Santa didn’t look too cheery. Maybe it was because it was a somewhat wistful occasion, the night of what might have been the Raiders’ last game in Oakland.
Or maybe it was because he was wearing a gorilla mask, a jarring look for somebody dressed as Old St. Nick. He wasn’t descending any sooty chimneys on Christmas Eve. He was spending the night in another Black Hole.
The Raiders want to leave Oakland if they don’t get a stadium to replace 50-year-old O.co Coliseum, as the place has been called since 2011. “It’s all politics,” the Gorilla said, munching on a turkey leg just before the players took the field.