Fans Looking To Attend Las Vegas Raiders Games Will Need Proof Of COVID-19 Vaccine

The Las Vegas Raiders have mandated that all home game attendees at Allegiant Stadium present evidence of COVID-19 vaccination for entry. Fans fully vaccinated can take off their mask once inside the stadium. However, those partially vaccinated must keep their face-covering on until they have received their complete dosage.

The Raiders intend to provide on-site vaccines at Allegiant Stadium prior to home games, enabling unvaccinated fans to get vaccinated and gain stadium access.

The Raiders will utilize the CLEAR free mobile app along with its Health Pass feature. This policy will be implemented starting from their first home game of the season against the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 13, which is a Monday Night Football game.

How new Raiders policy will affect ticket holders

The Raiders made their announcement shortly after Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak detailed that large venues could permit guests to remove their masks if they provide vaccination proof.

Vincent Bonsignore from the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that season-ticket holders who are unwilling to get vaccinated will have two options regarding their tickets:

1. Fans have the option to “transfer this year’s season-ticket costs to next year.”
2. Fans can receive a complete refund for this year while keeping their future season tickets.

More details for season-ticket holders will soon be released by the Raiders.

Raiders dealing with health and safety all year

While it may seem extreme to require fans to be vaccinated to watch games live, this is consistent with the approach the Raiders and their partners at Allegiant Stadium have been taking to handle the virus.

Actually, not only fans have been vaccinated at this year’s Raiders games. The majority of Raiders players, as well as most, if not all, staff working at the games have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Interestingly, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has not committed to getting vaccinated, a point that has not gone unnoticed by celebrated analyst Brent Musburger.

This year, the Raiders have implemented measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 within their organization. In May, a policy was announced by the Raiders mandating all business and football staff who are full-time employees to get vaccinated.

ASM Global Management and Levey Restaurants, two operating partners of Allegiant Stadium, mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for their staff. All full-time employees at Allegiant Stadium must be vaccinated, as required by ASM Global Management, the company overseeing the stadium and Levey Restaurants’ concession operations.

In this statement, Mark Davis, the owner of the Raiders, declared, “health and safety have always been our top priority.”

This policy, developed in consultation with Governor Sisolak and other community leaders, guarantees that fully vaccinated fans can enjoy the entire season without masks at full capacity.

New policy for more than just Raiders games

The announcement regarding the COVID-19 vaccination Raiders came a few hours after Sisolak unveiled a new mask policy. This policy is designed for large venues with fixed seating and an ability to hold 4,000 people. Such venues must mandate ticket or registration for entry. The rationale behind this requirement is to ensure the venue has a system to prevent people without tickets from gaining access to the event.

Venues are permitted to maintain the requirement for both vaccinated and unvaccinated visitors to wear a face mask after entry. The updated policy enables large venues, such as Allegiant Stadium, to let fully vaccinated attendees remove their masks, provided they can show proof of vaccination.

Venues may permit entry to partially vaccinated individuals, provided they wear a mask. Children who are too young to receive a COVID-19 vaccine are also allowed to attend events at these venues, but they must wear a mask as well.

This new policy is not compulsory for all large venues. They have the discretion to implement it or not. It remains unannounced whether T-Mobile Arena will adopt a similar policy for the Vegas Golden Knights when the season commences in October.