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Finally someone gets it!
The exact opposite is true for MLB and MLS, however. San Antonio should spend its time luring those franchises if it really wants another sports team. NFL isn't coming here anytime soon.
LOL!!! And you think San Antonio does???? The Alamodome was outdated the moment it was built!! The capacity sucks... their is a HUGE lacking of corporate suites, the infrastructure is falling apart... Have you seen the back offices?? Parking is HORRENDOUS! We would need to build a NEW stadium before we could evven think about attracting the NFL and YES -- I DO believe that there are at least a few nimrod city council members who would vote FERVENTLY against an NFL franchise. LOL at you for thinking they would all support it!
Finally someone gets it!
The exact opposite is true for MLB and MLS, however. San Antonio should spend its time luring those franchises if it really wants another sports team. NFL isn't coming here anytime soon.
Your correct on all your points. As for your third point. Those cities did recieve NFL franchises before LA, your right, but now the media (mainly ESPN), and California's government is really pushing the NFL to get a team in LA now (I don't understand this considering were California is economically). Any team relocating will LA as their first choice. They also don't have a stadium, but there are talks of getting that done.
San Antonio could put the team in a small city outside of San Antonio like many teams do (first to come to mind is the Pats).
Then you could try and incorporate Austin into the market if the stadium is located off of 35. That would be the only way as there isn't any real land in San Antonio to build a stadium. Plus the new stadium would have to at least equal Reliant and come close to Cowboys Stadium. Lot of money to do that.
How about someone telling Charles Butt to go in with McCombs on a team. The guy is worth more than Jerry Jones.
Staples Center was entirelly privately funded. I think the LA stadium will have lots of private funding, in the same way Cowboys Stadium did. Jerry Jones put up $750 million of his own money to build.
In fact, the Sports Guy has had Casey Wasserman on his podcast talking about this. According to this article, they want to privately fund the stadium.
http://hollywoodbrick.wordpress.com/...ublic-funding/
Again, if the mayor had a brain, he'd get with the bigwigs of this city and start searching out land. MLB has too many teams doing well with too many stadiums coming to move a team.
Where did I state it did?
Not true no matter how many exclamation points you use.The Alamodome was outdated the moment it was built!!
Capacity sucks?The capacity sucks... their is a HUGE lacking of corporate suites, the infrastructure is falling apart...
The Alamodome seats 65,000.
Ford Field in Detroit opened in 2002 and seats 65,000 for football.
Lucas Field in Indy opened in 2008 and seats 63,000 for football.
University of Phoenix stadium in Phoenix which opened in 2006 has a cap. of 63,000.
I agree, a new stadium is a must in order for SA to land a team. But I think if it ever does happen, the Alamodome would be used as a temp home for a season or two until the new stadium was completed.We would need to build a NEW stadium before we could evven think about attracting the NFL
Well, my comment was pertaining to your claim that a no vote would be because of some geographical issue.and YES -- I DO believe that there are at least a few nimrod city council members who would vote FERVENTLY against an NFL franchise. LOL at you for thinking they would all support it!
But I don't even know why I'm even arguing that with you as it really makes no sense. Can you please explain to me why any hypothetical council would being placing votes on anything in the first place? A tax increase wouldn't be decided by them, it would be decided by a public vote. The council would have very little power in terms of deciding the fate of an NFL team.
Last edited by Buddy Holly; 12-16-2010 at 10:08 AM.
If you wanted to go urban with a stadium, the lone star brewery area such of downtown is big enough to house a stadium as well as mixed use development.
It also has tracks going though it, these tracks will eventually stop being used for commercial freight use and be turned into light rail lines.
This is exactly how it has to happen. When the vote goes through, what the bill should state is that the stadium won't be built until an NFL team agrees to move here. The city would have to tell the team explicitly that we will build a stadium when they get here, so the team will play in the dome during the building process, which is about 2 years or so.
But make sure the team understands that a new stadium is guaranteed once they move. San Antonio should not build a new stadium hoping to attract a team, otherwise we get stuck with the Alamodome all over again.
We can do it, we just don't have the Leadership in place to get it done.
get what done?
I think Mayor Castro is more than capable of making this happen or at least getting the wheels in motion.
San Antonio has had some pretty great mayors in the past.
git'r'done?
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