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Raiders proprietor Mark Davis rips Athletics for potential transfer to Las Vegas: 'All they did was f— the Bay Area'

April 22, 2023
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Raiders proprietor Mark Davis rips Athletics for potential transfer to Las Vegas: 'All they did was f— the Bay Area'

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Las Vegas Raiders proprietor Mark Davis spoke out towards the Oakland Athletics potential transfer to Las Vegas, accusing the A’s of stopping the workforce from improving the Oakland Coliseum and of not giving the Raiders a greater probability to remain in Oakland. Davis’ feedback had been made to the Las Vegas Review-Journal because the A’s reportedly search to comply with the Raiders in shifting out of the Oakland Coliseum and to Las Vegas.

The Raiders and the A’s shared the Oakland Coliseum for a few years, however the relationship between the 2 franchises was not a very cozy one. Specifically, the Raiders felt that the A’s had undercut their efforts to both enhance or change the badly-outdated Coliseum, which finally led to the Raiders shifting out on the finish of the 2019 NFL season.

“I will not neglect what they did to us in Oakland. They squatted on a lease for 10 years and made it unimaginable for us to construct on that stadium,” Davis claimed. “They had been on the lookout for a stadium. We had been on the lookout for a stadium. They did not need to construct a stadium, after which went forward and signed a 10-year lease with the town of Oakland and mentioned, ‘We’re the bottom workforce.'”

Due to the Athletics’ lease on the Coliseum, the Raiders had been unable to maintain their dwelling stadium up with the occasions for his or her functions, resulting in possession finally exploring different alternatives. Davis accused the Athletics of attempting to maintain the Bay Area market all to themselves, declaring the betrayal of their “Rooted in Oakland” mantra that the A’s potential transfer to Vegas now represents.

“The slogans they have been utilizing have been a slap to the face of the Raiders, and so they had been attempting to win over that sort of mentality within the Bay Area. Well all they did was f— the Bay Area,” Davis mentioned. “For them to go away Oakland with out something is fairly (screwed) up.”

The state of the Coliseum left the A’s as the one tenant of the stadium following the 2019 season, because the Raiders left for Las Vegas regardless of an in depth heritage within the metropolis. The Silver and Black turned one of many NFL’s pre-eminent franchises because the Oakland Raiders within the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies, then returned to Oakland in 1995 after a dozen years in Los Angeles.

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