NFL in San Antonio..... now even more unlikely (Houston, Dallas: car rental, city hall)

[Zuul]

Not sure if anyone caught the article today in the EN - basically, the city government paid $50K for some consultants to tell us to stop wasting time trying to poach an NFL team and instead build a "sports landscape". The primary obstacles are the lack of corporate sponsors along with San Antonio's small metro size and distinctly poorer population - along with the Alamodome not being fit for NFL standards.

In a bad US economy that continues to spiral down, I have to ask - why would any investor pony up $1 billion to bring football to America's 37th largest (and one of the poorest) media markets? How canthe city commit $700 million+ to build a fitting stadium? My hunch is that this should cool the football drive here, at least politically, for a good 20 years. Perhaps things will look differently then, but for now, enjoy the Cowboys.......


S.A. a great place to practice, but tough sell as NFL home - San Antonio Express-News



S.A. a great place to practice, but tough sell as NFL home

Study says arena football, lower-level soccer, Triple-A baseball more realistic here.

By Richard Oliver / roliver@express-news.net

Published 01:08 a.m., Friday, July 29, 2011



San Antonio is ready to tackle the Arena Football League, lower-division soccer and perhaps even Triple-A baseball.



But city sports fans will have little to cheer about regarding the National Football League or Major League Baseball, at least for the foreseeable future.
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[SweethomeSanAntonio]

The city paid 50k for this lame study. San Antonio is the 24th largest metro, nearly 2.3 million people and continually growing. San Antonio has more F500 and a corporate base than many MLB and NFL cities. Hmm, lets see, San Diego, Phoenix, Miami, New Orleans, Nashville, (equal)Charlotte, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Green bay, lada lada lada have a smaller corporate base than San Antonio. S.A. also has a higher median income than Dallas and Houston by several thousand dollars.
So the city wasted 50k for bad info. Then I guess all these exsiting so called bigger league cities need to sell their teams and relocate them to cities that are elligible. If those cities can support them, San Antonio can surely support another major league team, and the city knows that.
Of course we need a new venue for MLB or transform and build on the Alamodome. This Dallas Cowboy training camp whatever is nice and all but Im not a fan, we need our own NFL team. I would love to go to a San Antonio vs dallas Cowboy game. It would be just as intense or even more so than a Spurs-Mavs game

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

Jerry Jones must be a stakeholder of California-based Premier Partnerships!

[Quattro72]

Why pay a “consultant” $50k to tell the city government that? I could have told the city government the same thing at no cost. LOL.

[Primo]

Originally Posted by Quattro72

Why pay a “consultant” $50k to tell the city government that? I could have told the city government the same thing at no cost. LOL.

Because the paid consultant is City Manager Sheryl Scully's husband. And from what I understand...he has background in Telecommunications/phone company back in Arizona, so he wasnt even qualified to be doing this job(that didn't need to be done)
City Hall stealling tax payer money again!

[shoe01]

Originally Posted by Primo

Because the paid consultant is City Manager Sheryl Scully's husband. And from what I understand...he has background in Telecommunications/phone company back in Arizona, so he wasnt even qualified to be doing this job(that didn't need to be done)
City Hall stealling tax payer money again!

From what I read, Michael Sculley didn't get any money from the study, but a California-based firm did. Did I misread?

[Bo]

Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio

we need our own NFL team.

Without a stadium and lots of corporations to sponsor luxury boxes, we won't get one. I agree with the premise of the report, which is that we shouldn't get one.

The city spent over $200 million to open the current stadium in 1992 and it is no longer up to the NFL's standards (confirmed in the article). The Cowboys stadium cost over $1 billion. This city can't afford to build a $1 billion stadium.

There aren't enough corporations here to support a team. I've noticed unoccupied luxury boxes at the AT&T Center during Spurs' games. The corporations that are here aren't enough to fully support the city's only major league sports team! The NFL knows this.

[RGJ]

And there's no way, even if they found some generous wacked out billionairey to build it, that the Cowboys or Texans would allow the approval of a team here.

[SnappyBob]

Originally Posted by shoe01

From what I read, Michael Sculley didn't get any money from the study, but a California-based firm did. Did I misread?

He'll probably get a little bit bigger bonus this year. The city will be using this study to waste more of our tax dollars on "building a sports landscape". I can imagine the amount of proposals from stadium builders that will come out of this study. I propose that the city set up a "Let's buy a NFL team fund" Let it be funded with only private funds. Then let all of the people who are salivating over a San Antonio NFL team put as much money into it as the want until we have enough money to build what we need and then buy a team. I can't afford to pay for someone elses entertainment.

[RGJ]

Mr. Sculley is the Director of the Bexar County Venue Program that is in charge of distributing the money from the visitor and car rental taxes that passed a couple or three years ago. This is the tax referendum that decided McAllister Park Little League gets around 4-5 million for their fields that only their Little Leage kids can play on.