file photo: Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis and Las Vegas Sands Group CEO Sheldon Adelson

On That’s Amaury’s Podcast, News and Commentary the Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis’ efforts to move the team just took an uptick. Davis will have meeting with UNLV and the Sands Group Hotel and Casino officials on Thursday. The issue of financing a new stadium in Las Vegas could be solved soon. If financing can be found and it’s likely with the casinos at hand that the reality of the Raiders moving to Sin City could happen. There is the issue of the NFL owners wanting to move the Raiders to Vegas as well and we’ll hear a lot more from the owners as this story develops. A recent financial report this week stated that Sands Group CEO and Chairman Sheldon Adelson and the Sands had a loss of 10 percent as announced on April 21. The group also said they suffered losses from the day before April 20th. The Sands which owns their newest casino The Macau recently finished below their expectations at five percent. The Macau is counting on their stock portfolio to help be a trend as their stock is up at plus 21 percent and trading is up at 15 times in 2016. The NFL if it was to consider Vegas for the Raiders would expect any group backing the team to have a stable financial backing before considering any move.

I remember when Vegas just had a few casinos and hosted the Rat Pack of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Don Rickles, Sammy Davis Jr, and Joey Bishop. Now it’s a Disneyland for adults and adding an NFL team will just sweeten the pot for the gambling mecca.

Every time you go to Vegas you see folks on tour from overseas from Germany, France, and many other countries as it’s becoming a destination and for it to have a NFL team coming there the league won’t oppose it and it’s not like it’s baseball it’s not 81 home games there, football only has ten home games per season. The Raiders are desperate to leave the Oakland Coliseum and it’s obvious that’s the Raiders are not going to get a new stadium built in Oakland and owner Mark Davis wants out of the city.

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