The Las Vegas Mobsters is the name of a new sarca team hoping one day to be part of the MLS structure. A tad inappropriate? I hope it doesn't give Mr Allam any ideas. I suppose the thinking is the name will appeal in the Far East. People brought up in the culture of the triad gangs will relate to a team called the mobsters. Just think how many shirts Leeds Ladyboys could sell in Asia. http://m.reviewjournal.com/sports/las-vegas-mobsters-join-soccers-premiere-development-league
Unusual choice, as mobsters are generally associated with New York (The Five Families), Philadelphia and Chicago (Chicago Syndicate; Capone).
Not really. Las Vegas has a huge mob history and one they normally exploit. In fact Las Vegas owes its current existence to the mob. As it was the mob trying to find legal gambling that financed the orginial casinos and hotels that caused the city to grow into what it is today. For good or bad. Think of all the movies you have seen about it, Bugsy, Casino, Godfather II etc. They talked a lot about this on espn yesterday. I disagree with the commentators. I dont find it the least bit offensive and Las Vegas does hype up their mob past so I dont find it strange in the least that they would name a team the mobsters. The mob in Chicago which still exists is normally called the "Outfit", no one says the Chicago Syndicate. There was also an LA mob, a New Orleans Mob, a Cleveland Mob. The 5 families and the Chicago Outfit sent people to a bunch of US cities. The crews in those cities are aligned with one of the main 6 mafia groups and are not really their own thing.
I didn't really word it well. What I meant was nobody really outside of the US links the Mafia to Las Vegas over those other cities mentioned.
That may be but no one outside of the US is going to watch them play. Actually no one is going to watch them play outside of Las Vegas as Development games are not shown on TV. They arnt even going to be in the USL which is really our 2nd division if you want to think of it like that. Even USL games arnt even shown on TV.
The next MLS team is rumored to be in Sacramento from what I understand. Beckham is supposed to be the owner of it. I guess when he came here with LA he got in his contract a deal to become an owner of an MLS franchise. Sacramento has just started a USL team and that has been tossed around as the team he will take over.
Yes, he did have that in his contract. Though I heard he was looking at setting up a franchise in Miami.
Miami might make sense. Most of the talk I have heard was for California cities as they say that he and Victoria like it here. You can only really imagine him owning a team in a flashy city or Cali, doubt anyone can envision him owning a team in Missouri or something.
Miami would be a brilliant one. Though why am I imagining that Beckham will go mad and ending up going all Scarface on everyone?
This surprised me ellwoods I thought the mob ran illegal gambling, Bugsy Siegal, Mo Green etc and it was only with the arrival of Howard Hughes, who started to buy up the place, that eventually drove them out. The has always been the suggestion that the Rat Pack were somehow linked to the mob.
The mob ran legal gambling by setting upfront men to run the operations. Casino (based off a true story) has it right in that they set up associates to control the gambling licences and took money off the top. I do think that you are right that Hughes helped cause their down fall but dont think it was until the 60's and 70's that they really drove the mob out of Las Vegas. The sort of death of legal mafia backed gambling operations was the Indian Casinos. I mean they are everywhere in certain parts of the country. I can get to 2 Indian Casinos before I can get to a strip mall. A few years back (2010 maybe?) a poker room on the main poker floor of the Borgata where I used to go to was raided as the Casino cut was not on the books and was going to the mob. I forget which of the 5 families was controlling it. The room was right out in the open they had basically just forced the Casino to keep that one area off the accounting. You are right that the rat pack was supposedly hooked up to the mob. The Rat pack were constantly in Mob clubs, casinos and such. Frank Sinatra is supposedly the character Johnny Fontane in the first movie. [video=youtube;HCu9vOpwMp0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCu9vOpwMp0[/video]
Cheers for that ellwoods, there was an excellent documentary on tv over here a while back on the whole history of Las Vegas, from its beginnings right up to what it is today, can't for the life of me think of what it was called. But one of the amusing bits was of Howard Hughes, who was at this point a recluse, who took over the whole top floor of a hotel and stayed for weeks. But the management got a bit cheezed off with this as no one but Hughes associates were allowed in that area so they wanted him out, pronto. So Hughes bought the hotel sacked the management then went on a spending spree buying up quite a few other hotel/casinos but still remaining a recluse, no one saw him outside of his trusted associates.
They love mob documentaries here. There has to be at least 4 or 5 on every day, hence my useless knowledge of the subject.
The Portland Timbers have a very elaborate ceremony when they score a goal. A big lumberjack sort of guy gets a chainsaw and cuts off a piece of a tree log. When the Las Vegas Mobsters score they could tie the club mascot to a big lump of concrete. Or something like that.
And throw him off Humber Bridge?? We should do that with that fat ****, good afternoon West Stand East Stand twat
Just got back from Vegas, a cabby was saying how they're looking to get an NBA franchise in over the next few years. But you won't be able to make any bets involving them as a condition of them being allowed in. Heard anything ellewoods?
