Hall of Fame running back Marcus Allen believes the Oakland Raiders franchise should return to Los Angeles. The NFL, meanwhile, appears to be ramping up their efforts to put a team in Los Angeles.
Allen played for the Raiders, then known as the Los Angeles Raiders, from 1982 to 1992 before eventually finding his way to the Hall of Fame in 2003. With talks of an NFL franchise returning to Los Angeles seemingly heating up, Allen expressed his support of the idea of the Raiders relocating to Los Angeles.
L.A. over the weekend with NBC Sports at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship.
"I know people in Oakland won't like this," he told NBC Sports over the weekend at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship, via ESPN. "I think it's a viable option. ... We can't have them back at the [Los Angeles Memorial] Coliseum; the Coliseum is now USC's home. ... But there's some locations there that I know I've talked to a few owners [about] and I know that they've liked it. I can't divulge my sources, though."
The Los Angeles Times reported the NFL was becoming more aggressive with their goal of returning a franchise to the city and was considering different financing options, including the league paying the cost of building a new stadium.
"The league is evaluating various sites in the L.A. area and looking into alternative financing models for a stadium, including paying for one itself as opposed to having an individual owner foot the bill," Sam Farmer of The Times wrote Saturday.
Farmer went on to describe what two possible scenarios would look like if the NFL chose to finance, and subsequently own, a stadium in Los Angeles.
