Oakland Raiders
The Oakland Raiders have been my favourite team since I started
watching them during the strike-hit season of 1982 (in Britain,
the year that Channel 4 started). My following of them was paid
back pretty quickly with them winning Superbowl XVIII on that
Silver and Black Sunday of 22 January 1984 (my 13th birthday!).
Since then it has been a bit of a labour of love and you couldn't
call a Raider fan a glory hunter.
I think it was their unpopular image that appealed most. The
hardest hitting renegade crew with Darth Vader as a mascot!
Having Marcus Allen and then Bo Jackson as running backs to
watch in a formative time were enough reason to be a supporter
for life.
When you learn the history - such games as the Heidi Game,
the Immaculate Reception, the Sea of Hands, the Holy Roller,
and George Blanda's Miracle Season you know you're onto something
great.
However some astute trades such as Rich Gannon, The ever reliables
like Tim Brown and a new winning spirit brought about by coach
John Gruden might appear to be taking us to the Superbowl again!
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