@General:
I’m sure there is an onerous exit clause in their agreement with Las Vegas but I just don’t see professional football succeeding in that market.
Besides, didn’t St. Louis build the Rams a shiny new dome as part of enticing them to leave LA? If you build it, they will come. But they will not necessarily stay. Amend my post to 20 years, since that’s roughly how long the Rams played in St. Louis.
I never said a new stadium means a team will stay forever and ever and ever and ever… that would be a silly thing to say… all stadiums age, and in the end, that’s usually why a team moves, because they don’t like an old stadium. Also using the Rams is a bad example, because they were certainly in St Louis a LOT longer than 10 years (and their stadium got 20 years older)… so amending your post after the response to a 10 year prediction is not a fair thing to do when my response was specifically on your 10 year prediction not a forever and ever or 20 year prediction… no way they will leave in under 10 years, I stand by that… and that’s what I responded to… your prediction of 10 years.
As for success… I’m a Raider fan… Las Vegas is not where I would move a franchise too… homefield advantage will be lost, because there isn’t really a large local population, Vegas is mostly full of people not from Las Vegas, it’s a transient city… also, young football players with a lot of money who are bored in a town like Vegas is a recipe for off-the-field trouble with your young players.
I think it is a bad decision all around… having said that, they’re not going anywhere from 2020 to 2030… they’ll be in Vegas that long for a number of reasons.
I am a Raider fan, but I’m not in Oakland… so their moving from Oakland to Vegas wont deprive me of anything directly (other than making some shirts out-of-date)… but I’m not a fan of the move… personally, I think they would have been better-off as the Pensacola Raiders, but that’s just me… lol