Love for the Raiders is a Generation Gift
In over 60 years as a reporter covering the Oakland, Los Angeles, and now Las Vegas Raiders, Tom LaMarre s love for the Silver and Black has been generational
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Feb 11, 2021
(Tom LaMarre is a native of Oakland who covered the Silver and Black for the Oakland Tribune during the 1970s, and has written about the Raiders for more than 60 years, including now with Sports Illustrated s Raider Maven.)
My father took me to my first Oakland Raiders game on Nov. 13, 1960, their first season of existence and also that of the American Football League, against the Buffalo Bills at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco.
It s a fitting finale to the most unique of NFL seasons and the blockbuster game that everyone wanted to see, as the widely-recognised greatest of all time Tom Brady takes on arguably the greatest talent of his generation in Patrick Mahomes in Super Bowl 55.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, left, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady.
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In these Covid times Sunday s (Monday NZ time) showpiece match between Brady s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Mahomes Kansas City Chiefs will be very different off the field, but promises to be a classic on it.
But will Brady or Mahomes be celebrating at the end? Who else could influence the game? And how will the coaches try to outwit each other?
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