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No surprise,by a 31-1 vote the NFL owners approved aRaider move to Las Vegas.The team will remain in Oakland at least two more seasons till the new stadium is complete
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Next, they'll trade with Seattle for the rights to Oakland native Marshawn Lynch in an effort to get the locals to still come and see a lame duck team.Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus. -
Will be interesting to see the "trouble" Raiders players get into living and working in "Sin City." Could be constant headlines"My team, may they always be right, but right or wrong...MY TEAM!"Comment
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I bet they win every home game and cover all the spreadsSteelers 27
Rats 16Comment
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Rooney: 'These are difficult decisions'
Posted 54 minutes ago
Teresa Varley
Steelers' President Art Rooney II on owners approving the Raiders move.
The votes are in, and the Oakland Raiders move to Las Vegas has been approved.
The proposal to relocate received more than the required three-quarters, or 24 votes, from ownership. The vote was 31-1.
Steelers President Art Rooney II, the Chairman of the NFL's Stadium Committee, spoke during a press conference at the NFL Owners Meetings in Phoenix, Arizona about the move. Rooney, along with others on the Stadium Committee, worked for months on the relocation project for viable options.
“These are difficult decisions,” said Rooney. “I think anyone who has visited Oakland and played a game there in the last several years understands the situation there was difficult at best. We needed a solution. I think we did wait a considerable amount of time to see if a plan could be developed to keep the team in Oakland. We appreciate Mayor (Libby) Schaaf’s efforts to try and put something on the table. My own personal opinion is that the presence of the baseball team on that site was a complication that they couldn’t find a way to work around.
“We are here today with a situation where I think the future of the Raiders can be much more solid playing in a first class stadium. We are happy the Raiders are going to have a home for the long term and appreciate the efforts from Las Vegas and Nevada for helping make that happen.”
The Raiders will play the 2017 season in Oakland, with a timetable on the move not confirmed.
The Raiders entered the NFL in 1960, beginning play in Oakland that season through the 1981 season. In 1982 the Raiders moved to Los Angeles, a place they called home through the 1994 season. The Raiders moved back to Oakland in 1995, and have played there ever since.
http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Rooney-These-are-difficult-decisions/0ff4afc0-6a44-4529-88cd-bdd61d4ea63aSteeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.Comment
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I personally don't like it. I think having a team in Vegas makes sense, but I like the Raiders being in Oakland. I hate seeing a passionate fan base lose its team.Comment
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Me too but what were the Raiders suppose to do? At the 11th hour, the city of Oakland runs in with a viable deal when they could have done it say, 16 years ago? Now they want to give viable deals? City of Oakland has no one to blame but themselves and the fans too. None of them acted like the Raiders would leave again thinking the Raiders had "learned their lesson" about leaving. Their own fans were non-chalant about them leaving again. And it bite the Raider fans and the city of Oakland officials in the @ss. Now they have to road trip it to Vegas.Comment
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makes me wish there was a law the gives the city legal ownership of the teams name.
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I do wish the City of Oakland actually could have kept them but they didn't want to pony up the money.Comment
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I've been to Oakland and to Las Vegas and if I'm a player there is no doubt that Vegas is where I'd want to be. Oakland is like the West Coast version of Baltimore.Obviously the standard is the standard.Comment
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Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.Comment
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