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No way a cesspit of a city like Oakland can afford to keep the Raiders. They hardly have the money to keep cops on the street. The Raiders could have moved into Levi Stadium but why share when LV is going to foot the bill for a gold plated stadium.
1 posted on 01/14/2017 7:20:09 AM PST by C19fan
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Wow, I thought after The Raiders Best Season is years that would help them stay in Oakland.

I see I was wrong.

Lots of Changes coming to the AFC West.

Fitting that the last "Normal Year" of the AFC The Chiefs Won The Division :)

2 posted on 01/14/2017 7:27:25 AM PST by KC_Lion ("I'm a believer that you don't need a title, and you don't need an office to make a difference"~S.P.)
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Remember the league gave them 3rd choice on LA, they could only move there if the Chargers chose not to, the Chargers chose to, so that option was off the table.


3 posted on 01/14/2017 7:30:05 AM PST by discostu (Alright you primative screwheads, listen up!)
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Are they planning an air conditioned dome stadium. If not, you have to wonder about the wisdom of this move from a football operations standpoint. Pre-season & early-Fall games are going to be pretty hot. Heat exhaustion would be expected.


4 posted on 01/14/2017 7:31:56 AM PST by Tallguy
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WTF? Somebody must’ve made the Raiders an offer they couldn’t refuse.


6 posted on 01/14/2017 7:33:00 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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Screw all of the NFL.

They’re not allowed in my house. Get rid of goodell and the one knee disgrace and I may watch a game or 2 now and again.


7 posted on 01/14/2017 7:33:05 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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What are they going to change their name to? the Las Vegas Mobsters?

CC


9 posted on 01/14/2017 7:38:19 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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No way a cesspit of a city like Oakland can afford to keep the Raiders

Why should the city's finances have anything to do with "keeping a team"?

12 posted on 01/14/2017 8:02:51 AM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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That’s about the best idea I’ve heard from sportsball in a long time. Why has LV never had a team? They have plenty of people I think, and all the money.


15 posted on 01/14/2017 8:06:21 AM PST by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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Wow, Vegas getting NHL and NFL the same year?! If only it weren’t so hot there most of the year.


20 posted on 01/14/2017 8:14:32 AM PST by Yaelle
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I cant figure out why one of these teams dont move to Omaha Neb.
Those people are football nuts.


26 posted on 01/14/2017 8:23:03 AM PST by crz
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If I were involved in an NFL franchise, California and New York would be the last place I would want to be. The tax laws are punitive for both the franchise and the players.


32 posted on 01/14/2017 8:35:26 AM PST by Ingtar (.)
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Fair or not, this will be part of ineffectual mayor Libby Schaaf’s legacy


35 posted on 01/14/2017 8:47:26 AM PST by GSWarrior
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You think Oakland is a cesspit?

You ain’t never been to Vegas I guess.


37 posted on 01/14/2017 9:12:52 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Oakland is going to lose the same team twice. Absolutely terrible thing to do to the die-hard Raiders fans in the East Bay, and there’s no way moving from one of the largest media markets on the country to a desert tourist town makes sense, but Mark Davis sees other NFL owners fleecing their communities and of course he’s going to want his share.


40 posted on 01/14/2017 9:20:17 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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No NFL in my house any more. And once I was a very big raiders fan. That was when they were in Oakland the first time, and then when they were in LA.

Doesn’t this make Oakland the first and only city that has had an NFL team move away TWO times ???


43 posted on 01/14/2017 9:39:07 AM PST by truth_seeker
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I wonder if the California legislature will pass a law to try and prevent them from leaving?


44 posted on 01/14/2017 9:43:29 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Friday, January 20, 2017. Reparations end.)
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The Giants and Jets share; the Rams and Chargers will.

If the stadium won’t be ready until 2020, where do they play until then?


54 posted on 01/19/2017 9:51:37 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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So Las Vegas will have more teams than San Diego.


55 posted on 01/19/2017 9:52:24 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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The Athletics are likely to leave too.


56 posted on 01/19/2017 9:53:04 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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The Athletics are likely to leave too.


57 posted on 01/19/2017 9:53:08 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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