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Let’s Talk About The Las Vegas Raiders

Monty McMahon by Monty McMahon
March 27, 2017
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In a completely predictable outcome, the NFL owners overwhelmingly voted to allow the Oakland Raiders to move to Las Vegas, today.

The Las Vegas Raiders.

If there was ever a team made for popping the pro sports cherry of Sin City, it’s goddam Raiders.

This is the team known for The Snake, The Tooz, Dr. Death, The Assassin, (brief Packer great) The Mad Stork and (real Packer great) Chucky, after all.

Their former owner, the legendary Al Davis, regularly sued the NFL. Sometimes, he won. He also gave us the phrase, “Just win, baby!”

That’s a way of doing things I wish the Green Bay Packers would co-opt sometimes.

Davis’ son, Mark, who is responsible for finally getting out of the dump that is the Oakland Alameda Coliseum, has probably the worst haircut in the world.

In short, the Raiders just don’t give a fuck.

How many fucks given?

Zero.

And while I feel like this is a totally appropriate move, I feel for those Oakland-based Raiders fans. Despite the fact that I’ve always been forced to contemplate my mortality when I’ve gone to a game in Oakland, I do think the Raiders have great fans.

They do it almost as well as Packers fans do.

Living in Los Angeles, I can tell you the Raiders are still the most popular team in town. Not the Rams, sure as hell not the Chargers. It’s still the Raiders, even though they were only here from 1982-94.

Are Oakland fans going to stick like that? I couldn’t tell you.

I imagine a lot of them are pissed and they have a right to be.

The simple fact of the matter is Oakland didn’t want to pay for a stadium. Frankly, Oakland shouldn’t have to. No city should have to pay for a stadium for an NFL team because the NFL and their owners (minus us, of course) are the richest group of old boys in this country.

Mark Davis is a bit of an exception, of course. His only job is to run the Raiders. He didn’t make a fortune doing something else and then bought the Raiders. He has no job other than “owner of the Raiders” and his old man gave that to him.

The NFL angle is a little more crappy for fans, though.

Las Vegas. What is Las Vegas?

An international destination.

What does putting one of your marquee franchises in Las Vegas do for the league? It helps to internationalize it.

Oakland isn’t sexy. It isn’t metropolitan. It isn’t a destination.

Las Vegas is. The Las Vegas Raiders are.

In this case, the NFL wins, the Raiders win and a lot of fans lose. It probably sucks even more if you’re a Raiders fan because, after years of ineptitude, the damn team was finally starting to return to form. But that’s how this cookie crumbles.

As for the Packers, they didn’t play Oakland that often, but there were at least two historic games.

 

 

There was Super Bowl II. The play I always think of in that game is Herb Adderley picking Daryle Lamonica and going to the house.

And then, of course, there was this badass gutting it out. Unlike the first game I mentioned, I actually saw this one — in fact, I vividly remember where I was and how it went down — and will never forget it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZV0WFKUt2k

Tags: Al DavisGreen Bay PackersMark DavisOakland RaidersOakland Raiders
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Comments 9

  1. Avatar for Ivomitonvikingfans Ivomitonvikingfans says:
    6 years ago

    Good luck playing 16 road games fuckers. Way to cement yourselves as the biggest douchebags in the NFL by moving to the Mecca of douchebags. I was never a Raiders fan but they belong in Oakland. What a shame. They should at least force a name change. The fucking Liberaces or some shit. I can only imagine the seizure inducing theme park they will build them for a stadium. Fuck you Goodell.

    • Avatar for PF4L PF4L says:
      6 years ago

      The teams have to vote for it, it’s not just up to Goodell. Ignorance is bliss i guess.

  2. Avatar for PF4L PF4L says:
    6 years ago

    When you walk into the barber, what do you have to say to get a haircut like that?…”I fucked your daughter?”

  3. Avatar for PF4L PF4L says:
    6 years ago

    What does a multi millionaire say to the barber to get a haircut like that?…”I fucked your daughter”?

    • Avatar for PF4L PF4L says:
      6 years ago

      my bad…lol

  4. Avatar for Cheese Cheese says:
    6 years ago

    Man those bangs are creepy..

  5. Avatar for pokey the bandit pokey the bandit says:
    6 years ago

    The Raiders will be the second pro team in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Golden Knights were granted their expansion team last summer, and will start play in the NHL this fall for the 2017-2018 season. The Raiders are a huge brand, vastly bigger than any expansion team, especially when considering NFL > NHL, but just saying… they aren’t the first team to call Las Vegas home.

  6. Avatar for Empacador Empacador says:
    6 years ago

    Haircut by Flowbee? Or PYREX mixing bowl and Fiskars? Readers choice.

  7. Avatar for Don Don says:
    6 years ago

    Oakland isn’t sexy? Like Green Bay is… Oakland isn’t metropolitan(yeah right)…? Like Green Bay is… This writer. Smh.

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