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NFL Week 8 thread: Ready for prime time?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by HanSenSE, Oct 26, 2016.

  1. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Now that Los Angeles is finally taken and it looks like Vegas will land the Raiders, the NFL needs a new great white whale to use as a fulcrum to crowbar more public tax money from governments. Does St. Louis suffice? San Antonio?
     
  2. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Toronto. London. San Diego if the Chargers leave.
     
  3. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    I don't think there are any major stadium issues left except I guess Jacksonville, so there's really no need.
     
  4. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Another game played in London?......not even cool anymore. Shine off the turd.
    Remember when it was cool to play on Thursday night?........Last night proved otherwise.
    Looking forward to GB @ ATL and PHI @ DAL. That's it. That's all.
     
  5. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    If you had Week 8 in the Jax-is-a-major-league-city threadjack pool, you win!
     
  6. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Why doesn't Portland Or have a team? 22nd largest media market, 26 largest city. Similar size to Pittsburg and Baltimore. Bigger than KC, Cincinnati
     
  7. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    No stadium, no desire to build one and the Seahawks don't want to lose a plum secondary market
     
  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Marvin Lewis is an ineffectual head coach
     
  9. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    Outside of Nike, I don't think Portland has a Fortune 500 structure to handle it. Also no viable stadium.

    It's a perfect NBA market, like Salt Lake, San Antonio, Sacramento and Memphis (which I did not think would work but it has).

    The Portland demographics strike me like Minneapolis. White, highly-educated and liberal. MSP though has Target, 3M, General Mills and double the TV households.
     
  10. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    If it weren't for the Longhorns, I think you'd see Austin overtake San Antonio as the choice for a third Texas market, and it might be the better pick anyway. Slightly smaller (2 million people vs. 2.3) but probably more disposable income to support a team, and San Antonio is close enough you could capture a share of that market anyway.
     
  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    As long as there are billionaire owners who want to extort new stadiums out of taxpayers with the threat of bolting somewhere else, there's always a need.

    Plus the effective life spans of venues are constantly being driven down; now stadiums 15 years old are being described as hopelessly outdated. So the whole generation of 1995-2005 stadiums will be on the replacement list soon if they aren't already.
     
  12. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    I can't be the only one rooting for the tie, can I?
     
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