Re: NFL in OKC
OKC is already at 1.3 million at 2012. I'd project OKC to range 1.45 to 2.0 million between 2015-2020.
That said, while I know OKC could support the NFL today (particularly if Clay Bennett bought a team and that games would assuredly mostly be on Sundays/Mondays/Thursdays when OU does not have home games on Saturday); I want us to wait until 2020 to grow into the city we're building and THEN go after our second team (maybe third also with MLS). Again, we want it to be successful and NFL tends to be a different animal than the NBA.
Surely OKC is in a football state and surely if OKC didn't have the NBA then the city definitely could support NFL along with OU/OSU, but having the NBA means we need to properly nourish it then add another team after we've grown some more. Portland is at the point I'm talking about (2M metro) but I think OKC would be far more attractive when WE get there since we're in a football state (whereas OR really isn't despite the recent success of UofO).
As for the stadium, one does not need to build a HUGE stadium for the NFL like you do for college football. We could go for 55K-65K seats (something akin to Seattle's C-Link). I too am not sold on the retractable roof/domed idea; again - OKC is in football country. 2020 will be telling and if we make the projections everyone hopes for (and it appears that way) then I'd say OKC could begin planning for a NFL team with (say) MAPS 5.
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
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