Column: NFL owners know a sweet deal when they see it

Nevada lawmakers have been falling all over themselves in a special session to pass a new tax for the project, even while schools are overcrowded and the state is facing a $400 million budget shortfall.

Commissioner Roger Goodell's protestations aside, NFL owners are realizing they have little to fear from sports betting.

Neither are many of the details of the stadium plan, carved out with the approval of Raiders owner Mark Davis.

Not only would it give Sin City the prestige of an NFL team, but it would further soften attitudes toward sports betting that were once absolute.

There are some issues with an NFL team in Las Vegas, mostly because it is a small television market and a city that already has NFL teams on both sides in Los Angeles and Phoenix.

[...] while the stadium will increase hotel room taxes for 30 years, the expansion NHL team and arena were both privately funded.

Billionaire owner Bill Foley is also putting up the money to build a practice facility for the team, while the Raiders will get $100 million in the stadium deal to build one of their own.