OT: Oakland likely can't afford to keep Raiders, Los Angeles a realistic option

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  1. PapaG

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    As a life-long Raider fan, I can't help but think that moving back to LA won't be better for the franchise. Oakland is a shit hole at this point, and has no money to upgrade the stadium.

    http://www.oregonlive.com/nfl/index.ssf/2013/08/raiders_ownership_moving_franc.html

     
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    Building a new stadium usually guarantees a Super Bowl in that city. Does the NFL want one in Oakland?
     
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    bring the raiders to Portland. I'm sure fans in Portland would gladly chip in to bring a NFL football team.

    Didn't Al Davis poke around Portland years back using us for leverage?
     
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    Change the name though if they move to Portland. Kinda like when the Browns left Cleveland and became the Ravens.

    Portland Pioneers anyone?
     
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    LA Raiders would bring a bad element. The franchise LA wants is a corporate one. They don't want all the cholos coming down to fuck up downtown LA

    hoop fam
     
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    Oakland isn't going to build the Raiders a stadium. Oakland is the armpit of the Bay Area.
     
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    The Dodgers certainly don't care about the cholo element at Chavez Ravine. A man got beat near death there last year, yet nothing happened. Cholo Life is a fact in SoCal these days. May as well market to it, since that demo has money to spend.
     
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    There's some parts of Oakland that are really nice.
     
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    What about the Filipino gangs in Cali. They're the real problem.
     
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    Yeah but with a new stadium in downtown they want people to eat at their corporate food courts. cholos scare away corporate sponsors and white people

    hoop fam
     
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    Sure. There are some parts of Detroit that are really nice, too.
     
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    They can be priced out. Same as whats happening with the Niners as they transition from Candlestick in Hunter's Point to the new stadium in yuppiesville.
     
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    Yup, there was an initiative to build a domed stadium, the first domed stadium, in Portland out at Delta Park. God I wish the voters would have pulled their heads out of their asses and passed that one. We'd probably have a football and baseball team by now.
     
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    Wow, when was this? The Portland Raiders would have been badass.
     
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    doubt it, you're going to have roves of Raider Nation trash parking their trucks in the middle of the street and BBQ'ing
     
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    A team in Portland would be very successful IMO. A question for you guys, would you abandon ship of your current favorite team for them or root for both?
     
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    Root for them both. Not sure what I would do when they played each other. I don't live in Oregon anymore so it would probably be easier decision for others.
     
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  19. ehizzy3

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    Same. As a dolphin fan for more than half my life, I can't just go and abandon them. I think I would root for them against the Portland team too.
     
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    Meh from one shithole back to the other.
     
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