Dennis Latta, director of the New Mexico Sports Authority and one of the Authority's two employees, says the Authority was created to pursue Gov. Bill Richardson's vision of major league professional sports coming to New Mexico. By major league it is meant the National Football League, National Basketball League and Major League Baseball. Latta told the Governor's Conference on Tourism yesterday that, "When we got into it, we realized that's not where the future was." For example, bringing an NFL exhibition game—just one game—to the state would have cost $3 million. Another conference participant put the NFL situation this way: New Mexico lacks the financial base, the population and the television market to support the NFL.
Big successes for the Sports Authority, Latta said, have been the New Mexico Bowl, the college bowl game in Albuquerque, and the recent Santa Fe Trail Horse race.
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