commissioner, for transfer of Sunday's game if the accommodations ordinance were not approved.
In 1965, the American League All-Star Football game was moved from New Orleans to Houston because of a public accommodations dispute involving taxis. It was charged that white drivers refused to accept Negro fares.
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