RAIDERS FANS BOWLED OVER BIG GAME DISMAYS FAITHFUL.Byline: Dana Bartholomew Staff Writer San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. football fans yelled themselves hoarse Sunday during a pitched Super Bowl match between Oakland Raiders This article is about an American football team. For other uses, see Raider. The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in the city of Oakland, California. and Tampa Bay Buccaneers The battle of the bar stools joined a shouting match of couches pitting those for - or against - the onetime Los Angeles Raiders team. ``Oh, no, that was too close - no, no, no, noooo!,'' said Lynn Ryll, sporting a ``bad dude'' Raiders sweat shirt from a stool at the Sand Trap in Panorama City, during a Tampa Bay touchdown. ``They got it - boo hoo.'' Fan excitement was just as fervent at VFW See Video for Windows. 2805 in Canoga Park, which served up a Swedish meatball smorgasbord for about 50 fans tossing back cold ones after every play. The face-off became more and more dramatic as Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden held off the Raiders team he led last year. ``Don't talk to any of those people - they're a bunch of traitors, spies from Tampa Bay,'' yelled Syd Oates, a native Val and Raiderphile now living in San Diego, to a table of 15 anti-Raiders veteran cheerleaders Notable cheerleaders
``I can't believe we've got a California team in the Super Bowl, and we've got people cheering from Tampa Bay.'' Tampa Bay fans would have none of it. Al Davis' L.A. turncoats did not deserve to win, they said. Any team but the silver-and-black scourge from Oakland's infamous ``black hole'' stadium. ``Oakland Traitors,'' snipped Helen Morgan, 65, of West Hills, among the VFW Tampa Bay contingent. ``I'm anti-Raider, anti-Al Davis,'' added Jim Vallely, 67, a Korean War Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. veteran pilot. ``Al Davis is the swindler SWINDLER, criminal law. A cheat; one guilty of defrauding divers persons. 1 Term Rep. 748; 2 H. Blackst. 531; Stark. on Sland. 135. 2. Swindling is usually applied to a transaction, where the guilty party procures the delivery to him, under a pretended of the century.'' Cathy Baker of Northridge, her beers lined up at the Sand Trap, agreed. ``They're just dirty,'' she said of the team that inspired decades of drunken hooligans for fans. ``Al Davis, he's not even worth mentioning.'' As the Raiders foundered, Sand Trap bartender Margie Carabajal set a stuffed Raiders bulldog on the bar and gave him a ``good luck'' squeeze. Throughout the East and West Valley, freeways became drag strips as drivers hit the bars or stayed home to catch the game. At the Sagebrush sagebrush, name for several species of Artemisia, deciduous shrubs of the family Asteraceae (aster family), particularly abundant in arid regions of W North America. The common sagebrush (A. Cantina can·ti·na n. Southwestern U.S. A bar that serves liquor. [Spanish, canteen, from Italian, wine cellar.] in Woodland Hills, regulars gathered round a 50-inch television in a tent outdoors for their 29th Super Bowl party. ``It's the biggest holiday of the year,'' said Judy Stoeffer, after finishing a brunch with her daughter, Janea, already worried about today's fallout. ``They should make Super Bowl Monday for people to recoup from Super Bowl Sunday.'' Daily News Staff Writer Nick Grudin contributed to this report. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Bartender Beverly Coleman, right, sporting the silver and black of the Oakland Raiders, hands out beverages to customers at Canoga Park's VFW Sunday. (2) Paul Koepke and Susie Campos shout for their Raiders during the Super Bowl at the Sand Trap in Panorama City. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer |
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