The stadium for the Raiders, which would be backed by $750 million in taxpayer funds, isn’t the first project to get pitched for the Russell Road and Dean Martin Drive site.
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Oakland Raiders president Marc Badain had no comment on whether he has told the NFL that two major financial institutions are prepared to loan hundreds of millions of dollars so the franchise can move ahead with the building of a stadium in Las Vegas.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed Senate Bill 1 into law Monday and officially put in motion plans for a 65,000-seat domed stadium to be built in Las Vegas as the home of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders and the UNLV football team.
Pending league approval of the Raiders’ relocation request in January, Mark Davis said the team would not play games in Las Vegas before the 2019 regular season.
The message is fairly obvious: Some across the league are rightly moving away from one of the NFL’s more hypocritical opinions — which is a pretty sizable list.