I've been there during the NASCAR event and it seems like that brings in a ton of people. The NFL would probably be similar.

I'll never visit Oakland to see a Raiders game so Vegas is much better.

I don't care if Vegas gets a team, but I think the transient factor combined with the bad economy make it a bad idea.
Keep the Chargers in San Diego and put the Rams / raiders in LA and close it down.

I think it would be fan fucking tastic! Put an NHL and NFL team in Vegas. The people will attend.

Nobody will attend an NHL game in Vegas.

Of course they will.

Of course they will.

Ask Atlanta/Phoenix/San Diego/Tampa "fans".

There are at least 150,000 hotel rooms in Vegas...conventions all the time...the season ticket holder base will get snatched up in a heartbeat for NHL...by fans and by casinos. Opponent's fans will make a pilgrimage once or twice a season to catch their favorite team in Vegas. The NHL would do just fine.

The NFL would kill there...just like everyplace else.

2015 attendance championship results:
Atlanta: 96% full. Falcon corporate partners routinely go buy seats to allow the local broadcast to be shown. It's more telling that now they're giving pop, pizza and snacks away at 1990 prices.
Phoenix: 97% full They actually had a good team for the 3rd-4th time in AZ history & the snowbirds do help
San Diego: 95% full(even as the owner alienated all the fans) Maybe the Chargers don't merit inclusion, I'll give you that one. But, no other SD team owner has ever actually been comfortable there.
Tampa Bay: 94% full It's the first year in SIX that the attendance has even been above 60K a game. It's still 3K below levels of 2008 (64.5K)

I'm not sure about an NHL team in a desert but the NFL would do just fine in Vegas just like they do just fine in those other places.

I don't doubt that any average NFL team would do well for the first 5-6 years. Fine even.

Without a winner on the field, "fine" and "well" wouldn't be appropriate descriptors for an NFL owner's bottom line after that though. My guess is "underperforming" and "lethargic" results would be fitting.

How's UNLV basketball done in the last 20?

There simply arent enough hockey fans who will take a trip to vegas to see a hockey game. Hockey is barely a major sport with a fairly small fan base. Hockey in the desert has always been a bad idea and always will be a bad idea.

That also sounds like a reason why Vegas would be just as good as other teams though and clearly it would be a lot more fun to visit than Oakland.

I assume bad. However, DePaul doesn't do well in Chicago and the NFL works here.

The nature of NFL means moving the Raiders would be a resounding success.

DePaul would do better if they played close to campus.

Jerrah wants a team in Vegas. So it's when not if.

The Raiders weren't enough of a success for Al Davis in Oakland twice and once in Los Angeles. Hell, the Raiders (& bad stadium choices) even ruined LA for the Rams once. These premier $1-2 Billion stadiums make little fiscal sense and people are starting to wake up. I just believe that the NFL is close to maxing out, and that its poor leadership will leave them (at least the family owned and large debt saddled teams) in a Daley sized hole soon. People are starting to realize that the game day "stadium experience" isn't worth the increasing cost and time consuming efforts. Unless you're in a skybox...or Green Bay, where you have nothing else.

I also firmly believe that 5-6 years out & without a winner, Vegas residents aren't going to want to foot the bill for the Raiders profits when simple water will be a dangerous issue they will finally have to address.

If the Raiders move to Vegas, I would schedule a trip with going to a game in mind.

Did something similar when we went to Miami in 2013. Saw Rams-Phins game, on the 20 yard line, 28th row lower bowl, for like $62 a ticket.

Agree with everything you said. But that's why Raiders won't stay in Oakland. Vegas and San Antonio political leadres appear to still be thuggish enough to screw their constituents.

40 million tourists a year and it's the NFL...I think Vegas makes more sense than just about any City without an NFL team.

btw: Sun Life was half to 3/4 full that day...with the Dolphins honoring Zach Thomas and Jason Taylor.