The crowd makes history as the largest ever to attend the first home game of an expansion franchise.
The major disagreement is how much an expansion franchise will cost.
New Jersey and 11 cities have applied for an expansion franchise.
They are also the first of the four 1988/89 expansion franchises to win a championship.
As in the sports world itself, expansion franchises rarely win a championship the first time out.
New Orleans has never had a record better than 8-8 since beginning play as an expansion franchise in 1967.
The expansion franchise began play in 2006 and ended when the team was sold at the end of the 2011 season.
But the big prize, the expansion franchise, may now go to Baltimore.
The team began play in 2005-06 as an expansion franchise.
Miller was building his team for the Atoms, which were an expansion franchise that year.
