Projected costs for a proposed new NFL stadium in Las Vegas might not be as high as anticipated, leaving Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis looking for a new investment partner but possibly needing less money to complete the project.
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Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank said Friday that the Oakland Raiders’ proposed move to Las Vegas is not in jeopardy because of the withdrawal of Sheldon Adelson as a stadium financing partner.
The Review-Journal’s sports columnists Ed Graney and Jon Saraceno discuss if the Oakland Raiders could still move to Las Vegas, what the Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank had to say about it and when the NFL owners could decide to approve the move.
Amazingly, the $750 million in public money already committed to a proposed 65,000-seat domed stadium in Las Vegas seems to have fallen to sidebar status.
Relocation of NFL franchises, a hot-button topic in pro football for the past year, remained a focus of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s questioners Wednesday leading to Super Bowl LI.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will make his annual Super Bowl state-of-the-league address at 11 a.m. PST on Wednesday in Houston. The news conference will be televised live by the NFL Network.
If the Raiders ultimately can strike a deal with Goldman Sachs that makes up the $650 million the Adelson family had pledged toward a new Las Vegas stadium, the odds of Oakland getting the 24 votes needed for relocation isn’t at all hurt by the casino executive’s withdrawal.
With the straightest of poker faces, Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis said Sunday that his planned trip this week to Houston had zero to do with attempting to persuade fellow NFL owners to vote for franchise relocation to Las Vegas.
