Oakland stadium director: No desire to host Raiders in 2019

After the team’s move to Las Vegas was officially approved on Monday, Raiders owner Mark Davis said that he’d like to keep the Raiders in Oakland while the team’s new stadium in Vegas is being built.

He acknowledged some fans in Oakland will be disappointed, but said his goal in the meantime was to “bring a championship to Oakland”. The Raiders moved to Los Angeles for the 1982 season and played there 13 years before the late Al Davis moved the team back to Oakland in 1995. The win included Marcus Allen’s famous 74-yard touchdown run. “That’s like moving the Dallas Cowboys, or moving the Packers“, he said. There, the team won another title in 2006 underneath the leadership of quarterback Peyton Manning.

The team’s owners, who along with Davis and his mother, Carol, who own a 47 percent share of the Raiders, include the Davis’ heirs and the heirs of the original eight team partners; have been looking to exit Oakland for a couple of years at least.

On Monday, another writer asked me what was preventing the Pegulas from doing what Raiders owner Mark Davis did.

“If they want us, we’d seriously consider it“, Davis said.

“And I will, in the coming days, try to explain to them what went into making this hard decision”.

Ross felt there were better plans available to the Raiders if they wanted to be in the Bay Area. And Las Vegas has the population of middle- and lower middle-class workers and we don’t know if they can sustain an National Football League franchise. It encourages season ticket holders to pay a $100 deposit for the Las Vegas stadium.

“It was really over the last week, as the Oakland mayor worked very hard – to the finish line – to try to come up with something that would be workable for the Raiders and NFL”, Hunt said, via Terez Paylor the Kansas City Star. The Raiders could possibly play one preseason game per year at Sam Boyd Stadium before moving to Las Vegas permanently. But that didn’t stop the Warriors star from sounding off on the Raiders for making the decision to leave Oakland in the coming years for Las Vegas. The team could play in Oakland through the 2019 season. “I think all of that is there but that’s kind of a down-the-road thing for me right now”. The Raiders belong in the Oakland area. We’ll see how this one turns out. “It hurts a lot”.