National Football League likely won’t let Raiders move to Las Vegas

As for the location of the stadium, the Sands Corporation is looking at a 42-acre section of land located on a reserved UNLV site just off Tropicana Avenue.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal quoted Abboud saying Sands and/or the family of its owner, Sheldon Adelson, would contribute a significant portion of the funding for the public-private partnership.

The Oakland Raiders came up craps on their attempt to relocate to Los Angeles, but the team may be willing to roll the dice on another city relatively nearby: Las Vegas. Reese didn’t elaborate on the nature of their discussions and the Raiders declined comment.

“The Sands leadership team let us know that officials from the Oakland Raiders are scheduled to travel to Las Vegas and tour locations around the valley for a potential new home and they have asked us to meet them at our 42-acre site on Friday morning to answer questions about the site”, Jessup wrote in the email.

The Sands company owns the Palazzo and Venetian hotels in Las Vegas. The NFL offered $100 million to help finance a Raiders stadium in Oakland.

Tony Sanchez, UNLV’s head football coach, said “having an on-campus, state-of-the-art stadium would be huge”. They have also explored the possibility of moving to San Antonio and San Diego. So what’s an owner who is locked into a battle with his city over the cost of a new stadium to do?

According to Ralston, UNLV President Len Jessup sent a memo to a small group of investors, where he said team officials are indeed coming to scope out the property on Friday.

There is some major news that is rocking the sports world, and Las Vegas.

If the San Diego Chargers choose, as expected, to join the newly-re-christened Los Angeles Rams at a planned stadium in Inglewood, the Raiders would become the NFL’s top free agent franchise.