Blackouts for sports is so dumb. And as a Raider fan we had years and years where we would maybe get 1-2 home games a year on local TV. The logic behind it is dumb too. Your stadium holds 50,000 or whatever. There are likely way more than 50,000 fans of the team within the region. Even if they wanted to, all of the fans couldn’t attend the game. But the product being put on the field, combined with the interest of the fans to attend the live game isn’t enough to sell 80% of the seats before the game. That should tell you the product and venue is broken, not the fanbase. Yet the fanbase is punished.

The idea that all of the fans are punished because enough fans don’t attend the live event is just petty and lame. I hate it.

Damn dude. It’s the hope that kills you and you just killed the hope. In all seriousness, well put. He’s very raw at a not very raw age and the verdict is still out. He obviously isn’t showing signs of a missed prodigy that slipped to us, but he has shown some positive tools. I imagine he’s feeling a lot of pressure. It seems this team can do that to guys with regularity. Good offensive players come here and suddenly they aren’t the same. I think this fanbase has a way of adding extra pressure because we’ve grown impatient and been that way for so long and for good reason.

He probably isn’t the answer, but no harm in giving him the reps. I just hope this doesn’t turn into a case of our defense suddenly being amazing and the offense unable to score because we are cursed with flip flopping which one can perform on a given day and hardly ever put both good forms out there the same day.

Because you don’t understand the nuance of the Bay Area. There are rich and poor places on both sides of the Bay, but in general, SF is wealthier and the peninsula where candlestick was has a shit ton of money. Oakland was more known as a large suburban city riddled with violent crime and gangs and the surrounding smaller suburbs like San Leandro and Hayward the same. So you could live 20-30 miles further east in the more conventional suburb and be a Raider fan and your neighbor in the same neighborhood a Niner fan and that Niner fan would think they were better than you simply because of the team they rooted for. It was obvious and it was made obvious by Niner fans. Shit rubbed us wrong. Then, you throw in their success and gloating and it just made you hate that team. I still hate them. I love watching them be so good but an able to finish the deal. It’s cathartic.

It’s probably very similar to how White Sox fans feel toward Cubs fans.

Wine drinkers versus beer and whiskey drinkers.

The official team of XIV.

I take it as nobody has been better than Kirk, after Kirk, until now.

Who is hating on him? Jerks!!

Someone asked the other day what we thought his line would be. I said 189 1 TD - 0 turnovers. The response was “I’ll take it!” He was close to that and had the one TO. I thought he played well for a second start against a top D. People are being delusional if they are criticizing him harshly.

They should smoke cigars after every game. Fuck it.