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[mempho]

Beukeboom, on Dec 7 2007, 09:50 PM, said:

I don't believe Tom Benson nor his daughter who stands to inherit the team have plans to move to Memphis. Benson's expressed more interest in moving to San Antonio during the season following Hurricane Katrina. San Antonio officials offered many incentives for him to permanently relocate and Benson publically stated his preference to move there if the owners approved the move. Admitedly this could have all been bluster to try to get more from New Orleans officials, but there's no way to know for certain. He was asked by the Times Picayune newspaper and WWL sports if he would be interested in relocated to other locations (Memphis being one of the specific locations mentioned) and he expressed no interest in moving anywhere other than San Antonio.

Everything you just said is true. However, minds can be changed, and if Memphis put together a package and got advanced funding availabe for a stadum (needs to be private sector money), pre-sold enough season tickets and box suites and recieved enough support from local corporations (including Toyota in Tupelo) I garuntee you that if Memphis did these things they would be a serious contender. This isn't the same Memphis that went for a team almost 20 years ago now. We all know that.

However, an NFL team in Memphis will never work downtown. It needs to be out east, where the money is. It needs to be out off of I 40 near the new intersection of 40 and 269, and we don't need to waiste our money on a stadium until papers have be signed, but a group trying to lure the Saints could go ahead and purchase some land to show their seriousness. I know it could happen, because I believe in Memphis. Now as most of you know, I don't believe in our state government,or even our local government for that matter, but I do believe in the citizens of Memphis all of the way from here to Jackson and Tupelo and Little Rock, and we all together could make this happen.

[Memphisborn]

mempho, on Dec 9 2007, 10:51 AM, said:

Everything you just said is true. However, minds can be changed, and if Memphis put together a package and got advanced funding availabe for a stadum (needs to be private sector money), pre-sold enough season tickets and box suites and recieved enough support from local corporations (including Toyota in Tupelo) I garuntee you that if Memphis did these things they would be a serious contender. This isn't the same Memphis that went for a team almost 20 years ago now. We all know that.

However, an NFL team in Memphis will never work downtown. It needs to be out east, where the money is. It needs to be out off of I 40 near the new intersection of 40 and 269, and we don't need to waiste our money on a stadium until papers have be signed, but a group trying to lure the Saints could go ahead and purchase some land to show their seriousness. I know it could happen, because I believe in Memphis. Now as most of you know, I don't believe in our state government,or even our local government for that matter, but I do believe in the citizens of Memphis all of the way from here to Jackson and Tupelo and Little Rock, and we all together could make this happen.

I too believe in the citizens of Memphis, and there is no question that help from the surrounding metro would go a long way in making a franchise here possible. I believe we have the best potential owner in Fred Smith & rumors have been swirling about him purchasing a team namely the ST. Louis rams & Jacksonville Jaguars. Here is a list of possible franchises we could land .
http://bleacherrepor...e-new-orleans-m

[paribasomw]

It simply is not going to happen for Memphis.  This topic has been around for decades.  It's useless beating a dead horse.  

Memphisborn, on Oct 4 2009, 05:21 PM, said:

I too believe in the citizens of Memphis, and there is no question that help from the surrounding metro would go a long way in making a franchise here possible. I believe we have the best potential owner in Fred Smith & rumors have been swirling about him purchasing a team namely the ST. Louis rams & Jacksonville Jaguars. Here is a list of possible franchises we could land .
http://bleacherrepor...e-new-orleans-m

[federalGuy]

paribasomw, on 07 October 2009 - 10:56 AM, said:

It simply is not going to happen for Memphis.  This topic has been around for decades.  It's useless beating a dead horse.  

Memphis sucks too badly for any NFL players, families, entourages, girlfriends, etc to want to live in such a hellhole, and the NFL don't want their players miserable, hanging out in a really really second rate, divisive, overgrown rivertown full of racists, bad entertainment, bad schools, bad politics, bad food, and high crime (ala Detroit..)

[Bears]

federalGuy, on 21 November 2009 - 09:16 AM, said:

Memphis sucks too badly for any NFL players, families, entourages, girlfriends, etc to want to live in such a hellhole, and the NFL don't want their players miserable, hanging out in a really really second rate, divisive, overgrown rivertown full of racists, bad entertainment, bad schools, bad politics, bad food, and high crime (ala Detroit..)

Detroit has an NFL team and Detroits problems are much much much worse than Memphis'. Detroit also has NHL, NBA, and MLB teams. The NFL and any other sports league would put a team in any city they could see themselves making a profit in from Green Bay to New York. All that matters is the bottom line