Last Updated on September 5, 2011 4:04 pm by admin
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) – The bright lights and national television audience that comes from a prime-time game seems to bring out the worst in the Oakland Raiders.
One constant during a long stretch of losing for the Raiders has been a failure to win on the prime-time stage. There have been a few heartbreakers and more than their share of blowouts, but no prime-time wins for Oakland since 2004.
The Raiders open their season Monday night in Denver against the division rival Broncos, their fifth season-opening prime-time game in the past seven years. Oakland has lost all of them, part of a troubling trend for a franchise that used to thrive on that stage.