Oakland Raiders Need to Move Back to Los Angeles
August 19, 2014; Oakland, CA, USA; Oakland Athletics owner Lew Wolff (left) and MLB commissioner Bud Selig (right) leave the field before the game against the New York Mets at O.co Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
Davis Needs a New Stadium
Davis needs a new stadium for his Raiders because O.C.O. Coliseum is the biggest dump in professional sports. That dump is a good portion of the reason why the Raiders are the least valuable franchise in the NFL. Plus his Raiders are the only team in the NFL that shares a stadium with a Major League Baseball team.
Davis isn’t some billionaire that makes money elsewhere so his biggest assets are his players. And if he’s going to have healthy assets, the Raiders can’t keep playing on a baseball field for half of the season. I’m not a doctor nor do I play one on television but I do know that sprinting on dirt, especially when it’s uneven, causes injuries to the lower leg and foot.
And if you look at potential superstar running back Darren McFadden’s injury history, you’ll see his ankles and feet give him the most trouble. Denarius Moore and Jacoby Ford also had lisfranc injuries in and Ford still might not be the same from his. But it was McFadden’s injury cost the Raiders a playoff birth in 2011 as he was playing at MVP level when he went down.
To run as fast as you can, you have to put as much force into the ground as you possibly can. And when you do that in sand, you put all kinds of undue stress on your lower legs, ankles and feet. Even more force goes into the ground when you’re tackled in the dirt as McFadden was against the Cleveland Browns in 2011.
Davis is using a dump that no one wants to go to with a baseball field that injures his most exciting players. It’s a doggone shame but he doesn’t even make money at the concession stand from his Raiders’ home games . The A’s are the ones that make that money because they have concessions and signage rights at the stadium and they just signed a 10-year extension.
Why struggle with Oakland when L.A. is waiting to build a stadium.