This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Raiders Fandom

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

When your high school football teammate talks about how he became a Raiders fan, how you became a St. Louis fan, and how you both feel about the NFL's LA debacle. From our episode with Grant Adams

On the subject of football, for full disclosure, I did mention it in my interest to you, you're a big Raider fan. Yes, sir. How did that happen, first of all? Probably about six or seven years old. My dad was getting serious watching a game, and I went down and see what he was up to. It was the Raiders versus, I believe, the Chargers at the time. This was at the old Coliseum, the L.A. Coliseum Stadium.

and just sat down and watched and was just mesmerized by players like Howie Long and, gosh, I'm trying to think number 83 is a wide receiver, ex-Chicago Bears receiver. Yeah, he signed to the Raiders, I think you're here before that. But, yeah, just love the commitment to excellence, just family-oriented type of team.

And Al Davis, of course. Yeah, it's just a flashy guy. Yep. Yeah. I think that was about the same time I became a Rand fan, actually, because that was, I liked the helmets, and Dickerson was, and I actually got to be there, Dickerson, just before his Hall Fame induction, so. Yeah.

And, of course, you mentioned Howie, one of the best, certainly a character on the TV, and his son, Chris, played for the Rams. Yep, well, yeah. They had two sons in the NFL. I think one was the D-Line, the other was O-Line. Yeah, Chris was D-Line, and Kyle was. O-line yeah yeah yeah and of course when the Rams moved to St. Louis which would have been the same year I started playing football yeah or two-year I became even more of a fan and then 2016 goes around and it feels like my part was

Sharon Twine as I don't know what the Raider fan experience was but certain from the St. Louis perspective we feel we were lied to and about We were branded as, oh, you're not real football fans, you're just baseball town. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. What was the Raider reaction to that whole situation? That's one of the unique things is like they always talk about Raider Nation and stuff. It's all over the place.

So it doesn't matter really the venue in my mind, it's just, it's a, you know, just a part of life. Right. And so with them, they always be from Oakland, LA, back to Oakland, now in Las Vegas. I mean, it doesn't make you really much of a different. at least for me as a rangers fan, where they play, I do like the aspect that they do have their own stadium, not sharing it, or it's not like a, you know, I mean, I guess you know he plays there and stuff, but yeah.

But it's just, it's one of those things where they actually, it's a true home field stadium, even though it is in Vegas, and there's, you know, probably a lot of times where it's sold out for the other team. Right. But it's just, you know, it's part of it. And I never had a problem with it. I mean, me being in Kansas City, too, I've got a little different perspective. Just talking with some fans, you know, from California and stuff, they all still follow up.

They're like, yeah, like, it's a way of life. It's not really a, you know, you have to be from that town. I don't know any Charger fans, but I have heard that they're not too happy with the Charger aspect of all that. In that case, they actually had a little bit of a saying that they got to vote on their, on a new state of their name, sadly rejected it. Yep. And I feel that

Dean Spanos and Mark Davis now were a hell of a lot more honest to their fan bases than San Crocky and Kevin Dumboff. One of it was, I mean, like I'd never experienced Oakland, but just from

like talking with some of the fans just felt terrible at the stadium at all this is. And I mean, you know, it sucks that you're losing, in that atmosphere, but at the same time, if you're, you know, putting everybody's health at risk, basically, it's just not... Yeah. Yeah, I've heard horror stories about the Oakland Coliseum. Yeah.

Glad the A lot of the A lot of them right now. Exactly. Yeah, it's unfortunately. It would have been nice to see them do something, but... Yeah, but it's California and they don't really do that. Yeah, it's kind of to the point I barely follow the NFL able. Yeah, I did... kind of followed this past season because, believe it or not,

even though I'm not a cheese fan, two degrees of separation from the whole Kelsey Swift romance. One of my Chesco workers is neighbors with Travis Kelsey. Nice. Listen to this and much more on this podcast is Uncalled for. Available now wherever you podcast. Thank you.