Another Move Fails to Faze Raiders : Most Players Don’t Even Know the Way to Irwindale

News that the Raiders will some day be moving their home games from the Coliseum to a planned stadium in Irwindale swept through training camp like a yawn Thursday night.

Willard Goff, a defensive tackle from West Texas State, said: “Irwindale? Where’s that?”

Then he remembered.

“Oh, yeah,” he said, “to play in a gravel pit. That’s fitting. After all, we’re the Raiders.”

Wide receiver James Lofton, who has hardly called the Coliseum home since being acquired from Green Bay in a trade, said: “We’ll all be getting raises, right?”

He was kidding. The report really didn’t make much of an impact on him.

“No,” Lofton said, “because it’s probably not for four or five years.”

Rookie wide receiver Wade Lockett played college football at Cal State Fullerton, not too far from the site, but he still wasn’t sure where Irwindale is.

“How far is that from L.A.?” Lockett asked. “I think it would be better if (the new stadium) was at Hollywood Park, near where the Lakers are (at the Forum).”

First-round draft choice John Clay, an offensive lineman from Missouri, heard the news when he pulled into the parking lot in his new BMW. He was underwhelmed.

“I don’t have any idea where Irwindale is,” Clay said. “But I don’t care where we play.”

Coach Tom Flores was excited about playing in a new stadium, wherever it is.

“It’s exciting to think about having a new, state-of-the-art stadium,” Flores said. “An organization like the Raiders and a city like Los Angeles deserve one.

“It’s unfortunate that things didn’t work out (with the Coliseum) the way we intended when we moved down here (from Oakland).”