Mount Davis (Oakland)
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Mount Davis is the contemptuous name given to the over 10,000 upper deck grandstand seats at McAfee Coliseum in Oakland, California by fans of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics.
The term applies to sections 335-355 of the stadium, used only during football games (though it had been made available for expected high-attendance baseball games). The addition was constructed prior to the 1996 football season in order to accommodate Al Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders, in a successful attempt to induce Davis to move the team back to Oakland from Los Angeles. The new stands blocked a spectacular view of the Oakland hills that had been a feature of the Coliseum for almost 30 years. It has been criticized as an area which has made the McAfee Coliseum look ever more like a football stadium, and not at all one for baseball [1]. Since the 2006 season, the Athletics have covered it with a tarp, and have announced that no seats in the area will be sold under any circumstances except for a World Series appearance.
Current prices for "Mount Davis" during Raiders games range between $26-$46. The relatively narrow and steeply-pitched structure has 6 levels of seating, bringing the back row of its upper-most tier to a height rarely seen in stadiums, thus inspiring its nickname. Unfortunately for the patrons of "Mount Davis", many of them find that they have to shade their eyes from the setting sun, just as the game might be reaching a dramatic juncture; thus perhaps learning why the original layout of the stadium had only a single level of bleachers in that area, with most of the seats positioned with their backs to the sun.
Another nickname for this area is "the AL-ps," also after Davis.
