Wow! I knew the Broncos shouldn’t have taken the Raiders lightly. How do they go from busting the Chiefs and Giants in the mouth and competing with Indy to getting upset at home by the Raiders? How do the Broncos let the Raiders run the ball the way they did? How did they let JaMarcus Russell convert on 4th-and-1? How do they keep letting Oakland beat them at home? How do the Broncos have a 1st-and-goal at the 2 and only walk away with a field goal.

I have so many questions. I am flabbergasted. I could take comfort in the fact that Oakland beat Philadelphia earlier this year, which might mean that we have a chance with the Eagles too, but I am not so sure.

I love my Broncos, but I am getting sick of these meltdowns year after year. This is Josh McDaniels’s team with a few of the older fellas, so the failure to convert red zone trips into touchdowns is a McDaniels thing, not leftover baggage from the Mike Shanahan years. All of the penalties on third down, though they did seem to happen a lot with Shanahan, are a reflection of an inconsistent, undisciplined team coached by an inconsistent young head coach.

Coach, I will be patient with you, but this is extremely frustrating. The Broncos got outplayed by one of their biggest rivals, and that really shouldn’t have happened looking at the stats coming into the game. Losses like these were one of the things you were brought in to change.

Now, I am going to be eating a bunch of crow for my trash talk to the Raider faithful this week, and that is not fun. Now I am going to have to give it to them that they seem to have our number the past few years at Invesco. Now I am going to have to acknowledge that they play better than us when they have nothing to lose and we have everything to gain by winning. Now I am going to have to keep my mouth shut, and not make any excuses for this depressing loss because I am not the type of fan who makes excuses and desperately tries to defend himself and his team.

I am sick of this feeling, but I will endure it because I am a diehard. I want the best for the Denver Broncos. What happened today was far from that.

Q. What do you buy an Oakland Raiders fan for Christmas?
A. Why would you buy a gift for a Raiders fan?

I recently wrote an article suggesting that even though the Raiders still are known to upset the Broncos, the rivalry has lost some of its luster. I have taken a lot of flack from Raiders fans and my fellow Broncos fans alike. 

Click here to read some of the comments from Raiders and Broncos fans alike.

While I personally try to stay away from making any personal attacks on people when I leave comments, I am more than willing to go to battle with any of the delusional, obnoxiously arrogant fools who call themselves Raiders fans. They are not even devoted to their team, they are devoted to a stupid mystique that is really a joke. They won some Super Bowls back in the day. Whoopdee doo! They are scary because they wear black, gang up on opposing fans, and are even willing to shank you. Wow, congratulations!

Here is the fact. Regardless of what you did to us the last season, Oakland (and I did acknowledge that the Broncos should never take you lightly), your 4-9 record shows that you suck. Your quarterback situation shows that you suck. Your owner’s ridiculous management of the team shows that you suck. Your inability to accept a Bronco fan’s appreciation of our history and our rivalry shows that you suck.

This blog is syndicated with bleacherreport.com. I don’t really get a lot of readers, and that is fine. It’s a work in progress. I post my thoughts here, at MHR, and Bleacher Report. For whatever reason, Bleacher report automatically posted the previous article in the Oakland Raiders section. Boy, were they upset about it. How dare a Broncos fan talk down to them!

I have seen the light now. There is no other way to talk about the Raiders than condescendingly or hatefully. Their fan base is puffed up for no reason. They would like to accuse us of that, and I am sure there are some loud-mouths among us. Every team has obnoxious fans though, but no one compares to Raider Nation.

Yosemite Sam, a member of MHR, beautifully said, “I hate the raiders and especially their fans because I live in raiderland and I have to deal with them every day. That’s my starting point when I meet a raiderfan, and it is up to them to change my mind. Some have. Most haven’t.”

I think I was trying to say that there are some decent Raiders fans out there, but I am starting to doubt that there are many. From now on, Yosemite Sam, I am embracing your logic. It is up to them to prove to me that they don’t deserve to be despised. My first impression now will be that the Raider fans are a bunch of arrogant, classless, inhumane scumbags with a sadistic fascination with drunken mob violence and destruction which normal football fans despise.

I love my Broncos, but I am not delusional. The 2006-2008 seasons were horrendous, in my opinion. The middle of this season was a disaster too. Still, we have had a better record than the Raiders for the past few years. That is a fact. The Raiders haven’t won more than five games in a season since 2002.

I hope we start stomping the Raiders like we are capable of doing every time. Josh McDaniels is not going to let the Broncos continue to take lesser opponents like the Raiders and Chiefs (44 to 13 in Kansas City) lightly; that was a Mike Shanahan thing (speaking of Shanahan, he sure had the Raiders number for a while).

I hope that Al Davis continues to make a fool of himself and ruin the Raiders in so doing. I hope he continues to fire coaches so that no stability and continuity develops. I hope he uses his early first round pick on some quarterback, wide receiver, or kicker that none of us has really heard of. I hope that quality players like Jeff Garcia continue to request that they be traded out of Oakland because they can’t see any hope playing there.

I hope that I can continue to laugh hysterically at the delusional antics of Raiders fans. I hope I can hear a bunch of them saying, “Your team hasn’t won a Super Bowl” or “Your team hasn’t won a playoff game in years” after they lose game after game. I hope I can keep a grin on my face when I read ridiculous comments like “You’ve lost 5 of your last 7 games… So where do you get off trying to talk down to us….” from a Raiders fan whose team has lost nine of its last thirteen.

Raiders fans, you will not hear the end of it after we stomp your ugly mugs on Sunday. Happy Holidays.

An Oakland Raider fan walks into a bar with a monkey on his back. The bartender looks at them quizzically. The bartender then asks, “Where did you find that thing?” The monkey replies, “In Oakland! There are thousands of them running around the Coliseum.”

Q: What is the difference between a chimp and a Raider fan?
A: One is smelly, hairy, and makes obnoxious noises, and the other is a chimpanzee.

Q. What do the Oakland Raiders and Veggietales have in common?
A. Pirates who don’t do anything

I talk a lot of trash and make a lot of jokes–bad ones at that–about the Oakland Raiders. While I do think that they have some scumbag fans, I would never claim that their fan base is any worse than that of a lot of other NFL teams’. Sure, the Black Hole probably deserves its reputation as a house of ill repute, but every stadium has its share of drunken lunatics with middle school maturity levels. “I am going to pick a fight with an opposing fan because all of my peers will think I am funny,” says the foaming-at-the-mouth lunatic.

I will never like the Raiders. I think I have cheered for them twice in my life. However, I would like to see them return to competitiveness. Let’s face it, the NFL is probably better when the Raiders are playing well. They are one of the elite teams when it comes to how much people love to hate them. The fans that love the Raiders are extremely passionate about their team, and those who hate them have an equal level of hostility toward the bad boys in black.

Right now, there really isn’t much to hate about the Raiders. All of us Broncos fans have been able to do the past few seasons is laugh and laugh and laugh. It was fun when the Raiders had a couple of bad seasons and Raider nation had to eat some humble pie. But, now, I am actually starting to pity the faithful fans of the Oakland Raiders.

Al Davis is running this franchise into the grave and will probably do so until he runs himself into the grave. I mean, come on, the dude needs to give up on the JaMarcus Russell project, he also needs to give a coach longer than one and a half seasons before he fires him, and he needs to stop drafting no-name receivers and kickers with Oakland’s first round picks.

What I am saying is that I want to hate the Raiders again. I am tired of the Denver/Oakland matchups being unexciting. This is not to say that Oakland is never capable of upsetting the Broncos, especially considering that the Raiders have upset both the Eagles and the Steelers this year. Oakland also won a game in Denver last year that they probably shouldn’t have won. Usually, though, Denver is expected to win, and it is no big deal if they do.

I long for a return of the good old days when Broncos vs. Raiders was one of the fiercest rivalries in the NFL and winning the game was a big deal for both sides, not just something taken for granted.

I get a lot of comments and feedback from Raiders fans online. I have also come across a lot Raiders fans in my day. All I can say about everyone of you is that your commitment to your team is admirable and I respect those of you who haven’t jumped ship. We may never get along, but hopefully we can renew the intensity of the rivalry sooner than later.

Problem: Simplify the fraction 6/17.
Solution: JaMarcus Russell’s average completions to attempts ratio

Q: What do you call a room full of Raiders fans?
A: A bunch of losers