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WHAT'S NEW
STUNNING
TURN OF EVENTS
LAS VEGAS WELCOMES NFL AND THE RAIDERS ALONG WITH
NEW 65,000-SEAT ALLEGIANT STADIUM
Story by Brian Hurlburt • Photos/Renderings Provided by LVCVA
ust writing the words, Las Vegas Raiders, remains a surreal thing to
do. What? THE Raiders? THE Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders? Of THE
National Football League? The league that once banned Las Vegas from
airing a commercial during the Super Bowl, even though it didn’t mention
J the words casinos or gambling and barely showed anything “Vegas-y,”
has voted to move a team to the city that glitters?
Yes, yes, and yes.
As of January 22, 2020, the Silver and Black are now officially our Las Vegas Raiders.
With much pomp and circumstance, owner Mark Davis made it official. As of that
moment, the Vegas Raider Nation was in full effect. Davis, son of the legendary Al
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