San Antonio lands UFL team

[spursncowboys]

Anti-social rants?

Did you pluck that out of some book? Was it the 'Idiots Guide on Questionable or Just Made Up to Sound Smart Put Downs One Can Use on a Message Board.'

Actually I wrote that book. That one and
"How to pick up trashy woman" (from an 80's movie)

[Buddy Holly]

Actually I wrote that book. That one and
"How to pick up trashy woman" (from an 80's movie)

Trashy woman.

[spursncowboys]

Trashy woman.

Since when was football considered a "other sport"? Also, UFL isn't indoors.

[spursncowboys]

buddyholly
Of the back your handle preculdes me to believe you're a very biased fellow when it comes to this subject.

But please you shoulc correct away.

[Buddy Holly]

So you counteract my post with two examples, one being being a simple typo.

Bro, you've been bringing the stupidity every time you post. Pointing out the one time I have a simple typo because you're butt hurt that I pointed out your continuous horrid grammar is comical.

[Buddy Holly]

So you counteract my post with two examples, one being the correct usage the other being a simple typo.

Bro, you've been bringing the stupidity every time you post. Pointing out the one time I have a simple typo because you're butt hurt that I pointed out your continuous horrid grammar is comical.

[Buddy Holly]

[DMX7]

The United Football League wants to place an expansion team in San Antonio.

League officials have requested a meeting with the city to discuss playing games at the Alamodome, said Jim Mery, the city’s assistant director of convention, sports and entertainment facilities.

“We haven’t met with them yet, but we want to hear what they have to say,” Mery said.

UFL commissioner Michael Huyghue could not be reached for comment.

According to the UFL Web site, the fledgling league wants to add two teams. It currently has teams in Hartford, Conn., Las Vegas, Orlando, Fla., and Sacramento, Calif.

The Orlando Sentinel reported two weeks ago that expansion teams would be announced in early March.

In addition to San Antonio, the league is eyeing Austin, Omaha, Neb., and Salt Lake City.

Touted as a developmental league for the NFL, the UFL debuted last year with four franchises. Its players and coaches are allowed to break contracts for NFL jobs, a policy that helped attract former NFL coaches Dennis Green and Jim Fassel and players J.P. Losman and Simeon Rice.

The league’s credibility is also bolstered by TV contracts with Versus and HDNet.

Still, the UFL lost $30 million in 2009, according to the SportsBusiness Journal.

The UFL’s six-week season was played in the fall last year and ended Thanksgiving weekend. With games scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights, the UFL in San Antonio would face the daunting challenge of competing against high school football.

A UFL team at the Alamodome could also be a headache for officials attempting to schedule and market UTSA football games. The Roadrunners are set to begin play in 2011.

“We wouldn’t want to get involved in anything that would hurt UTSA,” Mery said.

According to the Associated Press, the UFL requires each owner to put up $30 million for a half interest in a team, with the league owning the other half.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/nfl/85756242.html

[spursncowboys]

So you counteract my post with two examples, one being the correct usage the other being a simple typo.

Too many examples of your run-on sentences.

Bro, you've been bringing the stupidity every time you post. Pointing out the one time I have a simple typo because you're butt hurt that I pointed out your continuous horrid grammar is comical.

Whatever you think. That fact that you think you are some kind of purveyor of truth is comical. The one actual post that wasn't a classless attack was weak. Keep your shtick up. You are not alone.

[spursncowboys]

That was intentional. Too hard for you to grasp?

[Buddy Holly]

That was intentional. Too hard for you to grasp?

It was intentional, right.

Dude, seriously, I done with the back and forth with you. It was fun at first when you thought you knew what you were talking about but everything you typed out of low IQ stuff and now it's just sad.

So, again, I'm done with you. Go ahead and quote this and come up with some "snappy" put down or whatever, have fun.

[spursncowboys]

It was intentional, right.

Dude, seriously, I done with the back and forth with you. It was fun at first when you thought you knew what you were talking about but everything you typed out of low IQ stuff and now it's just sad.

So, again, I'm done with you. Go ahead and quote this and come up with some "snappy" put down or whatever, have fun.

Good luck on future endeavors.

[fyatuk]

No offense, but both you guys are acting pathetic.

[spursncowboys]

No offense, but both you guys are acting pathetic.

[SouthTexasRancher]

This is the worst thing that could happen to SA's chances of landing an NFL team down the road. This will give the ego-maniac owners of NFL teams another reason to say SA is a minor league city and can't support an NFL team. Much like Houston with their failure to field an NFL worthy team in what, centuries?

Most of the powers in city government are against this stupid venture. Hopefully, they'll set a $5,000,000.00 per game charge for use of the Alamodome to keep jokes like this from setting up camp here. 10,000 will show up for the first game, then 4,000 for the second and by the 3rd game we'll be lucky to have 2,000 people show up unless they hand out free food and beer all game long.

Wings, Riders, Gunslingers, etc....ROTFFLMFAO!!!

A Doomed Failure from the get-go!

[fyatuk]

10,000 will show up for the first game, then 4,000 for the second and by the 3rd game we'll be lucky to have 2,000 people show up unless they hand out free food and beer all game long.

Don't be ridiculous. San Antonio has always averaged about 15k for the alt-leagues. It wouldn't be anywhere near as bad as you claim.

[lebomb]

Don't be ridiculous. San Antonio has always averaged about 15k for the alt-leagues. It wouldn't be anywhere near as bad as you claim.

I dont know man, 15K in a stadium that holds 65K would be pretty pathetic. That being said........... I pray Utsa can bring in more than 15K once the team gets rolling.

[fyatuk]

I dont know man, 15K in a stadium that holds 65K would be pretty pathetic. That being said........... I pray Utsa can bring in more than 15K once the team gets rolling.

Quite true. Obviously they'll curtain off the upper deck (almost certainly will for UTSA as well) lowering capacity to like 30k. That'll do a lot better, and the curtains really do work well with maintainint the accoustics. Hopefully they'd get more than our historical 15k average (since most of the tickets will be in the $10-20 range).

I certainly hope UTSA gets that kind of average as well. I'd love to see both UTSA and the UFL being successful.

[panic giraffe]

This is the worst thing that could happen to SA's chances of landing an NFL team down the road. This will give the ego-maniac owners of NFL teams another reason to say SA is a minor league city and can't support an NFL team. Much like Houston with their failure to field an NFL worthy team in what, centuries?

Most of the powers in city government are against this stupid venture. Hopefully, they'll set a $5,000,000.00 per game charge for use of the Alamodome to keep jokes like this from setting up camp here. 10,000 will show up for the first game, then 4,000 for the second and by the 3rd game we'll be lucky to have 2,000 people show up unless they hand out free food and beer all game long.

Wings, Riders, Gunslingers, etc....ROTFFLMFAO!!!

A Doomed Failure from the get-go!

+1

if they even think about this, then i hope my councilman would do the right thing to keep them out. we don't need another roughriders or gunslingers, we need a real NFL team, we deserve it.

oh well, with the huge sway in climate and earthquakes and , just remember we are only 1 major storm away from having the SAints.

[JudynTX]

Are they here yet?

[fyatuk]

The UFL commissioner is set to meet with city leaders next week, and at the press conference yesterday announcing the move of the California franchise to Sacramento, he stated that expansion teams would be officially awarded at the end of this month.

So we should now pretty soon how things went between him and the city.

[cherylsteele]

Most of the powers in city government are against this stupid venture.

Where have you read/heard this, or are you just making up stuff to post?

[fyatuk]

Where have you read/heard this, or are you just making up stuff to post?

A couple of the recent articles in EN/MySA have contained negative comments from city government officials and civilian leaders.

We Wouldn't want to get involved in anything that would hurt UTSA."

My skepticism is based on the fact that we've had these leagues before, and they never did as well as they would have liked, or the community would have liked.

They're not going to draw very well.

Where's the ownership group? What will be the returns on their investment? There are more questions than answers. All these leagues tout themselves as the steppingstone to the NFL. I thought that was college football.

UTSA is my priority. If this would in any way impact UTSA, I'd have serious concerns.

There should be quotes out there along the same lines.

[SouthTexasRancher]

Don't be ridiculous. San Antonio has always averaged about 15k for the alt-leagues. It wouldn't be anywhere near as bad as you claim.

Uhhhhh, excuse me....and just how many of those teams are still playing? ROTFFLMFAO...! I don't think any of our minor league teams lasted more than 2 years and the owners were sued for back payments for stadium rental, players wages, etc.

If you think another one of these jokes will be supported then by all means spend your money on tickets. I have yet to talk to anyone who would even go to a game and they went to the games of the other minor league teams we had here.

And 15,000 in even Alamo Stadium will look puny, but in the Alamodome the place will look like it does when high schools play there....EMPTY!!!

Most of the City Council and County Judges have weighed-in and they say nay! San Antonio is definitely big enough to support an NFL team. We have people here with the $$$$$$$$$$ to own an NFL team. But, we are a long shot for an expansion team. Our best bet is to get a team looking to move. Of course the NFL big shots will scream at the top of their lungs unless it is headed by a guy like Red McCombs. When he owned the Vikings both he and Tom Benson were living in SA. I think Tom now spends more time in N.O. San Antonio and its Metro is bigger than several NFL cities but, the average wages in SA don't match up with some of those in the small markets, even though our cost of living is about the lowest in the nation. We need a few more large corporations here. And it didn't help when that dumb asshole move the AT&T headquarters out of SA 2 years ago. We are making major improvements at our airport but, still don't have the airlines using it as a major hub which hurts us.

[SouthTexasRancher]

+1

if they even think about this, then i hope my councilman would do the right thing to keep them out. we don't need another roughriders or gunslingers, we need a real NFL team, we deserve it.

oh well, with the huge sway in climate and earthquakes and , just remember we are only 1 major storm away from having the SAints.

++1

The word around town is our city and county leaders will work hard to keep the UFL out of SA and steer them elsewhere. That is a good sign that we now have leaders who would like for us to get an NFL team.