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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:32:49 PM EDT
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/oakland-raiders-owner-talks-to-san-antonio-about-move-232336327.html
Perhaps there's room for a cowboy hat on the vintage Raiders logo. Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis, upset with the stadium situation, met with San Antonio officials about possibly relocating his team, the San Antonio Express-News reported Tuesday. The Express-News said Davis met with former San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros, then-mayor Julián Castro, city manager Sheryl Sculley, Mario Hernandez of the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, and Richard Perez and David McGee, the president and chairman of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, respectively, on the weekend of July 18. The meeting was confirmed when Sculley issued a memo to the city council after the Express-News story broke, describing it as "preliminary due diligence" after Davis expressed interest in a "possible relocation of his NFL team to San Antonio." It's fair to wonder if this is a bluff by Davis, a move to put some heat on Oakland officials to get a new stadium. But it's worth noting that the meeting happened about a week-and-a-half ago, and the story was leaked to a San Antonio newspaper. If the Raiders were really just engaging in a public staredown, using San Antonio as a bargaining chip, part of that process is actually making the meeting public. Unless the Raiders decided to leak it to a media outlet in Texas first, they were very quiet on the situation. An excerpt - read the rest at the link above. |
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Oakland Raiders, LA Raiders, Oakland Raiders again, now San Antonio Raiders. Might as well change their names to the Nomads.
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Aren't most San Antonians (?) and the illegals Cowboys fans anyway?
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Felon population of San Antonio doubles overnight.
Or Millions of California gang bangers suddenly haz a sad. |
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O crap I just realized that would bring Schaub back to Texas NOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOooooo
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Red Macombs wanted to move them down to San Antonio at least a decade ago.
eta: Wait, I was thinking of the vikings. |
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1st sentence says it all. "upset with the stadium situation" Every time a pro sports team wants a new stadium and the city dosent want to pay for it they threaten to leave. San Antonio is just getting used by Davis as leverage. We don't have a stadium here for them. Closest thing we have is the Alamodome and that is not suitable for a pro team. It dosent have enough corporate sky boxes and truthfully San Antonio dosent have the corporate base to support an NFL team. |
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1st sentence says it all. "upset with the stadium situation" Every time a pro sports team wants a new stadium and the city dosent want to pay for it they threaten to leave. San Antonio is just getting used by Davis as leverage. We don't have a stadium here for them. Closest thing we have is the Alamodome and that is not suitable for a pro team. It dosent have enough corporate sky boxes and truthfully San Antonio dosent have the corporate base to support an NFL team. View Quote This, but the butthurt of the team moving would be fun to watch. Kind of like when the Oilers went to TN. |
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I think they should change their name to the San Antonio FSA if they move to San Antonio. Also it would just be another excuse for uninsured motorist drunk off their butts to go "honking" at 4am after the team won. I lived in San Antonio for 5 years hated every minute of that God forsaken place.
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The state of Alabama could use a team that pays their players... legally, anyways.
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Lol San Antonio Riders were a WLAF team. Still have a T-shirt.
Raiders would go to LA first (again). |
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Won't happen. San Antonio is one of the most used cities when it comes to sports teams trying to get new stadiums or deals with the city they are in. Lost count of how many NFL teams have made the same threats of moving to SA. Everyone in SA gets all excited over it and then we get screwed over. Even if it were a real chance, Jerry Jones who sits on the NFL boards wouldn't allow someone else to come in and take his money away from him. San Antonio and everything south is a big part of the Cowboys' fan base an revenue.
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If the Rams, Browns, Super Sonics and Colts can bolt out of their distinguished cities, then the Raiders can bolt out of Oakland.
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They do have a boring but very successful NBA team. One probably has nothing to do with the other.
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They can have them AND the fans.
Garbage team, garbage fanbase. Rot in hell. |
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Worst attendance in the league, a few crazy fans aside. Surprised it hasn't happened earlier.
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Lol San Antonio Riders were a WLAF team. Still have a T-shirt. Raiders would go to LA first (again). View Quote Nawww, LA could give two shits about the NFL. It's all about soccer these days. Had LA cared about an NFL team neither the Raiders nor the Lambs would have left. USC and UCLA draw bigger crowds than either of those NFL teams did. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBgpbTcpDEo [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBgpbTcpDEo[/youtube]
How much would the taxpayer get screwed for??? |
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I don't believe Vegas can have a professional sports team due to sports betting? I think I heard that somewhere. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Vegas makes more sense, but it will never happen I don't believe Vegas can have a professional sports team due to sports betting? I think I heard that somewhere. They could have it, the leagues just use that as an excuse to not put a team in Vegas, no law against it. It used to be that Nevada sports books were not allowed to take bets on Nevada teams ( UNLV and unr ) the powers that be finally saw the hypocrisy in this and changed the laws. |
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Nawww, LA could give two shits about the NFL. It's all about soccer these days. Had LA cared about an NFL team neither the Raiders nor the Lambs would have left. USC and UCLA draw bigger crowds than either of those NFL teams did. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Lol San Antonio Riders were a WLAF team. Still have a T-shirt. Raiders would go to LA first (again). Nawww, LA could give two shits about the NFL. It's all about soccer these days. Had LA cared about an NFL team neither the Raiders nor the Lambs would have left. USC and UCLA draw bigger crowds than either of those NFL teams did. If you don'tn have a team you don't get black out. So, basically no one really cares. Besides my dad turned down free tickets to a Raider game when they were in LA, "I can't carry enough ammo." |
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It is said to be a leverage move to get Oakland to do something about the stadium deal.
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You can have 'em. Hopefully the "black hole" will move there too.
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Oakland Raiders, LA Raiders, Oakland Raiders again, now San Antonio Raiders. Might as well change their names to the Nomads. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile My vote is San Antonio Illegals... They would win every game, if they did get a bad record they could start fresh under a new name in a month. |
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I dont care where they go, as long as they keep the best uniform in football the same.
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Maybe they could actually move to Mexico and become the first Mexican team in the league. Just right across the border in one of those cartel towns like that one where 2500 people a year get murdered.
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