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In February 2013, the Oakland Raiders announced that they would cover 11,000 seats in the Mount Davis section with a tarp; this reduced capacity to 53,250, making the coliseum by far the smallest in the NFL in seating capacity for its final years in the league (league rules required a minimum capacity of 50,000, and no other stadium, barring ...
The Oakland Raiders were founded as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL) in 1960. The team joined the NFL as a result of the merger in 1970. From 1966 until 1981, it played home games at the Oakland Coliseum, which it shared with Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics after that team moved to Oakland from Kansas City, Missouri in 1968.
As part of the agreement to bring the Raiders back to Oakland the city agreed that they would increase the capacity of the Coliseum. [32] The result was a structure of 20,000 capacity seating that became known as Mount Davis after Davis.
In 1968, Finley chose to relocate the Athletics to Oakland and share the Oakland Coliseum with the American Football League (AFL)'s Oakland Raiders. The Athletics became Oakland's third professional sports team [7] after the Raiders and the Oakland Seals of the National Hockey League, who had commenced play a few months earlier as part of the ...
For coach Jon Gruden and many of the players who have called the Oakland Coliseum home during the team's 41 seasons there, it was a special and unique venue that had no match across the NFL. It ...
Mount Davis, or Mt. Davis, is a section of 20,000 capacity seating at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, United States. It was built in 1995 at the behest of Oakland City Council with the intent of bringing the Los Angeles Raiders American football team back to Oakland and is named after former Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis.
The Oakland A's will play their last game at the Oakland Coliseum on Thursday. Their departure leaves the Bay Area city without a major professional sports team. ... The Raiders left for Los ...
A surprising move in 1982 brought the Oakland Raiders to the Coliseum to become the Los Angeles Raiders. A combination of a split fan base and the 1994 Northridge earthquake damage prompted both teams to leave Los Angeles before the 1995 season. The Raiders returned to their original home of Oakland while the Rams moved to St. Louis, Missouri.