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Raiders to San Antonio?
Purple_Pills
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http://www.woai.com/articles/woai-local-news-sponsored-by-five-119078/exclusive-raiders-now-conducting-economic-study-12813288/
The winless Oakland Raiders may stink, but the chances are still alive that they could be stinking in San Antonio.
Newsradio 1200 WOAI's Michael Board has talked with city officials who say San Antonio's quixotic fight to lure the NFL cellar dwellers to the Alamodome is still very much alive.
Richard Perez, who runs the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, says Raiders owner Mark Davis and other team executives have attended several UTSA games in the dome, to see whether it is capable of hosting NFL football.
"They've seen the crowds, they've seen the tailgating, they have seen the operations and they have been completely taken aback at how well everything is run," Perez said. "So hurdle one...solved."
Perez revealed that the Raiders have now moved on to phase two, which is conducting an economic analysis to see if there is enough interest in the San Antonio-Austin region to support an NFL team, at least support one that isn't the Dallas Cowboys.
"So over the next 20 days they'll be doing that analysis and then they will finalize it, and then we'll see what happens," Perez said.
The winless Oakland Raiders may stink, but the chances are still alive that they could be stinking in San Antonio.
Newsradio 1200 WOAI's Michael Board has talked with city officials who say San Antonio's quixotic fight to lure the NFL cellar dwellers to the Alamodome is still very much alive.
Richard Perez, who runs the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, says Raiders owner Mark Davis and other team executives have attended several UTSA games in the dome, to see whether it is capable of hosting NFL football.
"They've seen the crowds, they've seen the tailgating, they have seen the operations and they have been completely taken aback at how well everything is run," Perez said. "So hurdle one...solved."
Perez revealed that the Raiders have now moved on to phase two, which is conducting an economic analysis to see if there is enough interest in the San Antonio-Austin region to support an NFL team, at least support one that isn't the Dallas Cowboys.
"So over the next 20 days they'll be doing that analysis and then they will finalize it, and then we'll see what happens," Perez said.
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