Raider Rebuilding Starts With Increase in Ticket Prices

The Raiders have begun their rebuilding process in a strange spot--their own coffers.

Coming off a 7-9 season, their third straight year without a playoff berth and their lowest average attendance in five seasons, the club has raised ticket prices.

It’s a small raise, to be sure.

The highest-priced tickets will go from $28 to $30 a seat. That affects 27,000 seats along the Coliseum sidelines. The rest of the tickets, priced at $20 and $13, remain the same.

There was no official announcement of the change and no Raider official wished to be quoted.

Instead, the news was sent in a letter to season-ticket holders that read, in part: “Despite constantly escalating costs in every aspect of operation, the Raiders have made just a slight increase in some ticket prices for the first time in three years.”

In all, the Raiders have about 40,000 season-ticket holders in the 92,000-seat plus Coliseum. Their average attendance last year was 52,6255.

A Ram spokesman said that club plans no increase for 1989. Ram tickets run $25, $19 and $13.

Three teams in the Raiders’ division--Seattle, Denver and Kansas City--are raising some tickets an average of $5.