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http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/stor...ck-los-angeles.
Very good read on the power plays that went on in deciding the LA teams, and the power of Jerry Jones. After seeing Jerry's power, I doubt SA ever gets a team while he is alive.
Yeah cause NFL teams grow on trees
http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/stor...ck-los-angeles.
Very good read on the power plays that went on in deciding the LA teams, and the power of Jerry Jones. After seeing Jerry's power, I doubt SA ever gets a team while he is alive.
Man I grew up in Vegas, still have family there. People there are hungry for a team, but...but...I hate the Raiders, could never root for them.
Hopefully, they keep the Runnin' Rebels as the only pro team in Vegas.
Currently reside in Vegas. Yes we are ready for them.
No bc NFL teams suck money we should spend on roads/schools etc
No bc Marc Davis is the wrong owner for the league.
I am split on it. I hate the NFL for the way they treat cities. But it's also the NFL. Nothing else comes close to it.
That's why you get the stadium in another city nearby. They absorb the cost; you get the benefit. That's the reason why I've never wanted a pro team in Austin -- there's a perfectly good SA just an hour-and-a-half away. If SM is really trying to step up and have a stadium there, then that'll be their problem.
We spend enough money on schools and roads gmafb. Save that horse for someone else.
Update on potential MLS franchise to SA.
Yeah not one thing is going to change. mrs Holt's at ude pretty much is "let Pych and others who know what to do, do it." Just like Mr Holt has. Should be zero worries about anything going forward.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantoni...orts-expansion
Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis, who still has no stadium deal in the Bay Area, indicated to a group of NFL reporters covering the league’s spring meetings in Boca Raton, Florida, that he has not yet ruled out San Antonio as a possible landing spot for his franchise.
While Davis is intrigued with the possibility of relocating his team to Las Vegas, he made it clear San Antonio is still in the hunt.
Davis said San Antonio is “on the radar right now,” the New York Times reported.
A spokesperson for the Raiders said the team had no comment.
But former Mayor Henry Cisneros, who has led relocation talks with Raiders executives for roughly 20 months, confirmed that Davis indeed remains interested in San Antonio.
“We are still on the radar screen,” he told me. “We are keeping the channels of communication open.”
Davis inked a one-year lease extension to remain at the aging O.co Coliseum next season. The team has an option to stay longer, but the Raiders owner has grown frustrated with Bay Area leaders, who have so far been unable to propose a stadium plan acceptable to him.
Davis has visited with leaders in Las Vegas about moving into a proposed new domed stadium in that city. But while he may see bright lights and big money in Sin City, NFL officials may ultimately have a difficult time approving a team playing in a gambling mecca.
The Raiders could join the Rams in Greater Los Angeles if the San Diego Chargers pass on an opportunity to share a new stadium in Inglewood, California, with the former St. Louis franchise.
The Raiders could also look to move to San Diego if the Chargers do bolt for the No. 2 media market.
One thing Davis reiterated in Florida is that he does not want to move his team to St. Louis, insisting that market would not be the best fit for the Raiders.
Chatter about the Raiders possibly moving to San Antonio had subsided after the team agreed to extend its stay in Oakland. In recent months, officials with the city of San Antonio and Bexar County have turned their attention to the pursuit of Major League Soccer and a possible downtown ballpark.
But Cisneros said efforts to land the Raiders continue.
Yeah possible downtown ballpark for an F'ing AAA team.
Stop thinking small San Antonio you lazy s
Lol "San Antonio is on the radar"
The ol leverage card
If the money is on the table then the Raiders are going to Vegas. Money is all that matters to most owners.
Blech, AAA sucks. I don't think anyone should read anything bad into the Raiders signing that one year lease, as soon as the Chargers gave San Diego another year you knew the Raiders were going to do this. No way they're not going to LA if the Chargers stay in SD. Thankfully I can't see the Chargers not finding a way to get into LA, so I think we're still very much in play.
This just isn't happening tbh. Maybe down the road but it won't be these raiders. I wish it would, but it's pretty clear they're just using SA
Excellent thread.
I wonder how op is doing these days.
Theres still a chance with the Las Vegas stadium deal falling apart.
the Raiders. They should've come to San Antonio.
LolTheres still a chance with the Las Vegas stadium deal falling apart.
I don't understand the Vegas thing for football. Hockey (or basketball) make sense where you only need to bring in 18,000 or so and certain fans will travel to see their team play and make a bigger trip out of it in the winter. Or another attraction for all those conventions.
NFL is a totally different animal and I find it hard to think that city could support 70k eight times a year. NFL and the financiers may see the writing on the wall.
I still believe that San Antonio won't get a NFL team until Jerry Jones is gone, but supposedly Jason Cole from Bleacher Report believe things are going to start brewing again with the Raiders coming to SA...
SA getting used and abused
Well at least we have a mostly empty stadium with no parking to offer to them. I wish we could have named it the Henry Cisneros Memorial Boondoggle Stadium.
RE: Las Vegas/ My son was part of a contingent of mostly Libertairans out there who opposed the stadium on the grounds that the county and city would be on the hook for a lot of costs without getting ANYTHING in return, but the city council was all for it and the voters approved the bonds. I'm surprised that every investor pulled out but there has to be some underlying reason that wasn't disclosed.
This whole thing is a mess.
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