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Post by TommyDee on Mar 27, 2017 7:31:56 GMT -5
It sounds like today the Raiders officially become the Las Vegas Raiders. Might as well start the 2017 thread for it.
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Post by TommyDee on Mar 27, 2017 7:32:08 GMT -5
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Post by Voodoochile on Mar 27, 2017 7:41:02 GMT -5
All about the money. They will probably end up back in Oakland in 10-15 years.
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Post by Diz on Mar 27, 2017 7:46:52 GMT -5
Maybe the Vegas Raiders will be my new team.
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Post by TommyDee on Mar 27, 2017 7:49:40 GMT -5
All about the money. They will probably end up back in Oakland in 10-15 years. I think the interesting part is I don't think they will ever have a home field advantage. People are going to plan going to Vegas around when their team is on the road there. I bet most of their games are half filled with 1. the visiting team's fans, 2. people who are neutral. I mean as far as residents go, how many people who live in Vegas grew up there? Aren't most transports who are likely fans of other teams by now? |
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Post by Voodoochile on Mar 27, 2017 7:54:45 GMT -5
All about the money. They will probably end up back in Oakland in 10-15 years. I think the interesting part is I don't think they will ever have a home field advantage. People are going to plan going to Vegas around when their team is on the road there. I bet most of their games are half filled with 1. the visiting team's fans, 2. people who are neutral. I mean as far as residents go, how many people who live in Vegas grew up there? Aren't most transports who are likely fans of other teams by now? Pretty much sums it up well. They had/have a huge fan base in the Bay Area. |
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Post by flats on Mar 27, 2017 11:45:45 GMT -5
Yep. That'll be every fan base's "road game" to go attend. Party Friday and Saturday night, watch the game Sunday morning, catch a flight home.
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Mar 27, 2017 12:11:34 GMT -5
Same with Los Angeles. SO MANY backer bars there because so many people are transplants. I lived there for 12 years and the only time I went to a stadium was when the Browns were in town. Other than that I was at the Browns backer bars. (which there were many)
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Mar 27, 2017 12:17:27 GMT -5
Also, notice its all about Vegas and NOTHING about Oakland fans. They've been fucked twice.
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Post by TommyDee on Mar 27, 2017 13:25:45 GMT -5
They are playing in Oakland in 2017 & 2018? Yeah that shouldn't get ugly.
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Post by Voodoochile on Mar 27, 2017 16:17:36 GMT -5
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Post by TommyDee on Mar 27, 2017 16:34:10 GMT -5
Ha. No it was a joke making fun of the Chargers Voodoo.
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Post by Voodoochile on Mar 27, 2017 16:49:30 GMT -5
Ah makes sense. I was thinking after the Chargers crap teams would learn.
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Post by flats on Mar 29, 2017 2:28:39 GMT -5
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Post by Voodoochile on Mar 29, 2017 6:24:20 GMT -5
I agree. Actually they should just abstain. |
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Post by Diz on Mar 29, 2017 7:05:02 GMT -5
I agree. Actually they should just abstain. Meh, it is what it is. I don't care about Oakland, it's fans, or Las Vegas. Haslam had nothing to do with the Browns in the 90's or their move to Baltimore, so this doesn't bother me. |
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Post by TommyDee on Mar 29, 2017 7:19:11 GMT -5
Did you want people to care about Cleveland when your team was ripped away?
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Post by Voodoochile on Mar 29, 2017 7:26:26 GMT -5
I think abstaining would have been been the respectable thing to do for your own fan base. Just my opinion.
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Post by Diz on Mar 29, 2017 8:36:35 GMT -5
Did you want people to care about Cleveland when your team was ripped away? I don't need people to "care" about me. I'm grown. |
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Post by Voodoochile on Mar 29, 2017 8:45:36 GMT -5
Did you want people to care about Cleveland when your team was ripped away? I don't need people to "care" about me. I'm grown. He said Cleveland not you. |
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Post by flats on Mar 29, 2017 11:33:27 GMT -5
I wasn't grown when they stole the Browns. Plenty of Raiders fans in Oakland aren't grown now.
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Post by pottymouth1 on Mar 29, 2017 15:43:25 GMT -5
The East Bay Times reported in August 2016 that the city of Oakland's budget for fiscal 2017 was $50 M in the red. Just how they were going to fund $200 M towards a stadium is a mystery to me and probably everyone living there.
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Post by Voodoochile on Mar 29, 2017 16:10:35 GMT -5
Amazes me how badly these big cities fuck up their budgets. Hell the teams as well.
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Post by flats on Mar 29, 2017 17:55:48 GMT -5
The city of Las Vegas is going to royally fuck themselves with this new $2 billion stadium. Twice as expensive as Jerry World? Why? Their plan is to get $750 million of it through city tax hikes - it breaks down to something like $400.00 from every man, woman, and child in the city. There are only two other stadiums that ever came within $500 million of that price tag, and they both serve TWO NFL teams.
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Post by TommyDee on Mar 29, 2017 18:19:16 GMT -5
I thought I read they were going to raise the taxes on hotel rooms.
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