Rio Grande Valley officials are working on an NFL plan

[ShoogarBear]

What about ice hockey?

[Extra Stout]

Poke fun at the Valley if you must, but Los Angeles is the butt of this joke.

???

If you're implying that the Hill Country is more impressive than the freaking Sierra Nevada, that's funny.

14,000 foot mountains >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1,000 foot hills
Yosemite >>>>>>>>>>>> Lost Maples
Sequoias >>>>>>>>>>>>>> live oaks
Lake Tahoe >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Medina Lake

For our next trick, a hopelessly myopic South Texan is going to adopt the position that Tower of the Americas is a more impressive building than the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and that the I-410 expansion is a greater engineering feat than the A75 bridge in France.

[Marcus Bryant]

I think the "joke" might have to do with the fact that the nation's 2nd largest media market does not seem able to maintain a NFL franchise.

[Extra Stout]

I think the "joke" might have to do with the fact that the nation's 2nd largest media market does not seem able to maintain a NFL franchise.

Yeah, that's probably more like it. But taking that more reasonable tack on the situation does not allow me to look down my nose and belittle people. Being an asshole is fun sometimes.

[midgetonadonkey]

If RVG gets an NFL team, then I think Corpus should have a good shot at hosting the Olympics in 2016.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[N.Y. Johnny]

I think the "joke" might have to do with the fact that the nation's 2nd largest media market does not seem able to maintain a NFL franchise.

That is so true, as big a hard on for NFL in L.A. as Paul Tagliabue has had it has to be so deflating and sad that Los Angeles still hasn't settled on a site and much less have a plan for a stadium, and they're pretty much in the same at ude and mindset they used to be when the Rams and Raiders bolted out.

in other words the interest isn't there STILL!! after all these years without the NFL as it was in Houston, clearly Houston wanted the NFL Back and had their together. I think L.A. has about as much interest in the NFL as does in Kabul, Afghanistan

[Marcus Bryant]

The NFL's success is based to a large extent on its broadcast rights. Perhaps a team in LA would help them there, but it's not like the NFL is going to be ignored in LA if there isn't a team there.

[ShoogarBear]

People elsewhere have advanced a pretty cogent argument that the NFL does better by having NO team in LA rather than having a ty expansion team.

The logic is that when there's no team in LA, the networks can broadcast whatever game they want to that market. So they always get the 2-3 best games of the day in the #2 market.

[Manu20]

Valley NFL Team Still A Possibility
Jan 2, 2006, 03:56 PM CST

http://www.kgbt4.com/Global/story.asp?S=4309079

Reported By: Clay Williams

The drive to get an expansion NFL franchise in the Valley continues to go full steam ahead into the new year, and that effort got a big push from the N-F-L and the New Orleans Saints.

Saints owner Tom Benson and NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue reached an agreement and the Saints are returning to their training facility just west of New Orleans in the 1st week of January.

That return appears to be permanent, as the Louisiana superdome could be ready for games as early as September.

While that's bad news for San Antonio, where the Saints played 3 games this past season, it's good news for the Valley.

Were the Saints to move to the Alamo city, any chance of a local team would have gone down the drain. Now, as long as no other NFL franchises move in the next two years, the Rio Grande Valley has a fighting chance to join Los Angeles in the next round of league expansion.

The man behind the efforts to bring an NFL team to the Valley, McHenry Tichenor of Tichenor and Associates, says, “after completing several more steps, we hope to file (the expansion application with the NFL) in the 1st quarter of 2006."

“With a good feasibility study and excetional business plan, the size and quality of the South Texas, Northern Mexico region behind us and a proven staff of consultants and lawyers to see the application filed, we have an outside chance of prevailing,” added Tichenor from his office in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

“It is, however, no walkover. There are many hurdles and therefore we will be asking for overwhelming support from the region as the filing approaches,” Tichenor continued. “The Rio Grande Valley is in the center of North America and it’s team and stadium will be more than a franchise, rather an event that will evolve into an ins ution and end up as a monument to sports and amistad on the border.”

[exstatic]

Y'all obviously haven't been to the valley lately. The only hurdle I see is that there isn't a lot of corporate money down there. But population wise and average fan ticket money wise, this would definitely work.

Not only is that the only hurdle that matters, it's the only hurdle on the course. If you step into the starting blocks and realize you can't get over that one, scratch from the race. Any money spent otherwise is a waste.

[Extra Stout]

This topic is still very funny.

USA -- per capita GDP: $40,100
Rio Grande Valley -- per capita income: $9,600

The Valley does not even qualify as part of the developed economic world. Its wealth is on par with Mexico as a whole, and is below that of Mexico's major industrial cities.

[ShoogarBear]

The Rio Grande Valley is in the center of North America

Well, there you have it:

Come to RGV Stadium--It's Just As Far For Everybody!

[Extra Stout]

The Rio Grande Valley is in the center of North America

Similarly, my anus is roughly at the center of my body.

[Oh, Gee!!]

RGV'ers are even bigger Cowboy homers than we are

[Extra Stout]

The Mexican state of Nuevo Leon is substantially wealthier than the Rio Grande Valley.

[SA210]

I'm guessing PikNik foods will get the naming rights to that stadium.

[Loose Cannon]

Yeah, because all of the free agents are going to be dying to move to the valley.

They would be the worst team in the NFL for the same reasons that Toronto is a piss poor franchise. Nobody would play for them. Never going to happen.

[Oh, Gee!!]

They could pay the players in produce

[Extra Stout]

They could pay the players in produce

Give them exclusive rights to the clean s.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Let them live in Mobile Parks with all the Winter Texans