Sunday, June 20, 2010

Raiders and their fans


















I hate the Oakland Raiders. I hate other teams in the NFL and in other sports but nothing comes close to my hatred for the Oakland Raiders. They are the ultimate villain in all of sports. Their fans are ridiculous! Some of them just wear Raider gear because it's trendy or stylish but most of them think every Sunday for 16 weeks out of the year is Halloween. They dress up in these hideous looking costumes and they try to use fear and intimidation to drive road fans away (which works out because I wouldn't be caught dead in the Black hole). Their fans also flip you off even when they are in your stadium. Talking football with any Raider fan always turns ugly when you give facts as to how bad their team is they just start taking personal shots!
They are 29-83 (winning pct .258) since 2003 (worst winning pct in all of sports), and although the Broncos have split the season series the last two seasons with the Raiders we are still 10-4 against them going back to 2003. The Broncos have gone 8-8 the past two seasons, and going a little further we have gone 32-32 over the course of the past four years (nothing to be proud of). The Raiders haven't sniffed a .500 record or better since 2002 (the year they got blasted by Tampa Bay in Super Bowl XXXVII).
The Raiders' players are just as bad. I have early memories of Raider players throwing Elway into the bench on the sideline after he was out of bounds, Ed McCaffrey getting kicked in the head on the ground in the end zone after scoring a touchdown, and more recently Eddie Royal burning DeAngelo Hall for 146 yards on opening night, and Hall getting upset with a few late hits out of bounds. The best one was last year in week 3 at Oakland, Denver left tackle Ryan Clady had just another day at the office of domination on the line of scrimmage vs Richard Seymour. After being neutralized play after play, Seymour got fed up and pulled Clady down to the ground by his dreadlocks. After the game, when asked by a reporter about the incident, Seymour said he would do it again. Welcome to Oakland, Seymour. Players come to Oakland, get dominated, and take cheap shots. That's how they operate.
These are a few examples of why I hate Oakland. Their fans are dirty, their players are dirty, and their city is a dump. Oakland is the armpit of America.

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