Friday will be a big day for the Raiders players and coaches. The team will be picking up their training camp practice and moving it over to their brand new stadium up the road.
The turf is being brought in and everything, which Allegiant recorded in the act as they ready for the Raiders to set foot on it for the first time.
Field Tray ✅ pic.twitter.com/CaRdb6UkCE
— Allegiant Stadium (@AllegiantStadm) August 20, 2020
Raiders defensive coordinator Paul Guenther discussed why he, the other coaches and the players are looking forward to this.
“I think it’s important,” Guenther said Thursday from training camp. “Me personally, I haven’t even been in the stadium. A lot of the players haven’t been there yet. To see the locker room, to go through the routine, to see your locker, see what it looks like, what the walk is coming out. It’s good for the stadium to get ready for a game like atmosphere. So, we’re going to treat this like a game. Coming out of the locker room, stretching, doing all of those things, then we’re going to get into practice and some different things. So, it’s a good routine to see where we’re going to be playing our home games because a lot of our guys haven’t seen it yet.”
The original schedule would have had the Raiders taking the field at Allegiant Stadium for their first game on August 27. But the preseason has been cancelled, so the only work the Raiders players will get on this field will be practice. And as Guenther said, most of these players haven’t set foot in their shiny new 65K seat palace, so this will be a special day for them.
