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1960_news [2025/06/01 17:16] – [News] ehaight1960_news [2025/06/01 17:24] (current) – [February 29, 1960] ehaight
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-The Hayward City Council approved measure that would put stadium bond measure on the ballot in April. The measure would allow the city to issue $7 million in bonds with the express goal of building a place for Oakland’s team to play.+The AFL owners announced were coming to town for league meeting March 3-4. A substantial portion of their agenda would be coming up with plan to stock the Oakland franchise with players. The team had signing rights to the Minneapolis/St Paul draft picks, but several of those players had been signed by other AFL teams in the meantime and things were bound to get a bit messy.
  
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 ======February 28, 1960====== ======February 28, 1960======
  
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-The Tribune reported that former Stanford star receiver and Oakland High School graduate Chris Burford said he would be interested in playing for Oakland. Burforda member of the Dallas Texanssaid Oaklands hiring of [[Eddie Erdelatz]] was the big draw.+Stanford receiver and Oakland High School graduate went on record saying he was interested in playing for Oakland, despite being under contract to the Dallas Texans. Texans owner Lamar Hunt said Burford told him he didn't want to play in Oakland and asked him not to be traded to them. Burford acknowledged saying that, but added that Oakland's hiring of [[Eddie Erdelatz]] caused a change of heart.
  
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 +The Oakland Chamber of Commerce was looking forward to wining and dining AFL commissioner Joe Foss at a dinner in his honor on March 3, the first evening of the league's meetings in Oakland.
 ======March 1, 1960====== ======March 1, 1960======
  
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