This was always going to be Mark Davis’ lasting legacy as the Raiders’ owner and the one, ultimate crusade that his father left for him.
Get the stadium. Guarantee the fiscal health of this family franchise into the decades. Just do that. Get the stadium.
And Mark Davis just did it. However the Las Vegas move turns out for the Raiders, whatever problems arise… he got this deal, and got it through the NFL voting, when so many presumed he couldn’t.
Which is exactly what his father needed him to do.
Al Davis was a giant, a football immortal, and the first and last of his kind, but he could never quite crack the code to get his beloved franchise a new, state-of-the-art stadium that would lift the Raiders and the Davis family into the loftier end of the NFL financial hierarchy.