ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The NFL has granted permission to the Oakland Raiders to become the Las Vegas Raiders at some point in their moving-van future.
But because there is no suitable stadium in Vegas -- the deal was built on a pile of money and architects' renderings of a proposed stadium -- the Raiders could play as many as three more seasons in Oakland.
And that sets the table for lame-duck football -- something I’ve witnessed up close and personal.
In August 1995, roughly three weeks before the regular season began, the late K.