Raiders Not For Sale

Responding to an Orange County Register story that named the Raiders as one of five teams in the mix to be sold to billionaire Philip Anschutz and moved to a new stadium in Los Angeles, Raiders CEO Amy Trask said no sale.

“The team is not for sale. It will remain with the Davis family,” Trask said in a statement issued through senior executive John Herrera.
In the Register story, Anschutz Entertainment Group president Tim Leiweke talked of Anschutz’s wish to acquire majority ownership and bring a team to Farmers Field, a proposed downtown stadium.

“St. Louis, Jacksonville, not extensively, certainly Oakland, San Diego, Minnesota are still in the mix,” Leiweke said. “We’re not packing any (moving) vans right now.”

The Raiders negotiated a three-year extension on their lease agreement in November 2009 to remain at the Coliseum through 2013.

Trask has stated publicly the Raiders’ wish is for a new stadium at its current site.