PHOENIX — The picturesque Arizona landscape shares a striking similarity to Las Vegas, the old gambling town that is primed to become the headliner at the NFL’s annual owners meetings that opened Sunday.
On a warm, clear desert day professional football’s royalty streamed into the Arizona Biltmore, a sprawling resort that has been the favorite landing for U.S. presidents since Herbert Hoover.
Billionaire owners of America’s most popular sports league are expected perhaps Monday morning to determine the fate of some of their most devoted fans from Northern California.
As NFL commissioner Roger Goodell outlined Friday in a letter to Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf, owners are will consider Mark Davis’ ambitions to leave the East Bay for Last Vegas.