RAIDERS PLACE SURCHARGES ON NEW TICKET PLAN TO FILL COLISEUM

          The Oakland Football Marketing Association will offer
     full-season, five-game and three-game ticket plans for
     Raiders home games for the first time since the team
     returned to Oakland two years ago.  Prices for the packages
     will carry premium charges of $10-20 above the face value of
     ticket prices by paid PSL holders.  Full season plans cost
     from $510-810; five-game packages from $255-405; and three-
     game packages from $153-243 (OFMA).  In San Jose, Renee
     Koury wrote that while letting fans purchase seats without
     PSLs "proved uproarious in the past," OFMA officials said
     the new packages are "fair" because the surcharge "can equal
     the cost" of a PSL for fans who buy multiple games.  Koury
     adds that the surcharge "could bring up to about" $2M to
     Oakland and Alameda County "as they struggle to pay the debt
     on the estimated $230 million cost of returning the Raiders
     from Los Angeles" (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 7/4).