What does pro football have to do with a commercial spaceport? They’re both examples of bold ventures that New Mexico is pursuing, according to an article in the El Paso Times. Yesterday officials from Texas, New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Chihuahua pitched plans to attract a “binational, tri-state” NFL franchise to the region. Sounds pretty farfetched, given that the NFL doesn’t have a team in the nation’s second largest city, Los Angeles, right? Las Cruces mayor Bill Mattiace doesn’t think so:
“Look at the spaceport. That was a crazy dream,” Mattiace said, talking about the Southwest Regional Spaceport to be built 45 miles northeast of Las Cruces near Upham.
“First rockets, then footballs,” he said.
It says something about the growing acceptance of commercial spaceflight that a spaceport doesn’t seem more fantastic than luring a professional sports franchise.
What does pro football have to do with a commercial spaceport? They’re both examples of bold ventures that New Mexico is pursuing, according to an article in the El Paso Times.
A few weeks ago, I was making wisecracks here about New Mex. getting a package deal for a National Hockey League franchise as well as a spaceport.
Maybe real life imitates my jokes.