We call it Raider week, because that’s technically true, and this one means more than any Chiefs-Raiders game in perhaps 25 years.
But it can no longer be Raider Week, or RAIDER WEEK, or, if we can make a rated-PG hint about how the old players used to think of it, (Expletive) The (Expletive-ing) Raiders Week.
There was a time when Chiefs-Raiders was as close to a blood feud as professional sports allowed. They fought. They screamed. They punched. Al Davis, the Raiders’ legendary founder and longtime owner, ripped more phones out of more walls watching his teams play the Chiefs than anyone else.