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Originally Posted by ThePhun1
Vegas has a very untraditional labor force that can work at any point in the 24 hour day. Their traditional labor force with any level of disposable income is tiny and a very small percentage that live in Vegas lived there 40 years ago, meaning few people are going to be loyal to any team there.
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^Do you have a source for this information? Those working the 3rd shift could attend a 7pm game before their shift. Also, that untraditional labor force you speak of still has 2 days off of work to entertain themselves.
Las Vegas has a permanent population of 2.2 million people and growing at a fast rate [not to mention the millions of entertainment crazed tourists].
*Tourists: 2016 set the all-time record for number of tourists to Clark County at 42,936,100. 2017 was 42,214,200 with an all-time high - Room Tax Collections of $282 million.
*2017 McCarren International set an all-time record number of passengers at 48,500,194.
*Population information:
Las Vegas MSA population will pass Sacramento and Pittsburgh within 2-3 years. Las Vegas MSA is already larger than Cincinnati, Kansas City, Austin, Columbus, Cleveland, Indianapolis, San Jose, Nashville, Milwaukee, Jacksonville, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, Buffalo -- I think you get the point.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with Vegas, but it's a pretty compact Valley, meaning you can access the strip [T-Mobile Arena and the new Raiders' stadium is just off the 15 freeway behind New York NY Casino/Hotel and Mandalay Bay] from the suburbs of Henderson on the east and Summerlin on the west in 20 minutes or less. You can literally be in the emptiness of the desert without another town for 100 miles and have a view of the strip -- it's compact.
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Originally Posted by ThePhun1
The NFL makes sense because there's only 8 (12) dates a year and it's popular among tourists and gamblers, plus the team moving there is very popular in California and with its local transplants.
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You're stating that the NFL would be popular for the same reasons that other sports franchises would be popular. It's a city full of tourists and transplants and that city's entire existence is based on entertaining people.
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Originally Posted by ThePhun1
Hockey is about as foreign as it gets. I just don't see how it'll survive unless the GK's make a deep playoff run every year for the first 20 years. MLS makes sense and if not hockey, then the NBA makes sense as an arena sport.
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Las Vegas is in the desert, but I don't think Hockey is foreign to Vegas when it's a city full of transplants and tourists. Hockey seems to do well along coastal California, places that are much warmer than Vegas in the wintertime.
Is your reasoning because hockey players aren't born and raised in Las Vegas therefore people won't watch it there?
I think the NBA would do great in Vegas.