When the Raiders play their last game at the Oakland Coliseum on Sunday, there will be lots of nostalgia.
Decades of winning football, although at times that’s hard to remember. Three Super Bowl victories. The memories of Jim Otto, George Blanda, Gene Upshaw, Fred Biletnikoff, Ray Guy, Art Shell, Daryle Lamonica, Willie Brown and Ken Stabler. For those in the Bay Area who grew up on Raiders football, the team brought memories that have lasted a lifetime.
But it’s been like a bad marriage. We loved the silver and black, but they could never fully commit. They ran off to Los Angeles for 13 years before returning, only after taxpayers came to the rescue.