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Shreveport is the third largest city in the state of Louisiana. The metropolitian city had a population of 392,302 in 2000. [1] Shreveport is located in the north west corner of the state were Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet. Barksdale Air Force Base is located in nearby Bossier City where the 8th Air Force is headquartered. The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and the Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II are the primary aircraft at the base which opened in 1933. Shreveport was also a major oil business center and Standard Oil of Louisiana was based in the city until it was absorbed into Standard Oil (Esso) of New Jersey.
Shreveport Sports
In the 1990's Shreveport had a professional football team from the Canadian Football League; the the Shreveport Pirates. The Pirates, like all of the American CFL teams, by 1996 the team had folded. Shreveport was a potential city to temporarily house the NFL's New Orleans Saints after Hurricane Katrina, but instead they played at San Antonio and LSU Stadium. The Saintswould play the Dallas Cowboys during the 2006 NFL preseason.