This season, the Oakland Raiders hosted the second-annual Tailgate Challenge presented by Kingsford, which featured a wide variety of Raiders oriented themes.

Andy Coronado has quite the ride for getting to Oakland Raiders games in style.

Meet Andy Coronado, owner of the Raider Nation bus - a staple at Raiders games. #DieHard @Raiders fan

STOCKTON — In big, bold black and silver, Andy Coronado’s man cave on four wheels is dedicated to the only team he has ever loved. “My older brother Rick, older than 3 years

OAKLAND, Calif. — The most recognizable Raiders fan is pondering an unimaginable scenario.

What would it take for him to turn his back on the franchise he has supported for almost 50 years? Could he envision himself losing interest in the Raiders as they begin another rebuild ahead of their unpopular move to Las Vegas?

BLACK HOLE, Calif. — The plan has always been to have his ashes spread here, across the surface that played host to so many memorable moments in Raiders history, a sort of permanent ode to his silver and black faith.

Andy Coronado bites a Miami Dolphins leg attached to his AC12 Raider Nation Bus before the Raiders face Miami for their NFL game at Allegiant Stadium on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

Last Sunday was a run-of-the-mill game day in the vast parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum, which is to say it was a never-ending cavalcade of brisket and brats, weed smoke and beer bongs, profane T-shirts and silver-and-black serapes, Super Bowl XV flags and giant inflated Darth Vaders, mariachi and Mac Dre.

OAKLAND, Calif. — It was group therapy night on Monday at Ricky’s Sports Theater and Grill, where clumps of Raiders fans alternated among anger, hope and fatalism.

Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018, at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland California.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The season opener is a happy day for Oakland Raiders fans, but also brings dark clouds with the team's pending move to Las Vegas in 2020, and a threatened lawsuit looming against the team by the City of Oakland for lost income.

Nick Lammers/staff 12/10/00 Tribune Sports Andy Coronado, of Stockton taunts the Jets players as the Raiders trounced the New York team. (Digital First Media Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)

That slight chill in the 110-degree air can only mean one thing: It’s almost football season. A year from now, Allegiant Stadium will become its own tourist attraction and draw thousands of people to Southern Nevada to see what indoor football looks like in the entertainment and sports capital of the world.

Last Sunday was a run-of-the-mill game day in the vast parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum, which is to say it was a never-ending cavalcade of brisket and brats, weed smoke and beer bongs, profane T-shirts and silver-and-black serapes, Super Bowl XV flags and giant inflated Darth Vaders, mariachi and Mac Dre.

Out in the stadium parking lot, drenched in rain and awash in the scent of marijuana, there was a life-sized Darth Raider doll holding the severed head of a plastic Bronco, as a Mariachi trumpeter blared “Autumn Wind” beneath a home-made banner that declared: “The End is Near.”

Mathai indicated a formal announcement of the one-year deal is expected to be done this week. Meanwhile, a Giants spokesman told this newspaper no deal has been completed with the Raiders.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The happiest Carlos Souza ever saw his father was when the Raiders came back to Oakland in 1995.

On the eve of the team’s departure for Las Vegas, Souza — who has been watching football in Oakland since 1978 — says he hopes his two teenaged sons will someday be able to say the same thing about him.

OAKLAND - It's been close to six months since the Raiders announced that they're going to move to Las Vegas, but Sunday was the first home game since the team gleefully declared its plan to abandon Oakland, the East Bay, and Northern California as a whole.