- July 14, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Story by Alan Snel Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell
In a mere three months, the Las Vegas Raiders will celebrate the five-year anniversary of a day that changed the course of their franchise’s history. It’s the Oct. 2016 day when former Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a stadium bill that literally paved the way for the NFL team’s palatial 65,000-seat domed stadium and bought owner Mark Davis a one-way ticket out of Oakland to a new venue that would deliver hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenues in Southern Nevada.
After Sandoval signed the stadium bill into law, the Raiders then sent their boots on the ground, as team president Marc Badain likes to say, team staffers dispatched to Las Vegas to plant the seeds of an NFL franchise in the Southern Nevada market.
Southern Nevada delivered $750 million in public money to help build the swanky, climate-controlled sports playground and the Raiders began…