Las Vegas Mayor Confident Raiders Will Relocate To Las Vegas

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Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman confident Raiders will relocate

Andy KatzESPN Senior Writer

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is confident that the Oakland Raiders will move to Las Vegas unless the deal is mismanaged.
"The Raiders will come if Nevada handles this properly," Goodman told ESPN Radio's Capital Games podcast Tuesday.


Raiders owner Mark Davis met with the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee on April 28 and pledged $500 million toward the construction of a $1.4 billion, 65,000-seat domed stadium.

"Mark Davis has assured us that Las Vegas is not getting played in a Raiders stadium deal," Goodman said. "I know we will have a team."

The Sands and partnering business Majestic Realty have pledged an additional $150 million, leaving $750 million for taxpayers to see the stadium project through at its early stage. Backers said on April 28 that they would ask for a special session of the Nevada Legislature in August to approve diverting some room-tax funds for the stadium. The legislature is not scheduled to meet again until 2017.


After that, the NFL owners would have to approve a Raiders relocation with affirmative votes by at least 24 of 32 owners.
Goodman said the site under consideration could host the NFL, MLS and UNLV football. She said she is confident that Las Vegas would get an MLS franchise.

Goodman said she told Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, "to get us a team two years ago." She said the Chargers seemed more viable at the time because of the connection to Las Vegas with the Spanos family, which owns the Chargers.
The Chargers, however, are more inclined to stay in San Diego if a deal can't be struck to move the team to Los Angeles.
Oakland was in competition with the Chargers and the St. Louis Rams for a spot in Los Angeles. The NFL ultimately approved to move the Rams to Inglewood, California.

Goodman said she doesn't see funding for the stadium as a major issue.

"We are getting calls from outside the region offering to help with funding for stadium in Las Vegas," Goodman said.
Goodman also said Las Vegas would be a destination for fans from the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Phoenix and all over the West for games.

 

[RenoChazz]

And no mention of gambling as a hurdle. Winds are starting to change.

 

[cloverleaf]

Are any books posting odds on LV getting an NFL team?

 

[sharky99]

Would be cool to see an NHL and NFL team there

 

[3peet]

...Vegas and the Raiders can deal all they want. Will the league allow it is the real question.

 

[texansfan]

...Vegas and the Raiders can deal all they want. Will the league allow it is the real question.

Al Davis did it before with the Raiders. Also, according to Jerry Jones and others, a team doesn't need approval, they can do whatever they want.

 

[TheComputerGroup]

And no mention of gambling as a hurdle. Winds are starting to change.

Exactly.....the NFL is being awfully quiet with all this stuff going on. In June, legalized sports betting is in court.

 

[5teamparlay]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...etting-silver-black-folding-article-1.2665813

[h=1]The Raiders in Las Vegas: Are you betting on Silver and Black, or folding your hand?[/h] The Raiders in Las Vegas: Betting on Silver and Black or folding?
BY Julian GarciaSeth Walder
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, June 8, 2016, 11:49 AM

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<figcaption>[h=2]If the Raiders move to Las Vegas, the team’s famous Black Hole would likely disappear.[/h](Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<aside id="ra-left"> <section class="ra-meta"> BY Julian GarciaSeth Walder
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, June 8, 2016, 11:49 AM
</section></aside> <article id="ra-body" itemprop="articleBody"> It was the year of relocation in the NFL, with the Rams running off to Los Angeles and the Chargers and Raiders threatening to bolt their cities, too.
The Raiders seem like the best bet of the remaining two teams to make a move, with Las Vegas as the likely destination.
Is it just a ploy by the Raiders — like the Patriots once did with Hartford — or are the Silver and Black serious about Sin City?
Aside from that there’s the NFL, which has avoided the gambling mecca at all costs — they won’t even play the Pro Bowl there, and nobody cares about that.
How to enhance fan experience if Raiders move to Las Vegas
Here’s a look at the arguments for, and against, the Raiders calling Vegas home.
[h=3]I KNOW WHEN TO FOLD ‘EM[/h]By Julian Garcia
Full disclosure: I've never been to Las Vegas. And I am in no rush to get there.
The truth is that I'm too afraid of what would happen once I got there. Not could happen — would happen.
Myers: Vegas' sins may be forgiven if Raiders have their way
That's exactly the way the NFL should feel as it considers letting the Oakland Raiders relocate there. After all, it's not called Sin City for nothing. And it may be a cute and unforgettable slogan, but "What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas" translates to this: things that happen here are things that no one wants anyone else to find out about.
And that's the NFL's biggest problem. The sins of an NFL player are difficult, if not impossible to hide. It's one thing for me to have to make a very uncomfortable phone call on a Sunday morning, quite another for a star defensive back to dial up his agent who then has to notify that player's team that it'll be a man down at 1 p.m. And, oh, please don't tell the press the reason why.
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<figcaption>[h=2]There’s temptation around every corner in Las Vegas.[/h](Ethan Miller/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
Let's not even bother discussing the gambling issues that most critics are focusing on when it comes to this topic. There are ways to regulate bets, to make sure players and coaches aren't doing anything they shouldn't be when it comes to placing wagers and affecting the outcome of a game.
But how do you stop a rich man from doing things he shouldn't be doing on a Saturday night, or any other day of the week? As time has proven, you don't.
There are simply too many temptations in Las Vegas for the NFL and the Raiders to make a move there. Already, one of the city's biggest strip clubs, Sapphire, has offered team members free lap dances if the team does relocate there. Okay, so it'll also throw in complementary limo rides, but we know that whenever any business offers free anythings, it's an attempt to bring in even more paying customers. And in this case, the paying customers this club are looking for all work in the same industry — professional football.
Speaking of paying customers, prostitution is one of Vegas' biggest businesses, not to mention the legal brothels in the outskirts of the city that NFL players would have easy access to should they visit there each weekend. News flash: young men with lots of disposable income tend to gravitate towards women who are in need of more disposable income and are willing to do just about anything to get it.
Raiders owner says he wants to move team to Las Vegas
So while Lamar Odom technically wasn't doing anything illegal when he racked up a $75,000 sex tab at Nevada's Love Ranch back in November, the NFL should strongly consider his situation — he wound up near death due to a suspected drug overdose — before allowing the Raiders to call that place home.
After all, "What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas" is just a slogan. The sins of Sin City, though, are very real.
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<figcaption>[h=2]The Raiders have threatened to move to Las Vegas if a new stadium can’t be built in Oakland.[/h](Pat Sullivan/AP)</figcaption></figure>
[h=3]THE RAIDERS IN VEGAS? DEAL ME IN![/h]By Seth Walder
News flash to the NFL: people bet on football.
Gasp!
And no, not just in Las Vegas.
Jerry Jones would support NFL team moving to Las Vegas
People bet on football in New York and Texas and California and everywhere in between. They do it in office pools, gambling websites and all the various forms of fantasy sports. It's just reality.
It's a topic that's bound to get a little more press as the Raiders creep closer and closer to a potential move to Las Vegas. Negotiations for a new stadium in Oakland have gone nowhere, and it's looking increasingly likely that the storied franchise could move to Vegas.
"This is not a pawn in a game," owner Mark Davis recently told the Las Vegas ***************. "We are serious."
Las Vegas Raiders? Stadium meeting set with casino honcho
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<figcaption>[h=2]The NFL, and Roger Goodell, seemingly view something sinister in Las Vegas.[/h](Bob Leverone/AP)</figcaption></figure>
This possibility means that arguments have and will crop up against the league staking a franchise in Sin City.
One fear with Las Vegas is that all of the vices of the city will filter into the league. Most of all, there could be some concern that players either could be tempted into gambling on football or be influenced by those that do.
Give me a break.
This is 2016. Information flies around at lightning-fast speeds and location isn't nearly as relevant as it was years ago.
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If a player wanted to bet on football, he could already do it. If a player was to be influenced by someone betting on football, it would have already happened. It will continue to be true whether the Raiders, or anyone else, move to Las Vegas or not.
Somehow, it hasn't brought down the league yet.
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<figcaption>[h=2]Raiders owner Mark Davis has plans for a stadium that the team would share with UNLV.[/h](Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)</figcaption></figure>
Embracing gambling isn't even as far-fetched as it once was. NBA commissioner Adam Silver indicated that he thought professional sports leagues should do exactly that in an op-ed in the New York Times in 2014. But the NFL doesn't even need to do that in this case — they would just have to accept the Raiders being in a place where gambling is legal.
Of course, gambling isn't the only distraction that Las Vegas offers. But just because the city is a party town doesn't necessarily mean that players are more likely to get themselves in trouble. The argument here is the same as it is for gambling: there's plenty of downtime in an NFL player's life, if he wants to get into trouble, he already can.
Aqib Talib just got into some trouble in Dallas.
All of this is not to say that the Raiders will end up in Las Vegas. That's a much more complicated question. As is whether Las Vegas should or will want to part with $750 million in tax revenue — that's the current figure, anyway — for a stadium in order lure the Raiders to the city.
But as far as the league and the other owners are concerned? They ought to view Las Vegas just like they view many other cities: as either pieces of leverage to force current cities to build new stadiums, or as a potential relocation destination. But that sports gambling is legal in Nevada shouldn't be a factor in this decision.
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