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San Antonio Raiders?

Playoffs said:
They'd need a new mascot, IMO.

What would you give them?

The San Antonio ______________?
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I don't think there is a snowballs chance the Raiders change their name. Plus why? A San Antonio team's draw would include the gulf coast and there was plenty of pirate activity there (hence the Buccaneers also). Frankly the name makes a lot more sense in Texas than in Oakland (where it wasn't a popular choice to begin with).
 
There are rumors of raiders relocating to San Antonio

(sorry I cant get the link now, I'm on my phone)

I don't really know if this will actually happen, nor if they will keep the mame or change it.

But, what name would you think could represent texas?

You cant use the lone star or cowboys (dallas team) nor bulls or texas (houston team)
And you should choose the colors carefully.

I was thinking something linked to the figure of the "sheriff" or maybe the Ranger...

The symbol could be the sheriff's star, and the colors those of the sheriffs uniform...

What do you think would be a good name/color combo?
 
Playoffs said:
They'd need a new mascot, IMO.

What would you give them?

The San Antonio ______________?
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Rangers? Go with a Texas Ranger motif? Maybe not. Probably something a little more Spanish would go over better. After all I would see a San Antonio version of the Raiders as a kind of surrogate team for Mexico.

Seriously. You hear about the NFL paying lip service to the idea of a team in Mexico City every few years but I think it's unlikely that it ever happens. Too chaotic and too much trouble. On the other hand you could put a team in San Antonio and use it to appeal to Mexico. Maybe play some games in Mexico City (Hey, if they can send a game to London they can send a couple to Mexico City) and I bet the bandwagon would fill up pretty quickly.
 
Playoffs said:
They'd need a new mascot, IMO.

What would you give them?

The San Antonio ______________?
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The Texas Raiders

I think it would be pretty cool if the Raiders moved to our great state. I doubt it happens, but who knows, anything is possible.
 
Hervoyel said:
Rangers? Go with a Texas Ranger motif? Maybe not. Probably something a little more Spanish would go over better. After all I would see a San Antonio version of the Raiders as a kind of surrogate team for Mexico.
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The name which won the original naming poll was ... Senors. Raiders came in 3rd.

Still not sure why people think Raiders is not an appropriate name for a Texas team.
 
infantrycak said:
The name which won the original naming poll was ... Senors. Raiders came in 3rd.

Still not sure why people think Raiders is not an appropriate name for a Texas team.
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Me either. I wasn't so much thinking that Raiders wouldn't work. I was more thinking along the lines of "If they did decide to re-brand in some way what would they do?"

I'd be fine with Raiders though. Wouldn't make any difference to me at all. I think it would be the Raiders preference to keep their name and identity and that seems obvious with the mention of a statue of Al Davis in front of the stadium. They seem to want to hang on to their identity, not change it. Makes sense.
 
ChampionTexan said:
In the unlikely event that they move to SA, I think it would be a travesty to change the name. The autumn wind is a pirate after all.
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Indeed it would. Even though I'm a Houston sports fan through, and through, I have always been a Raiders supporter. I just love the team colors, the fans, and the whole mystique of the franchise. I have quite a few pieces of Raiders merch, my favorite being my Fred Biletnikoff jersey.
 
infantrycak said:
The name which won the original naming poll was ... Senors. Raiders came in 3rd...
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Señors!

How about the Smugglers or the Cartel? :kitten:

Or the Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón?

Let's get inventive, here. :gamer:
 
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Norg said:
I wouldn't mind cali has 3 NFL teams NY has 3 and FLordia has 3


I think Texas can handle 3 teams

but only if they move the raiders to the AFC south and take either the Jags or colts out
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New York has 1 team and they will eventually move to Toronto
 
Playoffs said:
Señors!

How about the Smugglers or the Cartel? :kitten:

Or the Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón?

Let's get inventive, here. :gamer:
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The citizens of The GREAT Republic of Texas were called TEXIANS
 
McCombs: Cowboys, Jones won’t sack potential Raiders move to San Antonio
While Jones would surely prefer that the Raiders relocate to Los Angeles - or anywhere else outside of Texas - McCombs, the former owner of the Minnesota Vikings, doesn’t believe the outspoken Cowboys owner would look to block the team from setting up shop in the nation’s seventh largest city. But don't expect Jones to help San Antonio land an NFL team either.

“I don’t think he will be one who will obstruct,” said McCombs - one of the local leaders who met with Raiders owner Mark Davis in July about a possible relocation of the team to San Antonio - about Jones. “In a perfect world, he’d rather keep this market for himself. But he knows the way the game is played. I would not expect any push back from him.”

The NFL operates under a league-wide revenue-sharing model. It would be to the advantage of Jones and other NFL owners for the Raiders to become more successful financially. That may not be possible in Oakland.

The Raiders play in an outdated stadium and last season ranked last in the NFL in average home attendance. The apathy could drive Davis out of Oakland.

“I’ve talked with a number of my associates in the Oakland area,” McCombs told me. “I don’t know that they would be that upset (if the Raiders relocated). The Raiders need a new home. And they need a new following.”

McCombs believes it is only a matter of time before some NFL team chooses to move to San Antonio, should the Raiders pass on the opportunity.

“We can’t let up. We have to continue to make the other owners operating in the league aware that they have a market here where they could do very well,” he said. “It’s our obligation and our opportunity.”
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houstonspartan said:
McCombs is old and delusional. No way Jerry allows for a San Antonio team. San Antonians bleed Cowboy blue.

Never. Going. To. Happen.

San Antonio has simply become the latest city being used as blackmail bait by the NFL.
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Maybe it'll work for them like it did for us. Also, who knows how many people from California already moved down here to San Antonio and Houston.
 
I thought I saw somewhere that the cowboys were the only team that doesn't participate in revenue sharing. They keep all of their profits on their merchandise. Some were citing that as the reason they signed Sam.
 
Hookem Horns said:
I thought I saw somewhere that the cowboys were the only team that doesn't participate in revenue sharing. They keep all of their profits on their merchandise. Some were citing that as the reason they signed Sam.
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Jerry is a smart businessman, initially what he did different was sell stadium rights not team rights. This model bypassed revenue sharing and was soon adopted by others in the NFL.

From Forbes:
The Cowboys, who are the only team in the NFL to distribute their own merchandise: The league’s new collective bargaining agreement, which began last season, specifically excludes the team’s wholesale merchandise revenue, projected to be $80 million last year, from the revenue pool shared with the players (royalties paid on Cowboys merchandise do continue to be shared with the players).
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Raiders Owner Mark Davis met with several San Antonio officials about a possible move.

ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis met with a delegation of officials from San Antonio on Friday to talk about a potential move for his franchise.

Former San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros and other city officials traveled to the Bay Area for the meeting, which comes about four months after Davis and other team officials had met with the group in San Antonio.

"We're going to present San Antonio's strengths and assets in the most persuasive way possible," Cisneros told the San Antonio Express-News before the meeting. "We have a very, very good opportunity to set it forth in a way the Raiders can digest."

Team officials declined to comment on the meeting.

The Raiders are in the final year of their lease at O.co Coliseum and are seeking a long-term deal. Davis has said his first choice is to remain in Oakland but he has been unable to reach a deal for a new stadium with local officials. The Raiders also could move back to Los Angeles, their home from 1982 to '94.
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If this was to happen I would like for them to move to the same division as the Texans. Three teams in Texas with no rivalry among the teams would be terrible.
 
JCTexan said:
Raiders Owner Mark Davis met with several San Antonio officials about a possible move.



If this was to happen I would like for them to move to the same division as the Texans. Three teams in Texas with no rivalry among the teams would be terrible.
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Though it may never happen, I would love a division with Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and New Orleans.
 
JCTexan said:
So would I. Dallas would ruin it because they like their rivalries too much with Philly & New York.
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Right. Dallas doesn't care about New Orleans anymore than they care about Houston.

& we play Oakland(San Antonio) enough being in the same conference.... unfortunately none of the games we've played against each other ever meant anything.


But I think a San Antonio/Dallas rivalry would jump off pretty quick.
 
thunderkyss said:
Right. Dallas doesn't care about New Orleans anymore than they care about Houston.

& we play Oakland(San Antonio) enough being in the same conference.... unfortunately none of the games we've played against each other ever meant anything.


But I think a San Antonio/Dallas rivalry would jump off pretty quick.
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Yeah, but San Antonio would have to change divisions with someone to make it happen. There is just no way any team in the NFC East would allow it. In the AFC South there are really no true rivalries to get in the way of a Houston/San Antonio division. I don't think any team would be too upset moving out of the AFC South.
 
JCTexan said:
Yeah, but San Antonio would have to change divisions with someone to make it happen. There is just no way any team in the NFC East would allow it. In the AFC South there are really no true rivalries to get in the way of a Houston/San Antonio division. I don't think any team would be too upset moving out of the AFC South.
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They would mind if they had to move into AFC West... would have to do total realignment and that ain't gonna happen, I don't think
 
JB said:
They would mind if they had to move into AFC West... would have to do total realignment and that ain't gonna happen, I don't think
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True, there really would be no obvious team to make a switch to the AFC West. I don't think any team would be happy with that transition either. Maybe the only possible scenario with a SA/HOU division is J-ville also moving to Los Angeles & the AFC West?
 
JCTexan said:
True, there really would be no obvious team to make a switch to the AFC West. I don't think any team would be happy with that transition either. Maybe the only possible scenario with a SA/HOU division is J-ville also moving to Los Angeles & the AFC West?
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Like I said, we've played Oakland enough to have a natural rivalry already. We don't need to be in the same division. Let us knock each other out of the play offs enough, & we'll have our rivalry.

Until then, I doubt the people of San Antonio care any more about what happens in Houston than the people of Dallas do. Dallas, Austin, San Antonio. That's Texas for all they care, Houston may as well be in Louisiana.
 
thunderkyss said:
Like I said, we've played Oakland enough to have a natural rivalry already. We don't need to be in the same division. Let us knock each other out of the play offs enough, & we'll have our rivalry.

Until then, I doubt the people of San Antonio care any more about what happens in Houston than the people of Dallas do. Dallas, Austin, San Antonio. That's Texas for all they care, Houston may as well be in Louisiana.
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Well, Louisiana is now in Houston.... :kitten:
 
I just read that there was talk a whil ago of the Chargers in San Antonio. They just committed to another year there I believe.

Sounds like the Rams are headed to LA, unless the owner is playing extreme hard ball.

I guess if those two moves played out it wouldn't require any kind of realignment at all.
 
Big Lou said:
I just read that there was talk a whil ago of the Chargers in San Antonio. They just committed to another year there I believe.

Sounds like the Rams are headed to LA, unless the owner is playing extreme hard ball.

I guess if those two moves played out it wouldn't require any kind of realignment at all.
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The Rams need to move back to L.A. That's where they belonged in the first place.
 
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