Raiders WR Tim Brown said the uncertainty of the team's
future in Oakland is impacting the team's attendance. Brown
told FSN's Jim Rome, "With the speculation of us moving back
to L.A., with the problems, all the issues they've been
having with the city of Oakland ... I think that has a
bigger part in it then us not winning as many games as we
should have over the years." Brown, when asked if he would
like to see the team return to L.A.: "I'm not going to sit
here in Oakland right now and say I would like to see the
team go back to L.A. But I just want to see this thing
rectified in some kind of way, whether it's here or in L.A."
Brown said "all this up-in-the-air" stuff is "killing us
around here." Brown: "You can't get anything done off-the-
field here because people are saying, 'Why should I do this
with you when your owner is talking about doing this or
doing that?' ... The marketing people tell you here that
trying to go out and do something as far as marketing here
is like going to Siberia somewhere. It's just impossible to
get something done" ("Last Word," FSN, 11/16).
