Las Vegas unveiled some star power at a pep rally Monday to pump up its stadium plan for the Raiders. Like, who doesn’t like Howie Long? Any political consultant knows you can’t go wrong with a popular Pro Football Hall of Famer out front for you.
Long makes perfect sense for Las Vegas, especially when you look at some of the other characters they’ve got to work with over there.
Take the state’s governor, for instance.
People over here probably remember Nevada’s Brian Sandoval as the guy whose administration put mentally ill people on the bus going anywhere to get them out of his psych ward in Las Vegas.