How The NFL Almost Built Coliseum City For The Oakland Raiders But Las Vegas Sands Made A Move How The NFL Almost Built Coliseum City For The Oakland Raiders But Las Vegas Sands Made A Move In May of 2015, the Oakland Raiders hosted a meeting at their Alameda Headquarters (where the Oakland Roots live now) that featured Raiders Owner Mark Davis, Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, then-Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, then-Raiders President Mark Badain, and NFL Business SVP And Stadium Point Person Eric Grubman. That meeting was pivotal because an artist rendition of a stadium for the Raiders at the Oakland Coliseum was shown. I later found that image online in the middle of one of my Raiders livestream shows and called the architect who created it, Dan Meis. Mr. Meis was nice enough to tell me that he could not reveal who his client was for the project. Having worked with the Raiders a number of times in the past - especially with the late Al LoCasale, the Raiders famed execu...
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