Speaking as someone who had a much beloved professional sports franchise torn away from them, I’m never ecstatic to see teams leave their homes. When the NFL announced their owners had approved the Oakland Raiders move to Las Vegas today, I felt a twinge of sadness for the fans who will not only go through losing a team but had to endure a stadium that literally suffers sewage backups.
But what the NFL took away from Oakland, it gave to ... Larry Scott. Really!
Sure, the owners voted for their bottom lines and continuing the pilfering of public funds to assist in building stadia most of them could easily afford (a topic for another day) but the Pac-12 Conference was, quietly, a very big winner in the Raiders’ future move to The Meadows.