A Green Retractable Football Field Grows In Las Vegas
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
When you visit the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium, you’re struck by the gleaming black exterior. But there is some green growing, too, at the stadium that will slide in a retractable tray holding the venue’s playing surface into the venue.
LVSportsBiz.com visited the $1.97 billion stadium project (the stadium construction itself is $1.4 billion) Thursday and stood outside the perimeter fence along Polaris Avenue to see a corner of the green field. A pleasant worker volunteered to take more photos such as the story’s lead photo and the one below here.
The Raiders also supplied these two pictures.
The Raiders will play their two home preseason games at the stadium on August 27 against the Cardinals and Sept. 3 against the Rams.
Channel 5 in las Vegas, KVVU, a Meredith Corporation (NYSE: MDP)- owned television station , announced Thursday the extension of its partnership with the Las Vegas Raiders making KVVU the Official Broadcast Home of the Las Vegas Raiders.
As the Official Broadcast Home of the Raiders, KVVU FOX5 will have the exclusive market rights to carry the Raiders pre-season games, along with producing and airing the pre-game shows for those matchups. During the NFL’s regular season, KVVU will have the same market exclusivity to air the Raiders post-game shows and Jon Gruden’s weekly press conferences. In addition, KVVU will air the Las Vegas Raiders Season Preview Show.
LVSportsBiz.com also visited the Strip and saw a few businesses like the Denny’s restaurants were open.
But most are closed.
And the COVID-19 numbers for Nevada by the end of business Thursday.
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