Not all about population numbers. FL is a college football state first. TB, Jax, and Miami have a hard time drawing fans to the stadium. Same with the CA teams. Getting harder and harder to get the fans to buy tickets. Traffic and the 3-hr time zone difference hurt their efforts. Watching football at 10 am is plain weird. Charger fans have to tune in at 10 am to watch their team play at Buffalo. Who wants to do that? Same with watching MNF at 5:30 after just getting home from work.
I don’t see teams in CA and FL drawing fans to the stadium.
Texas is a football state, period. I should know, I was born there and lived there for 27 years. High school, college or pros, we like our football.
And Texas is in the Central time zone, so the time difference isn't a big deal. With well over a million people in San Antonio, wouldn't take a big percentage of them to fill up a medium sized football stadium. Texas has the Mavericks, Spurs and Rockets, 3 NBA teams and they all do really well.
Texas should have 3 NFL teams for several reasons...