The Raiders Are Going To Vegas!?

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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0:00.0	I simply don't like when people play pop psychologists, so I opt not to do so.
0:12.7	But the fact is, this is now the second generation of ownership that is opting to move
0:18.1	a team.
0:19.1	And let me be as direct as direct can be. It is opting to move a team. And let me be as direct as direct can be.
0:21.6	It is opting to move a team.
0:24.7	The team does not have to relocate.
0:27.7	Ownership is choosing to relocate.
0:30.3	When the Selective Service Committee presented this scenario where if you go in Muhammad, you're not actually,
0:41.3	as you know, going to be on the front line. You're going to be in special services, and you
0:47.3	will be boxing fitness training and morale boosting things in front of the troops.
0:53.3	He would say, that's actually even worse symbolically.
0:58.0	Because if I go over there and I'm in special services
1:01.0	and I'm treated like Elvis was, or Sammy Davis,
1:03.0	or Joe Lewis, and I'm doing these exhibitions,
1:07.0	it shows that I approve of the war and the U.S.'s role over there.
1:11.6	Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. We have a hell of a show this week. We are speaking to the only female CEO in the history of the National Football League, the author of You Negotiate Like a Girl, the one and only Amy Trask. Now, Amy Trask was a CEO for 16 years. What team you ask?
1:45.2	The Raiders.
1:46.6	So make no mistake about it, we're going to speak to her about Oakland's move to Las Vegas.
1:52.4	Also, we got author and sports commentator Bijan Bain about an important date in history
1:58.4	that's coming up, the 50th anniversary of the day heavyweight
2:02.3	champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the U.S. Army by the Houston draft board.
2:10.1	I am the greatest. Also, I've got some choice words, and it's some choice words I wrote
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