As a kid who grew up in Minnesota, The Coliseum holds a special place in my heart. Going to indoor baseball my early years, then having my dad take me to Oakland on a business trip and my first experience in an outdoor park was magical. I feel bad for Athletics fans.

I’m a giants fan, but baseball just isn’t baseball without Oakland.

I had season tickets for the raiders man that stadium was old but man it had that old school style that no one has anymore!!! Going to miss the stadium when the lights go out 😢

The irony is the fact that the Raiders moved to LV due to the A’s. The Raiders wanted to redevelop the Coliseum Site, but were basically blocked by the A’s when Oakland decided to extend their lease and make them the primary Tennant of the Coliseum under the agreement that the team would stay In Oakland. The A’s squatted on the lease which basically kept the Raiders from redeveloping the site ultimately frustrated with the situation the Raiders relocated to LV. Now the A’s when the City and county were ready to hash out the final details on the Howard Terminal site ( literally a week away from the negotiations summit) A’s ownership pulled out, blind siding the city and announced they are planning on moving to LV down the street from the Raiders. Now the city is not without fault the politics in California are lined with red tape, but every ask the A’s had the City met. The cost of the Howard Terminal deal kept rising because the A’s wanted to build commercial, residential and retail space around the site (like the Braves). Oakland has stated if the A’s just wanted a stadium, shovels would already be in the ground. I still don’t get how all the sticking points in Oakland magically don’t matter in LV. Ultimately it comes down to cheap ownership. The Warriors, Rams and now clippers had no issues building new stadiums in California. I’m still holding out and hoping the LV deal falls through and the team is sold to Joe Lacob. I still think a team in LV would be great but rather an expansion team rather than rewarding a cheap owner that purposely drove a franchise into the ground.

Keep posting regularly & this channel will sky rocket

All I will know in my life is the Bart connection. Damn, all the memories others have had on that train ride. As a Texan, Oakland was a great trip.

Nostalgic emotions are real, but Oakland got the A's bc at one time it was an attractive destination. Not anymore. Businesses don't want to jump through 1,000 hoops in order to do business. The "downtown" model is dead when your city does not control crime & actually appeases the criminals. LV will control crime near the strip because they know people need to feel safe.

As a San Diego fan and native, I feel your pain Oakland. No fan deserves to lose their team. Chargers/Raiders rivalry will also never be the same. ❤😢😞🙏

Oakland once had these major league teams-the A's,Raiders,the Golden State Warriors and the California Golden Seals. With the Warriors returning back to San Francisco, the Raiders in Las Vegas and the A's likely joining them, Oakland could become the first city in California to have all its team relocated. (P.S. In 1967, when the NHL came to the Bay Area, there was a team called the Oakland Seals. In 1970, A's owner Charlie Finley bought the Seals and renamed them the California Golden Seals. He unsuccessfully wanted the players to wear white skates. The Seals suffered in the box office in the Oakland Coliseum and on the ice. After eight unsuccessful seasons, the Seals moved to Cleveland and were rebranded as the Barons. The franchise died in 1977.)

the character of still being called the Coliseum is amazing and yes, that seating addition was NASTY

I’m a giants fan, sf born and raised. But I want to go to one last A’s game before they leave. The bay bridge series is a staple of our teams, and it won’t feel right without our neighbors across the bat

The Coliseum is one of the worse kept pro stadiums in America, that’s a fact.

K, it's your passion for game that hooked me. Show us all the rest!

Found you on tik tok, great informative content. Lived in the Bay Area my entire life and never knew any of this!!!

Wow! Just excellent content across the board and I admire your editing and storytelling skills. This is the start of a great channel, I can tell

And Oakland is still paying off the bonds for Mt. Davis.

Once upon a time the sports fan was the cornerstone of the sports world. Now team owners and even players treat fans like something stuck on their shoe. I feel for A's fans. Only one of my teams ever moved(Arizona Cardinals) but I never lived in St. Louis so it made no never mind to me. But if the Phillies, Flyers, or Sixers ever moved I'd feel like Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. I'd probably give up on sports at that point.

I’m doing a job in Stockton in 2023 and have been going to A’s game once a week tickets are usually 10-15$ I ride the Bart in from Dublin. Bart ticket and food cost more than ticket. But the enjoyment of a baseball game even if the team sucks is worth it

I grew up in Hayward in the late 60’ early 70’s and went to many A’s and Raiders games. I was a great time to be a fan.

Awesome Awesome video 👏🏾 very informative to say the least.

Your content is superb. Editing on point.I have adhd and love staring at google maps too😅 Remember me when you get to mil subs.😂

I was in Oakland in 1988 to watch my Blue Jays play the A's, it was a great walk from the Holiday Inn on Hegenberger to the Stadium this was before the Seat expansion, and yes it was a beautiful view from inside and out, and Attendance for all 4 games we saw was over 30,000 each game, had a great time, Thank you Oakland!

i’m a marlins fan from oakland but have been going a’s games since i was a kid. when they move it will truly be a sad day. i’m sorry to the a’s fans, this shit sucks

The Ark of The Lost Raiders. I went to see Molly Hatchet, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, and Journey all together there.

A great venue for the thousands of homeless! California has got to smarten up. Since nobody wants to work and would perfer to live on the streets, why shouldn't the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum become THE PALACE OF HOMELESSNESS!! Might I add..... As a life long fan of the Oakland Raiders, THE CITY OF OAKLAND HAS GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED!!!

You know how many epic concerts have been held at that stadium especially day on the green. Sad to see that state its in now.

Going to the coliseum was WILd! Fights everywhere, parked cars being broke into. But man, was that place rocking for playoff baseball with the redsoxs, ohh the memories

Personally when the As are gone I’d tare out the older ring and build a second mount Davis for local college and soccer use

What they probably should do with that land where the Coliseum and Arena stands is give it to Disney so they can develop a Disneyland North, now that Disney is not too keen on development in Florida.

great video

Memories live on of my first visit to the Coliseum in 1974...I have been an A's fan since 1972, and the venue was so beautiful, before Mount Davis. After graduating from high school, I was determined to move to the valley in Lodi and get season tickets to the A's...but thanks to the building of Mount Davis, my plans quickly changed. THANK YOU AL DAVIS, YOU SCREWED THE A'S OVER!! Now the A's are moving to Las Vegas...let's see what happens now.

I was there in 1977 and thought it was beautiful then. Can't stand to look at it now.

I wanted the Raiders to stay in Oakland and hoped the city would work a deal to build the sporting complex for all three teams.

I'm surprised he didn't mentioned anything about the seals moving to cleveland, then merged with minnesota. The usfl or xfl can expand to oakland and play there for awhile.

Well once the A’s move to Vegas, the Coliseum is likely to get demolished.

There are somethings that were missed (of course it’s a short video on KZfaq ) but Howard Terminal was rejected by Lew Wolf & MLB for years and considered impossible by Wolf and was more focused on SJ. Jerry Brown & Jean Quan tried for years for them to build a stadium in Brooklyn Basin (which was close to the Laney site). And Mark Davis said Fisher was the reason why he couldn’t do anything at the Coliseum because he didn’t want to chip in with a few different developers who wanted to redo the area for three teams

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This is sad, like Oakland just 4. Years ago had three major sports team and in two more years they will have none.

Years ago Oakland was such a beautiful city where middle class families were flocking in. As time went on, many middle class families left Oakland and the poor class moved in. As a result, many homeless encampments set up recently and the morale of Oakland went down

Move them back to Philadelphia the Philadelphia A's that's the best place for them

Lifelong A's fan. My mom was pregnant with me when she and my Dad went to the 1972 World Series. So I've literally been going to A's games my entire life. This whole roller coaster is wearing me out as a fan. I wish all the owners would get to get together friggin' Fisher to sell the team. No matter what I'll always be ride or die with my A's.

The A's seem to be struggling to get approval for anything in Vegas now too. Nevada doesn't want to provide funding at all, but the city itself might, or maybe if they can find a casino partner. This team just needs a new home somewhere. It's a shame they can't just build a new baseball specific stadium with a theme based on the old version of this staidum in the same lot. Bring back those iconic views, but I know the team views that lot as non-viable for the future.

Sad for the fans in O town

It's weird how professional sports teams in the US just up and move cities. That sort of thing is unheard of in other countries where teams are closely associated with towns and cities. Manchester United, for example, would never, ever, move to London or Liverpool. It would be the end of the franchise.

I dont like the idea of any pro sports teams in las vegas

From icon to eyesore.

Affordable housing that isn't that affordable

Lowkey not even that bad of a stadium just the stereotypes around the people that have been there 🙏

Oakland has way bigger concerns then a sports franchise. That place looks damn near post-apocalyptic

A's ownership drove the team into the ground and took the fans, employees, the city, and the football team with him on that journey. Must be a real nut job.

Is the location of the stadium an actual issue? As in, building a new stadium on the same grounds is or was out of the question.

Many people forget the A's tried to move to San Jose and wanted to move to Fremont. Howard terminal is a pipe dream. Baseball is a business, and the A's are better off in Las Vegas.

Hope Nevada says no so Fisher doesn't have anywhere else to go but to sell... But in restrospect, Coliseum also not it either, from eveb the AASEG plan the new stadium gonna stay at the exactly same place but you can't build a new one before demolishing Coliseum, because that's totally need to be demolished, and we know pushing forward to Howard Terminal gonna be very expensive and time consuming too, so I don't think Oakland has it either... Vegas is totally not ready for an MLB team, there are no support from general public for the A's but there are no incentives for expansion group, their gambling too much for the A's are totally gonna be their downfall... My personal preference is totally between Sacramento or Austin/San Antonio, and probably Salt Lake City too aftwr seeing theur rendering... 🤔🤔🤔

I appreciate your breakdown of this team. The old stadium 🏟 oakland is in trouble

I really hope that the Vargas deal falls through just so that owner doesn’t get what he wants

The best-looking playing field in all of MLB IMO.

Man I grew up in San Jose and always thought of Oakland as trash. That city has way bigger problems than sports teams. As far as the A's are concerned. The Giants are to blame. F the Giants. If the Giants didn't cry territorial rights, then the A's would already be playing in Downtown San Jose.

Curt gowdy announcing a's of the 70s, Reggie and the boys, unbelievable 😢

What happened to the Golden Seals?

That place should have been demolished 5 or more years ago. Mount Davis is the worst stadium renovation ever 😅

Sucks for the people of Oakland. The fans don’t deserve this at all.

Rap concerts would be a good fit for the used stadium. Nobody would care if it got destroyed.

Their Vegas stadium is going to be ❤‍🔥. Cannot wait for them to be gone.

I wish the A’s could move to San Jose

Very sad

City of Oakland should have subsidized the Raiders...nfl is king. Let the A's build on the Coliseum site or walk

When Space Force archaeoligists dig up ruins of the Oakland Coliseum in the year 20,024, they are going to be confused as to how the Romans were able to build the same exact stadium on two different Continents.

I went to an As,Giants game a couple years ago and the colosseum is a horrible stadium I don’t say it to hate but the place is nearly falling apart

I am fairly certain the warriors left to SF before the raiders left to LV

Personally. I think they spend one more year in the coliseum. I think they are gonna play in there Triple A minor league ballpark in 2025

"Affordable housing....venue for concerts"....nope

The city of Oakland is a absolute joke. How many tourist come to Oakland every year? The middle of a donut. 0. All three teams have left , they know better.

Oakland snubbed its fans. Sad

Welcome to the next tent city annex

Why can't they play somewhere else for 2 or 3 years and tear down the coliseum and rebuild

HASA DIGA EEBOWAI!!!!!

The Oakland Coliseum was much worse than the other multi sport stadiums build in the 1960’s.

Depressing and the music doesn't help, though don't let it fool you

I know the arena's footprint isn't as big as the coliseum, but would razzing that and building a new stadium next door be an option? Certainly wouldn't be the first time a team did that...

Thanks to Politicians in Oakland who sat on their Ass for So Many years.

This stadium has had a great run. Look at all of the other cookie cutters that have come and gone. Georgia Dome anyone?

A mega homeless camp.

The demise of Oakland coliseum. The demise of Oaklamd. The demise of the Bay Area. The demise of California.

O Cardinals fans pain started when that ass bidwell started our bleeding

Build a smaller Stadium it's better

Al Davis killed Oakland sports

My A's are #1

Why does San Francisco/Oakland get to be _Thee_ Bay Area? What about Tampa Bay or Green Bay or Chesapeake Bay? Californians with their inflated state pride.

Oakland was 'Show the World', now Rude, old & poor

5:08 "You can't say the A's haven't made an effort to stay in Oakland". Yeah, I can. They only did this after snubbing fans in Oakland by attempting to move to San Jose. Then buying land in Fremont, and trying to move the team out of Oakland then (sound familiar, Vegas?) and then, and only then did they attempt to "stay" in Oakland, which was likely merely a bargaining tactic to leverage a better deal elsewhere. Even the original plan to build a stadium on the Laney college land was shut down before it began because the A's announced it and didn't even get approval from the land owners (Peralta colleges). John Fisher has always want to move, to get a new stadium elsewhere and then likely sell the team when it's at maximum perceived value, Oakland fans be dammed. He's scum.

Eric The Actor would be spinning in his grave, what are these morons doing to his beloved As

Al Davis and the Raiders should of stayed in LA. Bottomline.

Down arrow and no, I will not subscribe. You passed totally over the debacle of Golden Seals hockey team. The team was poorly supported by the fans, was eventually taken over by the league when the owner walked out and had similar site ( arena) issues to the As today that led it to being sold and moved to another city. There is also no mention of all the political roadblocks the team has faced in its dealings with city politicians that finally led the team to buy the land in Las Vegas so it can move.

HOMELESS CAMPING.😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

A's helped drive Raiders out. Eff 'em. (It's a dumb name anyway. "Athletics"? Go wither...)

I blame the city of Oakland for this after losing the warriors and Raiders, they have no real footing to decline the A's proposal and those in that office will be forever blamed for this.

the fall of california

doing business in california is impossible today and too much crime

People talk about the deprivation and crime, being the main reason sports teams are leaving Oakland. One word that makes this argument appear ridiculous: Newark. Newark, has similar problems to Oakland. And yet hosts four Major league sports teams, three ironically carrying the New York identity: the Jets and Giants in NFL, the Devils in NHL, and the Red Bulls in MLS.

Oh but now the Raider claim they would've stayed if they knew the A's were going to move eventually. The coliseum doesn't seem so bad all of the sudden