Agenda states Raiders, Coliseum will discuss team playing in Oakland in 2019

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The Raiders' emotional win over the Denver Broncos on Christmas Eve might not have been the last game at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum after all. 

The team and the Coliseum Authority will meet Friday to discuss the Silver and Black spending one last season at the Coliseum, according to the public agenda for the scheduled Friday morning board of commissioners meeting.

Raiders owner Mark Davis will be present at this negotiation, the agenda states, to discuss price and terms of a possible lease extension for the 2019 season.

That agenda may not be fully accurate.

The Associated Press reported Raiders representatives won't be there, and that executive director Scott McKibben will merely update the Coliseum board on the possibility of the Raiders playing at Oakland Coliseum in 2019. 

The team's previous lease with the Coliseum expired after the 2018 campaign, leaving a season's gap between then and the Raiders' formal relocation to Las Vegas in 2020.

The Raiders hoped to remain in the facility in 2019, but that desire hit a roadblock when the City of Oakland sued the Raiders last month, and Raiders president Marc Badain told reporters last month that the team's offer of $7.5 million in rent was "off the table" as a result. Davis, however, refused to eliminate the prospect of a return to the Coliseum.

“Yes, there still is a possibility that an agreement can be reached,” executive director Scott McKibben told the Bay Area News Group. "(I'’m) not sure what the odds are but still possible."

The Coliseum Authority will let the Raiders do their due diligence.

“Once the Raiders have completed all their research on other places, we will sit down and talk one last time,” McKibben said.

Newly renamed Oracle Park in San Francisco has been previously reported as a possibility, as was Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. San Diego also was floated as an option, but a mayor's office spokesman told NBC Sports Bay Area last week that the Raiders had not reached out to the city about playing the 2019 season at San Diego County Credit Union Stadium, which used to house the Chargers.

The Raiders might not have much time. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said last month that the Raiders must find a 2019 home by "early January, Feburary" in order for the league to make the schedule. The Raiders and the Coliseum Authority could meet "as early as sometime this week," Becker reported Monday.

That means Raiders fans in the East Bay -- and beyond -- could have closure in the very near future. 

NBC Sports Bay Area reporter Scott Bair contributed to this report.

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