If the NFL were to expand, which city would be enfranchised?

Here are my selected choices:





Portland, OR-back in 2000, Portland approached the NFL about an expansion franchise but the NFL was not planning any time soon. In the book "The Birth of the New NFL" by Larry Fesler, prior to the merger of the NFL and the AFL, the NFL suggested to prevent cross-town rivalry, that the Oakland Raiders should move to Portland. The New York Jets were suggested that they move to Memphis, Tennessee. Ironically, the Jets former name were the Titans. Both teams and the AFL said "no".





Los Angeles, CA-since LA is one of the largest TV markets in America, it needs to be restored. I don't think LA needs two teams like former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested.





Las Vegas, NV





Salt Lake City, UT-My brother told me that Salt Lake is looking for an expansion.





Tulsa or Oklahoma City, OK-Since the state of Oklahoma is big on football, why not?





San Antonio, TX





Birmingham, AB-Like Oklahoma, Alabama too is big on football.





*Memphis, TN-I once suggested about that the Titans (from Nashville) have a rivalry, but I changed my mind.





Canada-Years after the merger, the NFL approached the CFL about merging both leagues. The CFL had expanded American teams, which did not do too well and their only Grey Cup winner were the Baltimore Stallions. The Buffalo Bills play some of the "home" games in the Rogers Centre in Toronto. If the NFL expands to Canada, I suggested that each major Canadian city should host their home games one season at a time. For example: Toronto one season, Montreal the next, and rotate to another city the following year.|||i want one in brooklyn call them dem bums|||Hawaii should get a team maybe Maui or something|||I would say of those choices Portland or Vegas





LA doesn't need a team. It had two and lost both of them. LA fans are fair weather, bandwagon fans anyway.


Oklahoma and Alabama are big on COLLEGE football, but putting a pro team in a college town is not always a success. They put the Jags in Florida Gator country and the Jags have trouble selling out even when they're good.


San Antonio would probably be a good choice but there are already two teams from Texas.


Same with Memphis, it would seriously cut into the Titans' market and to a lesser extent the Colts' and Bengals' market.


Salt Lake City just seems like too small of a market.


Your idea for Canada is terrible. They have their own football that Canadians are used to and probably like better, plus why would you have a team play in a different city every year? that just doesn't make sense.





I like Portland because it is the biggest market without an NFL team except LA, Portland fans are good fans (Blazers), and it would create a rival for the Seahawks who are the only team in the northwest.





Vegas works too because I know thwe players and fans would like it and it would draw a lot of media attention and $$$$$|||None.


The NFL is not going to expand.|||It would probably be


LA


Las Vegas


Toronto


San Antonio


Somewhere in Maine?


A Hawaii team?


Anchorage?





Prolly not, but oh well|||Portland is out. Seattle is already in the Pacific Nothwest, which is already one too many teams for that region,





L.A. would be the most likely beneficiary even though they do not deserve a team based on their failure to support their 3 (not 2) prvious pro teams. They're already putting in a stadium I've heard.





Memphis - LOL





Vegas - NFL won't touch that. Also Vegas doesn't have a very big non-transient population.





Salt Lake City - I don't know much about that city, and neither does anyone else.





Toronto - Doesn't make any sense to locate a team there as long as the Bills remain in Buffalo.





San Antonio - definite maybe. They made a run at the Saints a few years back.





Oklahoma City - long shot - too small





Birmingham - Carolina and Atlanta haven't really been great NFL towns.





Jacksonville is looking at moving to LA.





I'd like to see the Cards return to Chicago. Then AZ could get a new team. (just a dream)|||First of all, the NFL is done expanding. There wont be more than 32 teams in the league from here until the end of time. This is because games in certain stadiums still have trouble selling out (Even with the NFLs massive popularity) and end up having to black out games to the locals, forcing them to buy tickets and go to the games if they want to watch their team play.





That being said, the NFL may have a team relocate from a smaller city to a larger city, such as Los Angeles (who in my opinion does not deserve an NFL team, they had their chances)





Also, NO professional sports team will ever go to Vegas. With all the trouble these athletes get into, with their weapons charges, their DUI's and their assaults on women, you think a commissioner of a league that is trying to clean up the image would want to put a team in Vegas? Sin city? There would be way too much temptation there.|||Las Vegas


Toronto


San Antonio|||Dougs right. We need something exciting in brooklyn|||The NFL will either expand or move a team to Los Angeles within the next few years. LA, the second largest television market in the United States, is just too large to not have a team. The current talk, though, is not expansion but moving a struggling team to Los Angeles.





As long as Las Vegas is known for gambling, it will never have a major professional sports team. Minor leagues will play there and upstart leagues might locate a team in the city, but the NFL, NBA, MLB and the NHL will never allow a team to locate in a city that allows sports books. There is just too much of a chance for someone to try to fix games.





Neither Tulsa (under a million residents in metro area) nor Oklahoma City (1.25 million metro residents) are large enough for NFL expansion. Salt Lake City (2.2 million metro), but the religious nature of the city (headquarters of the Mormon Church) might be a turnoff for the NFL.





San Antonio would face opposition from both Dallas and Houston... Memphis would face opposition from the Tennessee Titans.





Birmingham will never have a NFL team. It is a college football town -- Alabama plays just an hour down the road and Auburn is within four hours. There have been three, including the CFL team, teams that located in Birmingham. While each of these teams drew well in relation to the other teams in the upstart leagues, they could never gain traction over Alabama and Auburn. The NFL wants to go to cities that are NFL first and college second, not to cities that are college first and maybe NFL second. Also, the Atlanta Falcons, two/three hours east of Birmingham, and the Tennessee Titans, three/four hours north of Birmingham, would object. I lived for 10 years in Birmingham and wrote part-time sports for the Birmingham News.





Canada faces population problems. There are only three cities in Canada large enough for a NFL team: Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. And, your suggestion to rotate home seasons wouldn't work since you want the franchise to develop a strong local following and that takes stability in the team's location.





Like another writer said, the NFL is happy with a balanced 32-team league. It's a number that works well for them. Most likely the only change we will see is for one team to move to Los Angeles so the NFL can have a presence in the second largest metro area in the nation -- just under 12.5 million people...