The Raiders are nearing a deal that will allow them to play in the Oakland Coliseum for at least one more season, according to Phil Matier of the San Francisco Chronicle. An announcement is unlikely to be made this week, tweets Michael Gehlken of the Las Vegas Review Journal, but it could come next week.
The Raiders are expected to pay a $7.5MM fee to play in the Coliseum in 2019, a price tag that has been agreed upon for some time. Additionally, the deal will come with an option that would let the Raiders spend the 2020 campaign in Oakland, as well. Per Matier, that option is something of an insurance policy, a fail-safe in case the Raiders’ Las Vegas stadium isn’t ready by its scheduled 2020 launch date.
Reports emerged in late January indicating the Raiders would stay in the Bay Area for 2019, and the club reportedly reached an agreement to play in San Francisco’s Oracle Park, the home of MLB’s Giants. That accord ran into issues, however, as the 49ers refused to waive their territorial rights to the San Francisco area.
The NFL, meanwhile, reportedly preferred the Raiders share the 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium for the 2019 campaign. While the Niners and the Raiders discussed the viability of such a setup, it’s not clear how serious the discussions were, per Matier.
I know it won’t happen. But people should boycott the raiders and not show up to games. It be funny to see it empty
Dream on…..
The stadium landlord already got away with extortion by charging Davis double the previous rate so I doubt he would care if fans show or not.
Teams have to move to LA in order to get fans to no show for games.
That is great news! Now Las Vegas has a 2 year chance to convince the people who live here that having a crappy team with an over-the-hill and (over paid) coach is worth raising taxes on the rooms for 8 games & the big bond issue to pay for it. Had it been put to a vote of the people here in Las Vegas the stadium would have gone down to defeat (they defeated a school bond issue even though we are 50th out of the 50 states in education success as well as previously stopping a soccer stadium downtown)…. I truly doubt, that even filled to 55,000, that stadium will be filled with Raider Nation but rather Raider Haters…..