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Old 11-15-2015, 07:14 AM
 
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If Nashville, Charlotte, and Jacksonville can manage expansion teams, why not SA?
SA was a different city when the NFL expanded. Today, SA has the corporate base and the population to support an NFL team.
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Old 11-15-2015, 07:29 AM
 
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I agree
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Old 11-15-2015, 09:16 AM
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Today, SA has the corporate base and the population to support an NFL team.
How can you say that SA has the corporate base? There are only 5 Fortune 500 corporations headquartered in SA. Only 1 of the 5 is moving up in the ranks. Another of the 5 is actually laying people off. The city's largest corporation moved its headquarters to Dallas 7 years ago.

That lack of corporate base is the biggest reason why SA doesn't have what the NFL is looking for.
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Old 11-15-2015, 10:03 AM
 
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How can you say that SA has the corporate base? There are only 5 Fortune 500 corporations headquartered in SA. Only 1 of the 5 is moving up in the ranks. Another of the 5 is actually laying people off. The city's largest corporation moved its headquarters to Dallas 7 years ago.

That lack of corporate base is the biggest reason why SA doesn't have what the NFL is looking for.
We actually have 6 and that puts us ahead of San Diego, Phoenix, New Orleans, Jacksonville, and Indianapolis, etc....
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Old 11-15-2015, 01:31 PM
 
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People need to get the fact that we don't have the TV market for NFL and get over the fact that, thus, we aren't getting an NFL team...
San Antonio's TV market now ranks #33 and larger than a handful of NFL cities. San Diego is #29 not much bigger. That's not even including the San Marcos-Austin market.

Its not a question any longer if San Antonio can support a team its just finding a team to move here.
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Old 11-15-2015, 04:42 PM
 
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Many people don't want to pay for a stadium. That's one big reason. They had recently held meetings with the Raiders...but I think we were used as a bargaining chip. Must be a tough sell. Someone said earlier that selling out the luxury boxes would be an issue here. I think that has some merit too.

Who is going to pay $500-$700M (or more) for a stadium for a billionaire's team to use at most 10 times per year at minimal expense? It makes absolutely no sense. NFL teams will continue to take advantage of SA to get better deals where they are. It's the threat to move that gets those cities to react to NFL extortion. From what I can tell this is a Cowboy's city, I don't think that allegiance would change. Also don't believe either the Cowboys or Texans would want another Texas team in their territory.
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Old 11-15-2015, 06:20 PM
 
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Who is going to pay $500-$700M (or more) for a stadium for a billionaire's team to use at most 10 times per year at minimal expense? It makes absolutely no sense. NFL teams will continue to take advantage of SA to get better deals where they are. It's the threat to move that gets those cities to react to NFL extortion. From what I can tell this is a Cowboy's city, I don't think that allegiance would change. Also don't believe either the Cowboys or Texans would want another Texas team in their territory.

It has a cowboy following because we don't have a team. Big cities offer big time sports its what most big cities residents want, so big city residents have to support and help pay for it.

It would be awesome to host the super bowl in San Antonio!
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Old 11-15-2015, 10:23 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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People need to get the fact that we don't have the TV market for NFL and get over the fact that, thus, we aren't getting an NFL team...
davis is right, lets accept the fact that a permanent NFL team will never come, neither will MLB. we can probably let the raiders play their home games, but on a temporary basis, the best we can do. im sorry
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Old 11-16-2015, 10:01 AM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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San Antonio's TV market now ranks #33 and larger than a handful of NFL cities. San Diego is #29 not much bigger. That's not even including the San Marcos-Austin market.

Its not a question any longer if San Antonio can support a team its just finding a team to move here.
That doesn't matter. Those cities whose TV markets rank below SA's already have WELL-ESTABLISHED NFL franchises. Some have even LOST their teams and gotten them back during times when other cities were more viable (think Cleveland here). By your logic New Orleans should have their team yanked immediately...well Tom tried that and it didn't work. The long history of establishment and their financial commitment, as a city, to keeping the Saints (right or wrong, for better or worse) is what kept the team there. Even in the case of San Diego, being that the majority of their season ticket holders or SoCal residients (Oragne County, not even in the SD metro area), their team is well-established and their TV market still superior to ours. It's all about revenue and we, as a city, just can't generate enough of it to support a NFL team.
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Old 11-16-2015, 11:03 AM
 
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If Nashville, Charlotte, and Jacksonville can manage expansion teams, why not SA?
In the interest of accuracy: Charlotte and Jacksonville actually were NFL expansion teams, both entering league competition in 1995.

In contrast, the Tennessee Titans, formerly the Houston Oilers and also known for a time as the Tennessee Oilers, represented an existing NFL franchise that merely moved from one city to another, which occurred in 1997. The Oilers' move to Nashville did not represent an expansion of the number of franchises in the NFL. The same number of NFL franchises existed before and after the Oilers' move to Nashville; hence, the Oilers/Titans would not have been an expansion team.

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