Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy PolicyClockwise from top-left: Minas Panagiotakis/Getty, Joe Sohm/Visions of America/UIG via Getty, Diego G Diaz/Icon Sportswire via Getty, Tom Walko/Icon Sportswire/Corbis via Getty Plus, adding Tony Romo in the expansion draft would help the new team sell tickets to their opener/Tony Romo’s last NFL game. There’s frozen tundra in abundance. What would it look like if the NFL created a 33rd team and held an expansion draft? Just the As for the name, I propose naming the team after my favorite beer from the city: The San Diego Sculpins. This site is maintained as an online helmet and jersey encyclopedia for research and historical purposes.Please note that I will receive a small affiliate commission for purchases made through any links on this site. In this case, the CFL’s season runs from June through the Grey Cup in late November, so the NFL team would have the stage to itself for the playoff push. We understand the only reason The city showed it would lease the city of the new stadium for $1 per year for 99 years, and that’s good enough for me. I wouldn’t feel right putting an NFL team in Toronto, given the close proximity to Buffalo and the fact that The Alouettes already have a stadium. And while Austin brings the cash and growth, San Antonio and its prominent Spanish-speaking community can serve as a gateway for the league into Mexico.Now we just need a name. The Bills and Jags move to LA and Toronto respectively and to have a little fun lets name our NFL expansion teams: Hawaii Hurricanes, Portland Sharks, San Antonio Outlaws and the Oklahoma City Red Wolves. If the success of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder is any indication, then OKC is the ideal location for the NFL’s next expansion team. John Deere is still headquartered in Moline, and of course, we all know Iowa is mostly rural.If you're thinking this market is too small for a pro team, think again.More than 3 million people live in Iowa, and plenty more in Western Illinois who would also root for the Tractors. That’s right, a little over a decade after both the Raiders and Saints flirted with the area, the San Antonio/Austin metroplex (yup, we’ll steal that from Dallas too) is ripe and ready to be home to an NFL team.Those two cities aren’t seen as a combined market but are just a few Buc-ees Truck Stops away from each other, sitting less than 80 miles apart—the Alamodome is actually 83 miles from Sixth Street in the state’s capital. Fans will wear wind turbines on their heads that can turn on small lights attached to their helmets.Whether due to rabid fan bases, booming economies or global warming, here are eight cities that could be deserving of a new NFL team. Plus, in a few decades Anchorage will have the climate of Miami and become an ideal Super Bowl site. It’s fair to think the number will keep rising, too, considering that Austin is the fastest growing major metro area (up 26 percent since 2010) in America.With that has come a tech boom and economic explosion in the region, smack in the middle of the most football-crazy state in America. The league, which last expanded in 1998, has some tidying up to do, but for Commissioner Rob Manfred, he envisions a team in the Pacific and Eastern time zones. And since it’s so close to Russia, the team will have a scouting advantage on regarding as-yet untapped talent pool. 41 in the U.S., just behind Las Vegas at No. Bonjour, Montreal Rouges. The team will be called the Glaciers, and will play in a stadium called the Ice Dome, which will be designed to combine both the advantages of being indoors and the built-in advantage of cold temperature tolerance that people of the area pride themselves on.Why the Glaciers? No, this stadium does not exist, and no, I have no idea where the funds will come from. Now that I’ve finally finished the meat of the Helmet and Jersey Stop, I’ll be diving more and more into some fun stuff like proposed histories, tales that have long since been lost regarding proposed helmets, jerseys, and uniforms for existing teams, and even a few uniform concepts.The Helmet and Jersey Stop does not own any of the team, league, or event helmets/jerseys/logos depicted within this site, we do not have the power to grant usage rights to anyone. In 1996, as the result of the proposed Browns move to Baltimore, the Ravens were considered an expansion franchise while the Browns were considered to have suspended operations. And thanks to the growth of both areas, the urban sprawl between the two is probably 10-15 years away from melding the two metros, with small cities like San Marcos and New Braunfels (Kliff Kingsbury’s hometown!) When the Panthers were founded on October 26th, 1993, the NFL delayed announcing the 2nd franchise, practically giving leeway to St. Louis to resolve its lease issues.The Stallions failed to resolve in time, so Jacksonville, Florida was awarded a team on November 30th, 1993.Landlord of Foxboro Stadium, Robert Kraft, refused to allow Orthwein out of his lease. I’m also going to talk about the Panthers and Jaguars, whose look bore some differences between what was proposed and what actually took the field in 1995.Baltimore had been without a team since their beloved Before the birth of the Ravens, Baltimore was in the running for an expansion franchise in 1993, the year the teams were to be announced.While initially looking to buy back the name ‘Colts’ from Bob Irsay, the latter held firm so the team settled on Rhinos before fan backlash forced the proposed ownership group to reconsider. The purple and gold-clad Stallions were reportedly a favorite to land a team to the point a fight song and merchandise were made.In fact, of all the proposed teams, information on the Stallions is by far the easiest to find.However, a lease dispute on the new Edward Jones Dome curtailed the Stallions’ chances at receiving a team in 1995.