Las Vegas Raiders?

[ChiefsCountry]

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.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

In a word, yes.

Yep, there's definitely enough trash to keep the tradition alive.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

All the drunks should be able to recreate the piss smell of the Colosseum, so those in the black butthole will feel at home.

[Kiimo]

Vegas might have as much righteous trash as Florida. I think you'd have to go someplace like Gary, IN to find worse.

[R8RFAN]

[ChiefsCountry]

Steve Wynn says Las Vegas should get ready for Raiders
http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion...-ready-raiders
By Norm Clarke
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Billionaire Steve Wynn quietly has been taking on a power-broker role to help bring the NFL to Las Vegas.

Addressing his involvement for the first time during a red carpet event Friday, Wynn revealed he’s met with Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis and two influential NFL owners, Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys and Stan Kroenke, who recently moved his St. Louis Rams to Los Angeles.

Wynn said Las Vegas has to be ready if the opportunity presents itself.

“If the NFL says, ‘If you want to move to Las Vegas, Raiders, you can,’ then we’ve got to spring into action and we’ve got to come up with a program.

“I just thought it would be a great thing for the town, don’t you agree?”

Word of Wynn’s interest recently surfaced. At a Thursday news conference at UNLV, Davis confirmed he met with Wynn. Rob Goldstein, president and chief operating officer of Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corp., credited Wynn with initiating the domed stadium conversation in a meeting with Adelson and Goldstein about three or four years ago.

“This very idea came out of his mouth,” Goldstein said at the news conference after he and Davis appeared before the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee.

Las Vegas Sands operates Adelson’s empire of hotel-casinos. Sands is a partner with Ed Roski’s Majestic Reality in pledging private financing for a proposed $1.4 billion domed stadium in the Strip resort corridor.

Davis on Thursday told the SNTIC, an advisory panel appointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval, that he would provide $500 million toward the construction of the 65,000-seat stadium if a public-private financing plan is approved by the Legislature.

I asked Wynn if he was partnering with Adelson.

“Well,” said Wynn, “Sheldon and I are both very strong supporters of it, and how it plays out is something we’ve got to see.

“We haven’t been down to the nitty gritty of it because, first of all, do the owners believe this is OK?” he added. “Their attitude toward the relationship with sports and gaming has changed. They’re having two games in London, where the entire audience can bet play by play, and the NFL is going to London and the audience is participating in that.

“So there’s been a sea change in the NFL’s attitude, at least based upon the London games,” Wynn continued. “It’s not hypocritical. I think they’re in a state of change. How that plays out with us is interesting.”

Wynn emphasized that “the one thing that Las Vegas should have in its arsenal that’s missing is a great stadium and an NFL team,” he said.

Davis “is dying to do it. He came to see me and Sheldon (Adelson). He made the rounds. He wanted to make sure there was local support.”

“Now financing these puppies is no small thing. How that plays out. … I went to dinner last week with Jerry Jones and Stan Kroenke and got into the conversation how Jerry did Cowboys [AT&T] Stadium.

“It’s a lamination of several different types of layers of financing,” Wynn said, “and we’re going to have to focus on that if there’s local support. Let me put it this way: If there’s a will, there’s a way.

“The question is if you can get 24 of 32 owners to agree,” Wynn said of the league support required to relocate an NFL franchise. “So there’s two strategies here: to get the others to think it’s OK, at least 24 out of 32, and secondly develop a strategy for financing,” he said.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Piss, sex, and shame....perfect Raider town

[Psyko Tek]

Originally Posted by eDave

Football can't compete in Vegas, nor survive.

i THINK IT COULD
WOULD BE THE WORSE HOME CROWD EVER
WHO THE HELL WOULDN'T GO TO Vegas TO WATCH THEIR TEAM PLAY
sorry caps lock

and the sky boxes would always be full

[Toby Waller]

Originally Posted by Psyko Tek

i THINK IT COULD
WOULD BE THE WORSE HOME CROWD EVER
WHO THE HELL WOULDN'T GO TO Vegas TO WATCH THEIR TEAM PLAY
sorry caps lock

and the sky boxes would always be full

Don't apologize.
Anyone who stresses,and calls typing in caps yelling is a fool

[Kiimo]

Anything that simultaneously increases my number of games I can watch the Chiefs and decreases the home advantage for a rival is great. I feel like Raiders home games would have like 30% visiting teams.

It beats Oakland, where visiting the stadium is a literal health risk.

[Kerberos]

I'm all for them moving to Vegas....It will be close enough for me to go watch a game when the Chiefs come to Vegas.... It's far enough away from where I live here in the Vegas Valley that I don't have to be around it every day.

[WhawhaWhat]

#BREAKING - Nevada panel approves $750M public funding plan for Las Vegas Raiders stadium. @News3LV pic.twitter.com/uDrQCibewx

— Nathan O'Neal (@NateNews3LV) September 15, 2016

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

#BREAKING - Nevada panel approves $750M public funding plan for Las Vegas Raiders stadium. @News3LV pic.twitter.com/uDrQCibewx

— Nathan O'Neal (@NateNews3LV) September 15, 2016

Here we go!!!

[ChiefsCountry]

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ra...from-approval/

[ChiefsLV]

Originally Posted by Kiimosabi

Vegas might have as much righteous trash as Florida. I think you'd have to go someplace like Gary, IN to find worse.

You'd fit in nicely here.

[Kiimo]

I'm the guy on the front of the Chiefs bandwagon rolling into town.