San Antonio and Austin sports

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

Originally Posted by centralaustinite

My tongue was a bit in cheek during my previous post, after twenty years in Austin and two degrees from UT, I've learned to love the Longhorns! I still follow my childhood baseball team (St. Louis Cardinals) but I grew up following the NFL and have completely given it up for college football, infinitely more interesting! And yes, I have a Titans jersey and check in if Vince if playing but most of the time, the TV doesn't even turn on Sundays anymore (unless I'm watching College Game Day Final on Tivo!)

San Antonio has been trying to get a football for ages, and all of us in Austin count as part of that future fan base, it may never happen. Check with the NFL, I do not think they consider this region large enough to support a pro team. SA has moved heaven and earth to prove otherwise, still no dice. The Austin-Round Rock MSA is just over one million people, hardly NFL-sized.

Come on, give in, learn to love the Longhorns!

(It took us five years to learn to love Austin, but we fell for the Longhorns the very first fall, 1990, that we were in town)

San Antonio currently 2.1 million 2020 projection 2.8 million
Austin 1.6 million 2020 projection 2.2 million.

That is 5 million people in 6 counties along I-35, larger than many other combined metros. Combined they would rank in the the top 15 markets.

[professorac]

Me I would love to see Austin or San Antonio have a team. I pick Austin over San Antonio just because I like it but it would be great either way. In Madden I have a team called the Austin Wildcats that is blue & black & they have won 6 super bowls . It would be great to have 3 NFL teams in Texas

[S6Sputnik]

Originally Posted by twange

As a pro sports fan, I grew up rooting for my teams because (good or bad) they represented my city. And the teams were very old and completely woven into the city's history. No matter where I end up living, my origins will always be from Cleveland. Even if my college had football (which it didn't), I would still be a pro fan because I identify myself more with where I'm from then where I went to college. But that's me. It's not really too unique. Fans form an emotional attachment to teams that can border on irrationality.

You must have DIED when the original "BROWNS" dumped Cleveland for Baltimore.

That is the part of pro sports I hate..I have lived in Phoenix, Toronto, Detroit and now Austin and the only team that showed no city loyalty was the Phoenix Cardinals by leaving St. Louis....and people hated them for years!!!!!!!

[twange]

Originally Posted by S6Sputnik

You must have DIED when the original "BROWNS" dumped Cleveland for Baltimore.

That is the part of pro sports I hate..I have lived in Phoenix, Toronto, Detroit and now Austin and the only team that showed no city loyalty was the Phoenix Cardinals by leaving St. Louis....and people hated them for years!!!!!!!

Let me tell you. I remember driving around stunned on a gray, frosty morning for hours from one side of the city to the other listening to the radio, when it all went down. The city was in shock. Then it got p*ssed. In a span of 2 weeks, the city went from the high of having the Indians in the World Series for the first time since the 1950s, the grand opening of the R & R Hall of Fame to the utter pit of doom and rejection from having a greedy owner move a city icon to save his own *ss from bankruptcy. Dark times for a struggling city let me tell you.

The Browns might be the most important public trust in Cleveland. At the very least, one of the most popular. They've had 13 winning seasons since 1970 and the stadium has always been packed. They've never been to a SB. That's love. Or stupidity. Unlike the Chicago Cubs, the Browns aren't a tourist attraction for wannabes. It's a hardcore fan club bordering on insanity. The only reason the city got a team back (and got to keep its colors and history) is because the fans revolted against the NFL offices un-mercilessly. A proud moment for Cleveland I must say. I was at the last game they played in Cleveland before moving. It was brutal. During the 4th quarter, fans just starting ripping the place apart. Entire rows of metal seats were torn out, passed overhead row to row and thrown onto the field. For an hour after the game the stadium sounded like a construction site as fans took "souvenirs".

That's why I hate the Titans, Ravens and any other city that steals another city's team and history. If Austin ever gets a pro team, I hope it isn't that way.

It's just dirty.