My Father-in-law was a season ticket holder when the Raiders played at Frank Youell Field in Oakland (1962-65). He continued buying season tickets from when the Raiders moved to the Coliseum (1966) until the Raiders moved to Los Angeles (1982). As a child, my wife would occasionally attend Raider games with her dad at the Coliseum. My dad also took me to a couple of Raider games when I was a child. My wife is still a Raider fan and faithfully watches them on TV. This being the farewell season for the Raiders playing at the Coliseum, we decided to attend last Monday night's Raider game at the Coliseum. It had been 50 years since we attended a Raider game.
The game started at 7:20 PM, we arrived in the parking lot to tailgate at 3 PM.
The "Black Hole" fans were quite friendly.
This guy parked next to me showed up with an old Weber SJ he bought at a garage sale for $5, an old 20 lb bag of Kingsford and 4 polish dogs. No matches, no lighter fluid and no tickets to the game. I used my Weber charcoal chimney and plumbers torch to lite his briquettes. They took forever to lite as I'm pretty sure the charcoal had been stored outside in the moisture. Once the briquettes were lit, he cooked his polish dogs on the rusty cooking grate, turning the dogs barehanded. He and his buddy did secure tickets to the game from a scalper. Gotta love tailgaters.
We came a little more prepared. I did gave my neighbor a couple of our stuffed mushrooms
Oh, then there was a game to.
Pre game ceremonies. Tom Florez (Raiders Head Coach (1979-1987) and Hall of Fame Raiders Center Jim Otto (1960-1974)
Final Score
Raiders - 24 Broncos - 16 Just Win Baby!
Topic: Tailgating - Monday Night Football - Raiders vs Denver (Read 1425 times)