ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Yes, the Oakland Raiders' march to the desert to become the Las Vegas Raiders took another step Thursday with the 11-member Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee voting unanimously to recommend $750 million in public funding for a $1.9 billion stadium.
"We are excited," Raiders owner Mark Davis told ESPN.com. "Thank you to the SNTIC."
Davis was in the Bay Area, monitoring the meeting, while Raiders team president Marc Badain was at the meeting on the UNLV campus.
"Everybody at that table should be very proud of themselves," Badain told the meeting after the vote.