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Viva Las Vegas: A shuttered party city waits for its time to shine again with NFL festivities

Las Vegas being Las Vegas, and the NFL being the NFL, Thursday’s marriage of a forever self-promoting football draft with a backdrop of ostentatious, over-the-top absurdity was going to be, well ...

“It was going to be a celebration of everything Vegas is about,” said Chris Baldizan, a senior vice president with MGM Resorts International who sits on the board of Las Vegas Events. “Everything that you could imagine.”

It was going to be glorious. Simply — and completely unnecessarily — glorious.

A scene last month on the Las Vegas Strip. (Damairs Carter/MediaPunch /IPX)

The 2020 NFL draft will not originate from Las Vegas, of course.