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More than 15,400 Football Fans Have Received Their First COVID-19 Vaccination Shots To Attend Raiders Home Games At Allegiant Stadium

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

While the Vegas Golden Knights do not require proof of COVID-19 vaccination for fans to attend home games and allow fans to not wear a mask at T-Mobile Arena games, the Las Vegas Raiders are forging ahead with their vax requirement for games at Allegiant Stadium.

Once again, the Raiders will have their COVID tent open in two Allegiant Stadium parking lots Saturday and Sunday for tomorrow’s Raiders vs Bengals game.

Owner Mark Davis instituted the Raiders proof of vaccination policy before start of season.

The Raiders have had the vaccination requirement in place for six games so far.

More than 46,000 fans have entered the tents and used the in-person alternate screening to deal with COVID-19 vaccination issues.

More than 15,400 have received their first vaccinations in order to attend Raiders home games. The vax shots were either onsite when offered on game day or on the day before game day, while others received vaccinations at off-stadium sites before the game and were verified to attend the home Raiders game.

Of these fans, more than 1,200 fans have received vaccinations at Allegiant Stadium.

About two months ago, the Raiders said about 700 season ticket holders representing 1,800 tickets  requested refunds or rolled over their ticket deal to 2022 in response to the Raiders’ vax requirements.

Allegiant Stadium fans are allowed to not wear masks because they are vaccinated.

At Golden Knights games, many VGK fans do not wear masks despite the state’s indoor mask mandate and nobody knows whether they are vaccinated or not. In fact, the Golden Knights own in-house entertainment routinely show mask-less fans on the arena’s center-hung scoreboard. Even the team’s hockey brass do not wear masks.


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The Raiders host the Cincinnati Bengals at Allegiant Stadium Sunday at 1 PM. Both teams are 5-4 with two-game losing streaks. The Raiders have coped with a season of adversity with a head coach who resigned because of toxic, offensive emails and two top draft-pick players who have been waived because of serious off-field problems.

Stadium photo by Tom Donoghue
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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