Day 217

Fresh Start_217: My 500th article
Ladies and Gentleman I introduce to you the Las Vegas Raiders. That’s right football fans, one-year after the Rams made the move from St. Louis to Los Angeles, the NFL will have two teams moving. The Chargers from San Diego to Los Angeles and now the Raiders from Oakland to Las Vegas.

However, this isn’t 100% final. As odd as that may sound, the Raiders will move to Las Vegas but not until at least 2019 or 2020. The Raiders got the okay from the league to move, but Raider owner Mark Davis still needs build the stadium. According to multiple reports the Raiders will share a $1.9 Billion stadium with UNLV. The stadium will be a domed stadium that will seat 65,000 fans compare to the 63,132 that the Oakland Coliseum.

This is truly remarkable that the Raiders will have the move but stay in Oakland for 3 or more seasons. The message that the Raiders will be sending to their fans over the next 3+ seasons is just a slap in the face. It won’t be the players fault, but instead the owner Mark Davis, who once again has shown that the majority of sports owners don’t care about the city itself, only widening their own pockets. The devastation of many football fans in Oakland must be heavy hitting, but the team will not be gone forever. Much like the incoming Las Vegas Golden Knights in the NHL, the Raiders attendance will suffer due to the nature of Vegas.

What might hurt the most for Raider fans is that the team will be in Oakland for the next 3 years knowing that the team will move 8 hours away. I can’t imagine what it will feel like to see a team I love move away, especially in the way that Raiders constructed this move. And clearly, this has to not have been the last option for the Raiders. If the team is moving in 3 years, why couldn’t the Raiders and the city of Oakland work out a stadium deal in that time frame? This again shows how much Mark Davis values money over his team and their beloved fans. The situation that the Raiders and their fans now find themselves in is like if a money hunger father came home from work one day, packed up the house and moved him and his family 8 hours away from their current home.

Yes, this might be a good business move for the NFL with the merchandise and brand of the new “Las Vegas Raiders” but the turn that Davis will get from season ticket holders and tickets in general will not be worth the move. The cost of a ticket and the value of that ticket won’t nearly be worth the cost the second time a fan goes to the Mark Davis Cathedral of Greed. The spectacle of going the first time to check it out has to be worth it, but with the uneven balance of native people and tourist in Vegas won’t worth paying to sit and watch the Raiders.

At least the stadium will be a dome and not an open field to roast the “die-hard Las Vegas Raider fans.” With that however, I still cannot fathom why a tourist would want to a football game in Vegas, when they can’t bet on the Raiders or keep track of their other bets. It would for me be better if I stayed in the hotel bar, drinking, and gambling on everything from curling to badminton. So I will wish the Las Vegas Raiders luck, but the ROI of the move won’t be worth it, that’s just the harsh truth.
Sources:(espn.com)

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