ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Jack Del Rio is no fan of sharing a field with a baseball team, especially with his Oakland Raiders the lone NFL team to share a stadium with a Major League Baseball franchise in the Oakland Athletics.
So while the baseball dirt infield, which permeates the grass playing surface at the Oakland Coliseum, will be gone for the Raiders’ home game Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens, that is of little consolation to Del Rio. Not when the Raiders have to play the exhibition season and the first month of the regular season on the dirt, longer if the A’s play in baseball’s postseason.