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Originally Posted by Locke
Tough. Thats the price now.
You want to know why we're not going to see a lot of relocations? Because expansion fees are lucrative.
A team that has yet to make a dollar has to pay 31 other teams $500M and they're not lining up to say 'No.'
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You can only get expansion fees if someone is willing to pay them. If there isn't interest, and the league seriously wants to get into a market, then the other avenue is relocation. That's just the reality. The league likely recognizes that it is a 32 team league - max. They will expand by one more team, but after that, they will play the NFL card and move teams around. There are only a few sacred cows that would be on the "never move" list, but Calgary is not one of those teams. Relocation is a possibility. I wouldn't say a great one, but if the arena deal doesn't go down soon, and ownership continues to see no light at the end of that tunnel, relocation becomes a viable strategy, especially if Houston is available as a target.