Foes of Raiders Deal Turn In Petitions : Pro football: Oakland residents submit 33,189 signatures to put matter before the voters. City officials say they will not permit a referendum.

Opponents of Oakland’s $486-million offer to entice the Raiders back to the Bay Area filed 33,189 petition signatures Wednesday calling for a referendum on the proposed deal.

Although the number of raw signatures easily exceeded the 19,716 required, Oakland officials have five weeks to ascertain whether they are valid. Regardless, officials who back the Raider offer have already indicated they are likely to reject the referendum on technicalities.

Even before the petitions were submitted, a negotiator for the Raiders, Jack Brooks, said the football team will pull out of the Oakland deal if the city agrees to a referendum.

This could leave the Raiders and their principal owner, Al Davis, with only one live option--staying in Los Angeles on the best terms they could get.

Oakland City Atty. Jayne Williams has used a variety of arguments to hold that the city would not be required to hold a referendum, even if enough of the signatures were found to be valid.

The latest and perhaps the most potent of these arguments is this: Since the deal was revised during the signature-gathering effort--lowering Oakland’s commitment by $174 million--many of those signing the petitions before the revision might not have signed them afterward, so the entire petition effort should be discarded.

But petition organizers have vowed that if city officials reject the referendum, they will take the matter to court. And a spokeswoman for Mayor Lionel Wilson, a supporter of the Raider deal, said Wednesday that city officials are already preparing their arguments for a court hearing.

Wilson was noncommittal on whether he would accept a referendum. The matter is a sensitive one politically, since the mayor’s two leading opponents for reelection this year, Assemblyman Elihu Harris (D-Oakland) and City Councilman Wilson Riles Jr., both support the referendum.

On the same day the signatures were filed, Wilson and other supporters of the offer to the Raiders joined Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum officials at a news conference to announce that a $200,000 advertising campaign to sign up ticket buyers for a returned Raider team had managed over a seven-day period to secure 38,318 reservations for up to several years of Raider games.

That number would fill about two-thirds of what is to become, under the Raider deal, an expanded 57,000-seat stadium. About 26,028 of the 36,000 premium seats that the city and county, under the revised Raider deal, are responsible for selling were reserved, as well as 12,290 of the 26,000 general-admission seats the team is responsible for selling.

The reservations were accompanied by deposits averaging about $138, for a total of $5,277,000 in cash deposits, according to the Oakland officials.

“If we continued with a full-scale marketing effort, we could sell out the stadium,” said Robert Quintella, the stadium’s executive vice president and general manager.

Opponents have suggested the deposits are relatively small compared to sums that ticket buyers would eventually have to pay, and have suggested many people might welsh on their commitments, especially if the Raiders continued to have the mediocre record they have had the last few seasons in Los Angeles.

In Los Angeles, meanwhile, negotiators said that talks continue with the Raiders over the possibility of the team playing in a renovated Los Angeles Coliseum. But they reported no specific progress.