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Not sure this the way to convince the League and the other owners to allow the team to move to LA.

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Dail ... iders.aspx

Raiders Refusing To Put On-Field Gold Marks At 50-Yard Line
By Don Muret, Staff Writer
Published September 22, 2015

The Raiders have gone rogue again, refusing to place special gold marks on the 50-yard line at O.co Coliseum for '15 home games. "The Raiders have asked us not to do that," said Chris Wright, AEG Facilities VP and the Coliseum's GM. AEG runs the stadium shared by the Raiders and the A's. Raiders officials did not provide AEG officials with further explanation and the Raiders did not return emails and phone calls for comment. The gold 50 marks are a key visual piece of the NFL's season-long celebration of Super Bowl 50, to be held Feb. 7 at Levi's Stadium, home of the 49ers. The NFL in March announced every game this season would carry the gold number 50 on the field as part of its "On the Fifty" celebration. The league's 30 other stadiums have complied with the initiative.

NFL VP/Communications Brian McCarthy said the lack of gold marks for the Raiders' first two home games are the result of the Athletics still playing baseball at the Coliseum. McCarthy said gold marks would be put down after their season ended. But Wright said, "It has nothing to do with baseball. The last six home baseball games are through this weekend, and there will be no gold marks for the rest of the Raiders' regular season."

Lol

It's stupid of them to not do it. However, I don't blame them or any team for not wanting to have that stupid gold 50 in the field.

Why not comply though? It can't be that difficult to do. Is this a way for the Raidahas to thank the NFL for not allowing an LA move? I mean what do the Raiders gain by not celebrating with the rest of the league? I don't really dig the gold 50's but it's kind of a slap in the leagues face not to do it..

Puzzling and hilarious, here's a little more:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... -on-field/

Raiders refuse to put gold markings on field

Posted by Mike Florio on September 22, 2015, 5:19 PM EDT

Plenty of you noticed in the Ravens-Raiders game the formation from Baltimore that looked a lot like the formation used by the Patriots in the playoffs against Baltimore, which some viewed as an act of hypocrisy.

None of you noticed a more blatant act of defiance, in either of the regular-season games played to date in Oakland.

The Raiders did not use the gold field markings that designate the NFL’s 50th Super Bowl. All fields, except Oakland’s, have gold NFL shields and gold 50s on each side of the field.

“The Raiders have asked us not to do that,” AEG Facilities VP and O.Co Coliseum G.M. Chris Wright told Don Muret of SportsBusiness Daily.

The Raiders declined comment to SBD, and the NFL said that the absence of gold marks for home games against the Bengals and Ravens flow simply from the fact that the A’s are still playing baseball there. The league said that, after baseball season ends, the Raiders will conform.

Chris Wright said otherwise.

“It has nothing to do with baseball,” Wright said. “The last six home baseball games are through this weekend, and there will be no gold marks for the rest of the Raiders’ regular season.”

While no reason has been provided the refusal to comply, Occam’s Razer suggests that the Raiders don’t want to acknowledge a Super Bowl that will be played down the road in Santa Clara, home of the 49ers. At one level, that’s because the two teams don’t get along. At another level, it’s because the 49ers had no interest in sharing their swanky new stadium with the Raiders.

At yet another level, it’s possibly a great big eff you to a league that arguably isn’t doing all that much to help the Raiders find a solution to its longstanding stadium woes.

Regardless of the reason(s) for being rebellion (as the guy who committed a recent assault and battery on that field would possibly say), the NFL’s willingness to just take it is the kind of think that would prompt Robert DeNiro to ask Joe Pesci, “What’s the world coming to?”

In all (or at least some) seriousness, a league office that spent months dealing with #DeflateGate fallout seems to be determined to avoid any and all fights with any and all teams over any and all things, opting instead to focus on the game, the game, the game. For all games played in Oakland, the focus moving forward will be whether the 50s ever turn gold/yellow/whatever — and whether the league will ever do anything about it.

Maybe the league told the Raiders they're not moving to LA, San Antonio or anywhere else. Stay in Oakland, play in a rotten stadium until you sell the team to a multi billionaire that could build a stadium in Oakland. Who knows? The NFL is wacky.

Mark Davis and his Golden Goose"

NFL is going to reward this joke owner Mark Davis and his shit show by giving him the LA market with the Chargers? LMFAO.

SoCalRam78 wrote:NFL is going to reward this joke owner Mark Davis and his shit show by giving him the LA market with the Chargers? LMFAO.

On a toxic waste dump.

Why do I keep getting the feeling that we are all going to look back at this one day and say DOH!, we knew it all along. It was so obvious it was a no brainer...

Hacksaw wrote:

SoCalRam78 wrote:NFL is going to reward this joke owner Mark Davis and his shit show by giving him the LA market with the Chargers? LMFAO.

On a toxic waste dump.

. . . After the NFL went the extra mile to develop their own plan for the Raiders to play in Hollywood Park, only to have the Raiders give the NFL the finger, move back to Oakland without permission, and sue the league.

People like to spin the idea of precedent and such into this relocation stuff. Think of the precedent that would be set if the league let the Raiders move to LA to solve their stadium problems after the Raiders gave the finger to the LA solution the league gave the Raiders to solve their stadium problems.