by Jeremy Kahn

Craig Lee SF Chronicle photo of Tadich Grill in SF

OAKLAND–Hundreds of Oakland Raiders fans who crammed the Paramount Theatre on Thursday night to plead with NFL officials to try and do everything they can to try and stop the Raiders from moving to Carson Calif in the Southland. The Raiders owner Mark Davis and Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf were also attending the meeting with NFL representatives Chris Hardart, Eric Grubman, Cynthia Hogan and Jay Bauman.

Schaaf said she can fund $90 million to $120 million in infrastructure costs that would include road alignments around the Coliseum. It won’t be enough as fans tried to get creative in generating money for a new stadium like using a fan sourcing program to raise monies to build the stadium.  It’s  a huge project to ask the fans to raise that kind of money, “I don’t think it would be fair for us to ask you to do that” said NFL rep Grubman.

Cecil Upshaw’s sons and grandfather Tadich Grill owner Steve Buich: Former Tadich Grill owner Steve Buich said that it was about character and never about race why he banished his daughter out of the family. That he didn’t like former Raider Upshaw’s character. Upshaw had an upstanding career in the NFL and with the Raiders also he led the NFL Players Association for years until he passed away from cancer in 2008.

Buich’s daughter Terri said that it was because she married a black man Upshaw as the reason for the banishment. The shameful part about all of this is Terri’s children can’t see their grandfather at all as Buich will not permit Terri or his grandchildren to see him. What kind of a grandfather will not see his own grandchildren?

You know what would be ironic poetic justice if Terri and her kids someday could buy Tadich Grill and can own and run the business themselves. Right now Tadich Grill in San Francisco is being ran by Terri’s brother.

Jermey Kahn does the Oakland Raiders podcast each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com