Hi everybody, I´m a mexican Raider fan since 1990 ( but i know in my cells, bones & flesh I´m always has been).. those times when our team were resurging from mid 80´s crisis, an erratic Schoreder in charge & a WR fear group (Brown, Fernandez & Gault) & a terrific Dline (Golic, Smith, Long & Townsend)... after that?  the Hoss aboard & jett, Montgomey, Trapp, Peat, Perry, Mcallum, etc...(& THAT UNFORGETABLE 42-21 TO THE DONKEYS & SCUFFLE BETWEEN THE HOSS & LiLO LANG on wild card 1993) after that George, Rison, Maryland, Swilling, Brown, the Wiz ( last both the unique excellent constant on all this times!!)... after Gruden, Rice, Woodson, Jackson, Harris, Johnston, Ritchie, Jolley etc... But Honestly in this 7 years span the most dramatic missing ingredient on my team are: the heart, the soul, "los huevos" as we say on spanish... my friends jokes about me & my passion for the silver & black, my mother alway tries to excuse against my brother (stelergay fan) & my father ( cowgirl fan), i´m 36 now & i know in a deeply way that I will be in love with the silver & black for may years to come, mainly because the genesis of this team is a proud history of faith, no clichés, a smashmouth for haters & non believers... all my friends are fan of diferent teams & when we discuss (drinking beer sometimes) regarding my passion for the raiders I´m always start saying... no one team on profesional sports has been so culture & history changing  fact for their league as us... the team home movements, the minority coaches, female excecutives, the merger afc -nfl, etc... after all of this stories everybody shut up... (to certain haters 3 rings is not enough lately... usually my brother tries to win with this argue but himself is ashamed with the BS of  Noll, swann and those gays triyng to jail us on the 70´s with stupid criminal charges... WHAT KIND OF LADIES THEY WERE!!! HAHA

I love Big Al as I love our colors, our triumphs & defeats, I love our hall of famers & also our busts, I´m always cry when we lost warriors to free agency ( I´m still hating Woodson on yellow, The Hoss as a Redskin, Marcus Allen a chief) & Im´always salute with vehemency to the new free agents... but man!! is very very hard smile on this times, but you know?... the Silver & Black is too much part of me because I pass form a 17 inexperienced young man to a family head with a wife & two girls always wearing a silver & black shirt...

NO matter how hard the times are, no matter how you-know-who is scraping his legacy... I´m always be a loyal, deeply in love Raider Fan.

Nice to join to people with the same passion no matter how much distance, ethnic, color, age, nacionality, social status, job, religion we have...

( If in some parts my english are not enough good, excuse me...I will try to improve it).

Carlos