Damn he did didn't he
BREAKING: NFL approves Raiders move to Vegas.
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Hold on...
teams can't stay overnight in hotels attached to casinos...
And NFL officials cannot go into ANY casino.
So ummmm...
good luck with that.
teams can't stay overnight in hotels attached to casinos...
And NFL officials cannot go into ANY casino.
So ummmm...
good luck with that.
I think he would have a problem with his team being called the Las Vegas Raiders, but you're probably right. He'd get over it given the economic perks and advantages
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God question
someone needs to do an investigative piece on the effects of a NFL franchise leaving a city much like a city after the Olympics.
Just based on how much Lebron generated when he returned?
I would say it MUST have an effect
but that is so much different...longer season more uses etc.
But really aside from a BIG concert and luxury seats...
what the F*CK you really need a state of the art stadium for?
Unless you JerryWorld? or in LA Chicago Texas and California?
I really don't think Oakland is gonna be hurting like that...
and you think Oakland had $700 Million just laying around and even if they did?
They giving THAT to the Raiders?
Nevada got one of the worst lowest funded public education systems in the country...
yet they created a tax to get a football team?
that generated $700 Million?
And these white folk STILL mad at Kaepernick?
They a trip I tell you.
yet they created a tax to get a football team?
that generated $700 Million?
And these white folk STILL mad at Kaepernick?
They a trip I tell you.
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Funny how these owners want the government to stay out of sports franchise matters, until it's time to beg for taxpayer funds to build a new stadium.
At least Spanos in SD & Kroenke in STL had the common sense to leave for LA immediatley after dicking us around about the Chargers & Rams.
This shit is crazy...that's 3 teams relocating in 2 years.
And you still have the NFL wanting to create a London team.
And the uncertainly of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Just crazy
This shit is crazy...that's 3 teams relocating in 2 years.
And you still have the NFL wanting to create a London team.
And the uncertainly of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Just crazy
In my view Las Vegas is like Orlando. Orlando is probably about 1 million more people than vegas and i dont think orlando could support a NFL team. If San Diego cant support a NFL why could vegas. Vegas is a much smaller city with a much smaller economic base and lots of low paying jobs.
The las vegas raiders will have low attenance numbers maybe even lower than jacksonville. I just dont see how they will sell enough tickets. Or how will they build a fan base in a town that everyone is from somewhere elese.
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...proves-raiders-move-to-vegas.942909/add-reply
The Raiders are headed to Vegas. NFL owners voted 31-1 in favor of the Oakland Raiders’ proposed relocation to Las Vegas Monday, but the team plans to remain in Oakland multiple seasons while a $1.7 billion dollar stadiumis built.
Colin Cowherd reacted to the news on Monday’s episode of The Herd, and questioned whether locals in Las Vegas will provide the support the team needs.
“Will Las Vegas support it? It’s got a very transient population where a lot of people are working. That’s why I don’t think baseball, NBA, and I question hockey working for anything more than two or three years once the novelty wears off.
At 7:30, a lot of the affluent people that would have season tickets, they’re working. Vegas is a very unique town where people work in weird, odd shifts compared to Milwaukee or Kansas City. And the other thing is people who go to casinos don’t go to watch sports.
‘Well, Colin, hockey’ll work there because there’s a bunch of people from Canada…’ They go to Vegas for the sun, the food, and gambling. Not hockey. They’ve got hockey all day long in Canada.
You can’t build a team based on visitors. The reason the St. Louis Cardinals work in St. Louis is because everybody – their dad, their grandpa – grew up a Cardinal fan. So you have this generational built-in loyalty.
Vegas doesn’t have that, it’s very transient. I think it’s America’s most transient state, Vegas is certainly the most transient city. You’ve got a lot of people who aren’t from there, so why would they root for an NFL team? They’ve already got their NFL team.
And you say ‘well, when Denver comes into town…’
You can’t build a team based on visiting teams. You’ve got to have generational love in these cities. And you’ll find many of the sports teams in America that are really the best fanbases are the least transient populations. Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis Cardinals baseball, Minneapolis, Buffalo. Not a lot of people moving to Minneapolis to retire. That’s when you get good fans.
I’ve always thought, in Vegas, what you should do is build a stadium that is mostly good on television, big enough to host an NFL team. The rest of the year it can host car shows, boat shows, whatever you have to do.
It looks good on television, the optics are good, it’s big enough to make money – but you mostly build it suites like the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Have all the casinos pitch in, put money in, buy their suites, make it look good on TV. Put it on TV a bunch of times, make it a fun, viable nighttime Las Vegas trip, that’s where it works. And then you draw about 15,000 people a Sunday that are visitors from Denver and Philadelphia and New York … but you can’t them to fill up half your stadium.”
The las vegas raiders will have low attenance numbers maybe even lower than jacksonville. I just dont see how they will sell enough tickets. Or how will they build a fan base in a town that everyone is from somewhere elese.
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...proves-raiders-move-to-vegas.942909/add-reply
The Raiders are headed to Vegas. NFL owners voted 31-1 in favor of the Oakland Raiders’ proposed relocation to Las Vegas Monday, but the team plans to remain in Oakland multiple seasons while a $1.7 billion dollar stadiumis built.
Colin Cowherd reacted to the news on Monday’s episode of The Herd, and questioned whether locals in Las Vegas will provide the support the team needs.
“Will Las Vegas support it? It’s got a very transient population where a lot of people are working. That’s why I don’t think baseball, NBA, and I question hockey working for anything more than two or three years once the novelty wears off.
At 7:30, a lot of the affluent people that would have season tickets, they’re working. Vegas is a very unique town where people work in weird, odd shifts compared to Milwaukee or Kansas City. And the other thing is people who go to casinos don’t go to watch sports.
‘Well, Colin, hockey’ll work there because there’s a bunch of people from Canada…’ They go to Vegas for the sun, the food, and gambling. Not hockey. They’ve got hockey all day long in Canada.
You can’t build a team based on visitors. The reason the St. Louis Cardinals work in St. Louis is because everybody – their dad, their grandpa – grew up a Cardinal fan. So you have this generational built-in loyalty.
Vegas doesn’t have that, it’s very transient. I think it’s America’s most transient state, Vegas is certainly the most transient city. You’ve got a lot of people who aren’t from there, so why would they root for an NFL team? They’ve already got their NFL team.
And you say ‘well, when Denver comes into town…’
You can’t build a team based on visiting teams. You’ve got to have generational love in these cities. And you’ll find many of the sports teams in America that are really the best fanbases are the least transient populations. Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis Cardinals baseball, Minneapolis, Buffalo. Not a lot of people moving to Minneapolis to retire. That’s when you get good fans.
I’ve always thought, in Vegas, what you should do is build a stadium that is mostly good on television, big enough to host an NFL team. The rest of the year it can host car shows, boat shows, whatever you have to do.
It looks good on television, the optics are good, it’s big enough to make money – but you mostly build it suites like the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Have all the casinos pitch in, put money in, buy their suites, make it look good on TV. Put it on TV a bunch of times, make it a fun, viable nighttime Las Vegas trip, that’s where it works. And then you draw about 15,000 people a Sunday that are visitors from Denver and Philadelphia and New York … but you can’t them to fill up half your stadium.”
Even with its die hard fan based Oakland Raiders generated the lowest revenue of last season in the league. Makes sense that they left.
Bullshit
I remember the empty feeling I had when the Oilers left Houston.
Gut-wrenching, and it still sucks to think about it today.
I totally understand what the Raider nation is feeling...
Gut-wrenching, and it still sucks to think about it today.
I totally understand what the Raider nation is feeling...
Yep the only benefit that comes to the cities typically are psycological.
Here in detroit they are bragging how for the 1st time in history all four of our professional sports teams are downtown and with in walking distance...
BUTTTT the piston s suck the red wings just missed the playoff's for the 1st time in 25 years, the tigers have sparked ZERO interest in me (and I am a diehard baseball fan) and the lions its just a matter of will they break your heart in september or string you along and blow-it in the end of december.
But to the fan base they can sell the glory of all four teams at home downtown.
They argue over the spin off revenue from bars, restaurants, hotels, etc. it still doesn't add up
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