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Auggie

(31,170 posts) Thu Dec 13, 2018, 10:58 AM Dec 2018

Raiders General Partner Mark Davis is a lying piece of shit

He registered the internet domain name lasvegasraiders.com as far back as 1998 and has been renewing it yearly. He also soon after purchased a cell phone with a Las Vegas area code, according the San Francisco Chronicle.

All his rhetoric about wanting to keep the team in Oakland? Bullshit, from the very start.

From the City of Oakland's lawsuit:

This is not a fair process in a competitive marketplace: It is a NFL-rigged process that ... promotes relocations in order to further line the pockets of NFL Club owners with millions of dollars paid by their billionaire competitors to the sole detriment of the Host Cities that are unwilling or unable to pay. It is, essentially, a leveraging of the NFL’s monopoly power, used to extract value from municipalities through an auction that ignores the court-mandated objective relocation procedures ... so the Raiders are moving and paying a bogus $378 million relocation fee.

Furthermore (from the S.F. Chronicle): ... at a closed-door NFL meeting, Marc Badain, a high-level Raiders official, referred to the (Former 49ers/Raider player Ronnie) Lott Proposal — a proposal that could have finally introduced African American ownership into the NFL for the first time in the league’s history — as a “political, cover-your-ass joke.” Badain announced that “it would have been better if [Oakland] offered nothing.”

LINK (possible paywall) https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Oakland-lawsuit-speaks-truth-to-NFL-power-13458783.php

How can anybody trust and support this franchise under the direction of Mark Davis? Why would anybody care about it's future?

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Raiders General Partner Mark Davis is a lying piece of shit (Original Post) Auggie Dec 2018 OP

I hope everyone has realized the the NFL Guppy Dec 2018 #1

All NFL owners are scumbags Moostache Dec 2018 #2

Not to mention they usually have the public pay for their stadiums Bradshaw3 Dec 2018 #3

congress needs to repeal the monopoly exemption. Mosby Dec 2018 #4

And give up their free tickets??? Auggie Dec 2018 #5

Guppy

(444 posts)

1. I hope everyone has realized the the NFL

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 11:20 AM

Dec 2018

owners are the worst. Well, maybe in a tie with MLB. Also, at least the NFL players are cool while the majority of baseball players are Trumpians. The only decent league is the NBA. Both players and owners.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)

2. All NFL owners are scumbags

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 11:36 AM

Dec 2018

I have a wishlist of people I want to receive the news that they have died...it is a short list, but on my list right behind Trump is Stan Kroneke owner of the Rams and Missouri native who torched St. Louis and the region as a non-viable hellhole on his way to ripping the Rams out of St. Louis and back to L.A.

I'll leave it at this - I have 2 bottles of champagne ready to pop upon hearing the news that "Individual 1" or "Stan Kroneke" has died...can't wait to drink either one.

Bradshaw3

(7,522 posts)

3. Not to mention they usually have the public pay for their stadiums

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 11:40 AM

Dec 2018

Case in point: $750 million of the over $1B cost of the Raiders new Vegas stadium is going to be paid for by a hotel tax that used to go to public school funding.

Mosby

(16,311 posts)

4. congress needs to repeal the monopoly exemption.

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 08:10 PM

Dec 2018

Auggie

(31,170 posts)

5. And give up their free tickets???

Reply to Mosby (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 08:33 PM

Dec 2018

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