Raider Game Trip Report

[Oski]

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You and your daughter are cute.

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[Boris]

OMG that picture is funny on so many levels

[tuq]

Their fans are scary as hell. Once I went to a Cardinals-Raiders game at Sun Devil Stadium and felt incredibly lucky to be in a skybox (which are at the top of the stadium). It was nonstop fights, everywhere you looked the security in yellow jackets were swarming to break up fights and eject people with the aid of sheriffs. Raiders fans fighting Cardinals fans. Raiders fans fighting each other. There was a scrawny white guy who for whatever reason thought it would be a good idea to wear a Jake Plummer Broncos jersey and sit in the middle of a swarm of Raiders fans. He got his ass kicked and a few minutes later showed up a couple of sections to our left, and got his ass kicked there as well.

From my experience the scariest NFL fan bases are Oakland, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. Although the Nawlins group was mostly just wasted and that made some of them want to fight.

[Boris]

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Their fans are scary as hell.

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Ironically Clarky's brush with death didn't occur until well after the game. We were inside a bar blissfully drinking beer when there was a murder right outside. One guy wouldn't move out of the way on the escalator so the other guy put multiple caps in his ass.

[suzzer99]

Standard. You can't let people push you around in Oakland. What else was the capper supposed to do? Dude wouldn't get out of his way.

[Billy Bibbit]

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There was a scrawny white guy who for whatever reason thought it would be a good idea to wear a Jake Plummer Broncos jersey and sit in the middle of a swarm of Raiders fans. He got his ass kicked and a few minutes later showed up a couple of sections to our left, and got his ass kicked there as well.

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Speaking as a scrawny white guy, would it be a bad idea for me to wear a Colts T-shirt to the game that's coming up in a few weeks? I've gone to a lot of road games in a lot of different cities before, and I've never experienced anything worse than getting talked [censored] to and having empty bottles thrown at me.

Also, does it matter what section I sit in? I'd be willing to buy a more expensive ticket if that would decrease the chances of ass-kickery.

[ClarkNasty]

The entire stadium on the club box side as well as the end zones stood all game long. I recommend sitting in an area in the upper circle opposite the club box side that actually sits.

[bellytimber]

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Speaking as a scrawny white guy, would it be a bad idea for me to wear a Colts T-shirt to the game that's coming up in a few weeks?

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I also went to this Raiders game; I'm a big Bears fan and I was going to wear my Payton jersey but the people who scored the tickets told me to put it away--they said there was a good chance we'd all get f'd with and they didn't want the stress.

The game (and especially the tailgate) ended up being a great time and in hindsight, wearing the jersey would have been totally fine. Although obviously Raiders fans can be a tough crowd and some people do indeed get f'd with, there were people wearing Bears jerseys all over the place. I mean, I saw someone in a Bears Cade McNown jersey (not McCown), and if that guy didn't get raped and beheaded by both Raiders and Bears fans alike, then as long as you don't act like an idiot you'll be OK too.

ok the picture is an embarrassment of riches but I've gotta go with the girdle of skulls.

[Clarkmeister]

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OMG that picture is funny on so many levels

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Yeah, I just find it totally awesome for so many reasons. I freaked out when I saw this chick, like, O....M....G.