Raiders owner speaks his mind, ripping former business partner
The Las Vegas Raiders, or used to be Oakland Raiders that is, used to be business partners with another Oakland team. If you are from the Oakland, California area, you may be an Oakland Athletics fan too, one of the baseball teams in the Bay Area. The two teams, when the Raiders were in the […]
The Las Vegas Raiders, or used to be Oakland Raiders that is, used to be business partners with another Oakland team. If you are from the Oakland, California area, you may be an Oakland Athletics fan too, one of the baseball teams in the Bay Area.
The two teams, when the Raiders were in the Bay, shared a stadium. The Oakland Coliseum was the home of an MLB team and an NFL team. Now, it's just the home of the A's, as the Raiders are in Las Vegas.
But there is a reason the Raiders aren't there anymore. Mark Davis, the owner of the Raiders, will never forget why either.
"I won't forget what they did to us in Oakland," Davis said. "They squatted on a lease for 10 years and made it impossible for us to build on that stadium. They were looking for a stadium. We were looking for a stadium. They didn't want to build a stadium, and then went ahead and signed a 10-year lease with the city of Oakland and said, 'We're the base team.'"
All of that may not seem like a huge deal, but it is the reason the Raiders moved from Oakland, a city Al Davis wanted the team in. And most of the time teams in the same city support each other, even when they don't share a stadium. These two did, and the support from the A's wasn't there.
"The slogans they've been using have been a slap to the face of the Raiders, and they were trying to win over that type of mentality in the Bay Area. Well, all they did was f— the Bay Area," Davis said. "For them to leave Oakland without anything is pretty (screwed) up."
Davis didn't hold back. This is him going in on a former business partner in the A's ownership group. Now the A's are heading to Las Vegas in a few years as they just won a bid on a new stadium in Las Vegas on the strip, just a few blocks from Allegiant Stadium.
