ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Count Jon Gruden among those anticipating a big season from the Oakland Raiders.
But when it comes to the prospect of Gruden's former team moving from the East Bay to Southern Nevada, the ESPN Monday Night Football commentator gets kind of choked up.
"The Raiders, the Las Vegas Raiders, I don't know, man, that's hard for me to imagine," Gruden said on a conference call Tuesday to discuss this season's slate of games on the network.
"The Oakland Raiders has a real place in my heart. I'd hate to see them leave.