This was one of my first thoughts too. In some sense the Las Vegas Raiders will never play a home game.
This is what I wrote:
My baseline assertion in both threads is that the Raiders would have been a much better pick for the LA slot than the Chargers and that owner popularity was a terrible metric to base the choice on for the NFL. Of course, you live in LA and might have met both of the Charger fans who live there, so who knows, maybe you and Jerry Jones are right.
That's only because you don't visit Vegas multiple times a year for the past 2 decades
I used to go to Vegas more often when I lived out in Arizona, and when some newbie who was going for the first time would ask me what was the most important thing to bring with them, my answer was always unequivocal: comfortable shoes.
Yup. Many painful blisters result from the illusion that the next casino down the strip is a quick hop.
I'm not the kind of guy who casinos would comp, so help me understand why they would give away tickets that would drive people out of their building. I understand comping tickets to the Cirque show in your own theater (or Penn & Teller or whoever), but would they really give away tickets that would keep you away from the tables for 3 or 4 hours?
Their goal is generally about getting your business for your next trip, not the next 6 hours, when you're into higher-level comps.
Although it would be pretty awesome if they had luxury boxes with a blackjack or baccarat table in the corner so that high rollers could stay in action during the game.
Where were you when my stepbrother was getting an $800 hj at the Venetian while I sat alone at the cafe lux?
The hosts just want you to be happy with them so you continue to bring your business their way. There are multiple options and it's competitive, so tickets are definitely thrown around all over. The players know the game - if they're getting tix, limos, rooms and food/bev comps then they'll be sure to have a respectable amount of time on the tables with a healthy avg bet. It's all part of the game.
Took me a minute to figure what you meant here given the subject matter.
Those could have been the worst scrambled eggs in history and you still made the better choice.
Even thought it's a dry heat, as dry as it gets in this country? I know what you mean though, having walked between casinos there on August days when it was 108, and you don't want to go very fast. So, a retractable roof stadium like the University of Phoenix and Chase Field stadiums, is of course an absolute necessity.
Would you rather debate middle-age male sweat output instead? No? Good. Hooker handjobs it is.
And for a bald ass mofo like me, sun screen. I'm not a hat guy.
Back in the day (the 90s), Southwest used to have $29 one-ways from LA to LV, Phoenix to LV, Phoenix to LA. Many an Arizona and SO Cal college student hopped on those all the time. No idea whether they still have deals like that. That was back when you could find $5 blackjack tables everywhere in Vegas
I just checked and depending on day/time it's as low as $41 each way from LAX to Vegas, so yeah still cheap.
I mean, I'd already paid $300 for a crap massage and had a gun pulled on me at a whorehouse. I was good for the night.
His politics may be odious, but I probably don't have to tell you that you could scarcely hand-pick a better guy to be the money partner for your team. Even leaving aside his national political influence (and the fact that he's from Boston!), Sheldon Adelson is as savvy a businessman as they come, with a consistent midas touch when it comes to entrepreneurship. My friends in ops at Harrah's have said he's regarded as a sane, almost down-to-earth Steve Wynn. Frankly, anyone who can buy off most of the Chinese government to get licenses in Macau, and then not get prosecuted under the FCPA, is a pretty smooth operator. Biggest trick the devil ever pulled, etc.
Now that's an interesting perspective. I guess it depends on the GOP retaining control of Congress, and other billionaire owners not leveraging their own political muscle. But if Mark (Marc?) is prepared to give up enough equity to Adelson to get the full use of his rolodex, that would be a seriously far-sighted, mature move on his part. So many sports owners would rather be king than be rich. Davis is prepared to become second banana to get his team the money it needs. Deal with the devil or not, that's some guts.
So you had no luck no luck at the whore house and you're preoccupied with the HJ your brother is getting, and your thought is 'if only PP could have been there instead of scrambled eggs...'
I like PP. He has a mastiff and he's a good cook. It was the first time I ever ate alone in public and it was lonely.
Times have changed. Now that so much gambling action has moved online, having a team in Vegas wouldn't alter the league's risk materially.
Saw a number of Grateful Dead shows there in the early '90s. Ahhh...Vegas. Perfectly cromulent venue to get things started. Raiduhs to Vegas - this has to happen. And enough with the horseshit about concerns with being associated with gambling (cough, cough, injury lists). This needs to happen.
I disagree. Vegas has the most highly developed and sophisticated industry in the known world around making sure rich people avoid bad consequences (for a price).
I certainly do worry for poor Aldon Smith if they move to Vegas, those concerns are legitimate. With that said, many of those concerns exist in Los Angeles. I would hope that the Raiders invest well in a good security team to help players avoid those kind of issues.
