Now that the NFL has launched the Oakland Raiders toward Las Vegas, please indulge a brief journey backward, to January, when on the same day that Raiders owner Mark Davis updated the NFL on his team’s stadium status, word broke, hours later, that Dean Spanos had decided to move his Chargers to Los Angeles.
It was wondered back then if the Raiders’ briefing with the NFL on Jan. 11 had any bearing on the Spanos decision to relocate.
The answer, Chargers operative Mark Fabiani told me this week, is, no.
As in nyet.
Nein.