You request to buckle up for Las Vegas Raiders location games. This is existent adjacent for prima entertainers, particularly if they get carrying a straitjacket.
Planet Hollywood Resort headliner Criss Angel was latched in, sent up, past dropped from the apical of Allegiant Stadium earlier Sunday’s Raiders-Bears game. The stunt astatine the Death Star was highlighted by Raiders proprietor Mark Davis himself latching Angel into his jacket.
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Angel had texted Davis connected Saturday, asking if the proprietor would, successful effect, fastener him up. “I’m in,” was Davis’ response.
From there, Angel was fastened to a cablegram and lifted 100 feet, to the uppermost portion of the stadium. He was immoderate 100 feet high, oregon 50 feet higher than Houdini had ever attempted this peculiar straitjacket escape.
The longtime Vegas showman past feverishly worked free, wrong of 30 seconds, and dropped the straitjacket (the aforesaid restraint garment utilized by hospitals). He was lowered, astatine precocious velocity, backmost to the field. The full regular covered a frenetic 2 minutes.
Angel had earlier said helium does not deliberation astir gravity taking clasp (“falling,” arsenic we telephone it) during the act. He does measurement the information beforehand. “When I americium up there, I person to bash my job, enactment successful the moment, beryllium focused connected my ngo and not deliberation astir thing going wrong,” Angel said a fewer hours aft the performance. “It’s each astir focus, and astir conscionable trusting the radical I person moving for maine and making definite they to bash what they person to do.
“Everybody has a portion of the puzzle, and collectively we marque a picture.”
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The showcase was staged arsenic portion of the NFL’s “Crucial Catch: Intercept Cancer” programme to enactment the American Cancer Society’s aboriginal detection and hazard simplification crossed an array of cancers. Angel’s 7-year-old son, Johnny Crisstopher, who was successful the assemblage to ticker the thrilling routine, was diagnosed with leukemia successful 2015. He was conscionable 20 months aged astatine the time.
Angel gave a hug (to Davis) and a buss (to the Allegiant Stadium’s writer field). It was a $50,000 charitable lawsuit for the Johnny Crisstopher Children’s Charitable Foundation, with Davis contributing $25,000 and the NFL matching that donation.
“I don’t attraction if you’re a Raiders fan, oregon a Bears fan, astatine the extremity of the day, crab affects each of us,” Angel said successful an on-field chat with in-game announcer Mark Shunock. “We indispensable rise awareness, rise wealth and triumph against cancer.”
He added, “I’m ecstatic that the Raiders and Mark Davis thought of maine to assistance rise consciousness astir each types of cancer. To beryllium portion of that was an honor.”
Ludacris blows up halftime
Superstar signaling creator and acclaimed histrion Ludacris performed with the Raiderettes during Sunday’s halftime show. Fans again jammed the country betwixt the signifier and the Al Davis Memorial Torch, bouncing and roaring done the 10-minute performance. We’ll telephone it the Al Davis Torch Club until it’s formally named.
Ludacris joins Ice Cube and Too Short, who performed the halftime amusement during the Raiders’ Sept. 13 home opener against the Ravens, arsenic rap stars to execute astatine halftime astatine Allegiant.
Schon o’clock
Journey’s Neal Schon mislaid way of the clip but ne'er mislaid the melody successful his freestyle rendition of the nationalist anthem. “I forgot to look astatine the clock, and I was astatine the precise extremity and they were telling maine to cut. Ha ha!” Schon said successful a text. He’d strayed beyond the two-minute bounds during rehearsals, too.
Schon didn’t usage immoderate in-ear monitors, either.
“I was truthful thankful that I could really perceive the assemblage roar,” the guitar prima said. “I’m precocious from it.”
Cliff note
Every Allegiant Stadium performer has worn Cliff Branch’s No. 21. We present accidental this is simply a planned tribute. Davis loved Cliff Branch.
Otto successful the house
David Perrico’s Raiders House Band keyboardist Otto Ehling finally picked up his Jim Otto jersey from a merch kiosk. He’d not known of the Raiders fable until the set was booked astatine Allegiant Stadium. Expect that jersey to beryllium a fixture onstage for the remainder of the season.
Jimenez out
Pepe Jimenez, the drummer who was called disconnected the Allegiant Stadium rehearsals successful August to acquisition exigency triple-bypass surgery, was not astatine Sunday’s game. Jimenez flew to his autochthonal Puerto Rico to thin to a household matter. His son, Miguel, flew successful from Reno to perform.
Torch it
One of Davis’s closest friends successful Las Vegas, Laborers Local 872 secretary-treasurer Tommy White, lit the Al Davis Torch earlier the game. White and his unit managed to support operation of Allegiant Stadium ongoing passim the pandemic.
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Line!
Sunday’s crippled was uncommonly loud, rowdy and adjacent unrestrained. And that was conscionable Bruce Buffer’s pregame intro.
Cool Hang Alert
Perrico calls it “old-school vibe to the max.” It’s Skyline Hotel and Casino. Perrico’s Pop Retro set has conscionable started playing Jim Marsh’s spot connected Boulder Highway. Performances are from 2-5:30 p.m. Sundays. Skyline has a great, throwback lounge, delicious premier rib dip sandwiches and $1.50 shrimp cocktails. Four of Perrico’s lounges connected the Strip person closed during COVID, but you tin inactive find that classic-Vegas vibe astatine this place.
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