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There And Back Again: The Curious History Of The Oakland Raiders

Few professional sports teams have had to pick up and move twice in twelve years. With their distinctive silver and black uniforms, the Oakland Raiders have had to do just that. Sent down to play in Los Angeles for over a decade starting in 1982, they found themselves back at the Coliseum in Alameda.

Hardcore fans don't talk about the LA years, at least the ones from northern California don't. That's not to imply that the majority of them are angry or in denial, though. It's more of a bitter sort of joke to them to remember that a perfectly good franchise got taken away, planted elsewhere, failed, and then came limping home. Many of those fans think it was a ridiculous idea to move the team in the first place.

Three Super Bowl Championships have been taken by this team, and since 1970 they have been asked to compete in over twenty playoff appearances. This is a strong team without question, and it owes a lot of this strength to the head coaches over the years. Coaching staff like Mike White, Bill Callahan, and Tom Cable have managed to direct the team extremely well through its sometimes bumpy history.

One interesting note is that Al Davis, the principal owner of the franchise, started as the general manager and head coach in 1962 at the age of thirty three. He was the youngest person in pro football to have held these positions. In 2011 at the age of eighty one, Davis is still in charge over there.

The Oakland Raiders have a very powerful fan base both at home and (to a degree) in Los Angeles. Their team jerseys and other replica products sell incredibly well, and they might actually have the highest profile of any team since the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s.

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