Eventually, the Oakland Super Bowl Task Force determined it would take $10 million to add seats to the Oakland Coliseum Stadium to make it Super Bowl ready, so they elected not to do anything all except Oakland City Manager Robert Bobb.
For the next three months, I went from advising Mr. Bobb, to reviewing the work of SMG, then, the managers of the Oakland Coliseum, and in the process of determining that SMG was not working in Oakands best interests, and so was assigned to run the Super Bowl: Oakland Project by Robert Bobb.
nd and confidant Jacques Barzaghi, openly told me I dont have time for you, in response to my request to meet with him on Oaklands Super Bowl Bid. There were other times I tried to get on Jerrys schedule, only to have my calls ignored. Where I had trouble, I went to Robert Bobb.
The decision was simple: to allow the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum and the Oakland Alameda County Sports Commission (which I created from scratch and on a bet with Oakland City Manager Robert Bobb) to sign a contract turning over use of the Coliseum and the Arena to the National Football League.
After the vote, I came back, but Jerry asked Oakland City Manager Robert Bobb to fire me over the whole deal of me calling him racist. I told Robert, or Mr. Bobb, You cant fire me, because I quit. (I didnt even bother to mention to Bobb that Oaklands then-Economic Development Head Bill Clagge