does anyone know if the NFL is planning to expand again? if so who would be the top cities to get a new team?
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There are already too many bottom feeders (I know I'm from Detroit!!) to expand to more cities although a couple more to make each conference have the same amount of teams would be the best situation.\n\nWith Canada having the CFL and Toronto already having a good football team, it is HIGHLY unlikely that there would be an expansion to compete with the CFL. (An interesting alternative to that would be to combine the CFL and the NFL... Hmmm would it work??)
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I doubt the Texans will ever move, seeing how they have that nice, state-of-the-art stadium there, built just for them only a few years ago.\n\nFrom what I've heard over the past couple of years, the teams most likely to relocate would be the Vikings and the Saints, but time will tell if other teams threaten to move. I always thought the Cardinals might be better off in a larger market (since they're fairly irrelevant anyway), but they also have a new stadium on the way, so they're not going anywhere for awhile.
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It will be a while, but yes.  They have a lot of marketable talent at the wide receiver position, and they could use it to fill in some holes at other positions.  Joey Harrington is on his way out, and your defense, while leaving much to be desired, is a couple key players away from being solid.  Hopefully the Ford family can clean house (i.e. get rid of Matt Millen and the havoc he has wrought) before it's too late.  The Colts were in a very similar situation in 1997.  Bill Polian fired almost everybody from the top down in one day.  Nine years later, they're one of the premiere teams in the league.  Keep your head up, buddy.  If the laughingstock of the 80s and 90s can do it, so can you.
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What about Hartford!!!!!?????  Don't forget the Whalers!  I am all for teams returning to Winnipeg, Quebec City and Hartford!  It's a crime that all of these cities are without a team.  I know that both Hartford and Winnipeg have stated they want another team.  As a matter of fact....if you guys didn't know....there is a developer here in Connecticut who has stated that he wants to build a new arena and bring an NHL team back to Hartford.  Not only that, he has publicly spoken that he is on the market to buy an NHL team.  He is looking at all possibilities.  He said he would buy a team first.  During the last week of the NHL season, this developer and Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez went to Minnesota to watch a Wild game and meet with the Wild owners.  They spoke to them about what they did to re-acquire an  NHL team.  The Whalers were stolen.....from the Hartford fans. Peter Karmanos, Hurricane owner, is enemy number one in this state.  He purchased the team to move it.  \n  Unfortunately, Kansas City is a strong city to get the first NHL team in any relocation. They have a new arena and are just waiting for the right opportunity.  I hope that Hartford, Winnipeg and Quebec City will return to the NHL someday!
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When the AFL merged with the NFL, the NFL had more teams, so some had to switch. The Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Colts were the other two teams that switched.\n\nMost of references to that trend that I've heard refer to original NFL teams, which would include the Steelers. Furthermore, the Seahawks are originally an AFC team.
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Very highly unlikely\nthere are too many good teams in the nfl that are much better at the moment...and first of all to have a good nfl team it all starts with the quarterback and they dont have a good one...they released kurt warner i think and he wasnt that great....all they have is edgerrin james at running back...but he wont carry the team to the superbowl...also to win the superbowl you need defense....so to sum it up they have no qb a good running back and good wide receivers actually but not a very good defense....they wont win the superbowl but they might be good this year if they get a good qb in the draft
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Unfortunately both Florida teams have to go, maybe, just maybe they could be merged into one team and put in Orlando if MLB is so dead set on having a team in that state.\n\nI don't thing the fact that there are more teams in one league than another has anything to do with anything.  The talent pool is the talent pool.\n\nMore expansion?  PLEASE NO!  MLB has proven incapable of picking cities for new teams.\n\nMarlins would be my first choice of a team to be contracted.
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My 2 cents:\n\nThe Los Angeles Shield (after the famous TV show where LA is the main city in)\nThe LA Playmakers (for everyone's 'big head' in the So. Cal area.\nThe LA Cardinals (after Arizona moves their team to LA since LA moved the Rams to St. Louis ala St. Louis moved their team to Arizona {shot-out to Kurt Warner though, he seems pretty loyal}).\nThe Anahiem Angels of Los Angeles (chalk one more for Disney).\nThe Los Angeles Terminators (we're still with you Arnold!)
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Teams currently seeming to have stadium issues always will use a place like Los Angeles as ransom for their current locations to ante up.  Seems to me that makes the list of potential LA:  Buffalo, Indy, Kansas City, Minnesota, New Orleans, Oakland, San Diego and San Francisco.\n\nOf this group...odds are KC will get something done for the Chiefs;  Vikings, were they to move, seems to be looking more like San Antonio;  and the Saints, were they to move, likely to stay somewhere on the Gulf Coast.\n\nBills does have another suitor just north of the 49th in Toronto.  Colts have also been mentioned with Toronto as possible, as well.  Admittedly, Toronto is a large market of 5 million-ish, but the flux of currency values make it not too inviting at the moment.\n\n49ers, it seem, are now heading to Santa Clara.  Not sure if this deal is done, but I suspect they will stay somewhere in the bay area.\n\nRaiders...well, it is Al Davis, and they could end up in Honolulu, Bakersfield, or any of the towns named Springfield yet.\n\nChargers do strike me as the most likely.  They have stadium issues to the point where they need a new stadium if they want more Super Bowls played in the area.\n\nIf I were a betting man, I would say we could see two teams in LA.  Most likely the Chargers or Raiders from the AFC, along with an expansion NFC team.
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Probably not. The NFL is to tuff of a league for just anybody to win it all. I'm from Minnesota and if you can't win it after going 15-1 in a season. I don't see it coming for a long long time.
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well according to Wiki the dome can house 64,000 football spectators now. With Card's new stadium being able to expand to 73,000, I'd say a new statdium will probably hold between 70-85,000 people (I gave such a big gap, because the NFL high is 91,704 in washington)
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No they dont! There are some pretty bad teams in the NFL. The Lions for one. Redskins may not be as good as the hype was for this season, but ease up. There not horrible. As for the comment below me, everyone in the DC area is minor?! What the heck are you talking about? Have you heard of the Wizards or DC United?! Orioles and Nationals may not be good but there popular and well known.
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well im not sure what ur asking but im from cleveland and after fart modell moved the team to baltimore we got a new team but got to keep team name, colors, records, and history. of course our whole city fought like crazy to bring football back. still i dont know if im answering your question you need to elaborate more.
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Once upon a time, there were two unrelated football leagues.\n\nThe AFL, or American Football League, and the NFL, or National Football League.  The AFL was formed by the oil rich Hunt family, in response to being turned down for an expansion NFL franchise in Dallas.\n\nThe league played in the shadow of the NFL for about 10 years, and finally merged with the NFL.  The merger began in 1967, but the last AFL game was played in 1970.\n\nAll the AFL teams joined the NFL and the newly merged league kept the "NFL" name.  Part of the merger included a playoff and championship game between the old  former leagues, which now existed as conferences in the NFL.  That's why we have a Superbowl, which is the single biggest sporting event we have.\n\nWe decide which team is the best of its conference by the regular season record and the conference playoffs.  The only other way to do a playoff that I can think of would be a round robin tournament, which would mean each team plays every other, and would take much longer to accomplish.  No major sports league does it that way.
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I'm sure they will. L.A. is just too big not to have a football team. I doubt they will have two at one time though.
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Though the concept is the same, the particulars behind each expansion draft format is different. Sometimes teams will pay a bigger entry fee to the league and get more favorable expansion draft rules. Other times they may pay less of a fee and get less favorable expansion draft rules.\nThe last NFL expansion was the Hoston Texans, the rules for their expansion draft were as follows:\n\n\nThe new Houston Texans, set to begin play in 2002, can select 30 to 42 players and are required to use $27.02M (38% of the $71.1M cap) in the draft. Restricted Free Agents (RFAs) do not count toward either.\n\nRules and Eligibility Requirements \nOf the five players, each of the 31 clubs can expose only one who was placed on injured reserve after the start of the 2001 season and only one who has 10 or more years of free agency experience. \nPlayers must not be a punter or a kicker. \nTeams have the option to remove one player from the list after the first player is taken and can remove the last two after a second player is taken. This is not mandatory and the teams can allow more players to be taken off their roster.
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why don't you email the teams and ask their front offices. Maybe the league office has a list of individual team sponsors.