Your recent Today’s News item on the mandatory FAA filing has revealed that the height of the Raiders stadium will be 225 feet. By comparison, the nearby Luxor is 350 feet. This raises an interesting question. Which hotels, if any, will have rooms that you could maybe watch the games from?
This question, it seems to us (and a friend of LVA), might've come from an advantage player -- trying to "get a little edge on the game," literally and figuratively.
Alas, there's no advantage here; in all likelihood, no hotels have rooms from which you can see the games.
Luxor isn't all that nearby -- more than a half-mile away. And even if they let you up to the Foundation Room atop Mandalay Bay with a pair of high-powered binoculars or a powerful telescope, it’s unlikely you could see anything over the walls of the Las Vegas Stadium (its placeholder name). Also, LVS will have a fixed roof, as does the new Minnesota Vikings' US Bank Stadium built by Mortenson Construction, the same contractor that will build the Raiders facility.
The roof won't be retractable, although side windows will, so you might be able to catch a glimpse inside the stadium through them (from the top of Mandalay Bay with binocs). But as far as seeing the game goes, the playing field will almost certainly be below ground level, so that patrons for the NFL home games, as well as UNLV’s Rebels football games, which will evacuate Sam Boyd Stadium for Las Vegas Stadium, don't have to walk up a lot of stairs to every single seat.
There's only one surefire way to see the games for free: watch them on TV. If you're in Vegas, catch them on the big screens in the sports books.
