That’s when Farhang made his call. Why not Tucson?

This is not going to be a long process. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said last month that NFL schedulers need to know where the Raiders will call their 2019 home in “early January, February.”

This is not a bluff. Farhang is not playing his own version of fantasy football. The man who created the Arizona Bowl and has become part-owner of the indoor football league’s Tucson Sugar Skulls, is not shy about an attempt to execute a grandiose Act III, putting the National Football League in Tucson — if only for a season.

It’s so fanciful, so impossible to suppose, that maybe, if the planets are aligned, it might work. These are the Oakland Raiders, after all, the most nonconformist organization in pro sports.

“I’d really like to bring our Tucson leaders to Oakland, meet with the Raiders brass and show them why this is the perfect Raiders move,” Farhang said. “It would be totally unexpected and out of the box. It would be visionary in a lot of ways, like their late owner (Al Davis) was in so many ways.”

Obviously, there is significant competition in getting the 2019 Raiders.