[diana]

The Raiders moving from Oakland to L.A. and then back to Oakland holds so many crazy, distinct memories for me that I will never forget.....I know that my Mom and Dad went to games in Oakland before I was born and growing up everything was about the Raiders in our house, then Al Davis moved the team and it broke my Dad's heart and turned him into a Niner Fan , my Mom stayed true to the Raiders, I would go to my Dad's house for weekend visits and watch Niner games with him in the living room, surronded by all of this Niner Red and Gold while my Mom's house was Raider everything.....then my whole life flipped upside down when my Dad passed away 1/31/1983, and the next year the L.A. Raiders won the Super Bowl ......I also remember my Uncle, he was a die hard Raider Fan, he stayed true through the move to L.A., he passed away two years ago....when my Mom and I were going through his Raider things we found a lot of things that said L.A. Raiders and my Uncle had taken a marker and blacked out the L.A. parts. I remember when the team was coming back to Oakland and I found those cool ass bumper stickers that read "WE'RE BACK.....L.A. SUCKED" and my Mom slapped one on the back of her RX7. One of my best memories was bringing my little cousin to his first Raider game and how juiced he was, even at the age of 6, and half way through the first quarter he looks over and says to me, "When I grow up, I'm playing for the Raiders"......and how over these last two years, everywhere he goes, if he sees another teams logo on someones car or them wearing another teams gear, he starts the RAIIIIIIIIDDDDDDEERRRRSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! chant, over and over and over. The day I knew his Raider Fanhood was set in stone and that he would carry on the family tradition was 3 months ago, I picked him up from school and he had on his Randy Moss Black Home Jersey and I told him, "Well, I'm glad your representing today", and he says to me, "I know, but I told my Mom she has to buy me a new jersey because Randy Moss doesn't even play for the Raiders anymore, he plays for the Patriots and they suck!!!!!".