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Las Vegas Lights Owner Guaranteed Win, But Team Ties Austin So Owner Pays Up: All 8,017 Fans Get Free Ticket For Next Home Game March 30

Las Vegas Lights owner Brett Lashbrook announces soda pouring rights deal with Jarritos. Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

By ALAN SNEL

LVSportsBiz.com

 

LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell

 

When Las Vegas Lights FC owner Brett Lashbrook doesn’t come through on a guarantee of a win, he pays up.

 

The Lights played to a scoreless draw with the Austin Bold in the team’s season-opener at Cashman Field.

 

And that meant Lashbrook, who guaranteed a victory in the opening game, lost his self-imposed bet and will give a free ticket to all 8,017 fans for the next Lights’ home game March 30. At 20 bucks a ticket, that’s an unrealized guarantee worth more than $160,000 in tickets for Lashbrook.

 

As the game came to a close, Lashbrook stood as a solitary figure on the club level concourse watching the final few minutes, clapping and rooting for his team to register a goal to deliver his guarantee of a victory.

 

The Lights had a few chances in four minutes of extra play — like they did throughout the night — but could not register that winning goal. The Lights looked better than last year’s team, which had only eight wins out of 34 games and finished 15th out of 17 teams in the western conference of the United Soccer League.

 

When the PA announcer declared it was a zero to zero draw, Lashbrook told LVSportsBiz.com who had caught up with the Lights owner, “I believe in Las Vegas and this is a bump in the road. We promised a win and people will receive ticket vouchers as they leave.

 

“But everyone saw this is a different team. We wanted the three points and the win. But we showed Las Vegas this is a different team.”

Lights new coach Eric Wynalda.

 

 

It was a festive crowd. And Aviators President Don Logan officially received from the Lights the “pink scarf” on behalf of the Triple A baseball club that played more than three decades at Cashman and will not inaugurate a new ballpark in Downtown Summerlin. The Lights give the “pink scarf” to local leaders who make a difference in the community.

 

Logan declared to the crowd, “Let’s get lit,!” to start the game.

 

 

 

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Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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