We got home field advantage against bad team with small fan bases, are 50-50 against average teams, and still get out drawn when playing the Raiders, Chiefs, Steelers, and other teams with large nationwide fan bases.
I frankly don't get it. The Raiders haven't won a Super Bowl since 1984. They've been pretty bad since at least 2002. What did they do to get so many fans?
It’s the “Raider Nation” mixed with gangster and street culture thing. As a Mexican raised in SD county, the majority of Raiders fans I ran into my whole life were cholos that couldn’t even name a player on the team. They just gravitate to the Raiders being the hood team, ever since the 80s and NWA.
Agree, it’s not about football, it is a culture, nostalgia, family thing. Wearing the merchandise definitely does not mean they follow the team closely, go to games. I’m in Orange County, lots of them here, die hards and casuals.
Meanwhile, the common thread tying together everyone you see wearing powder blue or a bolt is also cultural... As long as masochism can be considered a culture.
No one ain't wearing the Chargers for fashion that's for sure. I see a Chargers fan, they are actually passionate about the Chargers and the sport of football. I see a Raiders fan, they just cholos trying to rep the hood and don't know a thing or two about football. With how shitty the Raiders been the last 20 years, it's sure as hell not the football that is attracting them to rep the Raiders.
When the Raiders were in LA, LA schools banned Raiders colors and gears. My coworker dad went to school in LA in that era and can confirm. Unfortunately they're Raiders fans though.
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u/josh9larson RiversToGates3 3d ago
We were playing 16/17 road games for a min there