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The Raiders MAY BE HERE LONG TERM!!!!

The "Authority" finally got one right last October when they allowed the team to sell thier own tickets. Now it looks like they will be working on refurbishing the Coliseum, yet again, hoping to attain another long term agreement with our beloved Silver and Black.

This would go a long way toward bringing back some of the fringe fans who are affraid to buy into a team that will just leave again.

Being a football fan is a passionate love affair where for, hopefully, 19 games a year you give passion and devotion to a group of guys who play for your home team. The passion far excedes baseball (Unless you're a LF Creature) or basketball, so it requires a complete buy in by the fans in order for them to fork over the money to enjoy a day at the Field.

Would you marry someone who you thought would leave in a few years?

As Raider fans we have been the husband/wife that was left for a Hollywood movie star, only to have our beloved return with stretch marks or herpes and three kids and expect to be accepted back.

A large contingent of us have accepted them back, but with cautious acceptance. A new extension would allow us to buy back in 100%!!!

I bled Silver and Black as a kid, then hated the team in LA. It was like watching my girlfriend make out with someone else...While it does have some perverse attraction to a few it made my stomache turn and skin crawl. On the day they announced they were returning I jumped for joy, because the Oakland Raiders are my favorite team. Not the Los Angeles Traders!!!

Read this article:

 http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_4787684

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This is awesome news.. thanks for posting this saint.. you just made my day.  I have to have some consolation prize for knowing my A's are moving down south, albeit closer to where I live, but its still not the OAKLAND A's, I grew up loving. This was a major issue for me, the thought in the back of your mind that one day, the raiders just might up and leave again, if they can seal the deal and call OAKLAND home for many more years, I will definately be buying my seasons tickets in the years to come (now that I have a good job that can afford it).  It was a curious deal that despite 3 straight losing years, that the stadium would sell out every game, but not when it was under the direction of the OFMA.. imagine if the Raiders had been doing it from the beginning, how much revenue the team would have been making, and maybe the stadium could have been improved from what it is today, well hindsight is 20/20, but the future is looking brighter and brighter.
The Autumn wind is a RAIDER!!

by Boistheman on Dec 6, 2006 10:24 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

A-Men!!!
I hope that the next thing I can say in regard to this situation is, "The Raiders Reach 20 year Agreement with the City of Oakland!!!"
Pride And Poise!!!

by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Dec 6, 2006 10:39 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

my sentiments exactly
I'm also an A's fan and don't object at all to their moving to Fremont where hopefully they will have a great new stadium, the upside being that the Coliseum could then be turned into a football only stadium with improvements made all the way around, a win/win situation as far as I am concerned.
Maybe by that time we will have an offense.

by chinabob on Dec 6, 2006 8:21 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

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