So Oakland and Alameda County played their respective aces, offering up a loosely constructed $1.3 billion plan to build a new football-only stadium for the Oakland-Until-Further-Notice Raiders.
Now they have to see if they can make those aces look more to Davis and the NFL like jacks and less like an unsuited trey-nine. And, more to the point, whether they should want to.
The latest bit of inventory from this shoe store avalanche is the stadium plan the city and county voted to attempt to present to the 32 NFL owners (Davis included), one which most people expect to be rejected in its current form – Davis because he’s given no indication he wants to hear anything Oakland has to say, and the NFL because it has significant reservations about the Fortress Group, the money people holding up Ronnie Lott as their human shield.