The Las Vegas Valley area came in at just under 2 million souls in the 2010 census, making it the largest metro area in the country without a professional team. There’s an argument that it makes sense for the team, league, and region to bring an NFL franchise to Las Vegas, which will get its first professional sports team later this year with the arrival of the NHL’s Golden Knights.
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Yet sorting through the details, it’s worth asking: Why take off from a boomtown full of loyal fans for a destination with more than a few question marks about viability? What, in short, is the case for Las Vegas? The Lure of the Desert No decision to relocate a sports franchise happens in a vacuum. “A responsible deal to the taxpayers, to the citizens, to the community, to the team, to the NFL.” “There’s a smart deal to be done ,” says former Raiders CEO Amy Trask. With the 49ers now anchored in suburban Santa Clara and various shades of dismal, it should seem like a prime chance to grow the franchise’s famously rabid fan base. The Raiders are booming, too: Last season, they went 12–4 and earned their first playoff berth in 14 years, and likely would have had a shot at a deep run had quarterback Derek Carr not broken his leg in Week 16. After years of botched attempts and false starts, a departure from Oakland finally feels all but inevitable.īut isn’t this a weird time to be gearing up to leave? Oakland, part of the country’s seventh-largest metro area, is booming, courtesy of Silicon Valley’s gold rush. Together with a promised $650 million contribution from Bank of America and another $750 million from taxpayers in Clark County, Nevada, the Raiders appear to have everything they need to make the move a reality. The signs strongly suggest that the Silver and Black are headed for the desert, and soon: It was reported weeks ago that the Raiders already had the necessary sign-off from at least 24 of the 32 team owners to lock down the move at the annual league meeting, and owners have reportedly solved one of the proposal’s trickier problems - the financial contribution asked of Raiders owner Mark Davis - by settling on a relocation fee of somewhere between $325 million and $375 million, well below the $650 million that the Rams (in 2016) and the Chargers (in January) agreed to for their respective moves to Los Angeles. On Monday, NFL owners will likely vote to approve a prospective move by the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas.
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