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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...
