Raiders must turn team headquarters over to rival Chiefs ahead of Super Bowl
The home team for the first postseason game ever to be played at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas will be ... the Kansas City Chiefs.
Yep, the Chiefs are the home team for Super Bowl LVIII. As NBC Sports’ Peter King noted in this week’s “Football Morning In America” column when the Super Bowl is held in an AFC city, the team representing the AFC uses the home facilities.
That’s the NFL rule, so it means the Chiefs will be making themselves at home in the Raiders practice facility in Henderson, Nevada.
Here is a drone’s-eye view of that facility, which was shot before the franchise made the move to Nevada in 2020.
According to the team’s website, “The Raiders Headquarters and Intermountain Health Performance Center includes a three-story, 135,000-square-foot office area, along with a 150,000-square-foot field house that houses one-and-a-half indoor football fields. There are three outdoor football fields and a 50,000-square-foot performance center.”
It’ll be the Chiefs’ temporary home next week.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal said the 49ers will be working out at UNLV’s football complex, and both teams will be staying in “Lake Las Vegas, far away from the Strip.”
The Chiefs’ name will be painted on an end zone at Allegiant Stadium, too. That can’t make Raiders fans happy.
Since the Raiders moved to Las Vegas from Oakland ahead of the 2020 season, they’ve made the postseason once. It came in the 2021 season, and the Raiders were a wild-card team because the Chiefs won the AFC West.
That meant a trip to Cincinnati for the Wild Card round game, and Las Vegas lost 26-19 to the Bengals.
Fans shared some interesting thoughts about the Chiefs playing at the Raiders stadium.
