Raiders’ Vegas stadium could hit hurdle

[Merlin]

People plan vacations around football games. I have not once heard of anyone planning a vacation around a non-playoff baseball or basketball game outside of baseball spring training where the weather is outstanding and the games are free (or at least they used to be).

Yeah that is true. And what makes the Raiders' move interesting is Vegas changes that equation a bit too. Nobody I knew made trips around hockey games, I mean I know it happens but it wasn't really prevalent that I can see. Now? I always shoot the breeze with fans in town wearing different gear, who are more often than not here to catch their team in between rest, relaxation, shows, and the tables.

When you consider that the Raiders are probably the team that has the most fans, and as you said that fans tend to travel to see the games since each one means more, I honestly think they're going to pack it in every weekend. Will be fun to watch though.

Not a fan of Davis' kid and that idiotic bowl cut he flies to Florida or whatever to get every couple weeks. Would love to see him fail. But I think he basically lucked into a great situation. That team in Vegas is just a stupidly good fit and they're gonna draw the F out of their fan base in LA too.

But anyway. This city is crazy man. From the bonds for the Raider stadium sellin out in 90 minutes to the fact they're planning another concert type venue in the 18k seat MSG Sphere. It's Vegas. They're not gonna sweat the details, they're gonna build it and pack it in.

 

[bluecoconuts]

Nobody I knew made trips around hockey games, I mean I know it happens but it wasn't really prevalent that I can see.

Every year the LA Kings used to have a big preseason event called Frozen Fury in Vegas and they would play a few preseason games there.

It's one of the reasons why I'm always a little shocked to see Vegas fans hate on Kings fans so much. We're the reason for your damn team!

 

[snackdaddy]

Y but the Porn Workers of America are not going to change their annual convention location because their rooms are now $1 per night more.

Sooo, any idea which hotel they're staying? Just curious.

 

[RamFan503]

Sooo, any idea which hotel they're staying? Just curious.

Probably the sold out one.

 

[LesBaker]

Yeah that is true. And what makes the Raiders' move interesting is Vegas changes that equation a bit too. Nobody I knew made trips around hockey games, I mean I know it happens but it wasn't really prevalent that I can see. Now? I always shoot the breeze with fans in town wearing different gear, who are more often than not here to catch their team in between rest, relaxation, shows, and the tables.

When you consider that the Raiders are probably the team that has the most fans, and as you said that fans tend to travel to see the games since each one means more, I honestly think they're going to pack it in every weekend. Will be fun to watch though.

Not a fan of Davis' kid and that idiotic bowl cut he flies to Florida or whatever to get every couple weeks. Would love to see him fail. But I think he basically lucked into a great situation. That team in Vegas is just a stupidly good fit and they're gonna draw the F out of their fan base in LA too.

But anyway. This city is crazy man. From the bonds for the Raider stadium sellin out in 90 minutes to the fact they're planning another concert type venue in the 18k seat MSG Sphere. It's Vegas. They're not gonna sweat the details, they're gonna build it and pack it in.

The Raiders better hope they don't end up unwittingly selling half of the tickets to brokers or every game in that stadium is going to be like a road game.

Tickets packaged with a hotel room will be an easy sale, especially to fans in cold weather cities. It's bad enough in many cities already where we se so many fans of opposing teams, in LV it will be sillystupidcrazy if brokers buy up loads of tickets.

 

[Merlin]

It's one of the reasons why I'm always a little shocked to see Vegas fans hate on Kings fans so much. We're the reason for your damn team!

No hate from my end. In fact it was very tough to watch the Knights draw them round one. But going back to when the NHL first started considering Vegas, there were a lot of fans crapping on the city in terms of discounting them in support of a sports team. For myself at least I'm just a bit defensive about the city based on all that BS. It's a unique place in a lot of ways is all, where the widespread opinion of the city tends to discount and/or overlook a very strong fan base.