Thanks I would like to read that book.
My limited knowledge is that Al Davis was a coach of the Raiders, when they were in the old American Football League. I’m sure franchise values for AFL teams before the merger with the NFL was fairly low. I bet Al Davis bought in at a bargain basement price compared to today’s franchise values. But the values of AFL franchises got quite a boost, when the merger with the NFL happened.
Yeah, you should check out Dickey’s book. It’s a good read. Davis actually gained control of the team in the 1972, so that was after the AFL-NFL merger. IIRC, there was originally a partnership group, and David only was given a sliver to coach. But he managed to get other owners to give him voting control of their shares etc. It was crazy. I remember it was 1972, because there was a story about one of the managing partners going on a vacation to watch the Olympics in Munich, and Davis using that opportunity to vote the guy out or something. It was all pretty sleazy, but that was Al Davis.
Supposedly he used shady tactics to push the other owner out.
$10000 is the price that Ralph Wilson paid for the AFL Buffalo Bills franchise. He was from Detroit. He wanted to have his franchise in Miami but another guy got that spot.