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Originally Posted by TheGeographer
An NFL home game in Utah could look a lot like a home game for the LA chargers, with lots of away fans.
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Yeah I don't buy this. People would come out of the woodwork for a new MLB or NFL team. The hype would be unbelievable and fan support would be strong, at least until they started losing consistently. I don't think there's any question as to whether SLC could support more pro teams. Utah people love sports (football especially) and there are droves of us just waiting to declare allegiance to a local pro team. I think this is part of what drives the energy of the Utah-BYU rivalry: there's no local NFL team to supersede CFB in importance.
Whether or not it will actually happen, with competition from other cities and other factors, is much less certain.
I, for one, will be livid if a pro team is given whatever they want by the state so that they can build a stadium out in the PoM suburbia. The good news is that the longer it takes for a pro team to decide to come to SLC, the less likely the PoM site becomes. It'll be built-out in 10 years.