Editing Alamodome (section)

===Professional football===

====NFL====
The Alamodome has played host to six [[National Football League]] preseason games. Two each were played in 1993 and 1994, one in 1995, and one in 2001.

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!style="text-align:center;|Date
!style="text-align:center;|Team (Visitor)
!style="text-align:center;|Points
!style="text-align:center;|Team (Home)
!style="text-align:center;|Points
!style="text-align:center;|Spectators
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| August 7, 1993 || [[Houston Oilers]] || 28 ||  [[New Orleans Saints]] || 37 || 40,308
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| August 21, 1993 || [[Dallas Cowboys]] || 20 || Houston Oilers || 23 || 63,285
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| August 6, 1994 || Houston Oilers || 31 || [[San Diego Chargers]] || 3 || 29,815
|-
| August 20, 1994 || [[Buffalo Bills]] || 18 || Houston Oilers || 16 || 40,504
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| August 26, 1995 || Dallas Cowboys || 10 || Houston Oilers || 0 || 52,512
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| August 11, 2001 || [[Minnesota Vikings]] || 28 || New Orleans Saints || 21 || 46,752
|}

In 2005, the NFL announced that the Alamodome would host three of the [[2005 New Orleans Saints season|New Orleans Saints]]' regular season "home" games due to the damage caused to the [[Louisiana Superdome]] by [[Hurricane Katrina]]. The Saints played the [[Buffalo Bills]] (week 4), the [[Atlanta Falcons]] (week 6), and the [[Detroit Lions]] (week 16) at the Alamodome. Although there have been many NFL preseason games held in San Antonio over the years, these games were the first NFL regular season games played in the city. The Saints also played one 2005 season "home" game in [[Giants Stadium]] (against the [[New York Giants]]) in [[East Rutherford, New Jersey]], and four others in [[Louisiana State University|LSU]]'s [[Tiger Stadium (LSU)|Tiger Stadium]] in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]]. Overall, the Saints averaged 62,665 fans in the 64,000-seat Alamodome for the three games held there, a solid showing despite the short notice to sell tickets due to the hurricane. The Saints and the NFL announced that the team would return to Louisiana for the 2006 season even though at the time the NFL was uncertain where they would play their home games.

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!style="text-align:center;{{NFLPrimaryStyle|New Orleans Saints|border=2}};|Team (Visitor)
!style="text-align:center;{{NFLPrimaryStyle|New Orleans Saints|border=2}};|Points
!style="text-align:center;{{NFLPrimaryStyle|New Orleans Saints|border=2}};|Team (Home)
!style="text-align:center;{{NFLPrimaryStyle|New Orleans Saints|border=2}};|Points
!style="text-align:center;{{NFLPrimaryStyle|New Orleans Saints|border=2}};|Spectators
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| October 2, 2005 || [[Buffalo Bills]] || 7 || New Orleans Saints || 19 || 58,688<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180918091614/http://www.espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=251002018 Saints clean up against Bills, 19-7], ''[[The Associated Press]]''.</ref>
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| October 16, 2005 || [[Atlanta Falcons]] || 34 || New Orleans Saints || 31 || 65,562* <ref>[https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=251016018 Haslett steams after Falcons get two shots at FG, victory], Associated Press.</ref>
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| December 24, 2005 || [[Detroit Lions]] || 13 || New Orleans Saints || 12 || 63,747<ref>[https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=251224018 Harrington, Lions edge Saints for first win under Jauron], Associated Press.</ref>
|}

Additionally, former NFL Commissioner [[Paul Tagliabue]] indicated that if the NFL expands again, San Antonio would be on the short list of candidate cities. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has acknowledged his support for the city's efforts to become home to an NFL franchise even though public opinion is that he would never let go of his team's presence in the San Antonio market.<ref>{{cite news|title=Football: Cowboys' Jones Backs S.A. Team |url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/football/nfl/stories/MYSA050506.3D.FBNcowboys.jones.c71335d.html |newspaper=[[San Antonio Express-News]] |date=May 5, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515131311/http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/football/nfl/stories/MYSA050506.3D.FBNcowboys.jones.c71335d.html |archive-date=May 15, 2008 }}</ref>

The Dallas Cowboys held their 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 preseason training camps at the Alamodome.

On July 29, 2014, it was reported by the ''[[San Antonio Express-News]]'' that [[Mark Davis (American football)|Mark Davis]] met with officials from the city of [[San Antonio|San Antonio, Texas]], to discuss the possibility of relocating the Raiders to San Antonio.<ref name="RaidersSAJuly29">{{cite news |title=S.A. May Be Home of Los Raiders|first=Josh|last=Baugh|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Oakland-Raiders-owner-in-talks-with-SA-to-5654812.php|newspaper=[[San Antonio Express-News]]|date=July 29, 2014|access-date=July 30, 2014}}</ref> Davis confirmed that he did speak with San Antonio city officials while visiting San Antonio to honor former Raiders wide receiver [[Cliff Branch]]'s induction into a local Hall of Fame, but did not comment on whether he was considering relocation to San Antonio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Raiders-owner-confirms-talks-with-San-Antonio-5656927.php |title=Raiders owner confirms talks with San Antonio |agency=Associated Press (AP) |date=2014-07-30 |access-date=2014-07-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812061719/http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Raiders-owner-confirms-talks-with-San-Antonio-5656927.php |archive-date=2014-08-12 }}</ref> If the Raiders had relocated to San Antonio, the Alamodome would almost certainly have been used as a temporary home until a new NFL stadium was built.<ref name="RaidersSAJuly29" /> The Raiders decided against moving to San Antonio, first [[Carson Stadium|proposing unsuccessfully to return to its previous home in Los Angeles]], then ultimately receiving permission to [[Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas|relocate to Las Vegas]] in 2020 by constructing [[Allegiant Stadium]].

====CFL====
The Alamodome was also home to the [[San Antonio Texans]] for the [[1995 CFL season]]. The stadium was attractive to the [[Canadian Football League]] (which made [[Canadian Football League in the United States|an ill-fated attempt to expand to the U.S.]] between 1993 and 1995) since it was one of the rare American facilities that could fully accommodate the CFL's larger playing field and, having just recently opened, was one of the most modern facilities in a league where the majority of its teams were playing in decades-old or poorly fit stadiums. Its seating could be retracted to fit the full 65-yard width and 150-yard length of a regulation Canadian football field (which is 34% larger than the American field).

In the first CFL playoff game ever played between two U.S.-based franchises, the Texans defeated the [[Birmingham Barracudas]] 52–9 at the Alamodome on November 5, in front of 13,031 fans. The team then lost to the eventual champion [[Baltimore Stallions]], 21–11, in Baltimore six days later, ending their season. This also proved to be the last game in franchise history; despite respectable attendance (15,573 average for ten home games) and manageable financial losses, widespread dysfunction among most of the rest of new American franchises led to the Texans' demise. (This made the Texans-Stallions game the last significant CFL game to be played in the United States.)

====Arena football====
From 2012 to 2014, the Alamodome was home to the [[San Antonio Talons]] of the [[Arena Football League]]. The Talons, who relocated from [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]], in 2011, won the Central Division title in 2012 with a 14–4 record but were upset in the first round of the playoffs by [[Utah Blaze|Utah]]. The team slipped to 10–8 in 2013, missing the playoffs, then to 3-15 the following year, after which they folded. Attendance at the Dome for the Talons was mediocre at best, averaging 7,209 for 28 home games.

====Alliance of American Football (AAF)====
In 2019, the Alamodome was the home of the [[San Antonio Commanders]] of the [[Alliance of American Football]], with the Commanders playing the AAF's inaugural game on February 9, 2019, against the [[San Diego Fleet]]. The Alamodome hosted each of the fledgling league's four best crowds, averaging 27,391 per contest (more than double that of the league's other seven teams, who averaged 13,524) before the AAF was shuttered in April 2019.

====The Spring League====
In October 2020, [[Fox Sports 1]] reached a multi-year agreement to televise [[The Spring League#2020 fall season|The Spring League]] along with the option to acquire a minority stake in TSL. The initial agreement was to play a mini-season in late October and November 2020. The league began its fall season October 27 with six teams competing in a 12-game format over four weeks in a bubble environment, based out of the Alamodome. After experiencing problem with the [[COVID-19]] virus at the Dome, however, the final week's games were rescheduled for a high school field in San Antonio, then cancelled. The TSL championship game, also originally scheduled to be played at the Alamodome, was held at [[Camping World Stadium]] in [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] on December 15, 2020.

====XFL/UFL====
The [[XFL (2020)|XFL]] announced that the [[San Antonio Brahmas]] would play at the Alamodome for the [[2023 XFL season|2023 season]] on July 28, 2022.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/article/XFL-Hines-Ward-San-Antonio-17333089.php|newspaper=[[San Antonio Express-News|mySanAntonio.com]]|title=New XFL head coach Hines Ward ready to bring a championship to San Antonio|author=Romero, Gabriel|date=July 28, 2022}}</ref> The Brahmas opened the season on February 19, 2023, in an 18–15 loss against the [[St. Louis BattleHawks|St. Louis Battlehawks]] in front of a crowd of 24,245.

The Alamodome hosted the inaugural XFL championship game on May 13, 2023. San Antonio was chosen to host because of its history of large events at the Alamodome.<ref>{{Cite web |title=San Antonio to Host Inaugural XFL Championship Game |url=https://www.xfl.com/xfl-latest-news/san-antonio-to-host-inaugural-xfl-championship-game |access-date=February 19, 2023 |website=www.xfl.com |language=en |publication-date=February 19, 2023}}</ref>