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O.co Coliseum
O.co Coliseum Address: 7000
Coliseum Way Oakland, CA 94621
O.co Coliseum is Home to the: Oakland Raiders
O.co Coliseum Opened: September 18, 1966
O.co Coliseum Capacity: 64,000
The National Football League’s Oakland Raiders
have called O.co Coliseum their home for
more than 20 years, albeit in two different stints. The
Raiders played their first game in O.co
Coliseum when it was still called Oakland Coliseum in
1966. The coliseum is shared with Major League Baseball’s
Oakland Athletics. Before the Raiders moved to Los Angeles
in 1982 O.co Coliseum was more of a baseball
stadium than a football stadium. The seats were almost
exclusively where the outfield bleachers were and that
hurt the Raiders bottom line. After spending over a decade
in Los Angeles the city of Oakland was working out a
new way to bring the Raiders back to Oakland. In November
of 1995 the city poured $200 million into the stadium
and brought the Raiders back to Oakland.
The stadium isn’t so much known for anything
physically part of the O.co Coliseum but
rather for the people that show up to the games. There
is a section behind one of the endzones that is lovingly
referred to as the “Black Hole.” Within there
people will dress up in black and silver face paint and
wear shoulder pads adorned with huge silver spikes and
call themselves Darth Raider. It’s what makes the
experience of a Raider game so great for the fans and
so scary for the opposing teams’ players all at
the same time.
Former Names include Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum from 1966 to 1998 and 2008 to 2011, Network Associates Coliseum from 1998 to 2004, McAfee Coliseum from 2004 to 2008, Overstock.com Coliseum or O.co Coliseum in 2011, also it was commonly known as The Oakland Coliseum or the Coliseum.
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