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The Raiders are an American professional football team currently playing for Las Vegas, Nevada. The franchise was formed in 1960 as part of the new American Football League (AFL) formed as competition for the older National Football League (NFL). The team began playing their home games at the Oakland Alameda Colliseum. Ten years later in 1970 the AFL and the NFL merged, and the Oakland Raiders play as part of the American Football Conference (AFC) West, a division of the NFL. During their first stay in Oakland they captured two Superbowl championships.
In 1982, the Raider franchise relocated the team to Los Angeles leaving behind their loyal Bay Area fan base in the search for better conditions, both financially and facility-wise. In 1983 the franchise as the "Los Angeles" Raiders captured their third, and to date, last
Superbowl championship. They played a total of nine seasons in Los Angeles before they returned to their old haunts in Oakland in 1995. In 2002 the once again "Oakland" Raiders returned to the Superbowl for a fourth time, but lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Since that loss, they have struggled to obtain a winning record (winning more than half their games) during their regular seasons.
In 2019 the franchise entered into negotiations with Las Vegas, Nevada, searching for a more lucrative new home when their current contract with Oakland ended in 2019. In 2020, the Raiders moved to Las Vegas. The Raiders now play their home games at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, and are headquartered in Henderson, Nevada.
Note: Be aware that there is a host of manufacturers' variants of these and other fan flags being marketed for "Raiders" fans. This includes garden flags, banners, and pennants.
Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016 (revised 22 April 2021)
Traditional
Variant #1
Variant #2
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Over the years the Raiders have remained fairly consistent using the well-known black and white emblem showing a football player with an eye patch on his right eye. However after their move to Vegas a couple variant emblems appeared as shown above.
Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016
image from Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016
This Raider flag features the short lived 1963 logo and a small red and white AFL logo on the bottom fly front of the flag.
Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016
image from Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016
The nickname Raider Nation refers to the die hard fans who arrive at the Oakland Alameda Coliseum early to tailgate (a pregame party served from the tailgates of pickup trucks) and wear bizarre face masks and black outfits.
Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016
image from Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016
A specific area of the Oakland Coliseum (sections 104-107) seems to hold the Raider's most colorful and rowdy fans. The section is sometimes called "The Black Hole", defiantly considered a part of the Raider's Country.
Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016
image from Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016
This popular Raider fan flag is for that special room, the "Man Cave" I've seen them for most NFL teams, same design, different colors, etc..
Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016
image from Pete Loeser, 26 July 2016
This flag is sold for those divided households where one partner is a
Raider fan and the other one supports their rival from across the San
Francisco Bay. There are many variants of this flag replacing the rival
teams side of the flag with the Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Rams, etc.
Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016
image from Pete Loeser, 26 July 2016
This flag seems to be a cross between Oakland Raider and Star Wars
fandom. This style flag is being made for most NFL teams.
Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016
image from Pete Loeser, 26 July 2016
This helmet-style flag done in team colors is being made for most NFL teams and has become very popular.
Pete Loeser, 16 December 2016
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With the move to Las Vegas we saw a whole new set of flags appear. These nine are examples.
Pete Loeser, 22 April 2021
image located by Pete Loeser, 22 April 2021
This flag presented a break from tradition away from the black and white pattern with a patriotic red-white-blue colored stars and stripes Raider emblem.
Pete Loeser, 22 April 2021