New Orleans Jesters game over Memphis Express. The team then lost their next five games, including a 5–2 defeat at the hands of the Nashville Metros. A brief mid-season surge that included a pair of wins over divisional Laredo Heat sparked the potential for a revival, but four more defeats, including another to Nashville, ended any playoff hopes New Orleans may have had. The team finished sixth in the Mid South Division. Pablo Araya-Espinozo was the season's top scorer, with 9 goals. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina heavily damaged Pan American Stadium, along with much of the rest of the area. As a
1915 New Orleans hurricane September 29, and local emergency offices enforced strict curfews for New Orleans as landfall approached; meteorologist Isaac Cline stated in an entry to the Monthly Weather Review that the effective dissemination of warnings and strict enforcement of curfew "unquestionably" mitigated additional loss of life in the city. As the hurricane traversed the Gulf of Mexico from September 28 to September 29, it produced rough surf along its path. The cutter "Miami" was caught in the storm, but was able to use a heavily damaged ship as an anchor before resuming its trek towards Key West, Florida. Storm surge and rough