Minnesota Vikings Fans Take Over Allegiant

If and when the A's move, there will be one thing missing from the ballpark in Las Vegas

During yesterday's Las Vegas Raiders and Minnesota Vikings game in Vegas, a tweet from the Vikings account went viral on A's social media. 

Vikings in Vegas pic.twitter.com/YmxKuE0bWM

— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) December 10, 2023

This isn't the first time that a team's fan base has taken over Allegiant Stadium, and it won't be the last. The reason A's fans felt the need to comment on this clip is because Vegas is proud of how the Raiders transaction is going for their city. The stadium is packed. That's a good thing, as long as you're one of the people profiting from ticket sales. For regular fans, this should be embarrassing. 

For A's fans, the games are just as important as the community that surrounds the team. Wins and losses are cool, but watching a baseball game with a friend or family member and just naming old players or recounting memories is a great time. 

These clips from Raiders games that we see multiple times a season don't have any of that. The Las Vegas Raiders don't have that community. 

Yes, it's cool to have sports teams, but when other team's fans are continuously taking over stadiums and going viral at half of your team's home games each and every season, then the support really isn't there, is it? 

A's owner John Fisher's plan for Las Vegas is going to depend on tourism in order to meet the lofty goals his "economist" has for the ballpark, so he may look at these clips and smile to himself because he thinks that baseball fans will travel like this in the middle of a heat wave to watch the Minnesota Twins. Baseball and football are completely different, and it's going to be tough for people to take time off work in the middle of the week to make a trip to watch their favorite team each and every year. 

But even if the project is successful and all of the real economists are wrong about the projections and Vegas truly is "different", there is going to still be one key ingredient missing to baseball in Las Vegas, and it will be the community that they have left behind in Oakland.