4 best and worst things about the Raiders' move to Vegas

After voting Monday, the NFL and the Oakland Raiders announced what we've all been waiting to hear for about a year.

The Las Vegas Raiders are going to be a thing.

As fans in Vegas rejoice and their counterparts in Oakland throw stuff at the wall, we take a look at what's good and bad about the franchise relocation.

Best: Unreal fan vacations

For all those sports fans out there who aren't super keen on losing half their life savings in one weekend, Las Vegas hasn't had a lot to offer, but that changes now.

The NHL arrives in Vegas next fall, to be followed by the Raiders two years later. So, instead of gambling being the city's main attraction, a weekend in Vegas could include a hockey game, a day of tailgating, a football game, and losing only a quarter of your life savings.

Worst: Abandoning Oakland

There may not be a team in professional sports that better represents their city than the Raiders do for Oakland.

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Despite a 13-year playoff drought, fans supported the team fiercely and always made sure "The Black Hole" was a terrifying place for opposing players. A city that has now twice had their prized possession torn away from them by two locations deemed superior, Oakland should be furious they're losing the Raiders.

Best: Vegas becoming more than Sin City

The NHL's arrival in Las Vegas cast a spell of doubt around many casual sports fans whose first thought was, "Well, is anyone in Vegas going to care about a professional sports team?"

Of course they will. Over two million people live in Las Vegas and they don't all spend every night on the strip. They want a team to call their own.

With the Raiders joining the Golden Knights, no one really seems to be questioning if fans will care about sports.

Worst: Awkward separation period

The Raiders have officially filed divorce papers with Oakland, but the judge has set a minimum two-year separation period where the sides will continue to live together.

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Ideally, the Raiders can keep up their on-field success and keep fans from getting too upset, but it's a long stretch of time to walk the line between "we love our fans" and "we're leaving you."

Best: Raiders get massive stadium upgrade

As much as we would like to cry and point to the NFL as the bad guys for ripping the Raiders out of Oakland and giving them to flashy Las Vegas, the reality is the team needed a new stadium.

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The Oakland Coliseum is literally falling apart and the city couldn't come up with the funding to build anything close to the $2-billion state of the art stadium being built in Vegas. Raiders players will miss the ferocity of "The Black Hole" initially, but the tricked out locker room and giant glass ceiling will make up for it.

Worst: More crazy public money spent

Not building a new stadium may end up being a blessing in disguise for Oakland as the Vegas venue will require $750 million in public funding.

This has become a big problem in the NFL as the league claims that a stadium can bring unlimited economic rewards to cities and is a slam dunk upgrade to the area. That's not true, though.

An NFL stadium is guaranteed to be used a maximum of 10 days out of the entire season. Eight regular-season games and two preseason games. That's it. The people of Nevada will be paying off the Raiders' stadium for years without any guarantee they'll ever step foot inside it.

In a league that likes to brag about how much money it makes, teams sure seem to ask for a lot of money from the public.

Best: Push to win a title for Oakland

A silver lining for fans in Oakland is that at least the Raiders look like they're going to finish their tenure in the Bay Area strong.

Related: Raiders primed to end time in Oakland with Super Bowl title

The Raiders have a franchise quarterback, a quality offensive line, good receivers, a developing defense complete with top-notch pass rushers, and could be adding Beast Mode to the roster. The players want to give fans a Super Bowl title just as much as the fans want to receive it.

Putting a two-year deadline on landing a Lombardi Trophy hopefully will give the team an extra push to do right by their fans before it's too late.

Worst: NFL playing blame game with Oakland

Alright, NFL. If you want to move a team to Vegas, that's fine. It's a business, you needed a new stadium, you're gaining a new market - we get it.

But don't pretend like the baseball team is why you had to move the Raiders:

The NFL is an all-powerful organization that pretty much does whatever it wants - or at least tries to. Blaming others in an attempt to not look like the bad guy is insulting. Knock it off.

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