The city wanted a NFL team, just like OKC wanted a NBA team.
We tried to steal the Timberwolves waaay back in the day. The arena was built to lure a NBA team from somewhere else.
I hate Utah even though they "stole" the Jazz before I was born. We stole the Hornets. We are villians to Charlotte. Even though they quickly got a new team.
The only difference was our teams couldn't (or in the case of the Hornets) didn't want to play in Post Katrina new Orleans.
Tom Benson and George Shinn are by far bigger villians in this than the cities of San Antonio and Oklahoma City. Just both of them were lucky enough to have their best seasons ever their first year back post-Katrina. Had the 2006 Saints stunk we would still be in danger of losing them, had the Hornets stayed on the bottom of the division we wouldn't be able to give our tickets away.
As a fan base we need to step up. Then we would never have to worry about losing our teams. San Antonio is a very big city not to have a NFL team, and with Austin so close they would have one of the largest local fan bases.
It isn't their fault, we would have done the same.
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