/rg/ - Relocation General

It's Official
Get in here.

>it's a franchise holds a city hostage for a new stadium so the owners can get a free $100 million in PSL
Football is Family™

That's why Minor League Baseball is the superior sport.

Genuinely terrible. Hope they can find their way back home soon.

Fucking Raiders are gonna turn Vegas into Cholo Central now.

U mad?

THE NFL IS DEAD
PRESS F TO PAY RESPECTS

These franchise teams kill the spirit of the game. Why be a fan of your local team if they can just get up and leave?

No, it's not.

>be American
>Franchise shoots off

When is the UK getting a team?

West bay best bay anyway.

Sorry Oakland. Bye Raiduhs.

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Who cares? The TV experience is better than going to the games anyway.

this tbqhfamalam

Where the hell they gonna play at

fact.

>those L.A. raiders fans who said they were coming home

>2 teams went to L.A., raiders went to las vegas

Lmaoing at their lives

At the Oakland Coliseum while the stadium is finished, The Raiders lease with the Coliseum runs until 2018, Mark Davis is that cheap

If you're gonna blame anyone blame the NFL not the franchise

They're playing in a run down shit hole stadium built in the 60s. The taxpayers of Oakland shouldn't pay for it so good for them, but you can't expect one franchise to fund construction for a whole stadium

What a win for the city of Oakland
They no longer have to deal with that stupid sportsball team

when can i buy merchandise for las vegas raiders

>tfw can bandwagon the Raiders without being associated with Cholos now

the good guys always win

i live in san diego and this is gonna be my new team

go raiders

>tfw spend all my money dressing up as a warrior each sunday to cheer on my team
>tfw team leaves me because I'm impoverished

feelsbadman

The cholo shit came from their association with LA. That doesn't disappear with the move. In fact they will be about 100 miles closer to LA than they are now.

>moving to las vegas isn't going to draw even more cholos
not as bad as la would have been, but definitely worse than oakland

Not as good as having the Raiders in L.A. but it's closer than Oakland (8 hour drive to Oakland, 4 hour drive to Las Vegas) and once a year visit to the new stadium that the cuck chargers are going to be leasing from the rams sounds alright.

>move out of the ghetto and a "stadium" that leaks shit out into the field several times a year
>go to a famous city in a state of the art stadium and have a chance to actually be good

this is a bad thing why?

blanda...
Who are these respectable fine ladies?

Las Vegas will legitimately run out of water within 10 years. Lake Mead is undergoing a death spiral

Sure but I have the feeling the Raiders will get a reputation of being an international team because everyone goes to Vegas, nobody goes to Oakland for a holiday so only the hispanic fans turn up.

Outside of the lights of the strip, Vegas is generally a miserable place, no culture, let alone sports culture, just desert sprawl for miles and miles

WE DID IT LADS

VEGAS BABY

FUCK YEH

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>rams to LA
>raiders to vegas

what is with the NFL and moving teams to cultural cesspools?

>Vegas is generally a miserable place
t.flyover

Vegas is named the entertainment capital of the world because it has everything and is always open

what city can I go to walmart at 1AM, a brothel at 3 AM , Mickey D at 3 AM , and then crash at trump tower in 4AM

The franchise is going to make so much bank in Vegas

There are millions of tourists in your town every sunday yearning for that Americana. Also the after-parties at the clubs, jesus. Not to mention the cheap flights that are going to draw in the opponent's fans looking to spend a weekend there. Jesus, can I invest in them?

Vegas is cultureless. There is no "Vegas loyalty" besides what comes with UNLV. At least Oakland is part of the greater bay area. Vegas is hoping NFL brings them an identity worthy of loyalty.

>international team
Not how NFL or Vegas works, but we'll see.

...aaaand now I see that you posted exactly what I wanted to say while I was typing. Oh well, seconding your post.

goyim goodell

>Mickey D

>not eating at in 'n out

>crash at trump tower

>crashing off-strip

don't forget the bars never close, and you can smoke while youre enjoying your drinks

Just want to remind all the naysayers that
-It is factually cheaper to live in Las Vegas than any city in the bay
-cheaper to live in las vegas than virtually any place in California
-you can buy a 2 story house in vegas for $250,000 as opposed to $500,000 in california
-stores are always open except certain retail brands like gamestop and shit

this

if you haven't gambled at least 20k in vegas and fucked at least 5 hot escorts in the same night you're a casual and probably should just stick to your local mohegan sun

This is literally the second best thing for Cholos. They are just a small road trip from beating each other now.

AND NO INCOME TAX DONT FORGET THAT

CHEAP LIVING ALL YEAR ROUND

I didn't say that they will be marketed as the international team, just that they will gain a lot of fans from all over the world who visit Las Vegas, some people only ever visit Vegas when they go to the USA, the fan base will diversify a lot rather than them solely being the gangbanger exiles from LA.

>what city can I go to walmart at 1AM, a brothel at 3 AM , Mickey D at 3 AM , and then crash at trump tower in 4AM
empty Born 2 Lose lifestyle right there

wow

Yeah, because nobody really wants to live there. It's the nuclear option for California's near-poor who want to experience real estate ownership before they die. Them plus casino employees.

As stupid as European soccer can be at least it doesn't have relocation. Every city no matter how small has a team forever

>franchise holds the city hostage
The fuck outta here with that shit. Every single owner pulls that shit every time they want a new stadium. Last time pat bowlen wanted a new stadium we built his old schizophrenic ass a new stadium

Yesterday, the Cubs were leaving a hotel, and boarded a bus. Just minutes later, some dude held a bus hostage, shooting and killing some on the bus. Vegas is a slum.

>yfw you finally realize why NFL players have to testify before congress

>walmart at 1 am brothel at 3, Mickey D's at 4 am
sounds like a bunch of cities in Asia to be honest.

and oakland isn't?

Is vegas PD prepared for this type of violence?

>coliseum expected to be finished in 2020
>lease at current stadium runs till 2018
...I'm still seeing some problems here? Can they just pull an Arizona and steal the unlv field for a year? Does unlv even have a football team?

learn about what kind of city vegas is and ask that question to yourself again

>the idiots are still going to play in Oakland until the stadium is built
I cannot think of a stupider thing to do.

>vegas pd
>only patrol the strip and handcuff drunk tourist girls

yeah they're really not

They should pay if they want a team there. Literally every city pays for part of the stadium and most have a corporate sponsor

Reminds me of the Houston Oilers in 96 when they already announced the move to Tennessee. The games only drew like 20000 fans and the great majority of them were fans of the other team. It was an embarrassment.

vegas is one of the worst cities in america

Most likely they would play at UNLV's Sam Boyd stadium, although it's quite small to host NFL games but if that divegrass stadium is hosting the Chargers, they should have no problem at UNLV's stadium

They aren't though. They are going to stay in Oakland until the Vegas Stadium is built and they will draw a few thousand fans since they know the team is already gone.

Most of Raiders fan live outside of Oakland anyway, and big chunk drive up from SoCal. They'll still sellout games no problem.

you underestimate how many fans are from outside oakland bro

Oldfag here

Vegas used to be a fun place to go because it was so cheap. I could fly into Vegas on a Thursday night, party like a rockstar for 3 nights and spend less than $1k for the whole trip. Now if you go with less than $10k you are going to mainly be window shopping and walking in bus fumes in 100 degree heat without doing much else. The only people that still have fun in Vegas are the rich Chinese and Middle East faggots, with some finance bigwigs from San Fran and NY thrown in for good measure.

The clubs have completely ruined the feel of the city. The casinos used to subsidize all the food and accommodations with their profits, now they just put the money into outdoing each other's dance clubs every 5 years and paying some house DJ from Brazil $1 million a night, while 21-30 year olds go and spend dad's money to feel like a big shot for a night.

Place fucking sucks now. Soulless AND expensive.

I meant after the lease with the Oakland Coliseum expires and the stadium is not finished, doing another year to year deal would be too cold blooded from Davis

>yfw da Raiders win one for da (oak) Land

its perfect

This to be honest. It sounds nice in theory but the idea that the place is some golden gateway to debauchery and cash is bullshit, unless you have a stupid amount of disposable money or tickets to something.

>a sports team is a franchise that can be moved around the country on the whim of the owner

stop this nonsense lads

Which faggot owner voted against the move?

AKA it was more fun when the Mob ran it.

>teams can move cities in America

Wat

how old are we talking here because all of what you said sounds like bullshit and I live here

Please don't lump the rest of the country in with the West Coast.

I hope the start setting up ICE raids at raiders games

> t. sam rothstein

hasn't this happened before with teams all over the US though?

weren't the Colts originally from Baltimore?

NFL is owned by degenerates. And Degenerates are common in Vegas so what did you expect. Degenerates like degenerates and I wouldn't be surprised if the big wigs spend a lot of time in the Christ void hell hole.

>Going to some casino's pool and spending thousands on "bottle service" whilst some shit cunts like The Chainsmokers or Steve Aoki press play on an iPod

Sounds like hell.

Yeah I'd rather get the train up to Newcastle and spend £50 to get absolutely faceless, chat to some slags and vomit Doner Kebab on my shoes.

They would need special training to deal with this type of violence.

Yeah and we hate the Colts. Fuck them

RIP Unitas tho. He was a true man

>t. brit

Chargers have to share a stadium with the Rams while the Raiders got their own place in the mecca of debauchery

my best trips were in the mid-90s

A lot of the nightlife at that point was still on fremont, we generally would just pick a strip at random and sometimes would go back and forth a few times in one night

you must be young if this isn't your general impression of vegas

the thing is it would be better if it was either run by the mob or purely capitalistic but now Vegas just has cronyism. You'll know it's finally fixed itself when the monorail goes to the airport

You want Fremont Street.

That's where it's cheap and young people hang out.

Lots of Tweakers and Heroin addicts though so watch out.

t. Baguette

>implying anyone watches club rugby

pretty sure they had to move because London is so full of sports teams and so few people care about club rugby that they would have gone bankrupt if they stayed

This will be a nice novelty for a few years, but probably won't end well. Vegas is an absolute meme city

Good, bring back the mob if we're bringing the bullshit in.

Rarely ever happened in modern times until this frenzy of teams on the West Coast started whoring themselves around for cash. The Colts moved from Baltimore because their owner was an actual drunk who got lured away by a new domed stadium. They literally fled the city in the middle of the night to avoid local government and fans from finding out. Most other cases have good explanations (Montreal Expos moved because they had no fans, no media, and played in a concrete crypt; Atlanta Thrashers moved because hockey in the southeast; Cleveland Browns moved because their stadium was 60 years old and they didn't have the money to fix it up or build a new one)

That would be great if there was any decent food or entertainment left on Fremont. The strippers there are used up and that's the only draw. Shows are shit, food is shit, decor is shit. No reason to go to Vegas for Fremont anymore, I'd rather just go to the nearest Native American casino for a better experience

I disagree, each major strip casino has the population of a small town, there's going to be enough tourists to fill it up.

Raiders Nation will turn into a joke though. It's going to be Filipinos wearing those jerseys.

RAIDERS BTFO

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You eat at The Strip and around the city and then you party in Fremont.

It's not hard it's literally a 20 minute drive.

Yea thats what "franchise" means in a capitalist society

A friend of mines died from heat stroke in Vegas, liked to drink and from what his girlfriend said, guy wouldn't go inside. They both were drunk the whole time, running around wild in 100°+ heat. Dumb asshole died on the strip, fucking idiot. I miss that guy.

Dolphins owner. Word is that he owns east bay property.

Teams are corporate identities. They are not clubs in the sense you know.

You have no idea what they're talking about.