San Antonio Raiders?

[ebsoria]

Thoughts, Raider fans??

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.


Logically, it would make no sense to keep a bluff like this a secret. The Raiders put out a statement on the matter after the Express-News story came out"

[RealBronco]

Saw this on the Twitter earlier. I don't want it to happen because I actually like San Antonio (based on my one trip there). Beautiful city. Also, it would just be awkward to not have the Raiders in Oakland.

[ebsoria]

Saw this on the Twitter earlier. I don't want it to happen because I actually like San Antonio (based on my one trip there). Beautiful city. Also, it would just be awkward to not have the Raiders in Oakland.

I'd be sad for all of my Raider fans. They'd no longer be able to go to games here. Of course, then they'd know my pain of not being able to see my team whenever I want to.

[Denver Mike]

Raiders' Mark Davis meets with San Antonio city officials. Potential relocation?

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200...city-officials

Interesting..

[Rancid]

Well, there goes the neighborhood!

[baphamet]

better them than the chargers haha

[#87Birdman]

better them than the chargers haha

chargers going to London

[Charlie Brown]

This is why teams should be publicly owned. Raiders fans deserve their team - not San Antonio. San Antonio can choose to root for Dallas or Houston.

[dsmith275]

This is very interesting. I hate the Raiders but they are a big part of our history I fell we would kind of loose a part of our history by them moving to San Antonio.

[RealBronco]

chargers going to London

That whole situation is a joke. Actually two situations or three, depending on how you view it.

The Chargers have been rumored to move for a few years. The NFL wants a team back in L.A. They're wanting to either expand the league or move a team there, but it won't be the Chargers? Move the dang Chargers back to the town they started in and get it over with.

The other situation is moving a team to London. Come on. If you want American football to pick back up in Europe, you simply re-establish NFL Europe. Heck, you could use the same teams. They had fans over there. Just do a better job at marketing etc. Moving a current NFL team all the way across the pond is the worst idea. They'll be the only ones over there, they'd have to travel thousands of extra miles than they already do to get in 8 road games, 7 teams would have to travel all the way to London each year (3 division teams once a year guaranteed). It's not even monetarily sound or smart. Since the NFL is a greedy greed machine, I can't believe they think this is a good idea.

It would be cheaper for them to re-establish NFLE there.

If they want to expand into other countries, Mexico, Canada and other Central American countries could work. After all, the other three major sports in the country have Canadian teams. Problem is, Canada already has a popular professional football league established.

Also, every team they put in L.A. that isn't the Lakers or Dodgers fails. Obviously the Clippers do alright, but NFL teams fail hard there. The Chargers moved, the Rams moved, the Raiders moved there and then moved out again. It just isn't working NFL, how do you not see that? Historically, you have failed every single time you put a team in L.A.

As far as I know, L.A. residents don't even want a football team there. They already have the Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers and Trojans so they're good.

"We need a new stadium so we either get one or we move... wah..." I'm old fashioned though. I hate this new situation with the 49ers. They're no longer the San Francisco 49ers to me since they won't even be playing in the city anymore. The Cowboys are now the Arlington Cowboys. There is only one team from New York, and that's the Bills. Weird how New Jersey has two teams that share a stadium though. Uh... what else? If you're going to have a team that has a city in their name, they probably should play IN that city...

That's just my opinion though.

[roushmartin6]

Does Texas really need another team?

[baphamet]

That whole situation is a joke. Actually two situations or three, depending on how you view it.

The Chargers have been rumored to move for a few years. The NFL wants a team back in L.A. They're wanting to either expand the league or move a team there, but it won't be the Chargers? Move the dang Chargers back to the town they started in and get it over with.

The other situation is moving a team to London. Come on. If you want American football to pick back up in Europe, you simply re-establish NFL Europe. Heck, you could use the same teams. They had fans over there. Just do a better job at marketing etc. Moving a current NFL team all the way across the pond is the worst idea. They'll be the only ones over there, they'd have to travel thousands of extra miles than they already do to get in 8 road games, 7 teams would have to travel all the way to London each year (3 division teams once a year guaranteed). It's not even monetarily sound or smart. Since the NFL is a greedy greed machine, I can't believe they think this is a good idea.

It would be cheaper for them to re-establish NFLE there.

If they want to expand into other countries, Mexico, Canada and other Central American countries could work. After all, the other three major sports in the country have Canadian teams. Problem is, Canada already has a popular professional football league established.

Also, every team they put in L.A. that isn't the Lakers or Dodgers fails. Obviously the Clippers do alright, but NFL teams fail hard there. The Chargers moved, the Rams moved, the Raiders moved there and then moved out again. It just isn't working NFL, how do you not see that? Historically, you have failed every single time you put a team in L.A.

As far as I know, L.A. residents don't even want a football team there. They already have the Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers and Trojans so they're good.

"We need a new stadium so we either get one or we move... wah..." I'm old fashioned though. I hate this new situation with the 49ers. They're no longer the San Francisco 49ers to me since they won't even be playing in the city anymore. The Cowboys are now the Arlington Cowboys. There is only one team from New York, and that's the Bills. Weird how New Jersey has two teams that share a stadium though. Uh... what else? If you're going to have a team that has a city in their name, they probably should play IN that city...

That's just my opinion though.

i honestly doubt the chargers move to LA, they may indeed move but not to LA. the NFL fans in LA hate the charges in general, it would make much more sense for the raiders to move back there, i don't know why they don't.

the raiders have a huge fan base in LA still and al davis is gone.

as far as NFL Europe goes......it doesn't work because it's second rate players that can't even make it on a real NFL team or players on the bubble.

leagues like that don't even make it here in the states, at least not enough to be profitable enough for the NFL.

Europe needs real teams with comparable talent and coaching to compete with the american teams in order to work IMO. i do agree that adding only one team is dumb but i think they may be able to pull it off if they added an entire division and went from there.

either by relocating teams and adding a couple expansion teams or make 4 brand new expansion teams.

sounds crazy but i think its the only way it could work, if it can work at all.

[ebsoria]

Europe needs real teams with comparable talent and coaching to compete with the american teams in order to work IMO. i do agree that adding only one team is dumb but i think they may be able to pull it off if they added an entire division and went from there.

either by relocating teams and adding a couple expansion teams or make 4 brand new expansion teams.

sounds crazy but i think its the only way it could work, if it can work at all.

I agree with you. One team over there makes no sense at all. It would kill the players with all of that travel. Maybe not so bad for the visiting teams who travel there once a year, but the away games?? Oy!!

[broncolee]

This is why teams should be publicly owned. Raiders fans deserve their team - not San Antonio. San Antonio can choose to root for Dallas or Houston.

Oakland fans can always root for the Niners or Chargers.

This is just a bluff anyway. If anything, the Raiders would probably be compelled to move back to Los Angeles if they insist on leaving Oakland.

[RaiderFanSD]

Would feel bad for the Oakland fans but personally I don't have any ties to Oakland. Would support them wherever they went.