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Raider Nation is the official name for the fans of the National Football League (NFL)'s Las Vegas Raiders (formerly the Oakland Raiders and the Los Angeles Raiders). Fan Jim Hudson coined the term in the 1990s when the Raiders returned to Oakland after a long hiatus in Los Angeles, thus becoming a team with a regional fanbase.
The Raider Nation is also known for the Black Hole, originally a specific area of the Coliseum (sections 104–107) frequented by the team's rowdiest and most fervent fans from 1995 until 2019. [148] [149] Al Davis created the phrase Raider Nation in 1968. In September 2009, Ice Cube recorded a song for the Raiders named "Raider Nation". [150]
Of the 23 Raiders coaches, Al Davis, Madden, and Flores are the only Raider coaches to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame for their contributions as coaches. Davis, who was also the Managing General partner and an AFL Commissioner, was in the Hall of Fame class of 1992. Madden was in the 2006 class.
He was replaced by former Raider offensive lineman Art Shell, who had been voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame earlier in the year. With the hiring, Shell became the first African American head coach in the modern NFL era, but the team still finished a middling 8–8. [17] In 1990, Shell led Los Angeles to a 12–4 record. They beat the ...
The Raiders began as one of the eight charter members of the American Football League (AFL) in 1960. It was in 1964 when the team first played in Las Vegas. On August 24, 1964, the team played the Houston Oilers in the first ever professional football game ever played in Las Vegas.
— Matt the Warrior/Raider/A’s Fan (6-9(17-18) (@mattgswlvroak) December 28, 2022 Other fans in the NFL suggested maybe Carr should go to their teams. Derek Carr was a top 12 QB almost every ...
KRLV (920 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, serving the Las Vegas area.Owned by Lotus Communications, [2] KRLV airs a sports radio format focused on the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League.
The 1982 Los Angeles Raiders season was the team's 23rd season, 13th season in the National Football League (NFL) and first of 13 seasons in Los Angeles. [1]In May 1982, a lawsuit brought by the Raiders and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1980 concluded, with the jury determining that the NFL violated antitrust laws when it rejected the proposed move by the team from Oakland to Los Angeles.