Oakland is a city in flux and seeing its top sports teams leave has been a drag on the morale of many of its people. Oakland California is evident of the inequality of the bay area and the abandonment of so many areas by private corporate culture and industry selecting areas it warrants as deserving of commerce and trade. Oakland California didn't play ball with a sports team and resisted giving away money so a billionaire can get a free stadium and make massive amounts of money from a publically-funded stadium and charge extravagant amount for luxury boxes to wealthy people. luxury sports seats are peanuts and amounts to paying for ahhhh a car wash to those who dominate corporate world and the freebies given among this group. The Golden State warriors will be leaving Oakland and oracle Arena to a state of the art facility across the bay. the raider football team may be following the warriors out of Oakland as owner Davis was not able to raid the public coffers and government t treasury for a likewise over-extravagant stadium package deal to give more boxes and rooms to wealthy sports fans.
Oakland is slowly changing and the tech boom and young professionals with good but not top echelon salaries are looking for cheaper rents and areas with walkable communities away from the boring suburbs of silicon valley and aging first generation tech elites. The city has long been the bastion of resistance to corporate dominance and the corportocracy of sports in recent decades is why these mega-millions owners demand more profit-generating turf. The Oakland A's are another organization for basebore that relies on the subsidies of aging corporate culture and spending that long highlighted this game. Oakland fans have long since stopped caring for baseball as the city is hugely made up of young people, Asians and Mexicans which baseball likely doesn't make up the top three of their most favorite sport. One of the reason why any stadium deal is improbable is that the city is still paying on obligations for stadium repairs in the nineties.
The Raiders are really not worth the five hundred million that Mark Davis is supposedly worth because of ownership and when one sees the bamboozling of public funds through the years in stadium deals by these private owners a case could be claimed for total city control of these NFL teams in much the Packers are owned by the city. Oakland will no longer give in to these private owners an allow them to profit from the public anymore and hopefully other cities see the chance to gain control of their markets and land use for better and more equitable use for both the fans and the uninterested public. Oakland is in the process of a tech boon and resources are not available nor is time for distractive events such as American football. let the raiders move to the South where that's all they care about instead of improving their economy.
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