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If Raiders Go To Vegas, Oakland Could Win Financially

... 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 expenses are projected at $8 million. Taken together, the Coliseum would be looking at an extra $1 million this next season should the Raiders leave, Mc Kibben said. But any extra funds will quickly evaporate with facility maintenance in the coming years, said Roger Noll, a professor emeritus of economics at Stanford ...

Oakland Raiders To Move To Las Vegas By 2020

... ended up in Vegas, head to Sports Illustrated , or read Davis' full statement below. Kimberly Alters. March 27, 2017. On Monday's Late Night, Seth Meyers showed a devastating highlight reel of President Trump bragging about his dealmaking prowess on the campaign trail. "Health care was the first test of Trump's supposed dealmaking skills, and it went up in flames," he noted. Trump's team is explaining his "inability to get a deal done" by insisting that Washington is more "broken" than Trump had assumed, Meyers said, and that "the man who claimed he could fix Washington had done everything he could to get a deal.". "So now that the dealmaking skills Trump spent the entire campaign bragging about have turned out to be a complete sham, is the president at least willing to admit that he failed to deliver on a key campaign promise?" Meyer ...

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

... why I have a modest proposal: Change the team name to the “Vegas Silver Pawns.”. Let’s discuss why this is a much better name for Las Vegas than “Raiders.”. Firstly, it allows the Raiders name to be kept open in case of eventual NFL expansion so Oakland can have the team back, preferably owned by Marshawn Lynch — but that’s a story for another piece of fanfic. Keeping the Raiders name clear would avoid any of that weird dancing back-and-forth like the New Orleans Pelicans and Charlotte Hornets did. Secondly, it’s on brand. The city already has the Golden Knights in the NHL, so we keep the theme going with the Silver Pawns. Vegas is a city of gaming, so why not have things fit into a chess motif? Should the NBA ever come to Sin City, we could have the Bishops. Thirdly, it’s got a double meaning. Pirates are wholly unable to access land-locked Nevada. It makes no sense the same way the “Utah Jazz” is problematic. This name helps identify in clear terms what the city is all about. What is more Vegas than some poor sap pawning their grandmother’s ...

Owners Approve Raiders' Move To Vegas 31-1

... to the players, coaches and staff. We plan to play at the Coliseum in 2017 and 2018, and hope to stay there as the Oakland Raiders until the new stadium opens. We would love nothing more than 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 ...

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

... combination of Matt Mc Gloin and Connor Cook at quarterback provided little to no relief. The Raiders made shoring up the quarterback position a priority this offseason. Cook, a fourth-round pick in last year's draft, will have an opportunity to win the backup role in training camp, but he'll have to beat out recent free-agency acquisition E. J. Manuel for the job. Mc Gloin was not re-signed after the 2016 season. If all goes according to plan, neither Cook nor Manuel will even see the field for the Raiders in 2017. The goal is to keep Carr upright and healthy this time around. When healthy, Carr has proven himself to be one of the best young passers in the game today. He had a career-best season from a statistical standpoint last season and engineered seven game-winning drives/fourth-quarter comebacks, leading the Raiders to 12 wins in their ...

Jared Cook, Cordarrelle Patterson Should Impact Raiders, Afc West

... 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 signings. For the Chargers, Chiefs and Broncos, the biggest free-agent additions were linemen. Eric Williams, Los Angeles Chargers : Unless the Raiders somehow figure ...

Can ‘chump Change’ Contribution Keep Charlotte, Panthers From Raiders’ Fate? Maybe

... the team out of Charlotte, where the Panthers have built a strong fan base that stretches across two states while based in one of the country’s fastest-growing cities. “It’s a vibrant community that is adding rather than subtracting. That’s a positive,” Ganis said. “The people there have now grown up with this team. It’s been there 20-some odd years and so there’s a real connections between generations of fans and the team itself.”. Ganis pointed to a couple of factors working against Charlotte – the area’s still relatively small market size and the ongoing controversy surrounding HB 2, the transgender bathroom bill that has prompted the NBA, NCAA and ACC to pull sporting events from the state. Despite being a small-market team, a league official said the Panthers have strong corporate sponsors. But for Ganis, the future of the Panthers still comes back to the stadium. Team spokesman Steven Drummond said the Panthers have spent $91 million of their money in renovations over the past four years. They’ve improved their suites, club levels and concourses, and added new escalators, videoboards and an updated sound system. ...

Raiders’ Move To Las Vegas Looks Like A Certain Bet

... would mark the second time the Raiders have left Oakland. Stadium issues also led Al Davis, Mark’s late father, to take the team to Los Angeles in 1982 and — when similar issues surfaced there — back to Oakland in 1995. Photo: Scott Anger, AP. While based in Los Angeles, then-owner Al Davis brought the Raiders back to Oakland for an exhibition game in 1989. While based in Los Angeles, then-owner Al Davis brought the Raiders. At the heart of the matter is Davis’ unhappiness with the 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 ...