Circa Resort & Casino already feels like the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl. The Sportsbook, a three-story coliseum of LED screens and roaring fans, hums with the electric energy only sports can summon. Coffee cups clash with beer glasses. Old bets fade. New ones are born.
One lifelong Raider’s fan visiting from Oakland, stands on the mezzanine level, frozen. He’s been to stadiums. He’s watched games in bars and at home. But nothing compares to this: 1,000+ people, every one of them focused on a 78-million-pixel screen that stretches the height of a six-story building. The sheer scale of it forces his mouth open just slightly.
Behind him, the Veza Veza Bar is alive. Bartenders pour with the confidence of veteran quarterbacks. Locals mix with tourists. Jersey-clad fans from every conference swap stat and smack talk. “Circa is Switzerland on game day,” one-man jokes. No enemies—just action.
Downstairs, the real gladiators gather. The sportsbook’s plush chairs—each one outfitted with its own charging station and drink ledge—are fully occupied. On the edge of their seats are high-rollers and first-time bettors alike. You hear whispers: parlays, moneylines, over-unders. Then—a touchdown.
The crowd erupts. Beer flies. Strangers’ high-five. A woman in a Travis Kelce jersey wins her fourth-leg parlay and screams loud enough to drown out the commentary. Marcus laughs and checks his own ticket. He’s alive in the fourth quarter, too.
Outside, by the Stadium Swim, it’s a different kind of spectacle. Six pools stacked amphitheater-style, all heated and open year-round. Every lounger faces the same enormous screen that beams the games under the open sky. Bathing suits, bucket hats, frozen drinks—and football. There’s nowhere else in the world like it.
As the final seconds tick off the clock and victories are cashed in or cursed, this isn’t just watching the game. This is living it. The lights, the screen, the people—it’s sensory overload in the best possible way.
