I remember another topic comparing Houston and Dallas and some posters were very informative in their description of the history of the two cities. Now I'm wondering about the third Texas NBA team - Spurs. So what's the deal between Houston and San Antonio (basketball-wise)? And what's the deal between Houston and San Antonio (non-basketball-wise)?
I think it's common knowledge that San Antonio is more of a blue-collar town. That's why it does't really have a rivalry with Houston (as Dallas does), even though it is now the 2nd largest city in Texas, population wise, after Houston of course.
We had a rivalary with them in the 90's and we came out on top. Nothing SA could say to back themselves up. We respect them when they won their titles and they respected us when we won ours. Not really something to argue over. Now Dallas, thats a whole other thread
Did we really respect them with their titles? The team they had certainly earned them, yet they got Duncan under highly suspect circumstances.
Even if they lost on purpose to get more ping pong balls in the lottery, they still have some damn good scouts working for them! ...Ginobili, Parker, etc...
i hate san antonio. worse city in texas, maybe the world. down there with falluja and the capital of sudan. don't forget their strike-shortened "title".... i know i haven't.
San Antonio Basketball: I think they are one of the class organizations in the NBA. But when it mattered most, we put them in their place. David Robinson was a great player, but he was defeated, no, HUMILIATED, by a legend. For the Spurs, it took Duncan + Robinson to win their first title, then it took Duncan + Ginobili + Parker to win another. We respect the fact that they won, but for the amount of talent they had those years, anything OTHER than a title would have been a stunner. They probably hate us more than we hate them, but in the end, we respect each other. San Antonio The City: It's a lovely town, but it seems undersized. Once San Antonio finishes growing (and boy is it growing) it will really be a nice place I think. It's a quaint touristy place with culture, but it's not exactly a place that grabs you as a metropolitan paradise. It's a lot like Houston in terms of the weather and population dispersement/demographics (I think), but it's far less industrial than Houston, but full of that blue collar piss n' vinegar.
I like visiting San Antonio a lot more than visiting Dallas. Plus it's the gateway to the Hill Country which is cool. No problems with San Antonion... I just don't like Dallas much.
I like San Antonio. Except their basketball team and their fans when they're rooting for their team. Other than that, I like it.
lmao if you argue by that logic, what about the circumstances leading up to rockets #1 pick in the 1984 draft?
Hello, how about 2002? We went 3-18 at the end of the season capped off by a 4 game losing streak in which we didn't play ANY starters. We basically tanked to get Yao. I'm not mad at SA. We came out ahead of the tanking game.
There's only one reason I'd go to San Antonio and that's maybe for the food and the cheapness of the food in some places there. There's a reason San Antonio has no rivalry with Houston. Well, ok, maybe more than one. After you say River Walk and Spurs, there really isn't much left to talk about in San Antonio. San Antonio is not a place I'd want to stay permanently, but I don't mind going there every so often. Now watch someone jump all over me for that...
Oh, and most of the basketball rivalry between us and them centers around David Robinson and Hakeem. Sure they had Artis Gilmore, Johnny Moore, George Gervin, etc. But I don't think that ever go to be much of a rivlary simply because when we were doing well in the 80's it was always the Lakers and Celtics and the NBA wasn't the same before 1978/1979 as it was after.
The wife and I plan on going to Fiesta Texas for the hell of it soon. Anyone been there before? The rides on the website look pretty good.
Here is the way I see it....Dallas looks down on us and we sorta look down on San Antonio. When I think of San Antonio, I just think of a bigger version of Pasadena, actually a bigger version of Brownsville or some of those small border towns (yes I've been to SA many times, yawn was my thoughts when there). Basketballwise, I hate Spurs fans just because I think they are bandwagoning gravytrain riders that have no sense of history of their team, they just started coming out of the woodworks when they got Duncan and started becoming a legit championship team (sorry Spurs fans, you were not championship contenders in the D-Rob era, only after you tanked and got Duncan). I LOVED it when Hakeem undressed David Robinson in that legendary WCF and exposed him as the undoubtedly undisputedly inferior player...reminescent of the Jordan/Drexler finals showdown. I am a bit ticked that our scouting department/personnel decision making have sucked for the most part while the Spurs have been good.
I lived in Houston for 19 years and just moved to S.A. about a year and a half ago. Houston - More people, more retail (galleria crap) stores, more NEW construction, more pollution(which blows into San Antonio on hot summer days thanks very much), more freeways, more freeway construction to build even more freeways (WTF?!?!), more idiot speeding drivers, Very flat terrain, strip malls, strip clubs, less visual history (everything is torn down in Houston and made new with particle board), more concerts, more sports (not necessarily World Series, Superbowl, NBA champs nowadays anyhow), medical center (in 19 years living there I'd never been so how would this be a good thing to most people like me anyhow?), way better Vietnamese restaurants, more humidity for sure. oh you got the Menil and the Cy Twombly Gallery which are the baddest ass museums! Houston is simply put, an Urban Sprawl. If thats your thing, go ahead on! San Antonio - Less people, less crowded, less freeways, less trafic, more idiots driving UNDER the speed limit, lots of individually owned businesses not just another strip mall, TONS more historic buildings all over the city and not down just one street called Heights or something, less pollution (unless it blows in from Houston during the summer thanks very much), more hill country, YES, TEXAS HILL COUNTRY, a decent NBA franchise (Hey, Sprus are still playing arent they?!), the BEST Mexican food in Texas (trust me I'm Mexican!), almost ZERO asian food, cheaper real estate, cheaper taxes, lots of Texas history (one of the oldest cities in Texas). We have Fiesta, a week and a half long party of music, drink and food like Mardi Gras which no city in Texas can boast!! The Riverwalk, its simply wonderful it is! I love going to the Esquire and sitting on the balcony overlooking the river drinking me some Lonestars. We have UTSA and a Medical Center as well (tons of Mexican Nationals come here when they dont want to go all the way to Houston) Theres the Mission Trail..the Alamo was only one mission, there are 4 more and they go about 20 miles round trip from downtown on a path sort of like the bayou has, I ride my bike there all the time and it is deserted compared to Memorial park or Herman park which is ALWAYS crowded! The art scene is lively and anything goes. People are so freindly and open to experimentation. The town is mostly Hispanic and Anglo, not many brothas in S.A.-town, its just a different mild mannered feel rather than the Urban Ghetto I see Houston as. IMO I love living in San Antonio!!! Please hate it so you people don't come here and spoil it all for me, no really Houston is much better, really it is! p.s. EVERY city has their gravy trainers. WHAT? You mean there were actually asian people watching basketball before Yao came aboard? Oh really? Cmon now, NBA its FANtastic!
I wish...when was the last time you were in Brownsville, or any small border town version of San Antonio?
