San Antonio making a push for Raiders

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Former San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Vikings owner Red McCombs said that he talked to Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis on Tuesday and that they’ve “got the whole program put together” as far as the Raiders relocating to San Antonio.

McCombs told ESPN San Antonio Radio that he and his group still need to persuade Davis, who lost out on moving to Los Angeles on Tuesday, to make the final leap.

“We still have to get them to want to come here,” McCombs said in the radio interview. “He was born and raised there and he has a great feeling for the state of California. But it appears he is going to need to go somewhere.”

McCombs, a billionaire automotive executive who made his fortune in San Antonio, said the NFL’s decision to move the Rams from St. Louis to Los Angeles and give the San Diego Chargers the option to follow them, “clears the runway” for the Raiders to move somewhere else.

The league would have to approve a move to San Antonio in 2016 — with the Raiders temporarily playing in the Alamodome — but McCombs said he doesn’t see approval being withheld.

Davis declined to comment on the San Antonio possibility.

In related developments, the website Bleacher Report reported that Davis has a parcel of land between San Antonio and Austin to build a new stadium, and McCombs said, “We have several locations that will work.”

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Davis and Raiders President Marc Badain visited the sites in July 2014 and McCombs said he and his group of seven local business and political leaders have “become close with” Davis and Badain. One of those leaders is former San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, who senses now is the time to strike.

“The stakes are so high for a city like San Antonio that is on the cusp of being an NFL market that it is worth making every effort,” Cisneros told the San Antonio Business Journal. “This may be our best chance in decades.”

McCombs said that he would be willing to buy in with the Raiders if that helped Davis get to San Antonio and that there is a team of potential investors and corporations lined up.

“We already have 12 of the corporate entities nailed down and ready with serious commitments,” McCombs told ESPN San Antonio Radio. “We proved it with the Spurs. They said it wouldn’t work at all, and it just happens to be the best franchise now in all of sports.

“We know how to do things here. We weren’t born yesterday.”

McCombs was born 88 years ago and has long vowed to get an NFL team to San Antonio, “so I’ve got to hurry,” he said in the radio interview.

The Chronicle reported Wednesday that it is still possible for the Raiders to move during this offseason because the team satisfied the NFL’s relocation guidelines during the recent three-team competition to move to Los Angeles. Last week, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, in a report to owners, called O.co Coliseum “inadequate and unsatisfactory” and said the city of Oakland’s plan to keep the Raiders lacked certainty.

McCombs said Davis will realize soon that “San Antonio is heaven.”

“They’re not going to find anywhere else in the United States that can equal what we put together,” McCombs said.

Vic Tafur is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: vtafur@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @VicTafur