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lolol rowland was a shill. you also prob thought danbury had a good shot at amazon HQ2.
 
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Sure let Buffalo pretend they’re going to move to Hartford.
Our politicians should then pretend after a sizable contribution to UConn athletics to have bogus plans for the construction of a fabulous facility.
We could repeat this scam every few years when a team wants to extort it’s current city.
If questioned we could just call it a relocation tax.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
Sure let Buffalo pretend they’re going to move to Hartford.
Our politicians should then pretend after a sizable contribution to UConn athletics to have bogus plans for the construction of a fabulous facility.
We could repeat this scam every few years when a team wants to extort it’s current city.
If questioned we could just call it a relocation tax.
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Hartford? How about we pretend the Bills want to move to Storrs instead?
 
KembaKek said:
Can you guys just accept that CT is a minor league state already? We're never getting Big 4 sports so just stop wasting your brainpower on it.
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One of the most densely populated regions in the country.

You do realize most P4 schools are in minor league locations, right?
 
Let me be clear. Buffalo or an any other NFL will never move to Hartford. But the reality is the NFL is the one major league sport that could make it in Hartford. With a relatively short season and mainly Sunday games the draw would be beyond the metro Hartford region. Of course, my theory will never be tested.
 
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Butch said:
You do realize most P4 schools are in minor league locations, right?
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he didnt say p4 he said big 4 i.e. nfl, nba, mlb, nhl.
 
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Who Ha said:
Let me be clear. Buffalo or an any other NFL will never move to Hartford. But the reality is the NFL is the one major league sport that could make it in Hartford. With a relatively short season and mainly Sunday games the draw would be beyond the metro Hartford region. Of course, my theory will never be tested.
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sure if green bay can have a football team pretty much anyone can but if san diego and st louis couldnt keep their teams b/c there was more money to be made in bigger markets then Hartford aint getting one either
 
Butch said:
One of the most densely populated regions in the country.

You do realize most P4 schools are in minor league locations, right?
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Yes. And already surrounded by professional football teams not wanting (or serving a need) another team in the immediate area.
 
Bills to Austin is a done deal.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Bills to Austin is a done deal.
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Jerry is adamantly against. Not saying he’s beloved by his fellow owners but don’t think he’s hated either. He has made the NFL and his owners some $$$
 
Vowelguy said:
Jerry is adamantly against. Not saying he’s beloved by his fellow owners but don’t think he’s hated either. He has made the NFL and his owners some $$$
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yeah and over UT's dead body is austin getting a pro football team
 
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bendm said:
yeah and over UT's dead body is austin getting a pro football team
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Aust has 2.3M people metro. San Ant (1.5 hrs away) has another 2.6M.

Each is bigger than Buffalo, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Nashville, Cleveland, Indi, KC, Cinci.
That area is getting a team sooner or later.
 
Vowelguy said:
Aust has 2.3M people metro. San Ant (1.5 hrs away) has another 2.6M.

Each is bigger than Buffalo, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Nashville, Cleveland, Indi, KC, Cinci.
That area is getting a team sooner or later.
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I agree it should go in San Antonio along w/ the spurs but that's beside my point. UT will do anything to remain the sole "pro" sports team in austin and if anyone has the political influence to do so it's them.
 
Butch said:
One of the most densely populated regions in the country.

You do realize most P4 schools are in minor league locations, right?
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Big 4 is referring to: NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA

Major 4 is the right term maybe? I don't remember
 
KembaKek said:
Big 4 is referring to: NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA

Major 4 is the right term maybe? I don't remember
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It's "Big 4", though the MLS is catching up.

I was having optical illusions when I read that post.
 
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bendm said:
I agree it should go in San Antonio along w/ the spurs but that's beside my point. UT will do anything to remain the sole "pro" sports team in austin and if anyone has the political influence to do so it's them.
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No one, except maybe San Antonio, benefits by Austin remaining a 2nd class city. SA already has the NBA. Is Austin going to let them have the NFL too?

Austin is one of just two metros > 2M people without a major sports team. (The other is Riverside CA, which is greater LA.) In a decade, it'll be approaching 3M.
 
Vowelguy said:
No one, except maybe San Antonio, benefits by Austin remaining a 2nd class city.
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austin getting an nfl team is not going to help the university of texas in any way it would just be something they dont want to share all the attention with
 
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It's "Big 4", though the MLS is catching up.

I was having optical illusions when I read that post.
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I still debate whether or not to include them. I'd say it's still too early considering the NHL wasn't even really included until 2005 or so
 
KembaKek said:
I still debate whether or not to include them. I'd say it's still too early considering the NHL wasn't even really included until 2005 or so
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The NHL has been a premier league for as long as I can remember. "Big 4" was coined by the media recently.

MLS is not even a top 5 soccer league and, unless Europe unifies and does create a Super League, will never be a top 5 league.
 
Butch said:
The NHL has been a premier league for as long as I can remember. "Big 4" was coined by the media recently.

MLS is not even a top 5 soccer league and, unless Europe unifies and does create a Super League, will never be a top 5 league.
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For the record, the MLS is not even close to a top 5 soccer league. It's not the best league in North America and probably doesn't make the cut for top 5 in the Western Hemisphere. As far as Europe goes, the Turkish and Austrian leagues can easily poach players from the MLS, the amount of money being thrown around by the 5 biggest leagues in the world (England, Spain, Germany, France and Italy) is unimaginable for the MLS.

The NBA, the MLB and the NFL are a tier above the NHL in terms of their pull and cultural significance in this country but the gap between hockey and whoever you put at #3 is substantially narrower than that between the NHL and the MLS.

That being said, I do hope the MLS catches up one day but that day is still in the distant future.
 
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goskis2018 said:
For the record, the MLS is not even close to a top 5 soccer league. It's not the best league in North America and probably doesn't make the cut for top 5 in the Western Hemisphere. As far as Europe goes, the Turkish and Austrian leagues can easily poach players from the MLS, the amount of money being thrown around by the 5 biggest leagues in the world (England, Spain, Germany, France and Italy) is unimaginable for the MLS.

The NBA, the MLB and the NFL are a tier above the NHL in terms of their pull and cultural significance in this country but the gap between hockey and whoever you put at #3 is substantially narrower than that between the NHL and the MLS.

That being said, I do hope the MLS catches up one day but that day is still in the distant future.
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What relevance does the success of foreign soccer leagues have to what the gap in importance is between the NHL and MLS.
 
Phoenix with no real ice has a hockey team out in the God forsaken West Valley no less.
Yet with a population of 1,000,000 Mexican America’s who love soccer we don’t have an MLS team.
How is that possible?
 
Sky ball said:
The Bills will need to change their name first. The Williams of Connecticut would be offended.
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Or keep the name and change the symbol to be $-based. The branding for that team would be lucrative.
 
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