by Joe Hawkes Beamon

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OAKLAND–Oakland city residents were asked about where is their priority on saving the Oakland Raiders by building a new stadium. They said that building a new stadium for the Oakland Raiders is not the top priority. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff is trying to get the idea of using property taxes that will help subsidize building a new Raiders Stadium as the team is moving in the direction of leaving Oakland as early as the end of this season and could be playing at the Rose Bowl or the LA Coliseum by next season.

Schaff is a lifelong A’s and Raiders fan but says she would not use public funds to build a new Raiders stadium. She went to New York to discuss keeping the Raiders in Oakland with NFL officials and she expressed to the officials that Oakland is a very passionate fan base and that Oakland is a very attractive place for the NFL.

The situation for Oakland keeping it’s team is very much up in the air for discussions. The location of a new Oakland Raiders stadium would be at the current Oakland Coliseum site. The idea of building these new stadiums these days they have to be around businesses, hotels, and shopping. The Coliseum doesn’t have those amenities and that might lessen Schaff’s reasoning to the NFL in keeping the team there.

Joe Hawkes Beamon covers the Raiders each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below