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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Earlier this year, Austin became home to its first professional sports franchise when Austin FC kicked off its inaugural Major League Soccer season. But now, a report from ESPN says that a different kind of pro football team could call Central Texas home.
According to a tweet from Seth Wickersham, a writer at ESPN.com, the NFL’s Buffalo Bills are considering a move to Austin as a leverage play to get public funding for a new, $1.5 billion stadium. The Buffalo News reports team owners are asking taxpayers to pay for 100% of the new stadium.
More at link because it's littered with links. [Reply]
We really don't want a influx of people from NY in Texas
After going around the world and the states... I have zero intentions of ever living there again, and I grew up in western NY (Finger Lakes Region). [Reply]
Originally Posted by Peter Gibbons:
OK - how about a quick refresher on the differences between bison and buffalo for those of us who are range animal ignorant? I know that buffalo have wings and bison don't, but is that the only difference?
Bison roam the plains from oklahoma to Wyoming, Buffalo are on helmets in NY. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
If the Bills were ever going to leave Buffalo (which they aren't since the Pegulas have them now), they'd go to Toronto (one of the largest cities/media markets in North America where like half their fanbase exists), not Austin. Non-story.
The NFL has not been shy about their desire to expand outside the US borders, so this makes sense. [Reply]
Pegula fucking sucks at this game. Austin (really Austin/San Antonio) is one of the least likely areas to ever get an NFL franchise simply based on Jerry Jones stopping at nothing to keep every other team out. He really should've said Toronto. [Reply]