Which NFL Teams Would You Relocate?

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If you had to relocate two NFL teams, which two cities are you taking them from and which two cities are you taking them to.



I would move the Arizona Cardinals back to St. Louis and LA Chargers back to San Diego.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Lions to be a 2nd team in Chicago
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mad4vols said:
I would move the Arizona Cardinals back to St. Louis.
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oh hell no. St Louis had two chances and couldnt support a team. IMO, you lose a team you dont get one back. Plenty of other areas that will. San Antonio, Portland, London, Berlin

Who needs to go?

Jacksonville - already farming out home games to other cities

Detroit - a dying city
 
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Chiefs to Tulsa. Much closer to me.

And I agree with Chargers back to San Diego. What are they thinking?
 
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GreveHaller said:
oh hell no. St Louis had two chances and couldnt support a team. IMO, you lose a team you dont get one back. Plenty of other areas that will. San Antonio, Portland, London, Berlin
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I love the city of St. Louis. My family migrated there from Germany in the 1850's. I love my St. Louis Cardinals (baseball), but you are 100% correct. It's a baseball town. They are the greatest baseball fans on earth BUT they are NOT big football fans.
 
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Feels like the Chargers and Jaguars need to move, but I'm not even sure where. Orlando, Portland, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, etc. don't seem like obvious winners, but maybe.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Feels like the Chargers and Jaguars need to move, but I'm not even sure where. Orlando, Portland, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, etc. don't seem like obvious winners, but maybe.
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If the Chargers had an actual real owner and not some dumb, cheap buffoon of a son who inherited the team after his dad founded them in 1960, they never would have left. They are and will always be the San Diego Chargers to me.

The Jaguars and Jacksonville just don’t seem to be destined to work but they’ve also been terrible run for the 10 years (despite that one playoff run). I feel like if Jacksonville had a good organization they’d be fine.
 
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GreveHaller said:
oh hell no. St Louis had two chances and couldnt support a team. IMO, you lose a team you dont get one back. Plenty of other areas that will. San Antonio, Portland, London, Berlin

Who needs to go?

Jacksonville - already farming out home games to other cities

Detroit - a dying city
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What the heck, I wasn’t expecting a pick on the Lions in the very first two posts. 😮
Agree with Jacksonville though
 
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SycloneJoe said:
I love the city of St. Louis. My family migrated there from Germany in the 1850's. I love my St. Louis Cardinals (baseball), but you are 100% correct. It's a baseball town. They are the greatest baseball fans on earth BUT they are NOT big football fans.
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They went crazy there for the xfl
 
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San Antonio is the biggest city without an NFL team…but the NFL wouldn’t need a third Texas team.

I think the NFL wants a team in Toronto and/or Mexico City. I know they want one in London but I just cannot see that happening.
 
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GreveHaller said:
oh hell no. St Louis had two chances and couldnt support a team. IMO, you lose a team you dont get one back. Plenty of other areas that will. San Antonio, Portland, London, Berlin

Who needs to go?

Jacksonville - already farming out home games to other cities

Detroit - a dying city
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This is so stupid and wrong.

They have a modern stadium. The owners are life long Michiganders (you know the Ford Family). Also the Lions sell out almost every game despite being horribly run for 60 years. No city deserves a good football team like Detroit.
 
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Chargers back to San Diego for sure. Nobody in LA wants them there. They will not be there long.

Jacksonville is a horrible franchise. I think they’d do well in Toronto or Vancouver.
 
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SDV said:
Chargers back to San Diego for sure. Nobody in LA wants them there. They will not be there long.

Jacksonville is a horrible franchise. I think they’d do well in Toronto or Vancouver.
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Roger Goodell cannot control the owners. I get that. But him thinking the Chargers was gonna work in LA is one of his dumbest ideas.
 
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zjcvols said:
Roger Goodell cannot control the owners. I get that. But him thinking the Chargers was gonna work in LA is one of his dumbest ideas.
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It’s crazy. We live in Orange County, which is just south of LA. All of the stores here have mostly Rams gear and very little Chargers gear, despite their training camp being here. The Rams were here in the past and then moved here a year before the Chargers this time, so got a one year head start on the fan excitement from LA market. Couple that with the previous SD vs LA hate, LA fans don’t want them here and the majority of the SD fans no longer cheer for them. They are just kind of stuck here without an identity.
 
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SDV said:
It’s crazy. We live in Orange County, which is just south of LA. All of the stores here have mostly Rams gear and very little Chargers gear, despite their training camp being here. The Rams were here in the past and then moved here a year before the Chargers this time, so got a one year head start on the fan excitement from LA market. Couple that with the previous SD vs LA hate, LA fans don’t want them here and the majority of the SD fans no longer cheer for them. They are just kind of stuck here without an identity.
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The fact Spanos gets to own the team is stupid. He doesn’t have anywhere near the money to actually afford one but he inherits it and gets to run it and took that sweetheart deal from Kroenke/NFL so he could spend the less amount of money possible. Now no one cares about his team
 
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zjcvols said:
Roger Goodell cannot control the owners. I get that. But him thinking the Chargers was gonna work in LA is one of his dumbest ideas.
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Did they do that just to get the stadium done in LA? I don’t follow this rich man’s welfare too closely until it impacts me.
 
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zjcvols said:
If the Chargers had an actual real owner and not some dumb, cheap buffoon of a son who inherited the team after his dad founded them in 1960, they never would have left. They are and will always be the San Diego Chargers to me.

The Jaguars and Jacksonville just don’t seem to be destined to work but they’ve also been terrible run for the 10 years (despite that one playoff run). I feel like if Jacksonville had a good organization they’d be fine.
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I agree with you about San Diego. The other owners would never allow it, but you can build a modest but very nice new stadium for cheap and San Diego is the perfect location because just being in that climate is amazing. Real Salt Lake's soccer stadium seats 20k and cost $110m to build, and it's plenty nice. Triple that and build a 45k stadium in San Diego. Instead of making it extravagant, do something unique like maybe what Borussia Dortmund does, putting the upper levels right on top of the end lines. Brand yourselves as the people's franchise who is friendly to taxpayers and offer reasonable ticket prices with NFT's to get your $ when tickets are scalped.
 
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95 Vol Alum said:
Did they do that just to get the stadium done in LA? I don’t follow this rich man’s welfare too closely until it impacts me.
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Not really. Stan Kroenke (Rams owner) didn’t need the Chargers. But Spanos only makes his money through the Chargers. He doesn’t really have any other (major) money making investments so he basically had to get a fully funded public stadium which San Diego refused to do. And apparently he couldn’t really afford to relocate anywhere else either. But Kroenke (as a favor to Goodell for getting him to LA) basically took the Chargers in on a sweetheart deal and gave them a new stadium.
 
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zjcvols said:
San Antonio is the biggest city without an NFL team…but the NFL wouldn’t need a third Texas team.

I think the NFL wants a team in Toronto and/or Mexico City. I know they want one in London but I just cannot see that happening.
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Toronto and Mexico City makes sense. Buffalo might object though.
 
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I can’t see the NFLPA liking Mx City. Or London for that matter. But maybe NFLers will live wherever to play.
 
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