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The Last Thing Raiders Fans Expected Was a Blowout Win for the Jets

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — If you’re the kind of person who believes that a singular moment minutes before a football game can have a seismic effect on the end result, what happened as a majority of the Jets were running out of the tunnel for warmups before facing the Raiders on Sunday is your kind of story.

A large contingent of Oakland fans were on hand at the Meadowlands, be it was a group of bored displaced west coasters or the remnants of a long-ago Jon Gruden Hooters cruise that was abandoned at the docks of the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, and they booed all the green jerseys as they started populating the field.