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| 19th October, 2005 - 11:44 pm |  ESPN - A day after Saints owner Tom Benson announced plans that he is working with San Antonio officials to permanently keep the NFL team in Texas, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin publicly announced his dismay over the intended move.
"We want our Saints, we may not want the owner back," Nagin said while attending the reopening of Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter
"I'm ready to go to the NFL and to [commissioner Paul] Tagliabue and say, 'Give us the Cleveland plan,'" Nagin added, referring to the league awarding Cleveland an expansion team almost immediately after the Browns moved to Baltimore after the 1995 season. "Whatever the Saints want to do, you let them leave, but they can't take our logo, they can't take our name, and you give us a promise to give us a franchise when this city's back." [READ] |
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