By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
Simon and Delores got up early at their City of San Fernando home in the LA area and drove four hours to Las Vegas Sunday.
They wanted to take a look at the Raiders’ new stadium being built about a 15-minute walk from the Strip.
The couple lives in the Los Angeles area, but they plan to drive to all eight Raiders’ home games in Las Vegas next season because they are season ticket holders.
Simon, a warehouse worker, and Delores, a teacher’s aide, spent $8,000 for personal seat license for four seats and another $3,500 for season tickets for those our seats in the Raiders’ season one in Las Vegas.
Simon showed me the $8,000 personal seat license bill on his cell phone, and his last payment of about $2,700 to pay the PSL.
He said he was a big Los Angeles Raiders fan when the franchise played in Southern California and he even showed me a photo on himself from the 1980s with an LA Raiders pennant on the wall.
Delores noted their three kids are all Raiders fans, too.
I met the couple around 1:15 p.m. during my weekly bicycle ride to the site on the west side of Interstate 15 across the highway from Mandalay Bay hotel-casino. The site is just south of Hacienda Avenue, with the team expecting thousands of fans to walk from the Strip on Hacienda, which spans I-15, to reach the 65,000-seat domed venue.
Here’s a short video update of the stadium.
Sundays at the stadium construction site have become a tourist day for out-of-towners and locals alike to gaze at the stadium.
I also met Manuel, who works as an RV tech who has a Raiders license plate for his motorcycle.
He said he can’t afford to buy Raiders season tickets. But he hopes to attend a game or two.
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