Tweet
Because of the financial strains a sociated with owning the Raiders, late owner Al Davis actually considered selling the team a few years before he died in 2011, a former team employee has revealed.Former Raiders CEO Amy Trask, who served in the position from 1997 until 2013, sat down for Bob Feller Jersey an interview with and revealed Davis once talked about po sibly selling the team.Trask spoke about a conversation she once had with Davis in which he Roberto Perez Jersey cited the team's financial i sues as a reason for wanting to get out. Ultimately, she talked him out of it.At one point a couple of years before he pa sed away, he just got tired of it, and he said to me, Lets just sell the whole team. Lets just sell the controlling interest. Lets just sell it. Lets be done with it. This is hard on you. Youre always having to find us money. You Andrew Miller Jersey re just going through lengths to find this. Lets just sell the whole thing,' Trask said.Trask added that she doesn't think Davis' son and current owner, Mark Davis, ever knew his father was even considering it.I dont think he (Mark Davis) ever knew that his dad had gotten to the point where he just said, Amy, sell the team, she said.Trask fought on Mark's behalf to keep Al from selling the team in order to leave it to his son.I looked at (Al Davis) and said, You want to leave this team to your Brad Miller Jersey wife and your son. You want your son to have this team. I will find you the money Lonnie Chisenhall Jersey , and I went and found the money.I fought for it so he could pa s it on to Mark," Trask added. "And of course, to Carol, but of course, Carol was of the same generation as Al, so ultimately Mark.At the very least, Mark Davis should be sending Trask a thank you card for what she did.