OAKLAND — A deadly combination of skunk afterglow and sewage fumes filtered throughout one side of the Coliseum well after everyone but media and stadium staff had left.
People covered their noses and mouths, zig-zagging through the bowels of the stadium so their dinner stayed down. One security guard joked he had eaten a rotten burrito, but the stench was no joke. This was serious. It stunk. Real bad.
But even as a horrid smell soured the night of everyone still at the Coliseum, it was hardly the most foul part of the night.
That honor, of course, belonged to the Raiders, specifically their second-half atrocity in a season-opening 33-13 defeat to the Rams.