hey I know exactly how you feel........I was raised in Oakland and a loyal Raider fan up until Al took them to la la land......after ten years down there they came back but they were not the same team and plus i had switched to the niners cause the raiders were traitors.......LA turned them into a bunch of pansy's......hell, before going to LA the Raiders were the most feared team in football along with Pittsburgh in the 70S....hell.......that was a blow ...i think we walked around in a daze for several weeks.....
i know that running a team is a buisness but there should be laws prohibiting owners from holding cities hostage unless the attendance is so low that for survival of the team you have to move. but that gives owners like bidwill more excuses to let the franchise fail so he can elicit other owners support to move.
at least al davis always tried to keep the raiders competative, salary cap is the baromiter today. your front office better be good at playing that game and evaluating lower tiered talent. i also use to root for the raiders in the AFC. use to love lamonica, big ben davidson, ted the stork hendrick, howie, and all the assasins in the secondary.
good jawin' at ya.