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Today's headline in my local paper's sports page is, "It's a cream matchup: Will Raiders or Bucs rise to the occasion?"

I am not kidding! What does this mean?

I have no idea what it means, but it sounds, um, kinky to me. 

Hehe, I just found out, about 5 minutes ago, what teams were playing. Does anyone know what time it starts EST and what channel it will be on?

According to nfl.com, it's at 6PM EST on ABC

RAIDERS!  RAIDERS!  RAIDERS!  RAIDERS!  RAIDERS!

Obviously you guys have no idea what you are talking about.  Raider fans are not the criminals and thugs you make them out to be.  We Raider fans have gotten a bad rap because of some of the bad apples that every team has.  Every team has those fans who have a little to much to drink and get a little rowdy.  It's all an act.  Good fun. 

Raider fans come in all shapes and sizes.  Doctors, attorneys, programmers, engineers, teachers, housewives and so on.  So for you to say that Raider fans (even the majority) are thugs and looters is insane.  You're basing all this on the perception of the media, who will hype up anything in order to make a good story.  People have been murdered at football games, hell a few people have even died on the field, but because of what happened at that San Diego game, the Raiders suddenly are the bad seeds of society.

So, of course, ignorance is going to cause a lot of you to talk out of butts, but hey, can't do anything about that.  I've been a Raider fan everyday of my life, my father as well, in fact he was the president of a Raiders Booster Club here in SoCal.  From what I remember, I've never been involved in any type of criminal activity because I'm a Raider fan.  To add more to that, most of the professional people I know are Raider Fans.  You may not like what some people do to release some steam, but that's not really up to you, is it?

Justine, your comments are just ignorant.

exoguyjoeb: I live in San Diego. I really don't have a problem with the Raider players themselves. It's the fricking annoying fans. I was walking downtown the other day and this gang of Raiders fans started harrasing a Bucs fan. I actually told them to stop. Of course they say a few choice words. I just told them that I don't go walking around Oakland saying how bad the Raiders are.

In case you didn't notice, that's what footballs about.  I get harrassed for being a Raider fan and it comes with the territory.  It's not like football is a sport for housewives (although housewives can get as rowdy as anyone I've ever seen).  You must be really uptight to get upset about Raider fans harrassing Bucs fans.  I even saw on the news the other day, several Bucs fans harrassing Raider fans.  So it goes both ways.

You know, I've known the MAF to be full of ignorance, but I can't believe my eyes today.  The level of idiocy is astounding.  It's no longer Think Different.  It's Think With Your Head Up Your Butt.

Oh well, I'll go watch the game with people who aren't cry babies.  I'll try not to loot or kill anyone.  And God forbid if I happen to pick on a little Bucs fan.  God knows they can't take it.

I just thought the commerical they had was funny. . .

Voiceover: "The Raiders are coming to town"
Then they show scenes of people locking their car doors, barricading the stores and homes, and mothers protecting their children.

I don't really care about the Bowl. I don't plan to watch it.

Just because you don't plan to doesn't mean you aren't going to huh?

"The visiting team, the Tampa Bay Buca. . ."

*pst. . .wrong side*

"Er, the visiting team, the Oakland Raiders. . ."

Niiiiiice, I think I'm going to love this head ref 

They are broadcasting the HyperBole in Australia, but NOT THE !@#$%^&*() ADS! 

According to Aubrey's statistics the broadcaster has alienated 40% of the viewers; including this one.

Awesome job by Bucs so far!!!

Some good commercials....and for those of you who DIDN'T switch to NBC during half-time, heheheh.....that was the best SNL since Will Ferrel left, lol...it was amazing (a 20 minute version)...I told the AAF'ers i have the tape and will try to get my DV cam. fixed and upload it for everyone, its GREAT stuff.

Well it started boring...then turned into a one-sided route....The halftime show was pretty good....except for the lip stinking Shania Twain....

Gladly they kept her out of the "REAL" show with No Doubt doing an excellent job of backing Sting...that was cool!

On the Football side it's becoming an embarrasment for the Raiders, I expected a much closer game........this actually sucks...I'm going flip to OZ 

if i her madden go on about the #1 offense vs the #1 defense ONE MORE TIME...

i dont care
but according to time magazine
54% of americans will watch the superbowl
40% of those say theyre tuning in "just for the commercials"
so much for sporting wefare!

What I find disturbing is that people are so controlled by corporations that they want to watch the corporations throw their products at them.

game was better for a while--my bucs are coming back again though....the early commercials (Fed-Ex etc.) were good...kinda been going down-hill...Still waiting for miller light

Bucs win!!  I wasn't cheering for any team though really. I was really happy to see 2 ex Minnesota qb's playing in the big game just because I hate Dennis Green so much(old Minnesota coach) he's such a fat bastard.

Dont get me wrong, I hate Denny Green as much as the next guy but both of those QBs sucked ass while in the purple and at least everyone knows Johnson is just average. Gannon is the most overrated player in the NFL.

Raiders crap

Well you guys got your asses handed to ya tonight!