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The reason y I'm a Raider fan is because I was raised in the Bay Area and in my neighboorhood there was nothin besides Niner Fans and I didn't like the Niners because of their colors (I was 7). I didn't have a team, I just liked Tim Brown and Barry Sanders. Then one day on my way to school my brother comes running and he was like " Your coming with me to school today" and picks me up and runs with me to his High School. Later that day there was this big guy that walks into the school and I was like "Whoah that's one big Mexican." I was in my brothers P.E. class and I had a football in my hand. So starts walking up to me and I'm starting to get hella scared. Then he tells me "You like football?" and I nodded my head. So he tells me to walk backwards and he starts playing catch with me for a few minutes. Then this huge crowd start getting around him and he starts signing a bunch of stuff and I see him sign a Raiders jersey and I figured he played for the Raiders. So I started liking them since that day cause I thought he played for the Raiders. A few years later I started High School and I was in freshmen orientation inside the gym. Then I see a bunch of banners up in the rafters of all the championships the school won in sports. I countinue to look at all of them and then I see a bunch of pictures and I says "Hall of Fame". So im looking at all the pictures and there was one that looked very familiar so I start reading it. Once I stopped reading it I was like "Oh ****ties!!! I caught passes from Jim Plunkett" I knew about Jim Plunkett cause my uncle would always tell me stories about him but I didn't knew what he looked like. Two years later I was watching ESPN Classics and there was a autobiography on Jim Plunkett and they show his childhood home and it was accross the street where I used to live and it was the house where one of my friends Bobby currently lived in and that hella pumped me up about football.