{"id":227094,"date":"2017-03-28T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=227094"},"modified":"2017-03-29T16:13:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:13:11","slug":"nfl-moves-raiders-to-strip-club-capitol-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/28\/nfl-moves-raiders-to-strip-club-capitol-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Moves Raiders to Strip Club Capitol of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So we mentioned this yesterday. Didn\u2019t talk about it in much detail because it was just announced. The Raiders moving to Las Vegas. You know, there\u2019s a thing called location fee that the moving owner has to pay to the other league owners. Do you know what this location is gonna end up being for Mark Davis who owns the Raiders? He\u2019s gonna have to pay every other owner $11 million.<\/p>\n

The St. Louis Rams had a huge relocation fee when they abandoned the St. Louis market for Los Angeles. When you have it explained to you what the purpose of the location fee is, it\u2019s about, okay, this owner\u2019s going from a small market to a large market. We are allowing it to happen, so a he\u2019s gonna share with us some of the increased revenue moving to a bigger market gets. That\u2019s part of it. Los Angeles much larger market than St. Louis, for example. Now, Oakland, Vegas — something to that. But $11 million for each owner, at least that\u2019s the latest calculation, it\u2019s not chump change.<\/p>\n

Plus Vegas is gonna contribute $750 million to a stadium, which they hope to have completed in 2019 or 2020. So the Raiders announced yesterday they\u2019re gonna move to Vegas in two or three years while at the same time urging fans to come out and support us in Oakland while you have a chance. I want to see how that\u2019s gonna — there\u2019s another thing here too. NFL TV ratings were down 9% last year, despite the rebound during the playoffs, NFL ratings down for the first time in a long time.<\/p>\n

And they never really fully understood why. They researched it, they studied it, they think it\u2019s too many commercial breaks, they think it\u2019s too many games, Sunday night, Monday afternoon, Monday night, Thursday night, they think games are too slow, the replays, all of these things that used to never contribute to bad ratings, now they\u2019re all saying do. I don\u2019t think that is it. I think they\u2019re missing the elephant in the room as to why TV ratings are down.<\/p>\n

But beyond that, let me ask a question. In one year, maybe say two if you want to — it\u2019s actually one year, but you got three teams relocate. You have St. Louis Rams moving to Los Angeles, San Diego Chargers — and the way to put this, St. Louis Rams abandon St. Louis, the San Diego Chargers leave San Diego, and now the Oakland Raiders leave Oakland.
\nIn the case of San Diego and Oakland, two-storied, multidecade NFL franchises pulling up roots in the midst of TV ratings being down. What does this say about the game\u2019s overall popularity if these owners are being forced to move \u2019cause in Oakland they can\u2019t get a new stadium built that will generate the revenue that say they can generate in Texas or in New York or with new stadiums such as in Atlanta or wherever.<\/p>\n

But what about the fan base? It is not the fans\u2019 fault that there\u2019s not a new stadium built in Oakland. But it\u2019s the fans of the Oakland Raiders. And this is the second time they\u2019ve been dropped at the altar. Al Davis moved to LA once, then back to Oakland. San Diego stadium issue, problem. You know how they got it in Vegas? Hotel tax. The people that visit Vegas are gonna be paying for the Las Vegas Raiders stadium in part.<\/p>\n

But then there\u2019s this. In addition to the abandonment of three markets, does that happen in leagues that are overwhelmingly loved and popular? Now you\u2019re gonna have 21- to 28- to 33-year-old young men — married or single, doesn\u2019t matter — they\u2019re gonna have six months a year off, six months a year on working in Las Vegas with strippers, strip clubs, gambling, adult beverages. Is the Las Vegas team gonna be able to field a team every Sunday?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: It\u2019s also gonna be interesting to see starting in 2019, 2020 when the Raiders move to Las Vegas, to see if NFL players on the Vegas team could go bankrupt faster than the usual NFL players in other markets. There will be a number of different, shall we say, metrics that we can use to gauge whether or not the move — imagine the visiting teams going into Las Vegas. Take your average — (interruption) Take who? What team has the most arrested players on it? Take them to Vegas the Saturday night before the game.<\/p>\n

No, it might be Cincinnati. I think it\u2019s always gonna be Cincinnati. Maybe not lately, but league average Cincinnati has the most arrested players, most players serving jail time in the off-season. Anyway, take your pick. I mean, you want to say the Giants, I don\u2019t know, but take your average NFL team to Vegas as the road team, road teams always go in on the night, the day before the game, but teams on the East Coast when traveling to the western time zones sometimes leave on Friday to adjust to it. And the players are obviously going to be lobbying for this. So you have maybe two nights if you\u2019re the Patriots, but Belichick will have them under lock and chain, but the Jets, the fish — ah, the fish have South Beach. I mean, they\u2019re used this, the Dolphins.<\/p>\n

\"\"So you put your average team in a road game, Friday night, Saturday night, a game on Sunday, they\u2019re overnight, two nights in Las Vegas. These are young guys that have more money than they\u2019ve ever dreamed of having in their lives. Coaches and management, “I can\u2019t tell my players what to think or what to do.” That\u2019s the reaction to Kaepernick. I mean it\u2019s the Millennial generation. You don\u2019t tell \u2019em what to do now. It\u2019s not like football coaches in the old days ran boot camps, or do that anymore.<\/p>\n

But the NFL, there was a time the NFL, “No way. We\u2019re not even gonna let you fly over Los Vegas on your way to Oakland or Seattle,” such is the stench of gambling there. Now they\u2019re gonna have a team located in the legal gambling capital of the United States, the legal strip club capital of the United States. This may do wonders for NFL ratings, the stuff that happens off the field. The stuff that makes the news before the game\u2019s even played. Well, then add to the drama of what happens on the field after all this off-field stuff, which is gonna happen. It\u2019s guaranteed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: They're gonna have six months a year off, six months a year on working in Las Vegas with strippers, strip clubs, gambling, adult beverages. 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