Happy Monday, Athletics Nation!
A lot of folks were watching football yesterday. As the San Francisco 49ers made their third consecutive NFC Championship appearance en route to the Super Bowl, I couldn’t help but think about the Raiders fans in Oakland who lost their team—yet again—in 2020. To Las Vegas, no less.
No matter the sport, it seems like the city across the bay gets all the nice things these days, be it three World Series trophies in five years, a perennial contender on the gridiron, or the Warriors, who transformed what a basketball franchise can be—right next door to the Coliseum—and then headed for the land of Rice-A-Roni.