It’s an end of an era in Oakland…again. Nearly five years after the Raiders played their final game at Oakland Coliseum, the A’s have now done the same.
With the A’s planning to also pull up stakes and head for Vegas, they wrapped up their time in Oakland Coliseum Thursday with a win over the Texas Rangers.
The As win their final game in Oakland pic.twitter.com/VAWHLNo7af
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) September 26, 2024
And with this final game in this iconic stadium, let’s take a little trip back to the early days in the A’s first season in Oakland and the Raiders entering their third season at the Coliseum, just after taking the team to Super Bowl II.
In honor of this afternoon's final A's game at the #Oakland Coliseum…
John Facenda's hauntingly beautiful narration to the opening of the 1968 #Raiders highlight film
A house of many magical memories pic.twitter.com/uhsXRfS1R2
— Kevin Gallagher (@KevG163) September 26, 2024
The plan is for the A’s to play in Sacramento for the next few years until a new stadium is built for them. Plan being the operative word.
Fans in Oakland have been urging owner John Fisher to sell the team in the hopes of a new ownership engaging in actual negotiations to build a new stadium in Oakland.
But Fisher’s intentions were always to take the team away so he could cash in the same way the Raiders did — by landing billions in public money with a move to Las Vegas.
