From columnist @kbohls: If the NFL ever had a legitimate interest in expanding beyond its current 32 teams, why not Austin? https://t.co/JoAhF5eTcC

— Austin Statesman (@statesman) May 11, 2022

Not saying it will happen, but wouldn't Austin be a lot cooler if it happened? https://t.co/oBQzqgjyQz

— Mayor Adler | Get vaccinated! (@MayorAdler) May 11, 2022

tlepoC said:

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Part of me wants it as it will probably help to further kill off the UT bandwagon fans but meh to NFL. Where would the stadium go? East side?

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I actually think north of the domain and 45 or south of austin to pull from the San Antonio market

But who knows

AggieOO said:

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Lol, Jerry Jones will never let this happen.

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He has less power than he used to

An NFL team makes sense in Central Texas given the exponential growth occurring. Most of the folks moving in have no connection to tu, so let's have them spend their dollars elsewhere instead of paying licensing fees on merch & sip game tickets.

Put the new stadium out near 130/71 near the airport/cybertruck factory & COTA. Run a rail line connecting all that to downtown. (This would be the only rail line I would back btw)

If that could get them to improve access and parking for COTA I'd be all for it.

I don't see it happening. Only two options are expansion or moving a current team. I haven't seen any mention of expansion anywhere. Teams almost always talk about moving when they want leverage and end up staying put.

You'd obviously have to put them in the NFC West with San Fran, Los Angeles & Seattle (Lib cities with high homeless populations) Arizona would need to go somewhere else.

Jerry vetoes this

Austin ******s.

Insightful post and boundless humor per usual. The name would indeed suck thought because it'd have to be so PC/woke. Couldn't be worse though than the Texans. People usually move in and bring their fandom with them so they'd struggle I think for organic fans

The Austin clowns… it'll represent Mayor Adler well

an NFL team in Austin would be best put somewhere in Bastrop. Lot of land for a stadium, Toll road, airport.

Doubt it would happen but Austin is the perfect fit. Lot of $$$, place would be sold out, Lots of $$$ for suites, 10th largest city in US, SA 1 hr away with a top 10 populated city.

It would quickly become one of the most valuable franchise in 10 yrs.

JAW3336 said:

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Medaggie said:

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an NFL team in Austin would be best put somewhere in Bastrop. Lot of land for a stadium, Toll road, airport.

Doubt it would happen but Austin is the perfect fit. Lot of $$$, place would be sold out, Lots of $$$ for suites, 10th largest city in US, SA 1 hr away with a top 10 populated city.

It would quickly become one of the most valuable franchise in 10 yrs.

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I am guessing you aren't serious with any of this info.

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. What don't you agree with and why?

Medaggie said:

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an NFL team in Austin would be best put somewhere in Bastrop. Lot of land for a stadium, Toll road, airport.

Doubt it would happen but Austin is the perfect fit. Lot of $$$, place would be sold out, Lots of $$$ for suites, 10th largest city in US, SA 1 hr away with a top 10 populated city.

It would quickly become one of the most valuable franchise in 10 yrs.

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Have you tried to drive to/thru Bastrop on a Sunday afternoon? Hwy 71 would need major overhaul. South in the buda area would be best spot since 130/45 could alleviate some of the traffic

Austin isn't a top 10 city or even a top 10 metro area.

I love it when posters just type in "are you serious" or something similar without even giving a reason. I am not sure why this is so outrageous? I just looked it up and Austin is 11th but they are not including any of the large suburbs. Last I check Austin proper was over 1M and if you include the suburbs which are essentially in Austin, they would easily be top 10. 2022 Austin pop is 1.03M

I do think they would be one of the most valuable in a decade. There are a lot of money in the Austin area, lots of tech companies who would pay large premiums for those suite. Place would be sold out quickly just as MLS sold out.

To Bring an NFL team, they need an NFL stadium which does not exist. Austin has a traffic problem no matter where you put it and I35 is not any better. I would take Bastrop near the tollroad which can be expanded and the airport will be expanded too.

I don't see many road options to expand on I35 but it would be close to SA.

Medaggie said:

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To Bring an NFL team, they need an NFL stadium which does not exist. Austin has a traffic problem no matter where you put it and I35 is not any better. I would take Bastrop near the tollroad which can be expanded and the airport will be expanded too.

I don't see many road options to expand on I35 but it would be close to SA.

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Austin traffic sucks but it isn't worse than Houston or Dallas…

The airport has already started plans to expand

I agree south of austin would be the best. Call the team "Central Texas" and pull from San Antonio

Also, most NFL stadiums are smaller than the sips stadium and the F1 race (Cota) and SXSW and ACL

Dream scenario (because this is completely a dream and I don't see another NFL team in Texas happening): Build a 60-70,000 seat stadium out near Tesla off 130. Preferably bankrolled by Elon. None of this Jerryworld-sized business. Maybe build it down a little more toward the race track. Have a game scheduled every year on the weekend of F1 and make it a big damn deal. Use DKR until the stadium is finished. Uniforms are green/black, based off of Austin FC's colors, a la Pittsburgh's gold/black for all teams. I'm not good at coming up with team names, so I'll just toss out "Wildcats" as a placeholder.

Avoid the area if you don't like traffic, just like you would during SXSW, ACL Festival, and campus on Saturdays in the fall.

my bad, I saw this list and didn't realize it was from 2020.

[ol]

New York City, NY (Population: 8,622,357)

Los Angeles, CA (Population: 4,085,014)

Chicago, IL (Population: 2,670,406)

Houston, TX (Population: 2,378,146)

Phoenix, AZ (Population: 1,743,469)

Philadelphia, PA (Population: 1,590,402)

San Antonio, TX (Population: 1,579,504)

San Diego, CA (Population: 1,469,490)

Dallas, TX (Population: 1,400,337)

San Jose, CA (Population: 1,036,242)

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As a metro area looks like it will be a while before Austin gets near the top 10.

I could see DFW getting a second NFL team.

One next to Tesla towards the airport would be a dream. I know this is not exactly Bastrop but this is what I was envisioning when I said Bastrop. Right near the airport, lots of land, near the toll. It would be a city in itself.

The could host some great sporting events too in that stadium.

Jerry likely would fight tooth/nail if one in Austin/SA pops up.

He would go nuclear if there was a Forth Worth one.

East of 35 in San Marcos might me a good spot. 30min from ATX and 45min from SA.

If not there, as close to the MLS stadium as possible.

If Austin traffic can deal with 100,000 at DKR on Saturday, it can handle a smaller stadium on Sundays.