The city has to be recognized for its true strenghts once and for all. When the NFL pushed it aside in the last expansion for much smaller cities, Nashville, Charlotte and Jacksonville was a slap in the face in my opinion and Im sure by many others pushing for an SA team.
Actually San Antonio does have a larger corporate base than many existing NFl cities and more F500 HQ's than all of the cities mentioned for expansion including L.A. San Antonio at one point had 7 F 500 but AT&T moved its corporate headquarters form the Riverwalk to Dallas for no good reason, more of a personal reason of the CEO.
Anyway S.A. is growing faster than Orlando, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Portland, much smaller Oklahoma City and just about all cities that are discussed as NFL expansion hopeful cities. San Antonio's metro is fast approaching 2.4 million and has recently surpassed Cleveland, Cincinatti, Orlando, Sacramento, and about to eclipse Portland and Pittsburgh and gaining ground on Denver's 2.5 million population.
So within the next ten years San Antonio will be a top 20 metro. An other thing to consider is San Antonio's regional population. There are over 4.1 million people in the 5 counties that follow Interstate 35, the cities included are San Antonio, Shertz, Universal City, New braunfels, San Marcos, Kyle, Austin, Round Rock, cities that are merging together but are not considered unified on a paper even though they are contigious and joined at the hip forming one big metro. This region's TV market is cut in half, San Antonio-Austin. but if counted as one it would move it into the top 15-18 Tv markets. Separately S.A. is 36 and Austin is 44th but combined would be something totally different, the metros are just minutes apart. Austin's tv market alone is bigger than several existing NFL markets.
It may be a long time before this is area is considered one market becasue of political reasons but there are more people in this region than the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett region. This area would be the second best choice just based on population after L.A. and again just the population factor. Then this is Texas footbal crazy country and San Antonio will sell out everytime based on its strong economy, population and projected growth.
San Antonio's downtown would be an awesome place to host a superbowl with all the attractions, large hotels and ammenties. The NFL would make a big mistake to pass up San Antonio again because of some NFL teamowners agenda. cough cough Jerry Jones.
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The city has to be recognized for its true strenghts once and for all. When the NFL pushed it aside in the last expansion for much smaller cities, Nashville, Charlotte and Jacksonville was a slap in the face in my opinion and Im sure by many others pushing for an SA team.
Actually San Antonio does have a larger corporate base than many existing NFl cities and more F500 HQ's than all of the cities mentioned for expansion including L.A. San Antonio at one point had 7 F 500 but AT&T moved its corporate headquarters form the Riverwalk to Dallas for no good reason, more of a personal reason of the CEO.
Anyway S.A. is growing faster than Orlando, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Portland, much smaller Oklahoma City and just about all cities that are discussed as NFL expansion hopeful cities. San Antonio's metro is fast approaching 2.4 million and has recently surpassed Cleveland, Cincinatti, Orlando, Sacramento, and about to eclipse Portland and Pittsburgh and gaining ground on Denver's 2.5 million population.
So within the next ten years San Antonio will be a top 20 metro. An other thing to consider is San Antonio's regional population. There are over 4.1 million people in the 5 counties that follow Interstate 35, the cities included are San Antonio, Shertz, Universal City, New braunfels, San Marcos, Kyle, Austin, Round Rock, cities that are merging together but are not considered unified on a paper even though they are contigious and joined at the hip forming one big metro. This region's TV market is cut in half, San Antonio-Austin. but if counted as one it would move it into the top 15-18 Tv markets. Separately S.A. is 36 and Austin is 44th but combined would be something totally different, the metros are just minutes apart. Austin's tv market alone is bigger than several existing NFL markets.
It may be a long time before this is area is considered one market becasue of political reasons but there are more people in this region than the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett region. This area would be the second best choice just based on population after L.A. and again just the population factor. Then this is Texas footbal crazy country and San Antonio will sell out everytime based on its strong economy, population and projected growth.
San Antonio's downtown would be an awesome place to host a superbowl with all the attractions, large hotels and ammenties. The NFL would make a big mistake to pass up San Antonio again because of some NFL teamowners agenda. cough cough Jerry Jones.