VINCE NEIL On Las Vegas Outlaws AFL Team – “We Have A Good Shot At The Playoffs”; Video

A construction worker at the Thomas & Mack Center saw Mötley Crüe frontman and Arena Football League team co-owner Vince Neil strolling the arena concourse and shared a quick thought with the rocker this week, reports Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Alan Snel.

“Thanks for bringing back football to the arena,” the worker told Neil, a part-owner of the new Las Vegas Outlaws.

Neil and his Outlaws partners, as well as Thomas & Mack’s operators, hope those sentiments translate into ticket sales for Outlaws games. The first-year franchise is the third arena football team to play in Las Vegas, with its first home game on March 30th. The Sting and Gladiators were the past arena teams in Las Vegas, with the Gladiators last playing at Thomas &Mack in 2006. The Gladiators play in Cleveland.

But this time, the team’s public face will be the well-known 54-year-old rocker who lives in Las Vegas when not on Mötley Crüe’s worldwide Final Tour and plans on helping market the new Arena Football club.

“This is my team. I want it to be as successful as possible,” Neil said. “I don’t want to be an absentee owner. I want to say ‘Hi’ to the players. It’s good for morale.”

Neil, who was a minority owner in the league’s Jacksonville Sharks team in 2014, will be the face of the Outlaws’ marketing material.

In fact, a life-size cardboard cutout of Neil is being fashioned this week, and will be placed at team sponsor locations such as La Bonita markets where Outlaws tickets can be purchased. He also will play private concerts for season ticket holders and play with his own band at games. A digital billboard on US Highway 95 shows Neil holding a football to promote the Outlaws.

And Neil said he will use his entertainment contacts, such as magician Criss Angel, to make appearances at games to help drive ticket sales. “He could do the coin toss and then disappear,” he quipped.

Neil said he owns a 20 percent stake in the franchise, which got off to a slow start because team owners learned the home schedule only two months ago. Other owners with stakes in the Outlaws are Sohrob Farudi, Bob Hewko, Chris Salamone and Britt Amsler.

The owners paid a $3 million franchise fee to the Arena Football League and startup costs ran into the millions of dollars for items such as a playing field and goal posts, Neil said.

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