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Old 03-30-2018, 01:43 PM
 
Location: East Central Phoenix
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I have to hand it to Las Vegas. Never thought it would be possible to have pro sports teams because of the gambling connection, but Vegas has pulled it off with the Golden Knights, which is a top notch team in its infancy. By 2020, the Oakland Raiders are scheduled to move into a new state of the art stadium across I15 from the Mandalay Bay resort.

This is another thing I'm impressed with. The new stadium will be in a desired location not too far from the Strip. This is a lot better than the location of some of Phoenix's pro sports teams, which are situated in far flung arenas far away from most things. And the name of the teams (Vegas Golden Knights, Vegas Raiders): far more impressive and sensible than most of Phoenix's teams ... three of which don't even contain the Phoenix name (Arizona Cardinals, Arizona Coyotes, and Arizona Diamondbacks).
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Old 03-30-2018, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Cali
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I have to hand it to Las Vegas. Never thought it would be possible to have pro sports teams because of the gambling connection, but Vegas has pulled it off with the Golden Knights, which is a top notch team in its infancy. By 2020, the Oakland Raiders are scheduled to move into a new state of the art stadium across I15 from the Mandalay Bay resort.

This is another thing I'm impressed with. The new stadium will be in a desired location not too far from the Strip. This is a lot better than the location of some of Phoenix's pro sports teams, which are situated in far flung arenas far away from most things. And the name of the teams (Vegas Golden Knights, Vegas Raiders): far more impressive and sensible than most of Phoenix's teams ... three of which don't even contain the Phoenix name (Arizona Cardinals, Arizona Coyotes, and Arizona Diamondbacks).
But why leave out "Las" from Vegas?😨
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Old 03-30-2018, 11:31 PM
 
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But why leave out "Las" from Vegas?😨
Some people just won't let things go. The ship has sailed on that one, only bitter people or people who don't care about hockey still making noise about it.
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Old 03-31-2018, 06:20 AM
 
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The world know Las Vegas as Vegas. Everytime someone asks us where we live, when traveling, we say Las Vegas and they always say Oh Vegas! or some form of it.
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Old 03-31-2018, 09:58 AM
 
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But why leave out "Las" from Vegas?��
Because Vegas Golden Knights and Vegas Raiders have swankier rings to them. Las Vegas Golden Knights doesn't roll off the tongue.
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Old 03-31-2018, 10:25 AM
 
Location: Lone Mountain for good
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have swankier rings to them
And when it comes to sports teams is there any more important reason than this?
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Old 03-31-2018, 10:41 AM
 
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As far as I've heard, it will be the Las Vegas Raiders. Not just Vegas Raiders.
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Old 03-31-2018, 02:07 PM
 
Location: Cali
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As far as I've heard, it will be the Las Vegas Raiders. Not just Vegas Raiders.
Good!🏈
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Old 03-31-2018, 02:51 PM
 
Location: East Central Phoenix
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Whether it's Vegas or Las Vegas: it's all the same to most everybody. It still sounds a lot better than the Nevada Golden Knights or the Nevada Raiders. Contrast this to Phoenix where seemingly everything is named Arizona this and Arizona that, which gives the nation's 5th largest city very little identity. Your city may be new to pro sports, but so far you're doing things the right way! Way to go Vegas ... or Las Vegas ... whatever!
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Old 04-01-2018, 01:43 PM
 
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You also have soccer team Las Vegas Lights FC. I wonder when they going to move up MLS. There is no more second tier, so they dont have to worry about winning their league championship.
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