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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I really don't blame Mark Davis for doing it, The coliseum in Oakland has been ranked one of the worst stadiums in the league for a long time.
I really hate when teams relocate because it pisses off an entire city when your team decides to pack up and leave town. It is going to feel really strange to have a team in Vegas next year but I really don't blame Mark Davis for doing it, The coliseum in Oakland has been ranked one of the worst stadiums in the league for a long time. I remember a few years ago, the sewage backed up and that sounds like hell.
I did that drive 2X and it was 4 hours. Maybe an accident caused it to be 9.5 hours.Ever try that Vegas to LA Sunday afternoon drive? A 4 hour drive took me 9.5 hours from Vegas to Anaheim one lovely Sunday afternoon! Nowhere to turn.....
Yeah but you can literally walk to the stadium from the strip. Its located on the other side of I-15 (west of the strip) across from the Mandalay Bay. Which means you can take the monorail to Mandalay Bay and walk to it. This is a no brainer for the NFL. Every Casino will have a luxury box and a set of season tickets. Every game will be sold out, fans from around the country will take a "boy's weekend" to Vegas to see their team play.
I was there twice this year, they have a Golden Knights pro shop at the airport. Wait til they start hawking LV Raiders gear.
It’s natural selection taking place in the sports world as cities are re-evaluated. Vegas will be a good city for pro sports; it’s a lot more safe, convenient, and fan friendly than Oakland.
There is: you demand a new stadium or threaten to leave town.If only there was a way for the money printing machines that are NFL franchises to fix stadiums, not share a place with baseball clubs and not rely on public funds and try to blackmail cities into making the rich even richer.
Guessing the Super Bowl weeks there will be slightly more interesting than those in MN or Indy.
A rotation of NOLA, LA & Vegas with the odd crumb dropped elsewhere is definitely in the offing. No complaint from me, Vegas & NOLA both know how to throw a party. No one does wretched excess better, sign me up
The City of Oakland is a cesspool.
The Coliseum is a cesspool.
Don't forget about Tampa/Miami or Dallas/Houston. The NFL will never not have a FL or TX city in the rotation.
South Beach is a lot of fun, even if Joe Robbie (or whatever they call it now) is 45 minutes awayI didn't forget sh!t, they were the crumbs I mentioned. The league is fully in bed with Kroenke in LA and is moving the NFLN studios there when the stadium is finished, hence LA. NOLA and Vegas are premier adult playgrounds and you can bet the environment for Super Bowl weeks there will keep/make them part of a regular rotation. Everywhere else will have to get on their knees to get the occasional game.
There is: you demand a new stadium or threaten to leave town.
I lived in that area 6 years ago, so I am not surprised things have changed. I remember seeing a lot of construction going on along the waterfront on the Oakland side of things, so it certainly makes sense those projects now have residents.I went to an A's game within the last couple of years. The stadium is as bad as people say. Thankfully the plumbing was working that day.
While there are still some bad areas of Oakland (obviously) the city is rapidly gentrifying. All those high tech workers who are priced out of SF are swarming into Oakland. I've got friends who live there and I've been astonished at how the city has changed over the last decade. It's no longer a cesspool.
That's easy for you to say, but recent history shows plenty of medium-market teams that told their local NFL team "f-you" and lost the team - then begged the NFL to get one back.Yeah and fortunately the city decided right. **** the money printers for getting more things on someone else's dime.