{"id":30546,"date":"2022-01-02T14:09:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T22:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=30546"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:19:09","slug":"congratulations-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/congratulations-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/stadium_renderings.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18873\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Regardless of what happens next week, you have a football team with a winning record in the <strong>Las Vegas Raiders<\/strong>, who snared a potential wild-card playoff berth with a last-second win over the favored <strong>Indianapolis Colts<\/strong>. After hitting a 6-7 nadir against the <strong>Kansas City Chiefs<\/strong>, the Raiders got their act together and started winning when it counted. <strong>Cleveland<\/strong> &#8230; <strong>Denver<\/strong> &#8230; <strong>Indianapolis<\/strong> &#8230; it hasn&#8217;t been pretty but they&#8217;ve done it and we have to tip our cap to the Silver &amp; Black for returning from a near-death experience. A playoff spot isn&#8217;t in the bag just yet but if the <strong>Los Angeles Chargers<\/strong> (currently ahead in their game) hang on to win, <strong>Allegiant Stadium<\/strong> gets treated to a winner-take-all tilt next Sunday. If the Chargers lose today, the Raiders are\u2014we <em>think<\/em>\u2014in the playoffs but somehow it would be a fitting reward for Las Vegans if their team were playing for all the marbles next Sunday night at home. In so many ways it&#8217;s been a season Raider Nation would sooner forget but it&#8217;s ending memorably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of what happens next week, you have a football team with a winning record in the Las Vegas Raiders, who snared a potential wild-card playoff berth with a last-second win over the favored Indianapolis Colts. After hitting a 6-7 nadir against the Kansas City Chiefs, the Raiders got their act together and started winning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1728],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}