re: Tilman Fertitta ( Houston Rockets) owner wants to buy the Saints

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leagues don’t like potential owners to talk about that

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Maybe, but only thing owners care more about than their club is their money. Fertitta would be great for the bottom line!

A move from the New Orleans market is going to happen.

seems like he'd be a best case owner for us. Deep pockets, regional ties, and seems to be the right level of active owner you want.

I'd be for it but I don't see Gayle selling anytime soon

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If Helen Moreno elected with more woke DEI policies driving business and population out the Saints will be moving. It makes no sense to have a NFL team in market 70 when Toronto, Mexico City, San Antonio, Orlando, Salt Lake City are wanting the NFL.

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Out of all these cities, only Toronto and SLC are viable threats as FL already has 3 teams and owners would block. San Antonio / Austin zero chance as long as Jerry and Stephen Jones own Cowboys.

Toronto is very unlikely to build a $2 Billion Canadian football stadium, which is what would be needed. Canada is such a small market - people overrate it and act like it's a mini America when the entire country is basically Texas.

SLC already has NBA and new MLS and NHL franchises. They'll need a new $1 billion arena and then would have to build a $1.5 billion NFL stadium on top of that. SLC also seems to prefer MLB to NFL.

We're safe unless another hurricane hammers NOLA in a Katrina type fashion

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Even when we were awarded the franchise in 1966 it took Texas money and an owner to close the deal and own the team. If I recall it sold for $8M to Mecom family.

Even though NOLA was a much better city and a top 20 TV market in the late 60s we still couldn’t find a Louisiana owner.

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WRONG.

There were multiple prospective owners back at the time of the franchise being awarded to New Orleans. These included William G. Helis, Jr., Edgar Stern, Jr., and Louis J. Roussel, Jr.

However, Mecom was selected over the others for a couple of reasons:

1. "It is not simply that Mecom is recently arrived in the game. For several years he was spoken of as a potential franchise holder. If the conflict with the AFL had continued and the NFL had ever decided to expand into Houston, Mecom would most likely have been selected as the representative to stand up against Bud Adams and the Oilers. That was when Mecom seemed to be highly favored in Pete Rozelle's court.

In those days Mecom, Bedford Wynne and George Owen were a threesome at NFL gatherings"

---Sports Illustrated, December 9, 1968

2. Dave Dixon had already launched a search for a prospective owner who could come up with more than $4 million necessary to buy at least 51 percent of the team, and it led him to John Mecom Jr., the son of a wealthy Texas oil man.

Dixon and Mecom soon concluded a handshake deal in which Mecom would become the majority owner of the Saints, and Dixon would get a 20 percent interest in the team and become its general manager.

But according to Dave Dixon's son Frank Dixon, when all was said and done, Mecom reneged on the agreement. He allowed Dave Dixon only a five percent interest, and he hired a former NFL front-office employee to manage the team."

-- New Orleans Magazine, Sept. 30 2016

Like the team having the name "Saints", Mecom getting the ownership was a done deal, but not because there was no Louisiana owner available.

I could see a new owner moving the Saints to Paris or Amsterdam to be a travel partner with the London Jaguars.

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A move from the New Orleans market is going to happen

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I have no clue why any of y’all think this will happen. Has zero chance. The nfl loves Nola and saints control three states in their geography. They are in a way better position than a one city team.

Now we do need law and order in Nola, actually a non radical DA

Not gonna happen with the Baptists voting against.