Las Vegas Raiders

Raiders sell out season tickets despite impending move to Las Vegas

Published May. 28, 2017 3:56 p.m. ET

Nunzio Ingrassia

For all the outrage the Oakland Raiders’ impending move to Las Vegas generated earlier this year, it surely hasn’t hurt ticket sales. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Raiders have sold out their season tickets for 2017, and that could be a good enough sign for the franchise to stay in the Bay Area for 2019.

“We haven’t heard anything official, but that’s what we are hearing through the NFL blogs,” executive director of the Oakland Coliseum Authority Scott McKibben told the Chronicle.

The Raiders’ lease in Oakland runs through the 2018 season, but the team’s dome stadium might not be ready until 2020. The Raiders returned to Oakland in 1994 after spending 13 years in Los Angeles, but NFL owners approved the team’s move to Vegas in March.