Raiders to Las Vegas, Colts to ???

[TheBoris]

You need to understand the money that is driving these moves. Forbes ranks the value of each NFL team every year. By moving to LA, in one year the Rams went from # 28 with a value of $1.45B to # 6 with a value of $2.9B. The 49ers made a similar leap the previous year going from Candlestick to Levi's Stadium, a move of only 30 miles.

During that same year, the Colts dropped from # 14 ($1.88B) to # 18 ($2.2B). They will continue to drop every year as the Chargers will certainly leapfrog Indy this year.

https://www.forbes.com/nfl-valuations/list/#tab:overall

https://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlm45fljdi/nfl-team-values-2015/#22d179a878b7

 

[nat100]

You need to understand the money that is driving these moves. Forbes ranks the value of each NFL team every year. By moving to LA, in one year the Rams went from # 28 with a value of $1.45B to # 6 with a value of $2.9B. The 49ers made a similar leap the previous year going from Candlestick to Levi's Stadium, a move of only 30 miles.

During that same year, the Colts dropped from # 14 ($1.88B) to # 18 ($2.2B). They will continue to drop every year as the Chargers will certainly leapfrog Indy this year.

https://www.forbes.com/nfl-valuations/list/#tab:overall

https://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlm45fljdi/nfl-team-values-2015/#22d179a878b7

Owners won't vote for another move unless there is more tv money in it. You won't see another for a while

 

[TC4THREE]

I'll bet we see more NFL teams moving between now and 2025. We've seen three teams move in three years and as the cycle continues, one day Indy will be near the bottom of the totem pole again.

So you don't think the Colts are leaving anytime soon. Glad to clear that up.

 

[TheBoris]

So you don't think the Colts are leaving anytime soon. Glad to clear that up.

I didn't say they would. I cited Gregg Doyel's column, then Hunter added another provocative article about how these moves are being funded.

The same bad Rams team went from # 28 in team revenue to # 6 in one year by leaving their old stadium and moving to a brand new one. I'm not sure that internet forum regulars appreciate that but I bet that NFL owners do.

 

[TC4THREE]

I didn't say they would. I cited Gregg Doyel's column, then Hunter added another provocative article about how these moves are being funded.

The same bad Rams team went from # 28 in team revenue to # 6 in one year by leaving their old stadium and moving to a brand new one. I'm not sure that internet forum regulars appreciate that but I bet that NFL owners do.

This will go down as one of the most worthless posts I have seen on this board. It's like you want people to acknowledge that the Colts leaving Indy is possible but you yourself acknowledge you don't think it will happen. All on a Purdue message board.

 

[TheBoris]

This will go down as one of the most worthless posts I have seen on this board. It's like you want people to acknowledge that the Colts leaving Indy is possible but you yourself acknowledge you don't think it will happen. All on a Purdue message board.

No, that is your distortion of my post. I didn't say that at all.

As the Colts drop further and further to the bottom of the NFL value ranking, the liklihood of them leaving will increase. Once they drop down to the 28-32 range, my hunch is that they're gone.

When will that happen? I don't know. Might be five years, might be twenty.

 

[TC4THREE]

No, that is your distortion of my post. I didn't say that at all.

As the Colts drop further and further to the bottom of the NFL value ranking, the liklihood of them leaving will increase. Once they drop down to the 28-32 range, my hunch is that they're gone.

When will that happen? I don't know. Might be five years, might be twenty.

Maybe the NFL folds in ten years. Maybe the Colts move to Neptune. Your hunch about the Colts is fascinating. Thanks for sharing on the Purdue message board.

 

[TheBoris]

Maybe the NFL folds in ten years. Maybe the Colts move to Neptune. Your hunch about the Colts is fascinating. Thanks for sharing on the Purdue message board.

How childish. Grow up.

 

[32zone]

No, that is your distortion of my post. I didn't say that at all.

As the Colts drop further and further to the bottom of the NFL value ranking, the liklihood of them leaving will increase. Once they drop down to the 28-32 range, my hunch is that they're gone.

When will that happen? I don't know. Might be five years, might be twenty.

Thanks for letting everyone know that the Colts MIGHT be moving in 20 years.

 

[TC4THREE]

How childish. Grow up.

Sorry to call this thread what it really is. I guess I wouldn't like that either if I were you.

BTW be careful today! The world MIGHT end!!

 

[mreman1220]

And I flat guarantee that you do not know what drunken druggie Jim Irsay would do if he was guaranteed $1 billion to move the Colts to London.

Haha. No one in London is paying a billion dollars to move a football team there. Even if there was the NFLpa would throw a fit and that team would be terrible every year. They wouldn't get free agents and would lose constantly because of jet lag.

 

[mreman1220]

I'll bet we see more NFL teams moving between now and 2025. We've seen three teams move in three years and as the cycle continues, one day Indy will be near the bottom of the totem pole again.

Jaguars or Bills would move long before the Colts. This article is just an NFL offseason article between free agency and the draft. Indianapolis is a large market with just 2 teams. There are wait lists for season tickets for which I don't believe there are for most teams. Colts aren't going anywhere.

 

[TheBoris]

Jaguars or Bills would move long before the Colts. This article is just an NFL offseason article between free agency and the draft. Indianapolis is a large market with just 2 teams. There are wait lists for season tickets for which I don't believe there are for most teams. Colts aren't going anywhere.

Read Hunter's article above. The Rams are making more in LA than they did in St. Louis EVEN IF THEY SELL ZERO TICKETS ALL YEAR. I'm not trying to be insulting but you do not understand what is causing these team moves. It isn't season ticket sales.

 

[nat100]

Read Hunter's article above. The Rams are making more in LA than they did in St. Louis EVEN IF THEY SELL ZERO TICKETS ALL YEAR. I'm not trying to be insulting but you do not understand what is causing these team moves. It isn't season ticket sales.

Your assumption is that any market could digest a $1B in license fees. i dont agree with that. Maybe the top 10 markets in the US can do that. After that, nope.

 

[mreman1220]

Read Hunter's article above. The Rams are making more in LA than they did in St. Louis EVEN IF THEY SELL ZERO TICKETS ALL YEAR. I'm not trying to be insulting but you do not understand what is causing these team moves. It isn't season ticket sales.

LA can pull that off. San Antonio, Memphis, etc would not. San Diego and St. Louis maybe would if they already had stadiums that met expectations. It isn't happening.

 

[mreman1220]

Your assumption is that any market could digest a $1B in license fees. i dont agree with that. Maybe the top 10 markets in the US can do that. After that, nope.

Nat made my point a little more elegantly.

 

[TheBoris]

Your assumption is that any market could digest a $1B in license fees. i dont agree with that. Maybe the top 10 markets in the US can do that. After that, nope.

So we agree that the top ten markets in the US could do it plus Toronto, London and Mexico City. You guys know that the city of LV just shelled out $0.75B for the Raiders, right? And they don't have a stadium yet.

 

[mreman1220]

So we agree that the top ten markets in the US could do it plus Toronto, London and Mexico City. You guys know that the city of LV just shelled out $0.75B for the Raiders, right? And they don't have a stadium yet.

London and Mexico City aren't happening. Neither of those cities care enough about football to make it more than a 2 or 3 game spectacle. Again, the NFLpa would throw a shit fit over either of those cities. Toronto has enough money but with Leafs, Blue Jays and Raptors already in town and many people who are already Bills fans a Colts move isn't happening.

 

[TC4THREE]

Why is everyone still discussing it with this guy? He's already admitted he doesn't believe the Colts are going anywhere.

 

[nat100]

So we agree that the top ten markets in the US could do it plus Toronto, London and Mexico City. You guys know that the city of LV just shelled out $0.75B for the Raiders, right? And they don't have a stadium yet.

First point

1) Toronto is viable, but would an NFL team work up there. lol at Mexican city. London, travel costs would get in the way

2) Las Vegas is irrelevant to the license point. Las Vegas paid 750mm, but what was the license money? Two different numbers

 

[HUNTER46120]

London and Mexico City aren't happening. Neither of those cities care enough about football to make it more than a 2 or 3 game spectacle. Again, the NFLpa would throw a shit fit over either of those cities. Toronto has enough money but with Leafs, Blue Jays and Raptors already in town and many people who are already Bills fans a Colts move isn't happening.[/Q

Toronto also has the Argonauts of the CFL.
I shared the link because I thought it was interesting and went along with Boris point. I don't see anything pointing to the Colts moving but not impossible but as TC pointed out a lot of things are "possible".