Hope Clicks Eternal – The Oakland Raiders

Honestly, after watching the games this weekend, I really wanted to do the Chargers or the Seahawks. But the Dirt Clippers did themselves with the move to LA, and they both deserve their pain & are all-but-dead to this site, so I don’t even want to cover their misery. The Seahawks seemed like they’d be an easy cover, but I already did them this season, and the majority of tweets on their site were simply versions of this

and this

But then the Steelers game happened,

and Twitter did not disappoint

And there’s always that one person who just needs to cross that line…

And I figured, despite the Steelers 11-3 record and my adherence to covering teams far above or below .500, I had a pretty easy topic for the week.

But then, there was the evening game…

So, I settled on the Raiders, after they did themselves in Sunday night versus the Cowboys.

We all know what happened, but let’s enjoy it again

Because he made the error of owning it accepted responsibility right after the game.

We left it all out there. We will keep growing and fighting! Keep the faith! #RaiderNation

— Derek Carr (@derekcarrqb) December 18, 2017

And some fans were appreciative of the effort

But others…

^Balls?

Which just led Carr to call out the h8rz & remind people of faith to keep theirs

It doesn’t always make sense.. but you just keep fighting. #LosersQuit #KnowWhoseYouAre https://t.co/nnGF40Uv0z

— Derek Carr (@derekcarrqb) December 18, 2017

Which, happily, was more echo chamber

than asshole

In what I was able to divine as something akin to a miracle, Raiders Fan didn’t seem Philly Fan enough to go onto a player’s page and drop bombs on their effort. It was probably because they respected the effort.

That got saved for the team’s social media.

Twitter, as you can imagine, wasn’t very happy,

A tough one to swallow.

Four observations from #DALvsOAK in the Quick Snap: https://t.co/HSTA18YknV pic.twitter.com/omSeXKwa5g

— Las Vegas Raiders (@Raiders) December 18, 2017

But most of the bile & venom were reserved for the coaching staff.

And then Raiders PR had to go fan the flames

Thank you to the 55,372 fans in attendance for tonight's final home game of the 2017 regular season.

Another @RAIDERS sellout. #RaiderNation

— Raiders PR (@RAIDERS_PR) December 18, 2017

With the fans offering plenty of reminders that the teams is more beloved elsewhere than the city they are eventually abandoning.

So, with that, Monday marked the end of a day of intense emotion in the living rooms of certain fanbases.

Gesinjoroj, your wild & varied emotions of Raiders’, and others, social media.