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Las Vegas Raiders?
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14...ng-leaked-memo
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- While a leaked memo from UNLV president Len Jessup said representatives of the Oakland Raiders will be in Las Vegas on Friday to check out potential stadium sites, team owner Mark Davis would offer only a cryptic comment. "In typical Raider fashion," Davis said with a laugh over the phone from the Bay Area, "I can neither confirm nor deny." Davis will be in Las Vegas and is scheduled to meet with Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson, Sands spokesman Ron Reese confirmed. The Sands Corp. announced Thursday that it was lending its support to build a $1 billion domed stadium on a vacant 42 acres of land recently purchased by UNLV near the corner of Tropicana Avenue and Koval Lane across from McCarran International Airport. "Correspondingly, the Sands leadership team let us know that officials from the Oakland Raiders are scheduled to travel to Las Vegas and tour locations around the valley for a potential new home, and they have asked us to meet them at our 42-acre site on Friday morning to answer questions about that site," Jessup wrote in the memo, which was reported earlier by Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston. UNLV is looking for a new home for its football program, which has played at 35,500-seat Sam Boyd Stadium some nine miles from campus on the eastern edge of the city since 1971. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Los Angeles-based Majestic Realty Co. and UNLV are involved in the conceptual plans, and Las Vegas Sands senior vice president of government relations and community development Andy Abboud said the project would be a "public-private" partnership, with the Sands or the Adelson family contributing a large portion of the financing. "He said the casino company, which operates the Venetian and Palazzo [casinos], as well as casinos in Macau, Singapore and Pennsylvania, could also raise financing for the project," the Review-Journal reported. Tony Sanchez, UNLV's head football coach, said "having an on-campus, state-of-the-art stadium would be huge." "We have a nice stadium now; the location is just a little further out," said Sanchez, who grew up a die-hard Raiders fan in the Bay Area. "To have something on campus, right in the heart of Las Vegas, would change the entire game-day atmosphere. We're right near the Strip. People can walk or take public transportation. It would be a great addition for the city." Davis has long stated that remaining in Oakland is his primary goal, but after being rebuffed in an attempt to move to Los Angeles and join the Chargers in a joint-stadium project in nearby Carson, the Raiders do not have a lease for a home stadium for the 2016 season. They do have the option to join the Rams in Inglewood should the Chargers decline. It is expected that the Raiders will play at least the 2016 season in Oakland. They have also been linked to San Diego, should the Chargers go to Los Angeles, for the following years as well as to San Antonio. The NFL has had a hard line against Las Vegas, and it is hard to see the league signing off on allowing a team to relocate to the gambling capital of the country. The NFL did not respond immediately to a request for comment. Las Vegas has chased a major league franchise for almost two decades, including MLB and NBA teams. The city appears close to getting an NHL team in under-construction T-Mobile Arena between the New York-New York and Monte Carlo casinos. And while Las Vegas may be a relatively small media market at No. 41 nationally, it is bigger than four other current NFL markets in Jacksonville (No. 48), New Orleans (No. 51), Buffalo (No. 52) and Green Bay (No. 68), per last year's Nielsen data. |
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10-12-2016, 08:04 PM | #196 |
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I'm against it. Vegas Raiders sounds like an arena football team. If I had the power and the Raiders had to go to Vegas, I'd retire the name, logo and black and silver and close the book. Put the real Raiders in the history books. Whatever team arrives in Vegas, let them start brand new. Every nation has a capital. The capital of Raider Nation is Oakland. Oakland was the life blood of the old badass Raiders. If they go to Vegas, just retire the name. It's over. The fans in Vegas will be transient. Roughly half will be for the Raiders and the other half will be whatever team is visiting in town. If the Raiders really leave Oakland, I bid Bowl Cut Tommy Boy Mark Davis a proud middle finger salute and he can kiss my ass.
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10-12-2016, 08:07 PM | #197 |
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Cheap flight to watch the Chiefs once a year and party for a weekend, I love it. Half the stadium will be opposing fans for that reason.
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10-13-2016, 03:53 AM | #198 |
EvOlVeD
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10-13-2016, 05:11 AM | #199 |
Politically Incorrect
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I bet that during every Raiders home games in Vegas, crime spikes that weekend!
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10-13-2016, 07:55 AM | #201 |
Consuming CP souls
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This is the only reason they are 4-1...sad
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10-13-2016, 08:01 AM | #202 |
a haw haw haw
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Having been to Vegas on numerous occasions during the NFL season the amount of Raider fans is already sick.I even had the pleasure(total sarcasm) one Monday night to encounter a group of real deal Raider fans and promptly and exited to another sportsbook,those are some scary ****ers.
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10-13-2016, 09:09 AM | #203 |
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I'm going to be living in the middle of raider nation now, FML.
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10-13-2016, 09:59 AM | #204 |
I'm with the banned.
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10-13-2016, 11:39 AM | #205 |
Consuming CP souls
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You are being built up early to be fed to them, so might want to lay off the PA
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10-13-2016, 12:10 PM | #206 |
Rock Chalk Jayhawks! KU!!!
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I hope they do move. I'm in Vegas a ton and would love to catch a chiefs game out there.
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10-14-2016, 05:03 AM | #208 |
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10-14-2016, 06:08 AM | #209 |
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10-14-2016, 02:44 PM | #210 |
Molôn Labé
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The Oakland Raiders have released the following statement.
"I would like to thank Governor Sandoval, the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee, and the members of the Nevada Legislature on this historic day, " said Raiders owner Mark Davis. "All parties have worked extremely hard to develop and approve this tremendous stadium project that will serve as a proud new home for the entire Raider Nation." http://www.raiders.com/news/article-...e?sf38907337=1 |
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