The Oakland Raiders’ playoff drought was long enough that some kids who started kindergarten that year, graduated from high school before the team saw the postseason again. It was an agonizingly long streak of futility, to say the least. But it’s also a streak that ended last year as Oakland posted a 12-4 record and secured a postseason berth.
Thanks to Derek Carr‘s broken leg, the clock, unfortunately, struck midnight long before anybody wanted it to, with a sound thrashing at the hands of the Houston Texans. But the team has regrouped, reloaded, and is ready for the challenges of 2017.