electricbugs2 posted...
Lets wait and see how the Raiders and As do long term first.
The Golden Knights are by far the most popular team in the city and the Raiders havent gotten the same level of fan support yet.
The beauty of the vegas teams though is they don't need actual fan support for the vegas teams specifically. People flock to the games from out of town to see their teams play the vegas teams. The concern though comes in those longer regular season sports like nba and baseball specifically where it'd be rare for someone to fly in for a 1/162 game in the middle of July or whatever
Football - 17 games a year, absolutely gonna fly for a game.
NHL - the team itself has a solid base and the arena only holds like 20k so it's not hard to fill capacity. Plus people on the strip with no care for either team might still pop in.
NBA - similar to NHL, the base won't take long to establish and doesn't have huge arenas either.
MLB - I'd be a little nervous here. Even if the A's don't suck, I can't possibly imagine flying in to watch the royals (or whatever) in the middle of july in a non-covered stadium. There should still be enough foot traffic though to maintain some semblance of attention. Especially when the owners start spending all the money they've been hoarding while they bide their time for the move. They'll be able to buy so many big names.