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LAS VEGAS, Nevada — It was easy to make a case that tourism-based Las Vegas needed a bigtime domed stadium to compete against the likes of Los Angeles and Orlando.
Whether Southern Nevada should have contributed $750 million to help the NFL Raiders build the palatial venue, well, that’s a public policy debate for another day. Officially speaking, the metro Las Vegas area still has to raise $1.1 billion to pay off the debt on the $750 million stadium construction contribution.
That’s why Las Vegas’ public tourism agency charged with attracting money-spending visitors to the Strip and Vegas is working with Allegiant Stadium and the Raiders to create programming for the 62,000-seat stadium on the west side of I-15 across from Mandalay Bay. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) is headed by CEO Steve Hill.
That effort played out about three hours before the Raiders vs Chiefs game as Hill joined the Raiders team president, Sandra Douglass Morgan, and sports promoter Position Sports to announce the first college basketball games at Allegiant Stadium in Nov. 2027.
The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame-backed college hoops series will have Duke play Arizona and Indiana play Kansas Nov. 12, 2027, with college basketball’s Final Four set for Allegiant Stadium in 2028.
Any time visitors at Allegiant Stadium buy a hotel room here in Vegas, they are helping pay off the public debt on the stadium via a room tax. It’s an unofficial stadium user fee, in a way.
It’s a very different funding source than the public money that will be raised for the $380 million earmarked to help the A’s build their domed, 30,000-seat, $1.5 billion ballpark on the Strip. Tax credits and bonds expected to be passed by Clark County commissioners that will paid off by a special tax in a ballpark entertainment district are funding the A’s stadium. (A Las Vegas stadium board meeting is set for 9:30AM Thursday.)
The Raiders run the NFL stadium and generate hundreds of millions of dollars from the various events staged at the domed venue.
It’s become old news that many Raiders “home” games are attended by tens of thousands of fans following the visiting team.
Bear witness to today’s Chiefs-Raiders game where the color red is the main decorative feature to the interior of this stadium. The iconic Raiders’ Silver & Black franchise has been reduced to a lavish Las Vegas sports tourist attraction and a money-generating geyser for Raiders owner Mark Davis, who has seen his franchise value skyrocket from $1.43 billion in 2014 to $6.7 billion in 2024 thanks to Allegiant Stadium’s revenue-generating ways.
The Raiders, which have won two of seven games this season entering today’s game, were competitive in the first half against an undefeated Chiefs squad.
A Patrick Mahomes-led TD drive was matched by a Gardner Minshew II-led drive for a 7-7 score after the opening quarter before Raiders placekicker Daniel Carlson booted a 54-yarder for a Raiders 10-7 lead early in the second quarter.
But the Chiefs scored ten straight points on a Mahomes’ TD pass to Travis Kelce from five yards away and a Harrison Butker 42-yard FG with four seconds left in the first half.
Score at halftime: Chiefs 17 Raiders 10 thanks to the Chiefs converting six of seven third downs and Mahomes passing for 182 yards.
The Raiders stepped it up in the third quarter.
Carlson booted a 32-yarder to narrow the Chiefs lead to 17-13 before Tre’von Moehrig intercepted a Mahomes pass and brought it back three yards shy of a pick-6.
But the Raiders couldn’t score and the Chiefs defense stormed off the field with 3:27 left in the third quarter with KC preserving its 17-13 lead.
The Chiefs were brilliant on third down.
On third-and-12, Mahomes ran for 14 yards and KC was nine of 11 on third down.
Mahomes then hit Kelce with another third down conversion as time melted to less than ten minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
Butker chipped in a 24-yarder and KC led, 20-13.
Minshew has been prone to turnovers this season and this time the fumble bug bit the Raiders quarterback. He fumbled while being sacked at 8:06 of the fourth.
The Chiefs’ third down conversion continued to roll. Twelve of 15 first down conversions on third down and the Chiefs salted away their seventh win with a nine-yard catch-and-run TD by speedy Xavier Worthy from Mahomes.
Chiefs 27 Raiders 13 with 4:49 to go.
Minshew connected with DJ Turner on an 11-yard TD pass and the Raiders were within seven at 27-20.
The Chiefs recovered the Raiders onside kick, Mahomes took a knee three times and the two-time defending NFL champs walked out of Allegiant Stadium with a 27-20 win. For betting types, the Raiders covered the 8 1/2 point spread. Paid attendance was announced at 62,533.