‘We’ve known for a while now, of course, that this is a game of who blinks first and we, the taxpayer, seem to have an irreversible tic. NFL owners had forever used the allure of Los Angeles to threaten cities to pony up for new space station-looking arenas before eventually gutting the Chargers and Rams franchises, leaving them in an expensive, empty auditorium to play in front of their nascent fanbases. London, for a brief second, was another way of headlocking certain host cities into squeezing their taxpayers before we all collectively laughed and dared the league to put a team five hours ahead of eastern standard time. San Antonio remains on the short list of extortion tools ownership is eager to use.’