ALAMEDA, Calif. -- If nothing else, Jon Gruden is an old football soul who cut his coaching teeth in a different era. His first head-coaching job came at the tender age of 34 in 1998 with the Oakland Raiders so, yeah, Gruden is sensitive to the Raiders' current lot in his second stint with the franchise.
The Raiders' 2018 home finale, a Christmas Eve affair against the rival Denver Broncos, might be the final Raiders game ever played in Oakland after the city announced its plans last week to file a federal lawsuit against the team and league over the move to Las Vegas in 2020.