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I went to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to watch the Raiders play Denver when the Raiders were based in L.A.

One could write their college thesis in a myriad of majors based on that singular 4 hour event.

I'm guessing that criminal justice, military science, and abnormal psychology are just three such majors...

You may or may not know that the people who run the Rose Bowl stadium said recently that they wouldn't mind hosting an NFL team as long as it is not the Raiders!

I went to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to watch the Raiders play Denver when the Raiders were based in L.A.

I had L.A. Raider season tickets between '84 and '92, and I witnessed at least one mini riot per game. The worst was one day when the Steelers were in town, and tens of people were injured, one within an inch of his life. Needless to say, the atmosphere was quite different than Chavez Ravine. ...But at least most people stayed to watch the end of the game.

I saw the raiders come back in the second half and beat denver in the year where they played them in the final game to get in the playoffs, then had to play them again next week. That was a great game and fans were very rowdy.
But the worse fans I ever saw were ram fans in Anahiem.
Of course I sat behind the Miami section in the end zone.
The fans there were ruthless and I saw a few fights.
I also went to a padre game this year. Two very sexy and well endowed diamondback fans were sitting in the lower section just underneath the concourse. They had a large cardboard sign saying backs rule or something. It took both of them to open it and hold it up.
They would hold it twords the field, then turn around and show it to the upper seats and all the padre fans would yell at them (but SD fans seem very content to just be there and they are not the fighting type). Anyway they held it up and one fella was waiting and he grabbed it from them and ran up to the top where they ripped it up and the poor girls could not do anything.
It isnt a big deal but it was very entertaining. It was my sons first major league game and he got a ball and had the player who gave it to him sign it, both of which I would have said the odds were about two thousand to one.