by Jeremy Kahn and Joe Hawkes Beamon

ALAMEDA–The Oakland Raiders said before signing a ten year lease with the Oakland Coliseum they wanted the stadium torn down and a new one built in it’s footprint and ready to go by 2016 just before the City Council approved the Oakland A’s lease. The Raiders owner Mark Davis in response to the signing of the lease and the Coliseum very unlikely to be torn down said the Raiders could move to San Antonio on Tuesday.

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to approve the A’s ten year lease after the City Council approved it last week and that was the last straw for Davis as he said the Raiders could leave very soon. With a “possible relocation of (Davis’)NFL team to San Antonio” according to San Antonio City manager Sheryl Scully.

Ironically the A’s had said that they would move to San Antonio or Montreal if the Oakland City Council refused to approve the ten year lease. If the A’s had gone to Texas they would have to play at Alamo Stadium where the short porch in left field is well under 300 feet. The Raiders could play at Alamo Stadium if they so choose to get out of the Coliseum.

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan who panicked to get the City Council to sign the lease before the A’s would move now is under pressure to try and save another franchise. The Raiders who want the Coliseum torn down and a new stadium built and ready by the 2016 season. Quan who said she wanted the Coliseum Complex to be a sports village for the Raiders and A’s particularly after the Warriors move out of Oracle Arena for their new digs in San Francisco’s Mission Bay.

According to wire reports Davis met with San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, former mayor Julian Castro, Shelly, San Antonio Economic Foundation’s Mario Perez, Richard Hernandez and David McGee who is the president of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. Critics who were following the discussion with Davis and San Antonio officials think that the Raiders won’t move and that this whole thing about moving is a bluff so the city would build the Raiders a new stadium, but never say never.

Davis and the Raiders organization is not too pleased with the City Council’s decision to keep the A’s at the Coliseum for ten years and getting by passed as a main tenant. The Raiders feeling shunned will seriously take a look at San Antonio and see what their stadium aspirations will be. The Raiders moved back in 1995 from L.A. after leaving Oakland in 1982 came back.

The Raiders who are in camp right now in Napa plan to review this a little closer this time because the Raiders feel their going to get nowhere with the City of Oakland. San Antonio’s history for professional sports franchises have been the San Antonio Spurs who started out in the ABA in 1970s then moved over to the NBA. San Antonio also was in the USFL for two years with the Gunsligers 1984 and 1985 for San Antonio’s only two times in the show.

Jeremy Kahn and Joe Hawkes Beamon are covering the 2014 Oakland Raiders for http://www.sportsradioservice.com