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Raiders owner Mark Davis has made a valiant proclamation regarding his team’s first season in Las Vegas. If fans can’t attend the home games in person, Davis won’t attend either.
“I won’t go if the fans can’t go, and the way it looks right now there will be no fans in our games,” Davis said Saturday, via Vic Tafur of TheAthletic.com.
Davis also makes it clear that a partial capacity agreement will not work in the team’s new stadium.
“It’s all or nothing to me,” said Davis. “Either all the fans will be there or none. . . . I can’t tell a fan that they can’t go to the inaugural opening game in a stadium that they helped build through their PSLs. I won’t tell them they can’t go, but the rest of these guys can. . . and by the way, don’t worry because we can advertise on your seats. “
Davis voted against the use of tarps in the first eight rows of seats this season, the only owner who opposed the effort to create a shock absorber among the general public and players. At a minimum, then, you’ll have to displace those fans, if the stadium is somehow full.
“We are exhausted, so we have nowhere to put those 8,000 people,” Davis said.
The league, union, state, and / or city may have something to say about the all-or-nothing approach. With revenue due to a massive hit as a result of reduced or non-existent attendance, each team must take the opportunity to generate as much ticket revenue as possible. Beyond his duty to those who own a part of the franchise along with him, Davis may have a duty to generate as much income as possible, to the benefit of Nevada, Las Vegas, its 31 fellow owners and players. . .
Davis probably knows that. But the fact that he finally has to give in doesn’t stop him from taking a stand that will be popular with his fans and that will advance and cement his reputation as a renegade.
