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h0llywood

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2 hours ago, h0llywood said:

The stadium will be right across from Mandalay Bay and with the creation of a bridge or tunnel over I-15, it should be no more than a 10 minute walk to the stadium. 

For those that are worried the stadium will be empty, there are over 65,000 rooms in Vegas with majority of mid to high rollers getting comped on entertainment. A vast number of the seats will be bought by the Sands, MGM Resorts, Caesars Properties and Wynn and given out as comps to entice travelers.

The stadium will be full of opposing fans or people that don't give a poo.  It will be like BofA Stadium West.

 

By the way, I was at T-Mobile Arena in Vegas last week during the PAC 12 games.  Vegas can build some damn nice venues out there in no time at all.  The weather allows them to work around the clock.

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8 minutes ago, SCP said:

The stadium will be full of opposing fans or people that don't give a poo.  It will be like BofA Stadium West.

 

By the way, I was at T-Mobile Arena in Vegas last week during the PAC 12 games.  Vegas can build some damn nice venues out there in no time at all.  The weather allows them to work around the clock.

Davis doesn't care as long as the bottom line is met. In Vegas, getting the stadium full 8x a year won't be a hard. 

I'll be staying at Monte Carlo this Friday for one night (comp) then moving over the Wynn/Encore Sat-Mon. I'm dreading it because they are renovating the entire hotel and rebranding it as ParkMGM. Part of all the money spent in revitalizing that southern part of the strip along with AEG in building TMobile Arena. AEG makes great stadiums and agree that the weather allows workers to work during winter but I would hate to be one of them when it is 115 during the summer time.

 

 

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I'm one of the few that remains skeptical about this whole deal. They ding tourists with resort fees and now with parking. Add the additional tax to pay for this deal and the price gouging that will follow for NFL weekends and I fear we'll either make Vegas much less affordable and crash even harder the next recession and/or the cost of living in Vegas will skyrocket without the pay increases to make up the difference.

Bit of a moot point personally since I'm doing everything I can to move out of here.

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Oakland with one last Hail Mary.

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Yep, Oakland is making one last play to keep the Raiders. Whether it’s political cover or a viable Hail Mary pass remains to be seen.

For now, here’s what we know: Via ESPN.com, Oakland and its partners have submitted a “revised” plan to finance a $1.3 billion stadium at the site where the team’s current facility sits.

“At the end of the day this is the decision of the Raiders and the NFL,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf told ESPN. “What I am confident about is, if the Raiders want to stay in Oakland we have a viable plan to build them a stadium with no upfront money from them, in financial terms that I believe are more favorable to them than the terms in Las Vegas — what we know of them.

“And then, of course, we have something that Vegas can never offer, and that’s legacy and loyalty. This team was born in Oakland. This team enjoys some of the most passionate and dedicated fans of any NFL franchise. Those things belong uniquely to Oakland.”

Those things have been a non-issue when it comes to the team’s desire to get a new stadium, which over the past year or so has centered on Las Vegas. The question now becomes whether those qualities will prompt the Raiders to slam the brakes on the momentum building toward Las Vegas and explore an offer that could, in theory, get worse once it accomplishes its objective to pulling the emergency cord in the train car.

According to the last-second offer, the Raiders and the NFL would kick in the same $500 million that they’d contribute in Las Vegas. Fortress Investment Group would loan $650 million to the project, similar to the loan Bank of America would be making to the project in Las Vegas. Also, Oakland would contribute $200 million in infrastructure improvements, with Fortress paying $150 million of that amount up front and making it back later.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/03/24/oakland-touts-last-ditch-effort-as-better-than-vegas-offer/

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Raiders belong in Oakland. This is a short sighted move by the petulant child of a world class piece of poo. 

The luster of a new team or stadium will wear off and they will be stuck with a big bill to foot. 

What a shame that this sabre rattling by the Davis' family works. Mark Davis is the Kim Jong Un of the NFL. 

Hopefully Goodell nukes him soon and stops with the pointless sanctions. 

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And this sucks. Bye Oakland. Bye San Diego. Bye St. Louis (no one cares about the last one)... but who's next?

 

Hopefully Jacksonville, but hopefully not to London. Ugh.

 

But not going to lie though, a Panthers game in Las Vegas does sounds like a pretty fun weekend.

 

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