Some of you might be thinking, ‘wait, didn’t we do this a year ago? If not then what was all the ceremonial groundbreaking stuff?’ Yeah, there was an approval around this time last year. That was to approve the Raiders to move from Oakland to Las Vegas. What the league had yet to approve was their 65,000-seat stadium financing plan.
Today at the owners meeting in Orlando Florida that plan was passed by the owners by a 31-1 vote.
The deal includes a record $750 million in public funds toward the $1.