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SA needs to bring the superbowl to the Alamodome with some minor renovations and added seating SA should be a super bowl site plus its a tourist haven, and there's Austin not to far. I think with both cities there would be enough hotels and motels for people.
The Alamodome is expandable to 72,000 so I don't think capacity is too much of a problem but the ideal number of luxury suites in the stadium would require 100-150 million dollars in renovations in order "to be suitable for an NFL team" and I'm assuming also a Super Bowl.... which is what I read.
Let's focus on getting an actual NFL team for the city first before pursuing a Superbowl. San Antonio has long been overdue for an NFL franchise. The metropolitan area has grown tremendously in the last 10 years and is now more than capable of supporting the NFL as well as MLB on its own. At 2.3 million San Antonio is one of the largest cities, outside Los Angeles, without NFL football. The time has come and I fully expect the league to place a team in San Antonio in the near future.
Along those lines, the Minnesota legislature is set to vote on a stadium bill to help fund a new stadium up there in late November. If this measure fails to pass you could be looking at the San Antonio Vikings next season.
I know the United Football League tried to put a team in San Antonio but I think they said the newly started UTSA Roadrunner football program scared them off or something. Ha.
I know the United Football League tried to put a team in San Antonio but I think they said the newly started UTSA Roadrunner football program scared them off or something. Ha.
Yeah. And look at the UFL now. Bankrupt, broke and with few fans. As a matter of fact the UFL has probably played its last game. San Antonians are fed up with these fly by night, iffy, sorry little minor leagues and crave the real thing.
Yeah. And look at the UFL now. Bankrupt, broke and with few fans. As a matter of fact the UFL has probably played its last game. San Antonians are fed up with these fly by night, iffy, sorry little minor leagues and crave the real thing.
The UFL will be back in 2012. I know the canceling of the last two weeks of the regular season isn't promising and disencourages more credibility towards the league, two of the four games would be in Las Vegas, the city that hosted one game that year and only drew 6,500. All three other UFL markets draw sellouts or close to sellouts in their smaller stadiums. So, with the standings decided at Virginia and Las Vegas at 3-1, and Omaha and Sacramento at 1-3, they decided to just play the championship game two weeks early to save money and more embarrassing attendance figures in Vegas at Sam Boyd. As a UFL fan myself, it is frustrating. The league said it'd have 8 teams in 2011, then promised 6, then folded the Florida Tuskers (5) and after suspending the season for a month, they suspended the operations of the Hartford Colonials, making four teams, like in 2009. But despite all this, the Destroyers, Mountain Lions, and Nighthawks all drew great crowds. The UFL has a great product, great fans, and with the right leader (certainly not current commissioner Hugo) it would do great.
I don't believe the NFL awards the game to non-NFL cities, so the chances for SA appear slim.
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