San Antonio Texans The San Antonio Texans were a Canadian Football League ( CFL ) team that played in the Alamodome in San Antonio , Texas , in the 1995 CFL season . They had relocated from Sacramento , California , where the team had been called the Sacramento Gold Miners . After relocating , the team still had the same ownership in Fred Anderson and the same staff , including General Manager Dan Bass and Head Coach Kay Stephenson . The Gold Miners / Texans franchise played three seasons ( five if the Texans ' WLAF incarnation , the Sacramento Surge , is also counted ) before folding in 1995 . Franchise history . In the 1993 season there were supposed to be two U . S . teams in the CFL , the Sacramento Gold Miners and a different San Antonio Texans ; however , the original Texans franchise folded without ever playing when its owner , Larry Benson , ran out of money and was forced to withdraw . The Gold Miners played the 1993 and 1994 seasons in Sacramento . However , their home stadium , Hornet Stadium , was completely inadequate as a professional football venue . Anderson tried to build a new stadium , but when these plans fizzled , he opted to move the team to San Antonio as the Texans . On the field . The Texans were unique in that they were the only one of the CFL USA teams whose stadium , the Alamodome , had a playing surface large enough to accommodate a regulation Canadian football field . In addition to having a playing surface wide enough for the full 65 - yard width of a CFL field , its end zone seating could be retracted to accommodate the full 150 - yard length of a CFL field . In their third season in the CFL and their first as the Texans , the team had the second - highest scoring offence in the league , which was led by veteran quarterback David Archer . The franchise finished the 1995 CFL season with a 12 – 6 record , finishing in second place of the South Division , which sent them to their first playoff berth . In the playoffs , the San Antonio Texans soundly defeated the Birmingham Barracudas , 52 – 9 , in the Southern Semi - Final at the Alamodome . However , their playoff run and the franchise ' s last season would end after falling to the eventual CFL champion Baltimore Stallions in the Southern Final by a score of 21 – 11 . San Antonio ' s two backup quarterbacks had connections to the National Football League s ( NFL ) Buffalo Bills . The first was 45 - year - old former Bills quarterback Joe Ferguson , who had retired five years earlier . The second was Jimmy Kemp , son of Bills quarterback ( and politician ) Jack Kemp . Head coach Kay Stephenson was Jack Kemp ' s backup on the Bills squad in 1968 and served as head coach of the Bills in 1985 ; both stints were very unsuccessful . Off the field . The San Antonio Texans had respectable attendance , with the average being 15 , 855 . In one of their games at the Alamodome , attendance reached 22 , 043 , in a 38 – 32 loss to the Calgary Stampeders . However , at the end of the 1995 season , the CFL decided to fold the Birmingham Barracudas , the Memphis Mad Dogs , and the Shreveport Pirates . A few months later , Art Modell announced he was moving the NFL ' s Cleveland Browns to Baltimore to play as the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL . Stallions owner Jim Speros , knowing his franchise could not hope to directly compete with the NFL , moved the team to Montreal as the third incarnation of the Alouettes . The end . With all this going on , it looked like Fred Anderson ' s franchise would be the only U . S . - based team in the CFL , again . However , Anderson did not want to follow that path and decided to fold the Texans after the 1995 season , which ended the CFL ' s attempt to expand to the United States . Malcolm Frank was the last remaining player from the Texans to play in the Canadian Football League when he was a member of the Edmonton Eskimos in 2006 . He retired after that season .