McCombs, an 88-year-old billionaire, said in a radio account with ESPN San Antonio on Wednesday that he talked to Raiders buyer Mark Davis on Tuesday afterwards the aggregation withdrew its appliance to backpack to Los Angeles.
According to Bleacher Report, Davis owns acreage in the San Antonio breadth breadth he could body a stadium.
McCombs said San Antonio has "several locations that would work" to body a amphitheater and that he has 12 accumulated sponsors lined up with "serious commitments." Now he has to argue Davis that affective his aggregation to Texas is the appropriate move for the franchise.
"He was built-in and aloft there, and he has a abundant activity for the accompaniment of California," McCombs said of Davis. "But it appears he is traveling to charge to go somewhere."
McCombs said he would be acquiescent to affairs into the Raiders if that's what it would yield to get the aggregation to play in San Antonio.
"We would be blessed to be investors if that what he wants," he said. "We accept investors lined up if that what he wants. If he wants to accumulate it all to himself, that's OK too."
The San Francisco Chronicle said Davis beneath to animadversion about a abeyant approaching in San Antonio.
The Raiders would charge alliance approval to backpack to San Antonio, but McCombs said he doesn't accept that would be withheld because of the team's troubles accepting a new amphitheater in Oakland.On Tuesday in Houston, NFL owners accustomed Rams buyer Stan Kroenke's plan to backpack his aggregation from St. Louis to the website of the old Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood, California, about 10 afar from city L.A. The Chargers accept a yearlong advantage to accompany the Rams, followed by the Raiders if the San Diego authorization declines.
After his aggregation was denied its bid to move to Los Angeles, Davis said he didn't apperceive breadth his aggregation would play next season.
"We don't accept a charter appropriate now at the Oakland Coliseum," he said. "America, the apple is a achievability for the Raider Nation."
In 2014, Davis catholic to San Antonio to accommodated with breadth leaders and advance the area.
McCombs said if Davis "does adjudge to go about we wish him to adjudge to appear here."
"What happened bygone (Tuesday) in Houston was actually the greatest affair that could appear to us abbreviate of accepting somebody committed to appear in here, because that austere the aerodrome to breadth now he can accomplish his accommodation and go anywhere he wants to," McCombs said.
The Raiders accept been a authorization back 1959, the year the old American Football Alliance came into being. The authorization has been in the Davis ancestors back Mark's father, Al, became drillmaster and accepted administrator of the Raiders in 1963.
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