I thought it was poetic justice at it's finest ....
I guess it would be accurate for me to say that I, like Marcus Allen, don't have a problem with the Raiders, but with only one individual in the Raider organization ... and my problem, like his, is with the individual at the top ... Al Davis, whose unmitigated greed and gall are truly beyond the pale ... his nefarious dealings took him from being a hired hand of the founding ownership to the position of Managing General Partner, took the team away from the city of it's birth to the City of Angels where he thought riches awaited him ... then, finding himself mistaken about the riches and disillusioned with LA, he manipulated public officials in Oakland and Alameda County into bribing him, using public money to enrich him, putting a huge and unfair burden on the taxpayers of the area to say nothing of utterly ruining the Oakland Colliseum for the baseball co-tenents (and how, pray tell, did he ever sell that bill of goods when you consider that the baseball team has 8-9 times the home playdates the boys in Silver and Black have???)
Now he's making noises about moving again ... were it up to me, he could leave before sundown tomorrow ... good ridance to bad rubish as the old saying goes ... sadly, were he to do so, he'd again leave in his wake, the loyalty and devotion of the team fans ... a loyalty and devotion he neither deserves or repays in kind. Fans such as Rayder and Magnafide plus thousands more like them ... guys who spend so much of their blue collar incomes to see the games and buy team apparel they wear with pride ...guys on whose backs this blood-sucking leech has taken his ride ...
I'd hoped to see Al in the closing stages of this game ... hoped that ABC would show him, with the pain of this loss written plainly on his face ... if they did so, I missed it. But I know the look and given the circumstances of who it was that took that peach right out of his hand and gave him that big sour lemon to bite on, I gotta say again ... it was poetic justice ... long overdue, but justice nonetheless.
