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Jerry Jones talks on Raiders meeting with San Antonio

It didn't take long for Jerry Jones to weigh in on the meeting between Raiders owner Mark Davis and the city of San Antonio.

"I thought it was somebody joking with me when they came out here about (the Raiders) going to San Antonio," the Cowboys owner told reporters on Tuesday. "So I don't have any comment, other than how valued I feel, and the Cowboys feel about our fans in San Antonio."

The Cowboys owner called San Antonio "a great city and a great sports town," saying that he's never given a thought to Texas housing three NFL teams. Neither has the NFL, with spokesman Greg Aiello telling the San Antonio Express-News on Tuesday that the league has "received no applications from any of our teams to relocate at this point, so there is nothing for us to respond to."

"I am very pleased that we have the fan base that we have down there and the percentage of fans we have (in San Antonio)," Jones said. "I think it is 97, 98, 99 percent Cowboys fans in the area. But it doesn't surprise me at all. I know that there were those kind of rumors regarding the Saints."

NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport was told by a league source on Tuesday that the presence of the Cowboys and Houston Texans form a weighty obstacle to any franchise dreaming of relocating to the Lone Star State.

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