Raider Fans Tired of Same Old Story

I no longer go to the Coliseum to watch professional football. I got tired of seeing the home team lose to the same 22 guys every week: the L.A. Raiders.

STAN GORDON

Encino

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Dear Al Davis,

I’m mad! No, not because the Raiders blew another game, but because you have stolen my wife.

When she first moved here from South Africa, she knew nothing about football. Now, after watching the Raiders, she thinks she’s an expert. Just because she’s able to call the Raiders’ plays before they happen, she thinks she knows it all. Granted, her plays are predictable and don’t work either, but it’s the fact she now claims to know as much as the Raiders’ coaches. It’s beginning to get to me.

Please, Al, get a modern, sophisticated offense. Get one that is not easy to predict. Get one that scores points not just in the first quarter. Please, let me have my wife back.

JIM BUNNER

Loma Linda

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The Raider tradition has always been to not only get the opponent down, but to rub his face in the dirt. This season’s passive second-half play looks as though it must have come straight from the pages of “Terry Donahue’s Methods for Blowing a Halftime Lead.”

Can anyone remember the last time the Raiders blitzed on third down? Or second down, for that matter? Could this be due in part to the fact that they are coached by a former offensive lineman who was always taught to protect, not attack?

DOC ROBINSON

Lynwood

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I loved it. Did you see the way Marcus Allen plowed through the Raiders? Did you see Willie Davis catch that touchdown pass all by his lonesome?

Just like those who savor a win by their favorite team, I get my jollies when the Raiders lose. Fade, team, fade!

CHUCK PERI

Moreno Valley

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On Oct. 14, 1991, I wrote you: “The Raider players didn’t lose the Buffalo game, their coaches did. Under the timid leadership of Art Shell and the less-than-confident play calling of Terry Robiskie, the Raider brain trust went into their second-half ‘containment’ strategy.”

The same thing happened Sunday against Kansas City. Coach Shell said, “I have looked at the game films and can’t find the answer.” He should look within himself and ask why he needs to change from a winning first-half game plan to a second half of containment. It has nothing to do with the ability of his players and everything to do with timid leadership.

ROBERT W. GREER

Brentwood