2 Cities Press Bids to Capture Raiders

Both Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Oakland Coliseum officials reported steps Tuesday designed to win the Raiders as long-term pro football tenants.

Tony Tavaras, president of Spectacor Management Group, a member of the private partnership that manages the Los Angeles stadium where the Raiders play, said that within a month he hopes to present team owner Al Davis with a deal for renovating or reconstructing the Coliseum.

But he revealed that on the advice of the Coliseum Commission’s attorneys, Marshall Grossman and Frank Kaplan, Coliseum representatives first want the Raiders to sign a waiver guaranteeing that what is said in the talks will not be used by either side in the Coliseum Commission’s pending $57-million breach of contract suit against the Raiders.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, George Vukasin, disclosed that he had a “friendly and cordial and businesslike” telephone conversation with Davis on Monday in which he had concluded that Oakland ought to “refine our proposal” for Davis moving the Raiders back to the East Bay.

Vukasin said that he had contacted Davis after reading in a newspaper that the Raiders owner wanted to hear from Oakland with an offer in 10 days, and that Davis had returned his call.