Image Group LA/ABCGreen Day took a moment during their concert in Detroit Monday night to grieve the loss of their hometown’s football team, the Oakland Raiders. This week, the NFL owners approved the Raiders’ bid to relocate to Las Vegas.
According to Billboard, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told the Detroit crowd, “We come from the ‘Detroit of California’ — only we no longer have a football team.” He then hurled an expletive at Sin City before declaring that “I’m rooting for the [Detroit] Lions from now on!”
The Raiders are expected to make their move to Las Vegas by the 2019 or 2020 season.
Green Day will actually be performing in Las Vegas on April 7. We’ll see how residents of the Raiders’ new home react to Armstrong’s comments.
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