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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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04-26-2016, 02:51 PM | #91 |
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Sports should embrace gambling IMO. Pro sports anyway.
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04-26-2016, 03:02 PM | #92 |
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It has since the beginning of time. They just won't say so.
The point spread is on every site and article. The word favorite or favored is in every article. It's why what you consider trash games on Thursdays still thrive..bbecause people gambling want to see a particular spread happen even if it's obvious who's winning . Even the team everyone said would lose still scores twice in the last 5 minutes to at least cover..oor at least tease the possibility to civer |
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04-26-2016, 05:35 PM | #93 |
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Seems like a natural fit for the Raiders. Sin City
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04-26-2016, 05:40 PM | #94 |
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04-26-2016, 05:50 PM | #95 |
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They need to do something. That stadium is a glorified toilet.
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04-26-2016, 06:02 PM | #96 |
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Annual cp get together in vegas every year for the chiefs game?
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04-26-2016, 07:19 PM | #97 |
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if I go to Vegas, it sure as shit isn't going to be to watch the Chiefs drop a winnable game during a hopeful playoff run.
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04-26-2016, 09:56 PM | #98 |
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Not really. That's probably the only place that could distract me from yet another playoff loss...
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04-27-2016, 06:36 AM | #100 |
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Hell yeah, I'd go to Vegas for a Chiefs game.
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04-27-2016, 06:44 AM | #101 |
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04-27-2016, 06:47 AM | #102 |
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04-27-2016, 07:23 AM | #103 |
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I've been to Denver, San Diego and Chicago for Chiefs games. We lost every time.
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On the plus side I'd go to a Raider game in LV - I have no desire to see one in Oakland/LA...
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winning games? or filling seats? or making cash money? who is in control and what are the goals? |
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