Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get ready to rumble! The Oakland Raiders – after a long offseason filled with anticipation and expectation – are about to lace ’em up and get it on.
Granted, it’s only the exhibition season. But for the Nation, it’s been a long, long wait. The team and its fans have been eager to see this team in action since their crushing loss to Houston in last year’s Wild Card game – a return to the postseason that had been well over a very long, very painful decade in the making.
Last season was a fantastic step forward for a franchise on the rise.