Raiders Miss Deadline; CFL to Play Coliseum? : Pro football: NFL team fails to meet 30-day notice to stay. Prospective Posse owners talk of moving to the facility.

Coliseum commissioners reported Wednesday that the Raiders have not exercised a contract option to play in the facility next season, and, while they have not ruled out the team coming to terms, they are also discussing the possibility of a Canadian Football League team playing in the stadium.

Commissioners said that it is possible a CFL team could play a 10-game home schedule beginning in June, with the Raiders and USC continuing to play in the Coliseum.

According to terms of the one-year deal under which the Raiders played rent-free in the Coliseum in the recently completed season, the team had 30 days after its final game to exercise an option to play next season under a new contract that would have to be negotiated.

Commissioners Sheldon Sloan and Herman Leavitt and Coliseum negotiator Don C. Webb said Raider owner Al Davis did not make that deadline, and they noted he has been saying he will not play in the Coliseum next season.

Reported alternatives are Anaheim Stadium, Dodger Stadium or the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, while Davis explores options, such as at Hollywood Park, for building a new stadium in the Los Angeles area.

Last season, the Coliseum Commission extended the time for Davis to exercise the option, and he eventually decided to play in the stadium rent-free.

Webb and Sloan said Wednesday that expiration of the deadline does not mean that further talks with Davis are out.

And the Raiders said, through team attorney Amy Trask, “Although we did not exercise our option, we are in constant communication with commission representatives and have not foreclosed any possibilities.”

At the commission’s monthly meeting, Coliseum manager Pat Lynch said he has been meeting with businessmen who are in the process of buying the Las Vegas Posse of the CFL and want to move the team to Los Angeles.

Two of the businessmen, Anthony R. Mims of Los Angeles and Brad Klima of Lancaster, appeared before the commission and said they expect to consummate the purchase as early as next week.

They said they would operate a Los Angeles franchise next year under a $1.9-million team salary cap and charge an average of $25 per ticket.