[Hacksaw]

Mark Purdy ‏@MercPurdy 12h12 hours ago
Latest murmurs are that Mark Davis will sign a 2 year extension in Oakland, take time to sort out next move. @Dave01 @RAIDERS

[Rams the Legends live on]

And then there was two

[Hacksaw]

Not sure if this has any legs so I'm not going to put much stock in this tweet yet. @MercPurdy is a sports columnist for the Mercury News/Bay Area News Group.
I don't see any articles alluding to this but it would be another interesting piece if true. 2 years would coincide with Inglewood, not Carson.

https://twitter.com/mercpurdy

[snackdaddy]

It would piss off Spanos, but the Raiders would be a better fit in LA than the Chargers would be. They do have some history there. Could Davis be targeting Inglewood as a tenant? And if Davis pulls out of the Carson sweepstakes would that be the end of Spanos plan there? Or can Spanos go it alone?

[Elvis]

John Gennaro on the Raiders:

STADIUM TALK: Who is the Raiders "Mystery Investor"?

By John Gennaro  @john_gennaro on Oct 15, 2015, 3:00p 31

There is some game-changing news coming soon, as soon we know who the Raiders' mystery investor is. Until we know, let's guess!

Hi! We haven't had a ton of Los Angeles / stadium news as of yet, so let's break down a quiet piece of news that came out a few weeks ago. It could end up being a potential game-changer for all parties involved.

I'm hearing more and more the Raiders could be on the verge of bringing on a business partner to help them with their potential move to Carson with the San Diego Chargers.

After doing some poking around, it appears to be someone well connected to Los Angeles, and someone who will enhance the entertainment and development aspects of the Raiders and Chargers shared stadium project.

Here's the thing. The Carson stadium project is dead. Very, very dead. Anyone saying that it's not is fooling themselves or purposefully lying.

Stan Kroenke has won the race and will be building a stadium in Inglewood and moving the St. Louis Rams there to become the Los Angeles Rams. You can take that as my "insider knowledge", my opinion, or straight fact. I don't care, just don't talk about Carson like it's viable. There's a reason that even the San Diego Chargers aren't talking about it anymore, why Carmen Policy has disappeared, and why Mark Fabiani has gone quiet.

So, if the Raiders are bringing in a business partner with L.A. ties, they're doing it for one reason alone: To try and gain an advantage over the Chargers when the NFL is picking which franchise gets to be the second team in Inglewood.

Up until this point, all we've heard is how the NFL does not want to deal with Mark Davis when it comes to Los Angeles, but what if they didn't have to? What if they dealt with his partner instead, and that person worked as a buffer/wallet to keep Davis from screwing things up?

That would be very attractive. Jerry Jones and a group of owners are loudly pushing for the L.A. market to be done "the right right way" by someone with enough resources to be able to recover from any mistakes. That's not Spanos or Davis, but it might be the Raiders if they have a new guy on board.

While Vinny Bonsignore didn't say it in the post above, Bleacher Report's Jason Cole followed up the report above by saying that Mark Davis is considering selling a stake in the Raiders to a "mystery billionaire".

Luckily for us, there aren't a ton of billionaires out there with L.A. connections and a known interest in buying a professional sports franchise. So, let's go through some of the rumored names and come up with a few more on our own:

Analysis of potential buyers at link...

[SoCalRam78]

rams/raiders with chargers in SD sounds congested, don't now if Spanos will go for it

[Elvis]

I know i've asked this before, but how did the Chargers do when the Rams were in Anaheim and Raiders in L.A.? Were those down years attendance/revenue wise for the Chargers?

[SoCalRam78]

I know i've asked this before, but how did the Chargers do when the Rams were in Anaheim and Raiders in L.A.? Were those down years attendance/revenue wise for the Chargers?

Not sure, Elvis, but the Rams were in OC at that time, supposedly a place where the Chargers draw most of their "LA" fans. Plus the Inland Empire.

[Stranger]

wasn't that the time of Dan Fouts?

[The Ripper]

Only 3 winning seasons when the Raiders were in LA but there attendance was descent.