OT Baseball and Football Coming to Portland?

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  1. UncleCliffy'sDaddy

    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    I'm a native Portlander (and 5th generation Oregonian), but I could never, ever root for another MLB team other than the SF Giants. They were the "regional" team when I was growing up and I'm too old and invested to switch. My only interest in Portland getting a baseball team is if it's a National League team. Then I could see the Giants play enough every year to satisfy my fandom without the trip to SF.......
     
    UncleCliffy'sDaddy, Jul 14, 2017
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    The Portland Pranksters otherwise know as the PPs
     
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    I get it. For me, I only really rooted for Philly because I LOVED Randall Cunningham. My favorite player of all time. We had no NFL team so it was easy for me to latch on to the Eagles.
    But I'm a hometown first type of cat. I'd still root for Philly because it's what I'm used to.

    I have no MLB team. I just don't really watch it until the playoffs.
     
    dviss1, Jul 14, 2017
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  4. Jade Falcon

    Jade Falcon Just to piss you off.

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    I'm down with that! :chestbump:

    I love the Giants. All of my mother's side of the family are devout Giants fans. When I was growing up in the 1990s, however, my father had season tickets for a couple of years to the Oakland A's. We'd drive out to see the games in his 1964 Ford Galaxy 500XL. Very fun indeed! I think I only saw one or two Giants games in all the time we lived down there.

    However, as a young adult, I found that we got more coverage of Giants games up here than A's games. Started following them around 2008 or so; the few games I could catch here and there on my days off from work. I've been a fan ever since, and I'll be one for life.

    Ugly season right now though. Man, they suck this year. Might be time for a rebuild.
     
    Jade Falcon, Jul 14, 2017
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  5. UncleCliffy'sDaddy

    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Yep, BG and I thought the Giants would lift us out of our 2017 Blazer doldrums and maybe even win another ring. Man plans and God laughs......
     
    UncleCliffy'sDaddy, Jul 14, 2017
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    Cowboys first became the Cowboys in Oregon. Held their first training camp here.

    Have the Seahawks or 49ers ever held a training camp here? Hell, they don't even play a preseason game here.
     
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  7. Jade Falcon

    Jade Falcon Just to piss you off.

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    hmmmm....to my knowledge, the 9ers have not held training camp in Oregon. Didn't know that about Dallas though.
     
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    dviss1, Jul 14, 2017
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Better a cowboy fan than a Seahawk fan.
     
    Natebishop3, Jul 14, 2017
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    No way.....the Cowboys are the Lakers and Yankees of football!
     
    riverman, Jul 14, 2017
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    The Portland Shanghai
     
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    and then it rained
     
    riverman, Jul 14, 2017
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Come come, I have seen plenty of front runner Seahawk fans!
     
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    Green Bay is the Blazers equivalent in the NFL....if I liked football, that'd be my team...used to be long ago
     
    riverman, Jul 14, 2017
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Tons of annoying Packer fans and Steeler fans too.
     
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    I said it once and Ill say it again.

    Not happening.

    Not enough local corporate sponsorship to fund a stadium and we as citizens will never vote for a tax to fund it. We are smart enough to look at Florida and Texas and the stadiums they are building and how screwed the people are getting over it. We will never vote to pay for it ourselves and there are too many other options for big businesses to go where a city WILL fund a stadium so rich business folk don't have to.

    Not sure why this is such a big discussion. Maybe 15-20 years from now as long as everything maintains growth, but not anytime soon.
    End thread.
     
    Orion Bailey, Jul 15, 2017
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    Haha. They both suck equally lol.
     
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    Except MFs take less money to go there in FA... :blink:
     
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    :smiley-piss:

    Well piss in everyone's oatmeal then...

    :smiley-tongue:
     
    dviss1, Jul 15, 2017
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  20. santeesioux

    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

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    Y'all need to let the Indians pay for the stadiums and have a casino near by. Having a casino near by doesn't make it a lawless hellhole, believe me.
     
    santeesioux, Jul 15, 2017
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