From 1960 to 1982 the Raiders were located in Oakland, they then moved to Los Angeles until 1995 and then they moved back to Oakland and have called that home for the past 22 years. However, starting in the 2018 season the Raiders are going to relocate once again; this time to Las Vegas.

How can this move possibly help the team, the sport, or, most importantly, the fans? The NFL is a business, yes, but the decisions they make for money are sometimes incredibly outrageous.

In the past 14 months alone, they’ve relocated 3 teams. The Rams moved from St. Louis to Los Angeles, the Chargers from San Diego also to Los Angeles, and now the Oakland Raiders will be moving to Las Vegas.

The NFL has always been against having a team in Vegas, they’ve always been against gambling and they have tried fixing the gambling problem. Just 2 years ago NFL commissioner Roger goodell said he was against the idea of legalizing sports betting. So let’s put a team in Vegas, GREAT JOB NFL YOU DID IT AGAIN.          

The Raiders have been in Oakland for many years and they’ve gone through some incredibly bad times. They’ve had horrible seasons and as of late, they’ve started turning it around. With a franchise quarterback in Derek Carr and a great defense led by Khalil Mack, the future looks bright for the Raiders. So let’s rip them out of Oakland and move them to a city that’s never had a NFL team-great idea.

Derek Carr was drafted in 2014 and he has been with the Raiders since. He is a loved man throughout the city of Oakland and he always expresses his love for the city that drafted him. When they moved Derek tweeted that he would have loved to play in Oakland his whole career, but he won’t get the chance.

Oakland has the Warriors in the NBA who are a great team, the A’s in the MLB are awful, but football has always been the heart and sole of Oakland and they love their Raiders.

Oakland was there through the struggles and they are excited about the future, the only problem is the future is being taken away from them. It was an awful decision by the NFL, the Raiders belong in Oakland, those fans deserve a winning team and they were going to get one, then it was taken away. Horrible job for by the NFL and anyone in Oakland that wanted to see a Raiders Super Bowl come to the Bay Area, I’m truly sorry.