the LA Saints?

[SPURSX3]

Just heard that the NFL may be giving LA some time to come up with a renovation plan for the old coliseum.  something like a 700mill renovation plan to rebuild the inside of the structure while keeping the outside walls intact.  While at the same time the commish is saying he wants next aseason to be played in BATON ROUGE!!!?

It is going to be interesting to see if Benson decides to sell the team or voice an opinion to move his team - hopefully to SA.  No owner will block him from moving his team - they would not want the same things to happen to them if they had to up and move.  Guess we will see what happens after Oct 30th.
 

[rickortreat]

The NFL desparately needs a team in LA.  It's too big a market, and the advertizers want LA fans to see the games.  

San Antonio would probably support a team better, as LA fans are pretty fickle, and the teams that have gone there have left for that reason.  

SA can't match LA in TV viewership, so the NFL would rather be there.  Owners on the other hand, probably are reluctant to try to make a go of it in that market.  

[SPURSX3]

LA didnt support their teams Rick, I understand about the market size, but let them Move the Chargers there, the Saints could surely play in SA and still be more profitable than it ever was in N.O.  It's time to give this city a chance and we are stepping it up, the NFL should as well.

[SPURSX3]

interesting article for rick..

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Tagliabue to SA: Drop Dead
LAST UPDATE: 9/20/2005 1:27:51 PM
Posted By: Jim Forsyth
This story is available on your cell phone at mobile.woai.com.

After San Antonio rushed out the welcome mat to provide a home for the New Orleans Saints, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue is giving the Alamo City the cold shoulder, telling the Washington Post that he didn't want any of the Saints home games played in San Antonio.

"We wanted all of the games to have been in Louisiana," Tagliabue told the Post. "We were anxious to get all seven."

Tagliabue also said he hopes that Baton Rouge can be the Saints home field for the entire 2006 season, all eight games, providing the Superdome remains unusable, dashing hopes that the Saints might decide to play some games in the Alamodome next year as well.

Tagliabue's comments blasting San Antonio come as the Alamodome is in the process of festooning the facility in preparation for the Saints opener against the Bills October 2nd, including painting a giant fleur de lis 66 feet above the parking lot on the south end of the dome.

"We kinds like to dress the building for the prom, so to speak," Dome Director Mike Abington told 1200 WOAI news. "We like to make sure that the people know that there's a very special event going on, and we're going to be a part of it."

But despite this warm welcome, and despite the quick sale of New Orleans Saints game tickets when they went on sale here last week, Tagliabue went out of his way to belittle San Antonio in a New Orleans Times-Picayne interview.

"We have no plans to move teams into small markets," Tagliabue told the Times-Picayune.

San Antonio is number 37 in television market size, larger than New Orleans (43), Buffalo (49), and Jacksonville (52), and, of course, larger than Green Bay.

In radio market size, San Antonio (30) is also larger than Indianapolis (41).

If combined with Austin, as many local marketers would plan to do with an NFL franchise, San Antonio would be the 19th TV markets, larger than half of the teams in the NFL.

Mayor Phil Hardberger joked last week that when the fans of San Antonio fill the Alamodome for the three Saints games, he wants to reserve a seat for Tagliabue, "way up top, in the very top row, on the very end," so the commissioner can see the strength of support for the NFL in San Antonio.


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If combined with Austin, as many local marketers would plan to do with an NFL franchise, San Antonio would be the 19th TV markets, larger than half of the teams in the NFL.

This also does not include the lower valley of Texasd which would hop onboard as well - not to mention the possibility of marketing into mexico since we are a hub for trade between mexico and the US.  Tagliabue, is not only biased, he is borderline prejudice