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Transcript: Nashville Decides Whether to Deal With the Oilers
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- February 28, 1996
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Peter Aronson reports that Nashville is split on a proposal to bring
the Houston Oilers to that city. Opponents to the plan face a Wednesday
night deadline to collect enough signatures to force a referendum.
NOAH ADAMS, Host: It seems as if the NFL teams play two kinds of
games these days - football and a kind of musical chairs - moving
from one city to another in search of a better deal. Just recently,
the Cleveland Browns said they would be leaving their devoted fans
for Baltimore. Over the past few years, the St. Louis Cardinals migrated
to Phoenix, the Rams moved to St. Louis to replace them, and the Raiders
decided to go back home to Oakland, ...