Not long after the owner Mark Davis of the Raiders got the green light from the other owners of N.F.L. teams to leave Oakland and move to Las Vegas, he sought to make things right with the passionate, sometimes rancorous hometown fans.
He wandered through the lobby of the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, where the vote took place on Monday, and found Godfather Griz Jones, the leader of Forever Oakland, one of the team’s most fervent fan groups. Dressed in a white shirt, white tie and jacket, Davis reached out to shake Jones’s hand, but he was rebuffed.