This is dumb.
I thought they were renaming them as the Las Vegas Hooker Pounders?
... someone has that trademarked already, allegedly.
Good for him!
I'm unsure. Let me check Google.
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31-1 vote in favor of the move.
Oakland is a shithole but I do feel sorry for Raiders fans. The No Fun League eats its young, but MLB and the NFL have been trying to get Oakland to build baseball and football stadiums for years. The A's are the only team playing in a multi-use stadium, and they have to disguise the upper deck because it's empty even during playoff games. The A's may be next.
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March 27th, 2017 at 11:37 PM ^
The winner of this is UNLV football, which basically gets a free state of the art stadium after playing in the craphole that is Sam Boyd. Also, congratulations to the dirtbags of the world who already make UFC weekend traffic the worst and who will now have another 10 weekends a year to make their presence felt.
Also winners, lovers of sitting in traffic heading back to LA on Sundays, which will now last all day, as opposed to just mornings and midday.
Two years ago I drove back to LA from Vegas the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
#neverforget
I suggest a side trip to the Mojave National Preserve for anyone in this situation. Cima Dome is particularly convenient to the highway and has better Joshua Tree groves than the National Park further south.
So, is a Las Vegan someone who lives there but doesn't gamble?
lives there but avoids the buffets
A true Las Vegan avoids the strip entirely.
maybe once, perhaps twice, of our own volition since we moved here.
If you want to avoid gambling here, you have to resist the video poker and slots at gas stations and literally every grocery store I've been to, aside from Costco.
You might as well avoid the airport, too.
The winner of this is UNLV football, which basically gets a free state of the art stadium after playing in the craphole that is Sam BoydEh, 10 years from now they'll be demanding an on-campus stadium. Shared stadium arrangements never work out well for the college team.
UNLV will gladly stay in that stadium just to make ends meet.
Look at Pitt - which is a big school with a fairly big fanbase - their football game atmosphere at Three Rivers / Heinz is bad. UNLV will be playing in a big, new NFL stadium...in front of 5,000 people. Yuck
2024 news headlines: Las Vegas Raiders contemplating move to St. Louis.
I just don't understand how anyone could think that Vegas is going to support two major sports franchises showing up at once, or even at all.
but that Vegas NHL franchise will be in Canada or Seattle before long (if Pheonix doesn't beat them there)
The leagues seem convinced that the visiting team fans/anyone just generally visiting will make up for any shortcoming in the Vegas market. I think there will certainly be some of this, but probably not enough to make a huge difference. Especially for midweek hockey games.
the stadium. If your planning on going to see your team play a road game, and Las Vegas is on the schedule. I dont know about you but its a no brainer where im planning to go.
They may see a bump in comparison to standard 'away' attendance at non-destination cities, but we're talking about a piece of a piece of a piece of the pie... Opposing fans willing to travel > Opposing fans with the means to travel > Opposing fans with enough desire to choose Vegas because it's Vegas.
Not sure that's going to help them more than in the hundreds of tickets on a given night. Maybe pro sports fans travel better than I think, but I can't see this making any kind of significant impact.
You think it'll take that long?
Had to know the NFL was not going to let Las Vegas sit entirely in the hands of the NHL.
The same folks who make the trek from LA/SoCal to Oakland for games, and there are many, can do the same to Vegas
I'm not a huge fan of Vegas, but a Lions game would entice me to make the 3-hour drive.
Lions are schedule to play at Raiders under the NFL's current scheduling formula
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You can drive from Wichita to Vegas in three hours? Might want to watch your speed...
This has to be their projection right? That Vegas gets so many visitors, that there'll be a bigger than average number of opposing fans seeing it as an away-game worth travelling to. It could work, but I think (and really hope) it Fails and the whole leveraging cities to give money to billionaires thing dies
understanding the NFL.
Lions ownership
In response to the OP, I wouldn't worry about losing a team to Vegas. I've never seen cities get more teams than LA and Oakland. In a year or two, you will have a new team. Of course, they'll move to San Diego, but they'll be back.