What will you Raider fans do....
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IF YOU A TRUE RAIDER FAN,IT WONT MATTER,WHERE THEY AT..BUT IF IT WERE TO HAPPEN IT WOULD BE IN COUPLE OF YEARS,WHEN THE CONTRACT ENDS WHICH WOULD BE IN 2010...THATS WHY THEY TRIED TO SUE TO TRY TO GET OUT OF THAT CONTRACT,AND LEAVE EARLIER...AL DAVIS ALSO SUED THE NFL.,TO BLOCK THEM FROM OBTAINING A NEW TEAM IN L.A.,AT THE TIME TAMPA BAY AND THE SEAHAWKS OR AN EXPANSION TEAM WAS WILLING TO COME HERE...SO THAT TELLS YOU RIGHT THERE AL DAVIS INTENDS TO COME BACK,,,WE WOULD OF HAD A TEAM BY NOW IF IT WASNT FOR HIM..I WOULD STILL BE RAIDER FAN REGARDLESS THOUGH...
They point to Raiders' claims that the team owns the rights to the National Football League's Los Angeles market, and another trial the team is waging in Los Angeles against the NFL.
In that trial, the team is attempting to win millions of dollars in damages from the NFL. Davis claims the league sabotaged his efforts to build a new stadium in Hollywood Park in 1995 and has sued to recoup the income the Raiders could have received from it.
The NFL is desperately searching for a team to move to Los Angeles, the second biggest television market in the country. The league suffered an embarrassment when both the Rams and the Raiders left the Los Angeles area in 1995. Ever since, the NFL has been trying to lure another team there or place an expansion team in Southern California.
"If Al Davis gets out of that lease in Oakland, I think it is a fairly high probability he would do whatever he can do to move the Raiders to Los Angeles," said Dean Bonham, president of The Bonham Group, a Denver-based sports marketing firm.
Davis even admitted in court he has an eye on Los Angeles. "Yes, I have an interest in the Los Angeles market," he testified.
But at the same time, Davis denies relocation is a motive for the current trial.
Since becoming team owner, the 74-year-old Davis points with pride to his track record of honoring leases.
"I have never broken a lease," Davis said in court and in response to questions about relocation.
In that trial, the team is attempting to win millions of dollars in damages from the NFL. Davis claims the league sabotaged his efforts to build a new stadium in Hollywood Park in 1995 and has sued to recoup the income the Raiders could have received from it.
The NFL is desperately searching for a team to move to Los Angeles, the second biggest television market in the country. The league suffered an embarrassment when both the Rams and the Raiders left the Los Angeles area in 1995. Ever since, the NFL has been trying to lure another team there or place an expansion team in Southern California.
"If Al Davis gets out of that lease in Oakland, I think it is a fairly high probability he would do whatever he can do to move the Raiders to Los Angeles," said Dean Bonham, president of The Bonham Group, a Denver-based sports marketing firm.
Davis even admitted in court he has an eye on Los Angeles. "Yes, I have an interest in the Los Angeles market," he testified.
But at the same time, Davis denies relocation is a motive for the current trial.
Since becoming team owner, the 74-year-old Davis points with pride to his track record of honoring leases.
"I have never broken a lease," Davis said in court and in response to questions about relocation.
well..i don't want them to leave oakland..love that they are here in the bay....but if they move to los angeles....they are still the raiders..and i'm still a fan..shit, they were in los angeles when i started watching them and bo jackson back in 89.....*cough*greatest*cough* .....guess we shall see