Forget the Alamo. Vegas wants the Raiders. But don’t schedule any weekend Sin City benders this autumn or any other. The NFL has never been bullish on having a team in the legal gambling capital of the country.

Still, what’s the harm in talking. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Mark Davis is scheduled to meet Friday with billionaire casino magnate and Republican sugar daddy Sheldon Adelson. Adelson’s company is planning a $1 billion football stadium near the UNLV campus.

Below is a short story I wrote fro the sports section:

Add Las Vegas to the list of potential landing spots for the Oakland Raiders, but the odds are long that the Silver and Black will ever call Sin City home.

The Associated Press is reporting that Raiders owner Mark Davis is scheduled to meet Friday with billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.

While a spokesman for Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corporation wouldn’t elaborate the topics to be discussed, the company does want to build a $1 billion indoor stadium near the UNLV campus that could potentially host a professional team, the news agency reported.

Raiders owner Mark Davis could not be reached for comment Thursday.

If the San Diego Chargers choose, as expected, to join the newly-re-christened Los Angeles Rams at a planned stadium in Inglewood, the Raiders would become the NFL’s top free agent franchise.

With stadium talks not progressing in Oakland, San Antonio has courted the team and San Diego also could be in play if the Chargers move to Los Angeles.

Las Vegas seems like a long-shot in part because it has something those two cities lack: legalized gambling.

Of the four professional sports leagues, the NFL is the least comfortable with open gambling on games and has never wanted a team in Las Vegas, stadium consultant Marc Ganis said.

“I don’t think anybody is ready for it today,” he said.

Another reason possibly to be bearish on the Las Vegas Raiders, he said, is that the NFL also frowns on having stadiums owned by private operators not affiliated with the team that plays there.

“That is another mouth feeding at the trough,” Ganis said.