OAKLAND — It was a spectacular and peculiar sight.
Hundreds — no, thousands — of people pouring off the BART, a full parking lot, tailgates featuring good food, good brews, and good times, and more than 46,000 fans inside the Coliseum, wearing green and yellow, representing every nook and cranny of the East Bay and beyond, all chanting, in full throat “let’s go Oak-land”.
It was fun, it was energetic, it was, sadly, different.
But that made Tuesday’s free-to-attend game was an unequivocal success and the kind of event that can create some serious, positive, momentum for the franchise.