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Article: San Antonio embraces Saints, hopes for team
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 29, 2005
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SAN ANTONIO -- The line snaked for a quarter mile.
Thousands of football-starved fans were jumping at the chance to
buy tickets to see the New Orleans Saints -- and for a chance to show
how the nation's eighth-largest city can support an NFL team.
The mayor and business leaders are trying to rally the city to
support the Saints, who were forced here when Hurricane Katrina
swamped their city, and prove San Antonio is a major market worthy of
an NFL-franchise sport.
"It's unfortunate that it took these circumstances to get these
games over here, but it will show San Antonio is ready for a team,"
said Red McCombs, a San Antonio resident and former owner of the
Spurs and the Minnesota Vikings.
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