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What the Las Vegas Raiders Mean For the Oakland Raiders

Written by Sam DeCoste Today, the NFL announced its third relocation in the past 18 months. Now it will be the Raiders who will be changing cities. They will play in the Oakland Coliseum for the next two seasons (2017, 2018) before moving to play in a temporary facility in 2019, and then to their new palace of a stadium to open in 2020. As the last year progressed, the possibility of the Raiders moving to Vegas became more and more inevitable. Mark Davis, owner of the Raiders, expressed his desire to relocate the team to Las Vegas back in April of 2016. The idea seemed far fetched at first, but as time progressed, the NFL realized just how realistic this can be and how well it can work. The idea earned support and encouragement from Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys and Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots, arguably the two most iconic owners in the NFL. Mark Davis knew the Raiders needed a new stadium, because the Oakland Coliseum was not going to cut it for