Since the stadium opened in 2020, the Raiders have had trouble keeping opposing fans from buying up tickets for at Allegiant Stadium, but with the Chargers in town for the season opener, it looks like the Raiders are going to have a legitimate home field advantage on Monday night.
According to data collected by Vivid Seats, 86 percent of the fans at Allegiant Stadium on Monday are expected to be Raider fans.
Considering the close proximity of the Chargers, it’s a little bit of a surprise that only 14 percent of the stadium is expected to be Charger fans, but it’s also no secret that Los Angeles hasn’t overwhelmingly embraced the Chargers since they moved to the city in 2017.
For what it’s worth, the Chargers are favored to win Monday’s game and are 3.5-point favorites at BetMGM.
The Chargers are coming off a 27-21 win over the Chiefs in Brazil and the Raiders were 20-13 winners over the Patriots on Sunday.
As for the rest of the AFC West, the Broncos travel to the Colts and the Chiefs will host the Eagles in a rematch of Super Bowl LIX.
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It’s about time more Las Vegas residents stand up, and support the Raiders!
Vegas was about money nothing more. Vegas residents can’t afford to go to games. There are more visiting fans, making a vacation out of it than there are raider fans there. Proof is in the colors every game. And this preseason they started piping in manufactured crowd, noise. It was absolutely pathetic against the 49ers when there was three times as much bread as there was black in the stands. And the fake decibel reading up on the big screen. Pathetic.
Red
We shut teams down in Oakland like few home teams ever had, but our team was broke. The financial struggles were real and I got that from Marc Badain first hand and in person after being called in as a consultant. ( I recommended we explore areas that have a more buisness freindly climate, which means out of California.)
The Raiders are now making money but not bidding on the top tier free agents? If you want to fill up your stands you have to win, especially if that ticket is the most expensive in the NFL. To win you mut spend more money on acquiring top talent and free agents. This is a new problem, Mark Davis is not known for being stingy but “Coupon Tom Telsco” did not retain Josh Jacobs along with other cheap @$$ moves. Our New GM is drafting really well and even acquiring real talent right off the waiver wire but not spending the money either?
Baseball is a sport where teams can make money without winning and they are content to stay in that place. Pressure must be brought to bare on the Raiders if we are to win. In Oakland we demanded a winner and we got what we called for in what ever we needed to win.
Here is the bottom line all right, we dont need a cheap @$$ Raiders Buisness Operations running a cheap @$$ Raiders Football Operations Ok. If we are committed to excellence we will get the most excellent players despite the cost. If we are serious about winning we must spend like it. Keep an eye on what we spend this off season or not, it will require we spend to improve into a play off and then a championship team.
“First you get the best Coaches then you get the best players and tell them just one thing, JUST WIN BABY.”
(Al Davis’ simple formula that costs and has been forgotten about by his son Mark.) Fine so be it, then let’s take this matter up with Tom Brady!
Go Ra#1ders
Spending to buy is reckless. Having available capital for the right player is prudent. Overpaying players is not how you succeed in this league anymore. It’s going to take several seasons for us to build depth and blue chip players out of drafts.
When you’re one player away from a Super Bowl contender, that’s when you spend the money.
If you want to win a Superbowl you must also build through free agency to get you over the hump and there by winning a conference championship first.
Here are the free agents that got us to the Superbowl from our last AFC championship team and no nothing has changed;
Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Rod Woodon.
Offensive Tackle Lincoln Kennedy. Could our offensive line have benifited from some top level free agents this year? (Please)
Defensive Tackles Sam Adams and John Perrella.
Half Back Charlie Garner.
There were more and this is true of any championship roster. They are built via the draft with key free agents, the free agents come at a price with more cap room than there has ever been before.
Nothing further,
(Mike drop)
West Side Pirate
Um yeah a game against the Charges Vegas, or not that would be the one game every season. No matter how good or bad the Raiders are at the time. I would expect the crowd to firmly be pulling for the Raiders. Especially this early in the season. Let’s see them pull in 86 percent Raider fans. When they play a team like the Cowboys in Vegas.
To be clear I am a Raider fan. My point here though the Cowboys have a similar nation wide appeal to what the Raiders have. It is a lot easier to plan 1 trip a year to Vegas to watch your favorite team play the Raiders in Vegas then it is for a Raiders fan to commit to a minimum of 8 trips to Vegas every year. It will be a long time before the Raiders have a true home field advantage in Vegas every game. The crowd will always lean Raiders, but when the Majority of your fan base doesn’t look with in practical driving distance from the stadium, because they don’t even live in Nevada let alone in the Vegas area. Yeah most home games will be more like 60 or 65 percent Raider 35 or 40 percent other team. Chargers are an exception.
There probably were some legit pissed off Charger fans when they went to LA. However depending on Traffic they can still reasonably drive to the game in LA and back home in the same day.
It is a much bigger and costly investment to go to a Raiders game in Vegas.
All that being said from a business stand point the move to Vegas was brilliant. The Raiders can suck for years, and the stadium will still be full on game day. The NFL doesn’t give a flying monkey crap which team the fans are actually rooting for. As long as that stadium is full. The NFL still makes money.
Sure I am sure Davis’s ego gets a little bruised when it is more of the 60/40 split, but all he has to do is check his bank account balance the pain goes away.
Hopefully someday the Raiders will have a true homefield advantage in Vegas every home game. That may take another decade or more though.
So for now it is one true home game in Vegas. All the other games in Vegas will be neutral site games with the crowd favoring the Raiders.