http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/oakla...ome-011316

Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis missed out on Los Angeles, but that doesn't mean he'll return his team to Oakland.

They're playing without a lease in 2016 -- and the city of San Antonio could provide a soft landing for the Silver and Black.

As the theory goes, Davis has secured a parcel of land about halfway in between Austin and San Antonio -- about 80 miles apart -- where a new stadium could potentially be located, creating leverage in his dealings with Oakland.

Davis has plenty of reasons to drop his team right between San Antonio and Austin. The two cities would offer his team over 2.3 million football-hungry sports fans. His players would enjoy a state without income taxes.

Lastly, if he's anything like his father, Davis enjoys a little payback. He'd serve some up by becoming an instate competitor to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who led the charge to exclude the Raiders from LA relocation .

Nah, but he might try and use SA to get a deal done with Oakland.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Who is paying for it?

A "historic" franchise moving outside the LA/Oakland area from their past might cause some eyebrows to be raised.

I have seen San Antonio get used for new stadium leverage before. I think the Houston Chronicle had an article earlier this week that said Jerry Jones was dead set against another NFL team in Texas, and thought he had enough owners in line to keep it from happening.

Would Jerry Jones block a move like this?

(01-14-2016 07:38 PM)ESE84 Wrote:  I have seen San Antonio get used for new stadium leverage before. I think the Houston Chronicle had an article earlier this week that said Jerry Jones was dead set against another NFL team in Texas, and thought he had enough owners in line to keep it from happening.

Jerry blocked Davis' move to LA and proposed the approved Rams plan. I find it difficult for the NFL owners to let Davis hang in the wind and not allow him the possibility of moving to San Antonio.

Oakland is a money pit. Raiders will move its only a matter of time and to where.

Bears will move to Boise Idaho too.

(01-14-2016 07:47 PM)SApuro Wrote:  

(01-14-2016 07:38 PM)ESE84 Wrote:  I have seen San Antonio get used for new stadium leverage before. I think the Houston Chronicle had an article earlier this week that said Jerry Jones was dead set against another NFL team in Texas, and thought he had enough owners in line to keep it from happening.

Jerry blocked Davis' move to LA and proposed the approved Rams plan. I find it difficult for the NFL owners to let Davis hang in the wind and not allow him the possibility of moving to San Antonio.

Oakland is a money pit. Raiders will move its only a matter of time and to where.

exactly, Jerry can't have total control over the NFL. He's already blocked the Raiders from LA and now he wants to block them from San Antonio?

Mexico City will get a team before San Antonio.

(01-14-2016 08:34 PM)Saint Greg Wrote:  Mexico City will get a team before San Antonio.

Bet

Safe bet since San Antonio is never getting a team.

Safe bet St. Louis is never getting another team.

Jacksonville moves there in 2 years

(01-15-2016 12:00 AM)panama Wrote:  Jacksonville moves there in 2 years

They'll be in London.

Not happening without a time machine.

(01-15-2016 12:03 AM)panama Wrote:  Not happening without a time machine.

London? It's not that big a deal. You have to move them to the AFC East and the Dolphins to the South. The trips to and from Buffalo, New York, New England won't be bad. That's half of the schedule.

Houston owners are ok with SA to break up the Jerry monopoly

Jacksonville has an iron clad lease. They won't be moving any time soon.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/145729...an-antonio

Front page of ESPN says Raiders to SA a real possibility.