OAKLAND RAIDERS may move the team to LAS VEGAS
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Raiders owner Mark Davis says he wants to move the team to Las Vegas and is willing to spend a half billion dollars as part of a deal for a new stadium in the city.
Davis upped the ante in a bid to move the team to this gambling city, appearing Thursday alongside soccer great David Beckham and billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson before a committee studying the idea of a $1.4 billion stadium.
He repeated what he said he told Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval a few weeks ago, saying the Raiders want to turn the Silver State into the "silver and black state."
Davis noted the Raiders played in Las Vegas in an exhibition against Houston in 1964, and said with help building the stadium it won't be another 50 years before they play here again.
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The NFL historically has frowned on any ties to Las Vegas and legalized sports gambling, refusing to hold an exhibition game there three years ago, and Davis would need the approval of three-fourths of the 32 owners.
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the Santa Clara Raiders!!
Although fairly quiet and upscale Santa Clara would have collective apoplexy at the thought of Raider Nation coming to town! 
Mark Davis is unwilling to cooperate on a stadium here, but is willing to put forward $500M for a Vegas stadium? As much of a fan as I have been of this team over the years and after growing up with them, I can't help but feel a little dirty about wearing my Raiders' clothes now. I feel like somebody being cheated on in an abusive relationship. He has all but turned his back on his Bay Area fan base, and wants out. If he moves the Raiders, then I'm done as a Raider fan. I refuse to follow the team to Vegas, L.A., San Antonio, or wherever.
Part of me thinks that he might also be doing this as yet another leverage ploy, but even if he does move the team to Vegas, I'll bet he'd probably be ready to move again a few decades afterwards to yet another city. He might think this is a smart move, and things might go smoothly for a few years, but it's doubtful in the long-run. For starters, a Vegas Raiders home game is not going to have the same mystique as an Oakland Raiders game. There would be less of a home-field advantage with all of the tourists and out of town fans of other teams, it is a smaller market compared to the entire Bay Area, and the climate isn't as mild as it is here (especially during the late Summer and early Fall). He could've been putting this much effort and money towards a new Oakland stadium. Despite what people have been parroting online about Oakland doing nothing, one of the things the City has done is offer him some land to get to work on. He has been totally unreasonable with local officials and expecting handouts when there is still a debt for the Coliseum renovations from the '90s. Furthermore, considering all of the losing seasons that we Bay Area Raider fans have witnessed from this team, he is in no position to act like a prima donna and threaten to leave. Fuck him.
