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Oakland Raiders get NFL’s approval to move to Las Vegas
http://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raidersnfl/oakland-raiders-get-nfl-s-approval-move-las-vegas ^ | 27 Mar 2017 | JON MARK SARACENO

Posted on 03/28/2017 3:04:05 AM PDT by ARGLOCKGUY

PHOENIX — So the Oakland Raiders are prepared to pack up their silver-and-black bags, back up the diesel transporters and truck to Las Vegas. The billion-dollar NFL question is: when? No one knows for certain — not even owner Mark Davis. By a landslide 31-1 vote, NFL owners Monday approved the franchise’s second departure from the Bay Area, this time to the growing Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Miami Dolphins were the lone dissenting vote. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and some owners said that the league wanted to remain in the nation’s sixth-largest TV market but that no viable stadium-building solution could be worked out in Oakland between Alameda County officials and the Raiders.

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1 posted on 03/28/2017 3:04:05 AM PDT by ARGLOCKGUY
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

They’ll still always be thugs and hoodlums, like Baltimore ... in my mind.


2 posted on 03/28/2017 3:20:26 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

A new mascot/logo?

http://radiopatriot.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/one-armed-bandit.gif


3 posted on 03/28/2017 3:28:44 AM PDT by RonnG
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To: knarf

As a life-long Chief’s fan there is nothing more loathsome than the Raiders and their supporters. And I don’t care where they are hanging their hat.


4 posted on 03/28/2017 3:29:45 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

I stopped matching NFL games or carring what the NFL does.

The problem with conservatives is they still support busunesses like the NFL, Starbucks, Washington Post instead of not buying the product.


5 posted on 03/28/2017 3:37:11 AM PDT by stockpirate (There is a coup in progress, catch them, try them, HANG THEM ALL)
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To: stockpirate

You could say the thing about buying or using Microsoft products or buying Ford.

Both of those companies have given tens of millions of dollars to things that conservatives abhor and are working towards our demise, yet nobody ever calls them out on that, but they get their panties in a snit because .1 or less of people working in a franchised industry do something idiotic and distasteful, even if the NFL has given nowhere near the financial or even political support that those two companies have.

And those two companies are just two examples, there are plenty more.

What people use or don’t use, buy or don’t buy is a personal decision and should stay that way.


6 posted on 03/28/2017 4:01:37 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: rlmorel; stockpirate; big'ol_freeper; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; ...
Re stockpirate #5 post: I stopped matching NFL games or carring what the NFL does.

"matching" and... "carring?"

It appears stockpirate doesn't proofread... either--

Oh well, in the Fall, stockpirate can invade the NFL Live Thread... and tell all of us what sorry SOBs we are for matching and carring---

I can hardly wait until Tony... leads the Texans to a victory over them Vegas Raiders in next years playoffs!

7 posted on 03/28/2017 4:24:56 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Traffic near McCarren Field already nightmarish. Will only get worse with stadium.


8 posted on 03/28/2017 4:27:43 AM PDT by donozark (Lock HER up! Lock HIM up! Kick 'em out! Build the wall! GO TRUMP!!)
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To: Bender2

Thing is, unless someone is squeaky clean and lives in a hole in the ground, I don’t want to hear it.

You buy gas for your car? You support muslim terrorists.

And so on. I just see it as “virtue signaling”.

I make my own sacrifices on things, but if I have a life to live.

I am not going to live in a hole in the ground.

I can get by without Starbucks and Coca Cola products, but to get to the point where you can throw stones at other people, you have to live a tiresome and silly lifestyle.

I don’t have time for it. I have spent many actual days on the front lines facing off against liberals in person as well as making targeted patronage decisions in my life, I’m not just a keyboard warrior.


9 posted on 03/28/2017 4:31:40 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: stockpirate

Conservatives do not surrender and move to some off the grid cabin in Montana out of fear of having a dollar go to some cause they don’t support. Let the liberals fuss and fret over Chick-Fil-A and Harley Davidson being successful. They look silly.


10 posted on 03/28/2017 4:34:20 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

So the “Traders” are at it again. How long until they return to Oakland this time?


11 posted on 03/28/2017 4:34:43 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: SamAdams76

I just see it in the same light as Al Gore and his ilk telling me not to own a big house or drive a big car, while he jets all over the globe in his private jet and has multiple enormous houses.

If liberals want to boycott Chick-Fil-A, I don’t have a problem with it. Their dollars, they can do as they wish. The market will bear out whether Chick-Fil-A is rewarded or punished for taking a corporate stance.

I feel the same way about conservatives making choices like that. As Milton Freidman advocates in as many words, let people make choices they want to make and let the chips fall where they may, the market will follow.

It is a conservative view that I subscribe to.


12 posted on 03/28/2017 4:49:14 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Vegas and Nevada putting up 750 million in public money. Just curious if someone who lives in Vegas knows, are they one of the states crying poverty and deficits?


13 posted on 03/28/2017 4:49:25 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: DoodleDawg; All
As a life-long Chief’s fan there is nothing more loathsome than the Raiders and their supporters. And I don’t care where they are hanging their hat.

This life-long Broncos fan feels the same way. I do like Derek Carr though
14 posted on 03/28/2017 4:50:36 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: stockpirate

>>The problem with conservatives is they still support busunesses like the NFL, Starbucks, Washington Post instead of not buying the product.<<

Add ESPN and Disney


15 posted on 03/28/2017 4:52:33 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: notdownwidems

There isn’t much to dislike about the guy, also speaking as an opposing fan. He is a tough, smart team player, and leads...and doesn’t come across like an a-hole, like a certain talent-less hack from San Francisco.


16 posted on 03/28/2017 4:55:50 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: notdownwidems
This life-long Broncos fan feels the same way. I do like Derek Carr though

He does break the mold of the stereotypical Raider quarterback in that he's actually very good. But trust the Raiders to screw it up somehow.

17 posted on 03/28/2017 5:22:36 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Will the fans switch from the typical Raiders wear, spiked outfits etc. To show girl attire, satin & sequined?


18 posted on 03/28/2017 5:32:46 AM PDT by FreedomGuru (Clinton a gazillion wrong moves)
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To: knarf

I miss the Baltimore Colts...


19 posted on 03/28/2017 5:43:37 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Bender2; big'ol_freeper
:: I can hardly wait until Tony... leads the Texans to a victory over them Vegas Raiders in next years playoffs! ::

Bendy, Bendy, Bendy...your exuberance is duly noted but us Yankees, who have watched several "savior" QBs flame-out and crash [let's see, F. Tarkenton, G. Landry, J. George, several Polski QBs of DahBears, J. Cutler, shall I go on?]

Your post can only be accompanied by the following graphic...reportedly Tony Rhomo -the 'R' is silent!- skateboarding in Houston....


20 posted on 03/28/2017 5:57:18 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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