Look: if you’re going to nickname a super-cool thing like Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas the “Death Star” (and not, say, the Giant Roomba), you have to know the jokes are coming.
After all, that was the name of a very large space station in Star Wars that could blow up planets but was also taken down TWICE and blown to smithereens by much smaller Rebel ships.
That apparently doesn’t matter to Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden.
“I think it’s a cool name for our stadium,” he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “I don’t give a damn about Star Wars. That’s what we’re calling our stadium and I don’t care what anybody else thinks. It’s a cool stadium, it’s a great name and we just have to play good when we’re in there.”
Uh-oh. Maybe not the best idea to say you don’t give a damn about Star Wars. But this is hilarious! And owner Mark Davis is in on it!
“Welcome to the Death Star, where our opponents' dreams come to die,” Las Vegas @RAIDERS owner Mark Davis said as he addressed the team before they broke in their new home w/ a scrimmage for which they donned full game uniforms and pads. #RaiderNation
MORE:https://t.co/ketaGneb4m pic.twitter.com/rb1P4Afhxw— FOX5 Las Vegas (@FOX5Vegas) August 22, 2020
I reminded #Raiders owner Mark Davis that the Death Star
of @starwars was blown up, not once, but twice (three times if you count 'Starkiller Base'). He laughed and said, "Yeah, that was THEIR Death Star. Not ours. Ours was built to sustain." @DeathStarPR https://t.co/a5yJIRERzr— Paul Gutierrez (@PGutierrezESPN) September 16, 2020
They’re all missing the point here. You call it the “Death Star,” you’re opening yourselves up to a world of jokes, which doesn’t help a franchise that’s been joked about for a long time.
The Dealth Star always gets destroyed
— Gerald Allen (@bodybyallen) September 17, 2020
Hope this doesn’t happen.. pic.twitter.com/GLnyW5zbMB
— Chris Miccio (@Chris_Miccio) September 17, 2020
someone tell the raiders what happened to the death star
— Broncos Reddit (@Broncos_Reddit) September 15, 2020
So good.
