To lighten things up- Sin City Is Getting an NFL Team

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The Raiders have made it official. They’re moving to Las Vegas, after NFL owners overwhelmingly approved their move from Oakland, 31 to 1.

-Derek carr

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/sin-city-is-getting-an-nfl-team.html

Nevada Raiders sounds better than Las Vegas Raiders

[NightWatcher]

1. Call em the Sin City Raiders. That sounds badass

[Initech]

7. That does sound bad ass!

[msongs]

2. oh the millionaire jocks are having angst. well being a gladiator means follow the emperor nt

[Ccarmona]

3. Interesting Side Note

I saw on Twitter: All NFL officials are banned from going to LV during the season.

[Warpy]

4. The whole thing is hilarious

Having anyone on a "home team" actually come from that "home" is purely accidental. The only reason cities get pro teams is because the leaders were stupid enough to front money for a new sports palace for them at taxpayer expense. The team owners suck as much money out of the area as they can, then move on when the palace needs a refit.

I don't get it. It's one of a lot of things I don't get.

[Peachhead22]

5. IMO, this won't end well

From a purely business standpoint: LA has a reputation of being pretty apathetic to having a pro football team. I really doubt Vegas will be better.

From a human standpoint: Can you imagine the rookies? 21-year-olds get drafted by the Raiders. Get a multi-million $$$ signing bonus and have to spend their first off-season living in Vegas to be close to team facilities for strength & condition programs, mini-caps, etc. ?! That's a recipe for disaster.

tl;dr-What's more unrealistic than giving a 21 year old a couple million dollars and expecting him to stay out of trouble and be responsible with his money? Doing all that while making him live in Las Vegas.

[Jamaal510]

6. They'll be

a flop in Vegas, and I'm not saying that out of bitterness. Anyone who has been following this closely knows that for starters, Vegas is a much smaller market than the Bay Area, it is a transient city where most people can take or leave football, and Mark Davis would be piling up debt to Bank of America. In fact, Vegas hasn't even come up with any infrastructure or a site location yet like Oakland did. It's baffling that there was almost unanimous support for this. But it just shows that loyalty doesn't mean a thing in the NFL when Oakland loses our team despite the sellouts and passion over the years. Neither Mark Davis nor Roger Goodell tried at all to help out with a solution here. All they did was give lip service. The good thing about this is that at least the A's will soon have the site to themselves, and the baseball field won't be ruined. I just wish that Mt. Davis would be torn down, or at least have it to where the Raiders are forced to pay the remaining costs of it.

[Brother Buzz]

8. The Raiders are probably the only NFL team that could be successful in Lost Wages

The Raiders are modestly popularity everywhere in the nation because they did a professional job of branding their 'outlaw' image years ago.

[Egnever]

9. Maybe

We would actually be the fifth smallest market

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/05/16/las-vegas-would-be-the-nfls-fifth-smallest-media-market/

The official NFL Record & Fact Book lists the Top 100 media markets in America, and that list shows that Las Vegas would be the NFL’s fifth-smallest market, if it had a team.

With 719,000 TV households, Las Vegas is larger than only four markets with NFL teams: Green Bay, Buffalo, New Orleans and Jacksonville.

And that number I believes ignores North Las Vegas and the Henderson boulder city area. Not mention the over 1 million people a week we get in visitors. Visitors that can now fly in and see their team play and bet legally on.

If we were going to get a team I think the Raiders fit Las Vegas well with their bad boy attitude. You might be right they might not pull it off but Vegas is not the small city people think it is anymore. At the last census our largest county that includes most of the Vegas valley we were up over 2 million which is twice the pop of New Orleans and then some.

Sorry they are leaving you but I suspect they will land on their feet here.