Hey, Raiders: We can be your home
They scoffed at Columbus when he set sail to find the New World. Nobody thought the Wright Brothers would get their idea off the ground.
Closer to home, people thought was cuckoo for thinking the NBA would ever come to podunk Orlando.
Since I couldn’t get in touch with Columbus or either Wright brother, I threw out another laughable, preposterous, callthe-sanitarium idea to our local dreamer/visionary. The Orlando Raiders. “I love it!” Hewitt said. Before you list the 12,398 reasons it could never happen, let me explain. I’m not talking about the NFL’s vagabond franchise making Orlando its permanent home.
I’m just saying there’s no way the Raiders are going to stay in Oakland until the stadium is built in their new Las Vegas home. That will be 2020, by which time the Hell’s Angels won’t even be showing up at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
Oakland locals have turned on owner
and who could blame them? The NFL approved the Raiders’ move last week, but the team wants to stick around three more years?
That’s like telling your wife you’re running off with a new flame, but will she let you hang around and bring you coffee until your new beach house is built?
The lease allows the Raiders to stay two more years, and Oakland officials are in no mood to OK a third year. Some want the team out right away.
There’s talk the Raiders might temporarily go to San Antonio. But what (besides the Alamo and a real NBA team) does San Antonio have that we don’t? Nothing! We have a stadium. We already host the Pro Bowl, so we know the NFL ropes. Davis wouldn’t even have to get new monogrammed
towels for the owner’s suite.
Orlando’s movers and shakers should pounce on this unique opportunity, just like Hewitt did 30 years ago when 76ers GM
mentioned the NBA might be looking to expand, and would Miami, Tampa or Jacksonville be the best spot? COMMENTARY
“I didn’t say Jacksonville,” Williams said last week at Hewitt’s induction into the Hall of Fame of the team he helped found, the Orlando Magic.
Speaking of Jacksonville, how great would it be to have and the Raiders electrifying Camping World Stadium while the Jaguars go their annual 2-14? As noted Raiders fan
once said, “There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
The Raiders have to hang out somewhere before heading to Vegas.
Why not here?
Mississippi State’s women’s basketball team. Barring a real fight breaking out at WrestleMania, the Bulldogs provided the Upset of the Year when they snapped UConn’s 11,111-game winning streak.
The Kentucky basketball fans who sent death threats to referee
after he made a couple of bad calls in the Wildcats’ loss to North Carolina.
It’s too bad the 47 percent of homicidally devoted fans give the 53 percent of pathologically crazed Kentucky fans a bad name. An airport in Portugal was renamed for last week. No U.S. airports are named after an athlete, though the smoking lounge at the Little Rock airport is named after
FIFA suspended Argentina’s for four games after he used “insulting words” on an official. When informed of the new legal precedent, the NCAA suspended Kentucky basketball fans for the next 683 years.
Some NFL teams are leery about signing
due to his vegan diet, according to a CSN Bay Area report. Team owners apparently fear the lack of meat may again leave Kaepernick too weak to stand during the national anthem.
Correction: UConn’s women’s basketball team had won 111 straight games. It only seemed like 11,111.
The Knicks are reportedly trying to trade
to the Raiders for a pair of 2019 season tickets at OaklandAlameda County Coliseum.
And belated congratulations to who discovered Florida 504 years ago Sunday. He then looked at the traffic on I-4 and quickly headed back to Spain.