Now, i've seen the clips on You Tube, the articles by ESPN, even some of the comments, on the NFL Network.

Folks, the myths need to be addressed.

Myth Number one: All Raider fans are satanistic, demon-possessed heretics.

Fact: Not all of them. In fact, from the ones I've seen, I wouldn't even put it at 50 percent. Like more fanaticals, you have some radicals, and like some family members, you do have some rotten apples.

Myth Number two: Raider fans are beer drinking sloshies, who are always rowdy.

Fact: Personally? I can't stand Beer. Rather have a Mountain Dew, or a Coke, or an A & W Root beer. To me, beer is a close equivalant to soap suds.....and for one case of beer, I can get 4 12packs of coke on sale.

As for being rowdy, I don't find myself smashing mailboxes, burning donkeys in effegy, or flipping cars.

Well, maybe if they have another game with a late timeout called.

Myth number three: Raider fans eat children, try to kill other fans, and usually other fans are scared to come to Oakland for games.

Fact: No, I don't eat children. I prefer poptarts, chips, hamburgers, hot dogs, and maybe a good subway sandwich.

As for trying to kill other fans, that would be on a basis of what the other fan was doing, in an oakland stadium.

For example, if he wanted to watch the game, fine.

If he told me to wipe my A-- with my jersey, I'd probably see if he's aerodynamic.

Myth number four: Raider fans are all mental cases, and a criminal organization

Fact: Not all of us are mental cases. As stated in a previous blog, Fantasism is not a mental illness, per se. Raider Fans, to that extent, are probably a rare case, of devotion, simply because, no matter how bad a season is....we don't lose faith. We don't simply say, oh, we're having a bad year, lets root for the 49ers. No.....About the only two things I can remember causing division in the ranks, would be Al's choice on moving the team from Oakland to LA, and back, or his mistreatment of Marcus Allen. But even in both cases, then, you don't hate the team.....you just wonder what's wrong with Al's Brain.....if you could find it.

All in all, I don't wear the face paint, I don't scream like a banshee in the stands, and I don't threaten to take a donkey fan's head off, without good reason.

However, like all good fans, if provoked, I wouldn't be responsible, for the poor judgement of an opposing fan.

It's a totally different question, maybe, if I was in Oakland....but then, my name, isn't Hardcore, Sgt Raider, Revenge, or Gorillarilla.

I'm RCA....Raider Card Addict.

I'd show up with about 6 albums of cards, and a lot of great stories, of my team.