Peter Holt and Red McCombs willing to invest in the Oakland Raiders ...

[raybies]

Back to rooting for MLSinSA!

[Vito Corleone]

San Antonio by itself is not a very appealing option for an NFL owner, but a stadium around New Braunfels that would attract both Austin fans and San Antonio fans is a strong possibility.

Keep this in mind, no one thinks of San Antonio as a single market anymore. With the growth in the I-35 corridor San Antonio and Austin are now considered one media market and that jumps the two to around the 14th biggest market in the United States.

Now that is definitely worthy of an NFL franchise. They can still be called the San Antonio Raiders, The Giants played in New Jersey for how many years while still being called the NY Giants. If I'm the Raiders owner I would push for a new stadium right in between New Braunfels and San Marcos then I would start my own TV network that services both Austin and San Antonio.

That is about the only way I see an NFL franchise coming to this area and making it.

[BatManu20]

[DPG21920]

BRB buying Los Angeles Chargers domain name.

[raybies]

BRB buying Los Angeles Chargers domain name.

Lmao!!

[UZER]

As much as Don Harris is a goon. He was 100% right. An NFL team is not coming to SA as long as Jerry is in Dallas.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.

[raybies]

I admit I drank the kool aide

[benefactor]

poor Glen

[BatManu20]

If San Antonio ever gets an opportunity to start an expansion franchise, I hope they'd go back with this.

[exstatic]

Why? It's an hour drive from Plano to Arlington, and people don't mind doing it 8 times a year. South Texas isn't getting an NFL team without Austin's money, so it seems logical. San Antonio needs to import a lot of better paying jobs or triple in size before they can start dictating where they want their NFL team to go.

And frankly, San Antonio's track record ain't great considering AT&T was supposed to stir economic growth and didn't.

Austinites may drive down, but I doubt many San Antonians will drive up. An hour one way is a long way to go.

[BD24]

Austinites may drive down, but I doubt many San Antonians will drive up. An hour one way is a long way to go.

Agreed. And to obstructed's point of AT&T not generating revenue it is because its in a location. A San Marcos location isn't going to generate revenue for San Antonio.

[TheGreatYacht]

Don Harris is a got

[dbestpro]

As much as Don Harris is a goon. He was 100% right. An NFL team is not coming to SA as long as Jerry is in Dallas.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.

Cowboy fans are anti San Antonio. The good news is there are less of them these days.

[noles1983]

annoying as cities like cleveland and jacksonville can get a team but we are constantly ed over here in SA

[BD24]

annoying as cities like cleveland and jacksonville can get a team but we are constantly ed over here in SA

This! Seriously Jacksonville, Tampa, and other cities can get a team and we can't. Horse

[Chinook]

Austinites may drive down, but I doubt many San Antonians will drive up. An hour one way is a long way to go.

I don't necessarily agree that putting the stadium in SM is a good idea, but I do think it's demonstrably disingenuous to believe that any Texan city wouldn't drive for an hour for football a few times a year. This is especially true in a world where SA and Austin are almost considered the same city. And the idea would be for the rail system to go by a stadium anyway, so that would reduce a lot of traffic both ways.

Agreed. And to obstructed's point of AT&T not generating revenue it is because its in a location. A San Marcos location isn't going to generate revenue for San Antonio.

I mean, SM would be coughing up the public funding for an SM stadium, just like Santa Clara did for the new 9ers stadium. So it's really about what McCombs, Holt and the other investors would be willing to pay for. If they are willing to foot enough of the bill for the City of SM to make up the rest (along with naming, PSLs and those things), then the Raiders wouldn't owe SA any more than they would the other Cen-Tex and South Texas cities.

[random21]

Don Harris is a got

[cd98]

If San Antonio ever gets an opportunity to start an expansion franchise, I hope they'd go back with this.

I would love if SA got an NFL team and renamed them the "Gunslingers." In this day and age, the country would explode.

[ChumpDumper]

Austinites may drive down, but I doubt many San Antonians will drive up. An hour one way is a long way to go.

Eh, it's a Sunday drive.

Agreed. And to obstructed's point of AT&T not generating revenue it is because its in a location. A San Marcos location isn't going to generate revenue for San Antonio.

No football stadium is going to be a moneymaker for anyone but the team owner. San Antonio is better off letting someone else foot the bill.

[Obstructed_View]

Austinites may drive down, but I doubt many San Antonians will drive up. An hour one way is a long way to go.

If they can't be bothered to drive 30 minutes to see a football game 8 times a year, then they clearly aren't ready for an NFL franchise.

[BD24]

If they can't be bothered to drive 30 minutes to see a football game 8 times a year, then they clearly aren't ready for an NFL franchise.

I don't know where u live, but San Marcos is far more than 30 minutes from SA. And that's even if your in the NE side of town. Say your on the west side of town and your looking at well over an hour

[sasaint]

I don't know where u live, but San Marcos is far more than 30 minutes from SA. And that's even if your in the NE side of town. Say your on the west side of town and your looking at well over an hour

It's not a good location, IMHO. It really amounts to chasing fools gold in Austin, sacrificing a great deal of convenience for a San Antonio market that seems far more interested in landing an NFL franchise. Are the Austin media and civic leaders acknowledging the Raiders' proposed relocation at all? I say again, IMHO the good folks of Austin might become interested in a local NFL team if the Longhorns abandoned football. It is my impression that beyond the Longhorns, the Cowboys are entrenched, and any local NFL transplant would be no more than a passing novelty - if that. Do people in Austin know (or care) that the most amazing pro sports dynasty of the modern era plays basketball in San Antonio?

[ChumpDumper]

Don't get all parochial and insecure. Austin has money; the NFL isn't going to move into the area without trying to get that money. It would be really stupid if they didn't.

[PublicOption]

We have to ignore the Cowboys once and for all......... DALLAS!

[Obstructed_View]

I don't know where u live, but San Marcos is far more than 30 minutes from SA. And that's even if your in the NE side of town. Say your on the west side of town and your looking at well over an hour

I live in DFW, and it's a 45 minute drive to Cowboys Stadium with no traffic. With the traffic in Houston, it's probably at least an hour drive from almost every suburb to get to NRG. Kyle Field manages to get 65000 people, many of whom drive an hour or more to commute seven times a year. Again, if this is what San Antonio people are whining about, then they aren't going to support an NFL team. I'm sorry, but that's the reality.