What Happened To The Sports Teams of Oakland?

It would be very embarrassing to the city of Oakland losing a team from all 4 major sports leagues. At this point the A's are slipping through the fingers of the city of Oakland.

Update. The Oakland Athletics are moving to Las Vegas⚾️

The coliseum was a beautiful ballpark, being able to see the Oakland Hills, and the rest of the East Bay. Oakland has a lot of roots in the blue collar field though, and many of those jobs relocated. Go down San Leandro St., and you will see off of 98th, for instance, the old Granny Goose building. Further up towards the Coliseum, there was Sunshine, Nabisco, and who can forget Mother's cookies? Malibu, is similar to Boomers out in Livermore, was right next to the Coliseum. You could literally start with an afternoon game on a Sunday, watch the Bash Brothers and Rickey Henderson tear it up in the Coliseum, then have enough time to head over to watch Webber, Mullen, and the other Warriors tear up the basket at the Arena, and then end your night, with some pizza with some go cart racing, and video games over at Malibu. Mount Davis, from my understanding, will not be paid off until the earliest 2030. I like their suites, but it costed both the A's and Raiders even. The Raiders, when they were good in the Early 2000's were actually blacked out, due to the luxury tax on the seats. After their Super bowl appearance, yes, the blackouts, were due to not being able to sell enough tickets. IN fact, some MNF games, just to be shown on national TV, the network bought up the tickets to be an official sellout.

The first MLB game that I ever attended was in Oakland, prior to Mount Davis being built. It was so much more beautiful then.

Mt Davis has a huge mistake on Oakland’s part. That was a major downfall too. Such a shame on what Oakland has become.

You forgot to mention the Oakland Oaks of the American Basketball Association (ABA). They played in the Oakland Coliseum Arena when the Warriors were still the San Francisco Warriors (remember the jerseys had “the City” listed on the front and a cable car silhouette on the back) and played in the Cow Palace (actually located in Daly City and not San Francisco). The Oaks played in Oakland for 2 seasons (1967-1969) before moving to Washington D.C. They were best known for having future NBA Hall of Famer Rick Berry on the 1968-69 team that won the ABA Championship.

If you've been to Oakland in the last 10 years you'll understand why the teams are leaving...

LA wanted the raiders. In just year 2, the Raiders won a Super Bowl. It was a great time to be in the LA coliseum for the raiders, since the rams moved to anaheim stadium in 1980

And here we are today..the A's announce that they are Vegas bound. Signed a binding land purchase agreement there. When a city allows all of it's professional sports teams (4) to go elsewhere , independent of each other then that says more about the city's leadership then it does of the teams.

I did a 13 week work contract in Oakland and got robbed twice. The insane shit I saw there blew my mind. You couldn't pay me enough to go back.

You should rename the title to" What Happened To The City of Oakland" Short answer: the teams were winning but the city was losing and losing big.

It's sad Oakland keeps losing great sports teams. I'm willing to bet once the A's move (most likely to Las Vegas), the Oakland Coliseum and Arena will just sit there like the Houston Astrodome.

Oakland is what happened to the sports teams of Oakland.

As a socal resident who’s been to the Bay Area 4 times. This breaks my heart. What I will miss the most was the SD-Oakland rivalry.

I feel for ALL the sports fans in Oakland, losing a professional sports team hurts, but 3 teams within a 10 year period? WOW! Up here in Minnesota we lost the North Stars 30 years ago, because of our politics having an attitude! We also lost the Lakers back in 1960, for basically the same reasons! But NOW we have OUR teams, at their current arenas and stadiums! I wish Oakland ALL the best!

Up until this video, I thought that the Warriors were still in Oakland.

Fantastic video! One point that needs to be pointed out is that the Giants and MLB have screwed the A’s out of the territorial right issue in San Jose. Both teams shared those rights until the early 90’s when the Giants almost relocated to Tampa. To help the Giants stay in the area, former A’s owner Walter Haas agreed to cede these rights in the hopes of the Giants finding a new ballpark within the Bay Area. It’s a shame that MLB has not righted this wrong that has plagued the A’s in finding land for the ballpark. Not excusing the current A’s ownership, which is literally following the plot of the owner of the Indians from Major League, but there’s some bad blood that’s never been rectified.

In the 70's, Oakland and San Francisco had 6 teams combined. Now if the A's leave, that'll leave just 2, the Giants and Warriors. That pretty much shows how much of a dump these cities have become.

The renovation of the coliseum in 95 made it look hideous. It's a half of a football stadium, that was merged into an baseball stadium.

The players are tired of getting their cars broken into.