Henderson, Nevada – Sports fans get their label from the word fanatic. This is who they are. As sports contemplate playing without fans, it seems implausible, if not impossible.
Matt Millen once told me, “Every NFL fan thinks they’re part of the team. The difference between all other franchises and the Raiders is that Raiders players believe it too.”
These are powerful words from the Raiders, great, but true. In just two months of covering this historic professional sport as a beatwriter every day, I have seen it. In Raider Nation, it’s more meaningful.
Maybe no one was more excited than Las Vegas-based rapper Lonnie Ca $ h when the Raiders announced their move to Clark County, Nevada. This longtime resident has also spent his entire life as a fan of Silver and Black.
He said to me the first time we spoke, “Dude, when I found out my team was coming here I couldn’t contain it. I had to tell everyone. I knew I had to let it go. a single about it. I was so excited. “
Lonnie Lucero, 51, performs under the rap name Lonnie Ca $ h, but his blood is Silver and Black. I asked him about Millen’s comments, and he said, “That’s right. You see the players in the community and they stop. They talk, like the fans and we like them. a family.”
There are a handful of NFL teams who share a close bond with their fans, but none rival the Raiders and their supporters. Or, as Lucero puts it, “Nothing like being a Raider. Once you figure that out, we’re family. It’s a place that everyone can fit in. It’s all about. of Raider Nation for life.
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