Cowboys ditch Alamodome

[Kobefor81]

Originally Posted by bresilhac

Keep dreaming. The chances of an NFL team moving into that city before San Antonio are next to nil. Until there are shovels in the dirt I won't believe that Los Angeles is going to build a new stadium anytime soon. I'm so sick and tired of hearing how Los Angeles is a cinch to get a team. If it were so easy it would have happened long ago.

And good riddance to the Dallas Cowboys training camp. What an embarrassment it was to have another NFL team holding their camp here. I am glad they are gone and hopefully will never return.

Not to burst your bubble but I haven't seen any shovels in the dirt here in San Antonio either. I doubt that any team would move here and play in the Alamodome. The NFL is going to want a new stadium to be built. The chances of that happening here and nil. IMO.

[bresilhac]

Originally Posted by grf430

Well, since you are the expert, tell us why San Antonio has failed to attract an NFL team even with a stadium built for that purpose that largely sits empty (save for UTSA football).

Not to mention that SA can't even sustain training camp for a team anymore...

Ironically enough it's the same problem that has kept Los Angeles out of the league since 1995. And that's a lack of a decent Dome or stadium. I hate to say this but the Alamodome was obsolete the day it was finished. Simply too few skyboxes for a league quality stadium. And by the time San Antonio became a viable spot for a franchise, the Dome was a total dinosaur. But even still, that doesn't mean the Dome could not serve as a temporary solution.

If a team, say the Vikings, were to choose to relocate to San Antonio it could use the Dome indefinitely or until a new Dome is built. The reason why there are no shovels in the dirt now is because city leaders do not want to commit to funding a new Dome this time until an actual franchise is here. Makes sense. Which believe it or not is exactly the same situation in Los Angeles. The Coliseum and Rosebowl are both 80 year old dinosaurs and not worthy of NFL football.

[SnappyBob]

Originally Posted by The Black Irish

HA! I think Jerry Jones should go to Cali by himself and stay there. In the meantime bring back Jimmy Johnson, Troy, Emmitt, and Irvin. Any one of them could bring us back to the glory days and keep training camp in TX. People still want Jerry's head btw for firing Jimmy after he won those Super Bowls! Or, the NFL can quit jerking us around and give us a team of our own and pump the city full of money. Ya' know since the NBA is going nowhere right now?????

If an NFL team comes to town it won't be to pump money in, it will be to siphon money out of the city. The first thing they will want the city to do is build them a new dome stadium. The morons that we have running this city would jump at the chance to siphon money from the tax payers to build a stadium. Any money being pumped into the city will never go to the tax payers. It will go to make a handful of rich people richer.