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Oakland Raiders To Move To Las Vegas By 2020

... fact, Trump seems to be looking for literally anyone else to take the blame for the collapse of a health care bill he enthusiastically supported," Meyers said, including, it seems, Paul Ryan. He pointed to Trump's cryptic tweet Saturday morning urging people to watch Jeanine Pirro on Fox News Saturday night — a segment that began with Pirro demanding Ryan step down and insisting that Trump was a hapless victim of the GOP health-care debacle. "Not only is she saying what Trump wants to hear, she's saying it the way Trump wants to hear it: Slow, and with a thick New York accent," Meyers said. "Also, people did expect Trump to understand the process," because Trump said so, repeatedly. Meyers played video proof from last summer's Republican convention, pausing at Trump's dramatic shrug. "Look at that face," he said. "That's like the freeze-frame of a '90 s sitcom dad at the end of an episode." And if you don't ...

If Raiders Go To Vegas, Oakland Could Win Financially

... on tallies of the revenues and expenses that come from Raiders games. On the revenue side, the Coliseum Authority is expected to collect about $7 million this coming season from game-day concession stands, parking, any naming rights, club dues, and the team’s rent to use the stadium, which jumped from $900,000 to $3.5 million last year, Mc Kibben said. “Our goal was to get to break-even after many years of running in the hole,” he said about the lease change. Oakland Coliseum. Raiders’ move to Las Vegas is no sure thing. On the expense side, the Coliseum Authority incurs game-day costs that include police officers, sheriff’s deputies, private security guards and all the other facility employees. Field conversion alone — the three or four times a year when the Raiders and A’s share the stadium — costs the Authority a whopping $450,000 for every back-and-forth switch. It’s a 20-hour process that involves uprooting goal posts, repainting yard lines and moving whole sections of seats. This coming season, total ...

Las Vegas Made The World's Worst Stadium Deal And All It Got Was The Lousy Raiders

... the split was three-way: $500 million from the Raiders, $650 million from Adelson (the board of his Sands Corporation rejected the idea of investing company money), and $750 million from a hotel room tax hike. But in January, Adelson backed out , and the deal looked all but dead. Goldman Sachs, which the team had portrayed as a back-up lender in case the Adelson investment fell through, didn’t want a deal without Adelson. That Bank of America (which also funded Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium) jumped in with a last-minute loan of $650 million surprised Steve Sisolak, the chairman of the Clark County Commission, the body that had approved the hotel tax hike. Sisolak had questions about the financing earlier this month, the San Jose Mercury News reported. Sisolak, who worked closely with Adelson and the Raiders on the negotiations, is puzzled how the current loan deal will work. “Adelson said he couldn’t get a 2 percent return on his $650 million,” the county commissioner said. “That is $13 million a year. They must ...

Derek Carr Will Be Full Go For Offseason Workouts, Says Oakland Raiders Gm

... Derek Carr is almost ready to get back on the field. Oakland Raiders general manager Reggie Mc Kenzie confirmed on Monday that his franchise quarterback will be full go for the start of offseason workouts next month, according to Scott Bair of CSN Bay Area. The offseason is in full swing for the Oakland Raiders. Want the latest signings sent straight to your inbox? – Sign up for our FREE Raiders newsletter now. Carr, 25, broke his fibula in Week 16, when his leg got awkwardly caught under Indianapolis Colts pass rusher Trent Cole while being sacked. He underwent surgery a couple days after suffering the injury and was originally given a 6-8 timetable for his return. The ambitious signal caller said he " absolutely " would have been able to play in the Super Bowl, had his Raiders made it that far without him. Instead, the Raiders got a taste of what life would be like without Carr under center — and it wasn't pretty. Without Carr, the Raiders were smoked by the Denver Broncos in the regular-season finale and then again by the Houston Texans in the Wild Card Round of the AFC Playoffs. The combination of Matt Mc Gloin and Connor ...

Jared Cook, Cordarrelle Patterson Should Impact Raiders, Afc West

... in Denver and tight end Jared Cook in Oakland. Leary was quietly one of the best players on the open market in terms of age, performance and room to grow. Many personnel executives believe he’s better than the player the Cowboys moved ahead of him on the depth chart: La’el Collins. Cook is a difficult matchup athletically for defenses. He has had four seasons with at least 44 receptions, including two 50-catch seasons in his time with the Rams. Tight end Jared Cook can present matchup issues and should help make the Raiders' passing game more efficient. Brett Davis/USA Today Sports. Adam Teicher, Kansas City Chiefs : Tight end Jared Cook gives the Raiders another threat in the passing game. Derek Carr should be able to get more production from Cook as the primary tight end than he did from Clive Walford last year. Cook's addition might cut into the number of passes that go to wide receivers Amari Cooper and Michael Crabtree , but having a presence such as Cook in the middle of the field should make Oakland more efficient in the passing game. Cook was mostly a default choice because the AFC West wasn’t otherwise a division for high-impact ...

Only Few Fans Show At Raiders Facility To Peacefully Mourn Move

... owners approved Davis’ relocation plan by a vote of 31-1. “I’m surprised there’s not more people out here, but that’s because it’s a done deal,” Waltz added. The Raiders facility, albeit the offseason, appeared ghostly quiet, with only a few staff members seen coming and going, including a public relations assistant who relayed to the media a copy of Davis’ two-paragraph statement announcing the “conditional approval” of a Vegas move. Oakland resident Rolando Maravilla, 27, somberly sat by the pond fronting the Raiders facility and mourned the Raiders’ impending exit. “The first time they left (in 1982), I wasn’t born yet, so I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do,” Maravilla said. “Maybe I’ll go have a drink.”. Juan Gudino, 30, of San Leandro stopped by during his work break as an ode to his Raiders’ ...

Silver Pawns’ Is The Perfect New Name For The Raiders In Las Vegas

... WW 2 medals. Pawn Stars will be prominent in all our branding. Every national anthem will be sung by one of the guys, and they’ll have booths in the stadium where you can sell your treasured family heirlooms in exchange for store credit to get a sweet Derek Carr jersey. Sixthly, the entire field is a giant chess board. College football’s got it right when it comes to unique fields. Everyone remembers Boise State blue field because birds kill themselves diving into it thinking it’s a pond. A chessboard field will make the Silver Pawns unique, and attract a whole new audience to football. Which of the following statements do you think is more attractive to a chess grandmaster. Amari Cooper catches the pass on an out route and gains 17 yards. Carr passes from d 3 and hits Cooper at g 6 and it’s check. This opens up whole new marketing opportunities. Seventhly, the phrase “He’s playing chess and everyone else is playing checkers” is one of the more tired idioms in sports — but this means it’s an opportunity. The Raiders are getting hot at the right time for a move, and we need new season ticket holders. ...

Nfl Owners Approve Oakland Raiders' Move To Las Vegas

... Davis hated the decrepit Oakland Coliseum where the Raiders played. The league wouldn't let him leave, so Davis sued the NFL and, in 1982, won the right to move the team to Los Angeles. By 1995, Davis hated the decrepit Los Angeles Coliseum where the Raiders played, so he moved the team back to Oakland where the city agreed to renovate the stadium. Twenty-two years later, Al Davis is long gone. His son, Mark Davis, now runs the team. But the Raiders' hate-hate relationship with the aging Oakland Coliseum is stronger than ever. Yet, Mark Davis said in a press conference today, the move is bittersweet. (SOUNDBITE OF PRESS CONFERENCE). MARK DAVIS: I love Oakland. I love the fans in Oakland, and I know that there's going to be disappointment and maybe some anger. And if they have anybody to talk to about it, it should be me. And I will in the coming days try to explain to them what went into making this difficult decision. MCEVERS: Raiders fan Ted Ludwick says the team's first move when he was 10 years old was a gut punch. Now as a middle-aged father, it's not quite the same personal catastrophe, but he still isn't sure if he's going to stay a fan. LUDWICK: When my ...

Raiders’ Move To Las Vegas Looks Like A Certain Bet

... outdated Coliseum. Not only does the facility have the smallest seating capacity in the NFL (53,286 since the team tarps off the third-deck seats), but the Raiders share it with the A’s, making it the only stadium in the country that still hosts both NFL and MLB games. For their part, Oakland officials are not willing to make the public open its wallets to appease Davis. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf released a letter Friday that she sent to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in which Fortress Investment Group — a San Francisco money management firm with more than $69 billion in assets — is offering a $600 million loan to help build a stadium in Oakland. Goodell wrote Schaaf back Friday and, in the letter obtained by the Bay Area News Group, said the latest proposal is not “clear and specific (or) actionable in a reasonable time frame.” One league executive wondered why the Fortress loan hadn’t been mentioned when Schaaf met with the NFL’s stadium and finance committees in Florida two weeks ago. Another characterized the letter as an attempt by Schaaf “to save face.”. NFL representatives and executives requested anonymity because the issue is officially ...

Joe Ellis, John Elway Reflect After Nfl Approves Raiders' Relocation To Las Vegas

... three years, the Raiders will move to southern Nevada and depart Oakland, their home for 42 of their last 55 seasons since their hardscrabble beginnings in a pair of San Francisco stadiums in 1960 and 1961. NFL owners and representatives of owners not on hand approved the Raiders' relocation Monday morning. The team still plans to play the 2017 and 2018 seasons in Oakland, going on a year-to-year basis via a pair of one-year leases and options with the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Broncos President and CEO Joe Ellis, who serves on the NFL's Stadium Committee, acknowledged the difficulty of making the decision when he met with media shortly after Commissioner Roger Goodell and Raiders owner Mark Davis announced the relocation, along with Texans owner Bob Mc Nair and Steelers president Art Rooney II. "It's a tough day for the National Football League — and especially the fans of Oakland," Ellis said. "We've now had three teams move in the last 16 months, so any time a team relocates, it's difficult on their fan base [and] their community.". "We'll miss Oakland," added Executive Vice President and General Manager John Elway, who led the Broncos into Oakland for the last ...

Owners Approve Raiders' Move To Vegas 31-1

... to bring a championship back to the Bay Area.". The Raiders would presumably then have to find a place to play in 2019. Davis has all but ruled out using UNLV's current home - the 35,500-seat Sam Boyd Stadium, about nine miles southeast of the university's campus - due to outdated locker rooms and the lack of a proper security border around the facility. The Raiders could conceivably play one preseason game a year at Sam Boyd Stadium before moving to Las Vegas permanently. Davis said he was open to extending the team's lease and playing the 2019 season in Oakland as well. "If they want us, we'd seriously consider it," Davis told ESPN. "I want to come into Las Vegas clean.". Raiders quarterback Derek Carr tweeted that the news leaves him with mixed emotions. — Derek Carr (@derekcarrqb) March 27, 2017. Coach Jack Del Rio echoed this sentiment. "My emotions are mixed. While I'm sad for family, friends and fans in the Oak area, I also recognize the tremendous opportunity going forward for our organization," he told ESPN's Ed Werder in a text message. "That being said, my mission remains the same. To lead this team here and now. Players and coaches need to ...