Posted on 09/02/2007 9:32:53 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Raider Nation...well duh.
I guess that this was news only to the reporter
Seems the Raiders’ “gang appeal” skyrocketed when their team crashed and burned. Can’t recall gangbangers wearing Raider gear when they were among the consistently great teams in pro sports. Seems losers are attracted to losers.
Ping! They’re talkin’ ‘bout ‘choo.
Ping
What’s wrong with bangers making themselves more visually identifiable?
Someone should market a line of wear exclusively to such scumbags. A hat and shirt combo or something. Name of the gang, position in the chain of command, list of crimes committed, etc. Make them fully customizable to the individual tard.
I’ve been a Raider fan since about the ‘70 season, before the gangs took them over. Sad.
Gangs need to go. Davis was great in his day but now needs to hand the team over to someone else.
Bored late at night I needed to go to sleep...
So I turned on SWAT it is like cops but the SWAT runs.
One of the cops working along with the SWAT guys was wearing a VICKS Jersey.
I am no sports person but with the awful news surrounding this creep the Jersey Shirt with Vicks on the back stood out like a sore thumb.
So guess that cop ain’t so cool undercover with that get up anymore.
Yeah, I remember 15-16 years here in MN there was a kid who was killed for his Raiders starter jacket. Kind of one of those duhh articles.
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About 20 years ago, I sold sporting goods stuff, including NFL merchandise. Raiders apparel was popular among a particular demographic.
Just because small group of gangbangers took over Raider logo there are plenty of hard working Raider fans
Don’t put all Raider fans in gangbangers barrel here
There was a jewish player for the Raider, name escapes me, who claims that Moshe Dyan is the monocled character on the helmet.
It wasn’t Lyle Alzado was it?
I hear that when Raiders were in SO CAL guy who I knew who happen to be Israeli Jew think that he wasn’t postivie that Raider symbol was guy who lead IDF army back in 1960 into 1970s
Also don’t forget Al Davis was History major what I understand he always been interested in war history
Dayan’s major successes as a military commander were in the late 40s through the 50s, well before the Raiders were a franchise. So he very well could’ve been the model for the dude on the helmet.
No it was Ben somebody.
Ben Davidson.
Ahhh...former Husky. I should of known that!
And the lady on the phone when I tried to order an authentic Swervin’ Mervyn Fernandez thought I was joking...
It must have been as the Raiders have seemingly always drawn this element. My company had season tickets in LA for both the Rams and Raiders, plus I had season tickets for USC. The crowd for Raider games was a far different element then we saw at both the USC and Ram games.
We gave up the Raider tickets mainly because of the propensity for fights and altercations at their games.
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