It's freezy out. (For me, that means 55 degrees.) Yesterday it was sunny and warmish, but after the sun set, all bets were off. Today in the sunshine it was freezy! Phooey! Now I have to go find my turtlenecks and scarves and warm things...
We joined our Raider mostly faithful friends today at the tailgate (but not the game, we don't have tix anymore) and enjoyed a carb fest. Or as K dubbed it, a CARB WRECK followed by a CARB CRASH. (Yes, he was killing himself laughing at this joke.) There was a token slab of meat, but until that was ready we had pumpkin bread rolls, pumpkin bread loaf, bagel chips, bolani, garlic bread, and grapes. Uuuuurrrrgh! It was nice to catch up with the peeps - this is only our second home game of the year, and the weather was good.
Even better was walking through the parking lot to take BART home; we passed a mind-bending variety of people and displays. Parents and kids selling candy for their schools next to the party boys shotgunning beers. Variously "decorated" Al Davis posters. Men in silver masks with wigs smiling in posed pictures with kids. (In some odd inversional rule, the most insanely dressed Raider fans are invariably the nicest). Skeleton Halloween bodies dressed in Raider gear, and sitting in chairs at tailgates. Raider grills. Raider steam cookers 8 feet tall. I didn't see any portable living rooms (sofa, rug, TV set, satellite receiver, power generator) but we have in the past. It was a sunny day in Raider Nation...made even sunnier by the eventual astonishing win against Brett Favre and The Jets, thanks to Janokowski's record-setting field goal.
Fall is really here. Now, how come we haven't played the World Series yet?
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