The chatter about the Raiders possibly moving back to L.A. is just starting to pick up following Al Davis’ passing.
We’ll get into that plenty here at PFT, but for now we wanted to pass along a cool moment that says a lot about Davis and Raiders fans in the Bay Area.
Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports writes that 500 Raiders fans were waiting for the team when they returned to their training facility from Houston Sunday night. What followed is something you don’t often seen in modern sports: A genuine connection between the organization and its fans.
Raiders executives, coaches, and players joined the fans for 30 minutes in an impromptu grieving session that included a lot of hugs, remembrances, and tears.
“There were families with children and babies that probably should have been asleep,” Raiders CEO Amy Trask said. “There wasn’t a beer or cigarette to be found, just love and respect and a whole lot of emotion.”
UPDATE: Here’s Florio on Al Davis from Monday’s PFT Live.