Football Stadium Digest
Football Stadium Digest covers major stories and events in the planning, construction and operations of NCAA and professional NFL football stadiums across the United States and Canada.
A proposal to slash the public contribution toward a new $1.45-billion Las Vegas domed stadium from $700 million to $550 million didn’t excite members of the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee, as the effort to bring the Oakland Raiders to Sin City hit its first serious roadblock. (more…)
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is intensifying his efforts to keep the Raiders in Oakland with the assistance of an African-American stadium investment group led by Ronnie Lott and Rodney Peete, while Raiders owner Mark Davis has upped his commitment to a new Las Vegas stadium. (more…)
Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis has pledged $500 million toward a new Las Vegas stadium and will move his team there if the $1.4 billion facility becomes a reality. (more…)
What’s the clearest path for Las Vegas to land the Oakland Raiders? Approval for a new downtown San Diego Chargers and a whole lot of NFL owners approving the move. But there is a very plausible roadmap for the Oakland to Vegas move. (more…)
The NFL schedule makers set in stone on Thursday night what the league has been planning for more than a year – and in some ways more than a decade. (more…)
It’s fitting, in a way, that the latest NFL franchise to make a move across the chessboard that is North America has landed at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. (more…)
The NFL is working to keep the Raiders in Oakland and the Chargers in San Diego, even at a time when Las Vegas is wooing Mark Davis and Stan Kroenke is openly keep the door open for Dean Spanos and crew to join the Rams in Los Angeles. (more…)
Mark Davis met with Las Vegas Sands Corp. CEO Sheldon Adelson about a plan to build a billion-dollar Las Vegas domed stadium off the Strip for the UNLV football team and potentially the Raiders, but the lure of Los Angeles and the lack of an NFL-level facility in Vegas may impact any deal. Adelson, the billionaire […]
A San Diego Chargers Los Angeles decision for the 2016 season could come from team owners by the end of the week, as they faces a no-lose situation — at least in the beginning. (more…)
If the San Diego Chargers end up sharing a new Los Angeles-area stadium with the Los Angeles Rams, the NFL shuffle may continue with the Oakland Raiders pursuing a more modest stadium proposal in San Diego. (more…)