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  • OAKLAND: Are rowdy fans sinking Raiders?

    10/27/2005 9:08:04 AM PDT · by SmithL · 45 replies · 570+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/27/5 | C.W. Nevius
    Bizarre fans' rowdy behavior puts team at financial crossroads. Are Raider fans the barbarians of the National Football League? Well, consider this: how many other teams have fans so rowdy that they've been the subject of their own documentary film? "Oakland Raider Parking Lot'' will be shown tomorrow night at the Berkeley Video and Film Festival. The documentary, by independent filmmaker Jason Blalock, introduces viewers to the infamous, loud and often boozy members of the Raider Nation. Blalock, now in graduate school at Cal, says he is no sports fan and so his friends warned him what he was getting...
  • Tear Gas, Vandalism In Oakland Streets

    01/27/2003 2:29:40 AM PST · by Rodney King · 29 replies · 310+ views
    AP via KTVU ^ | today | staff
    OAKLAND, Calif. -- Rowdy crowds that took to the streets after the Oakland Raiders' Super Bowl defeat left parts of the city strewn with broken glass, charred hulks of burned cars and a fast-food restaurant with nearly every window broken. Police in riot gear responded with rubber bullets and tear gas, and briefly closed some stretches of city streets. At least 23 people were arrested, mostly for public drunkeness, authorities said. About 10 vehicles were set on fire, and crowds broke the windows of at least one television news van, police and witnesses said. One group of young men set...