{"id":10660,"date":"2017-03-27T20:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/03\/27\/raiders-set-to-split-for-las-vegas-leaving-oakland-in-a-year-or-two\/"},"modified":"2017-03-27T20:48:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:48:28","slug":"raiders-set-to-split-for-las-vegas-leaving-oakland-in-a-year-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/raiders-set-to-split-for-las-vegas-leaving-oakland-in-a-year-or-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders Set To Split For Las Vegas, Leaving Oakland … In A Year Or Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By an overwhelming 31-1 vote, NFL owners have approved the Raiders’ move from Oakland to Las Vegas \u2014 though the team will still remain in the Bay Area for at least the 2017 season and possibly longer.<\/p>\n

“My father always said, ‘the greatness of the Raiders is in its future,’ ” Raiders owner Mark Davis said in a statement Monday<\/a>, “and the opportunity to build a world-class stadium in the entertainment capital of the world is a significant step toward achieving that greatness.”<\/p>\n

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Raiders owner Mark Davis discusses the decision to relocate the team to Las Vegas. https:\/\/t.co\/9uIHq8FslE<\/a><\/p>\n

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The move \u2014 whenever it should inevitably take place \u2014 will end the Raiders’ on-again, off-again relationship with the team’s longtime home. Founded in 1960, the Raiders spent their first two decades as a club in Oakland, notching two Super Bowl titles before they left town for Los Angeles in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

That southern sojourn ended in 1995, when the team returned to the waiting embrace of the city it left more than a decade earlier.<\/p>\n

But recently, Davis had appeared to be itching to leave the city once more, going in on a bid with the Chargers to move both teams to Los Angeles \u2014 a bid that voted down by NFL owners early last year. The Chargers ultimately did complete a deal to move to LA<\/a> earlier this year, though.<\/p>\n