Future for the San Diego Chargers could be sunnier in San Antonio

[ChumpDumper]

oh and to add to the above ...

personally I think that San Antonio deserves a MLS team before anything else. that city loves soccer and MLS would certainly thrive there.

We'll see how the current team continues to do.

aside from that, San Antonio needs to worry about getting the second market demand for Spurs tickets higher than .50-.75 cents before they get serious about bringing in a NFL franchise.

No franchise or city has ever worried about tickets that are already sold.

[Biernutz]

The NFL will not let another team in Jerry's territory. There are more Cowboy fans
in south Texas than in the Dallas metro area. It's always Cowboys this or Cowboys
that. It's making for a lot of haters. Until Jerry gets too old to run his fantasy football
team, we will have to wait till his kids take over and screw it all up before we will have
a chance of a team. LA, London and Las Vegas don't have a team yet, and we are in
line behind them.

[BRHornet45]

The NFL will not let another team in Jerry's territory. There are more Cowboy fans
in south Texas than in the Dallas metro area. It's always Cowboys this or Cowboys
that. It's making for a lot of haters. Until Jerry gets too old to run his fantasy football
team, we will have to wait till his kids take over and screw it all up before we will have
a chance of a team. LA, London and Las Vegas don't have a team yet, so we will have
to wait.

son London will get a team before Las Vegas does.

and personally I don't want Vegas to ever get a team. there is something great about going out there in a cluster of fans from all over the place betting on their teams.

[baseline bum]

son don't forget the fact that San Antonio didn't come out and support the NFL games there either. they didn't come close to selling out any of the three games...

Alamodome maximum capacity for American football -72,000

Game 1 Attendance - 58,688
Game 2 Attendance - 65,562
Game 3 Attendance - 63,747



regardless of Katrina or not New Orleans would never lose the Saints. even in the ty years the fan support has been strong. the year before Katrina when the Saints were a ty 7-9 team they sold out all but one of their home games. nowadays since 2006 the dome has been expanded twice for extra seating (up to 72,000ish now), season tickets literally sellout the entire dome, and the waiting list for season tickets is over 60,000 deep.

Son they would have lost the Saints without that fat welfare check from the state.

[BRHornet45]

No reason to go to it's full capacity, your number is misleading.

And yes, winning sells tickets.

Good for the Saints, and good for Tom Benson -- he stands to make almost half a billion from the state of Louisiana over the life of his lease on top of his regular profits.

Not so great for the people of the state, really, but you guys wanted to keep the NFL.

it's not misleading. the full capacity of the Alamodome for football is 72,000. they didn't expand it because the closest they got to that number was still almost 7,000 tickets away.

Saints sold tickets before they won

Tom Benson got a sweetheart deal, but only a fool would believe that he is going to personally make almost "half a billion" from the state and just chuck it. he has constantly put tens of millions back into New Orleans and downtown. not to mention the fact that he bought the Pelicans for $300M along with tens of millions into arena upgrades, practice facilities, etc.

[Biernutz]

son London will get a team before Las Vegas does.

and personally I don't want Vegas to ever get a team. there is something great about going out there in a cluster of fans from all over the place betting on their teams.

I can see Vegas with a Football ,Baseball and basketball teams in the future. After the
first team moves there the other leagues will follow......Count on it!

[BRHornet45]

Son they would have lost the Saints without that fat welfare check from the state.

oh please.

anyone in their right mind as a business owner would consider other options when you saw the situation that the city of New Orleans was in. show me another professional sports team in a city that was in a similar situation ...... I'll wait for that answer.

no one knew what would happen to New Orleans. you can't blame Benson for looking at other options.

[baseline bum]

oh please.

anyone in their right mind as a business owner would consider other options when you saw the situation that the city of New Orleans was in. show me another professional sports team in a city that was in a similar situation ...... I'll wait for that answer.

no one knew what would happen to New Orleans. you can't blame Benson for looking at other options.

Show me another sports league with an opening in LA. was gone without his EBT son.

[ChumpDumper]

it's not misleading. the full capacity of the Alamodome for football is 72,000. they didn't expand it because the closest they got to that number was still almost 7,000 tickets away.

Saints sold tickets before they won

Tom Benson got a sweetheart deal, but only a fool would believe that he is going to personally make almost "half a billion" from the state and just chuck it. he has constantly put tens of millions back into New Orleans and downtown. not to mention the fact that he bought the Pelicans for $300M along with tens of millions into arena upgrades, practice facilities, etc.

Stadiums don't expand to their temporary capacity during the regular season. It's stupid and expensive.

The state is subsidizing the out of everything Tom built and bought there. It's just a way of hiding what used to be the direct subsidy.

We do some dumb in texas too but nothing like that.

[Biernutz]

The Saints got $13 million from the state to stay. This pisses off my family
who lives near Baton Rouge. They say that the money should have
gone to the states other pro team.....LSU........

[BRHornet45]

Show me another sports league with an opening in LA. was gone without his EBT son.

lol wut?

" " stayed and look what happened. lol it truly must suck to be a Houston sports fan. Astros, Rockets, Oilers ... my God.

[BRHornet45]

The Saints got $13 million from the state to stay. This pisses off my family
who lives near Baton Rouge. They say that the money should have
gone to the states other pro team.....LSU........

lol son I'm from Baton Rouge and LSU doesn't deserve .

[J.T.]

London ever getting a franchise. I think it's re ed they do a game there every year. It's National Football League, not International Football League.

[leemajors]

London ever getting a franchise. I think it's re ed they do a game there every year. It's National Football League, not International Football League.

WLAF rising son

[baseline bum]

BR man, do they drug test Benson every month to see if he's eligible for his benefits?

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

BR man, do they drug test Benson every month to see if he's eligible for his benefits?

No but he has to go through a monthly Bobby Jindal exorcism