The Black Hole

Just want to share my experiences at the Black Hole on Sunday night! Patriots lost and this was a real bummer ... but from a WWF-type perspective it was sooooo entertaining.

1) Pulling off the exit from 880 and there on the on-ramp corner was an 8 year old with a sign, "it was a fumble, bitch". I could not get over it. Unintentional comedy. There were signs everywhere - "it was a fumble", "Snowjob", Tuck This, Tuck the Patriots, No Snowjob in Oaktown. 8-80 with every age in between.
2) Pull into the lot. Park. Get our tailgating gear out. Now I am here with 7 other people - all professionals from Cisco, mixture of men and woman, none wearing Raider garb. Within 10 minutes some big Raider Nation (sorry for the use of the word) dude comes walking up to us and says "you aren't Patriots fans are you".
3) I looked around and quickly figured out why we stood out. No one was wearing black and silver. I was with a bunch of people from California that were not either Patriots fans or Raiders fans - he did not push the issue but I quickly realized that this may be the only place where being neutral is not good enough.
4) He did suggest that we buy some t-shirts that he just happen to be selling - amazing how that happens. A couple of guys bought the $10 tshirts that said - "No snowjob in Oaktown" and "Fuck the Patriots"
5) Walking into the Stadium - two guys happen to be crazy enough to have Tom Brady and Ben Coates shirts on ... Raider fans are just walking up to them dumping beer all over them. I was amazing. It was surreal.
6) Looking around I could not believe the sea of black and silver. I was truly impressed with the enthusiasm and backing the fans have for the Raiders.
7) Walking through security are all types of freaking looking people with their Raider costumes - including the shoulder pads with long spikes. Clearly none of these people would get through airport security. They stop the guy with the Fuck the Patriots shirt on and make him take it off. Perfectly OK to wear no shirt into the game, or shoulder pads with killer spikes - but God forbid if you have a swear word. Then you walk in and in our seats the f bombs are dropping everywear!

Truly an enjoyable time.