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Old 01-28-2016, 09:34 PM  
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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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Old 04-28-2016, 11:48 AM   #121
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Mark Davis is probably getting comped on this trip to Las Vegas, because he’s willing to drop half a billion dollars there.

Via Scott Bair of CSNBayArea.com, the Raiders owner told the Southern Nevada Tourism and Infrastructure Committee meeting that he was ready to commit $500 million toward a stadium there to bring his team to the desert.

Davis also brought some rhetoric with him, saying Las Vegas: “would not just be getting a football team, they would be getting everyone who has worn the silver and black for the last 56 years.”

Of course, shaking the tree and waiting for the money to fall out isn’t the only problem for Davis, who would still need to convince 23 of his fellow owners to approve a move. But the reaction to Las Vegas has been more positive (or at least less negative) than it has been in the past.
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Old 04-28-2016, 12:11 PM   #122
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This has to happen.

Oakland fans cry.

And geographically, it would be great for the NFL.
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Old 04-28-2016, 12:17 PM   #123
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This has to happen.

Oakland fans cry.

And geographically, it would be great for the NFL.
I don't think that "Oakland" fans give a shit.

Raiders fans won't give a shit either, outside of the few that live in Bay area.

There are more Raiders fans in SoCal than NorCal.
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Old 04-28-2016, 12:17 PM   #124
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Mark Davis is probably getting comped on this trip to Las Vegas, because he’s willing to drop half a billion dollars there.

Via Scott Bair of CSNBayArea.com, the Raiders owner told the Southern Nevada Tourism and Infrastructure Committee meeting that he was ready to commit $500 million toward a stadium there to bring his team to the desert.

Davis also brought some rhetoric with him, saying Las Vegas: “would not just be getting a football team, they would be getting everyone who has worn the silver and black for the last 56 years.”

Of course, shaking the tree and waiting for the money to fall out isn’t the only problem for Davis, who would still need to convince 23 of his fellow owners to approve a move. But the reaction to Las Vegas has been more positive (or at least less negative) than it has been in the past.
So Davis has no problem chipping in $500 mil for Vegas but won't do the same for Oakland.

Looks like someone wants out of Oakland.
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Old 04-28-2016, 12:19 PM   #125
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I don't think that "Oakland" fans give a shit.

Raiders fans won't give a shit either, outside of the few that live in Bay area.

There are more Raiders fans in SoCal than NorCal.
The Bay Area Raiders fans will go back to being 49ers fans in no time.
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Old 04-28-2016, 12:20 PM   #126
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The Bay Area Raiders fans will go back to being 49ers fans in no time.
Yep.

It's hilarious to me that Golden State is moving out of Oakland and to SF, too.

Oakland's a dump.
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Old 04-28-2016, 12:25 PM   #127
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Old 04-28-2016, 12:31 PM   #128
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Yep.

It's hilarious to me that Golden State is moving out of Oakland and to SF, too.

Oakland's a dump.
This place is the ****ing worst.

49ers go the Superbowl? Let's all buy brand new 49ers shit.

Giants win the WS? Look....we're all Giants fans!

Warriors are good again? Look at all of this "The City" shit I have!

The Bay Area might as well be coined "The Bandwagon Fan Capitol of the World".
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Old 04-28-2016, 12:33 PM   #129
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This place is the ****ing worst.

49ers go the Superbowl? Let's all buy brand new 49ers shit.

Giants win the WS? Look....we're all Giants fans!

Warriors are good again? Look at all of this "The City" shit I have!

The Bay Area might as well be coined "The Bandwagon Fan Capitol of the World".
I know several guys like that from the Bay area.

When the A's were good, they're HUGE Oakland fans. When the Giants go the WS and A's suck, they're all Giants fans.

It's hilarious and sad at the same time, just like that ****ing bozo, Sandy Cheeks.
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Old 04-28-2016, 12:49 PM   #130
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What initially seemed like a longshot is getting closer to reality. As a Chiefs fan living in Vegas, I'd totally have season tickets just to see pro ball 8 games a year. We've had every shade of semi-pro football team here: CFL, XFL, UFL, Arena, and all have had good support from the locals. The stadium mock-up looks sweet too.
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Tropicana and Koval is the location. That's kind of a dump area but will get cleaned up in a second (goodbye, Hooters, hello much-needed Luxor upgrade). The access to the airport is ideal.
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Old 04-28-2016, 01:44 PM   #132
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I'd rather Vegas have an NBA, NHL, MLB team before an NFL team. In that order. But I guess anything is better than none.
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Old 04-28-2016, 01:46 PM   #133
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Tropicana and Koval is the location. That's kind of a dump area but will get cleaned up in a second (goodbye, Hooters, hello much-needed Luxor upgrade). The access to the airport is ideal.
Nooo they gonna knock down my Motel 6 lol
Its right at the corner of Trop and Koval

That is where I stay when I go on long trips to LV without friends. Super duper cheap and clean. No resort scam (fee). Easy in and out with rental car.
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Old 04-28-2016, 03:11 PM   #134
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I have found, not kidding, two syringes on separate occasions in that Motel 6 parking lot.
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I have found, not kidding, two syringes on separate occasions in that Motel 6 parking lot.
Not surprised.

BeauWillie would stay in a 1920's flophouse if the price was right.
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