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The “Autumn Wind” is still a Raider, but he’s no longer blustering in from the sea.
Instead, as John Facenda of N.F.L. Films might intone in his oft-heard dramatic reading of the poem synonymous with the Raiders franchise, he has taken his hooded sash and silver hat and moved to the desert in Las Vegas.
There, on Monday night, he and his swaggering teammates will host the New Orleans Saints in the first N.F.L. game in the city, at newly built Allegiant Stadium.
The Raiders’ arrival in Sin City is more than just a new flag planted on the N.