Offer to Raiders Is No Giveaway, Backers Say : Pro football: The firms that are trying to keep the team in Los Angeles claim that actual revenues raised in a new Coliseum would more than exceed the millions of dollars the team would receive.

A spokesman for the private firms trying to keep the Raiders football team in Los Angeles on Monday disputed reports that millions of dollars would be given away to secure the team, saying the Raiders would earn most of the money anyway through normal revenues from a new Coliseum.

On a day when Mayor Tom Bradley formed a committee of businessmen and others to seek to keep professional football in the city, either by keeping the Raiders or by searching for some other team, the spokesman for the firms of Spectacor Management Group and MCA Inc. defended the deal that the firms are trying to make with Raiders owner Al Davis.

The prospective agreement has been denounced by critics as a sellout to a greedy football team, and Bradley on Monday declined to endorse it at this stage.

The critics say that such an enormous “franchise fee” has never been paid to a new team, much less to persuade a team to stay where it is.

But the spokesman for the private firms said that aside from the more than $20 million that would be paid the Raiders at the onset of an agreement, most of the fees being considered for payment to the team would amount to a minimum guarantee of $4 million a year for 14 years. He said that figure is bound to be vastly exceeded by the actual revenues raised in the new stadium that would go to the Raiders in any case.

The spokesman, who declined to allow his name to be used, gave his interpretation after Los Angeles County Supervisor Pete Schabarum, a foe of the proposed agreement, said he had been informed that it now calls for the Raiders to get $76 million in fees over 14 years, in addition to a $140-million new stadium to play in. Schabarum’s fee report was $16 million above that reportedly being offered last week.

The Spectacor/MCA spokesman said that most of the total fee Schabarum mentioned, which the spokesman called a lower figure than that actually offered in the latest weekend round of talks with Davis, represents guarantees that are sure to be exceeded by the actual revenue raised in a rebuilt stadium.

Given plans to construct hundreds of luxury boxes and thousands of club seats, in addition to regular seats, in a stadium that the spokesman said would have a total capacity of close to 70,000, the stadium could easily, with inflation, bring in $70 million to $80 million a year, the spokesman said. Against such sums, he said, the $4-million annual guarantee is small indeed.

He stressed, meanwhile, that no public money would be used to construct the new stadium, and any part of the fees paid to Davis that came out of Coliseum funds initially would ultimately be reimbursed with interest, he said.

The spokesman said the private firms had been assured that when the Coliseum Commission meets to consider approving the concept of the agreement and whether to make a formal offer on Wednesday morning, at least part of its meeting would be open, and the broad outlines of the proposed agreement as it presently stands will be made public at that time.

Coliseum Commission President Richard Riordan confirmed late Monday that the meeting will be public, after having earlier said it might be closed.

Davis did not return a telephone call requesting comment. He has seldom made statements about the negotiations in more than two years of fitful discussions with Irwindale, Sacramento, Oakland and Los Angeles interests all trying to secure his team for their communities.

Meanwhile, Bradley said his new committee would support the Raiders if they remain here or would search for a new team if they don’t.

Deputy Mayor Mark Fabiani said Bradley may make his stand known on the proposed agreement at a later date when it is closer to being a final version. “For the mayor to comment at this point would mean he’s not a good negotiator,” Fabiani said.

Among the members of Bradley’s new committee were both the outgoing and incoming Coliseum Commission presidents, Riordan and Matthew Grossman, respectively; AFL-CIO executive secretary William Robertson; Lodwrick M. Cook, chairman of Arco; Leonard H. Straus, chairman of Thrifty Corp.; Frank G. Wells, president of Walt Disney Co.; Philip M. Hawley, chairman of Carter, Hawley, Hale; Richard J. Stegemeier, chairman of Unocal Corp.; Ed Snider, head of Spectacor; Dr. John B. Slaughter, president of Occidental College, and Daniel Villanueva, corporate consultant with Univision.

Many of these people are longtime political supporters of Bradley.

The mayor, meanwhile, said he feels there is a way to reconstruct the stadium “in a way that is consistent with the historical place of the Coliseum in our community.” The Coliseum, currently with 92,655 seats, is both a state and national historic landmark, and members of the Los Angeles Conservancy met Monday afternoon to discuss ways to keep it one in as much of its present form as possible.

Jay Rounds, executive director of the Conservancy, said his organization has yet to adopt a formal position, but at the very least it will want to make sure that all state laws requiring advance notice and consultation with state preservation bodies before any changes are made are complied with.

The spokesman for Spectacor and MCA, however, said the would-be private developers are commissioning geological studies that are expected to show that “the stadium will crumble to pieces in the years ahead anyway unless we rebuild it.”

“It’s not unsafe now, but it will be in the future if we don’t rebuild,” he said.