Oakland Raiders May Want To End Chiefs Rivalry

The Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders are one of the oldest rivalries in professional sports. It’s a hated rivalry packed with memorable games, moments, and fights.

All time, the Chiefs lead the series 57-51-2, and are one of four teams to have a winning record against Oakland with a minimum of ten games played. That said, we cannot forget that earlier part of this decade, the Raiders came into Arrowhead and owned the Chiefs for six straight years but we won’t speak on that any longer. In my eyes, it never happened.

We can also go back, way back, to the AFL days when the Raiders swept the Chiefs in the regular season but got them back in the AFL championship game to get to Super Bowl IV. It’s truly one of the oldest and best rivalries and professional sports and for the first time, It might be meeting it’s end.

The NFL is desperate to put a team in LA, and reports lately are that the St. Louis Rams are front runners to relocate. Pro Football Talk wrote a report stating that the NFL expects to have a team in Los Angeles within the next 12-24 months.

Very interesting.

It makes a ton of sense for the NFL to put the Rams back in LA, where they began their franchise in 1946-1979 before relocating to Anaheim from 1980- 1994 and then ultimately ending up in St. Louis in 1995.

Rams owner, Stan Kroenke, bought a 60 acre plot of land in L.A. last week and the move from St. Louis back to L.A. looked almost certain. Well, hold the phone because the NFL denied all the rumors and Kroenke has in fact put in a bid to own an MLS (Major League Soccer) team that he has already named the L.A. Gunners.

So how does Oakland come into play?

When Al Davis was still alive, he fought tooth and nail to get a new stadium and even moved the Raiders to L.A. in the early-to-mid 80’s, where he won a Super Bowl title in 1984. The Raiders played in the old L.A. coliseum and the NFL and the city never built him the new shiny stadium he wanted.

He eventually took the team back to Oakland where they still reside in their old, washed up Oakland Coliseum.

So since this race to get to L.A. has begun, the Raiders, along with the Rams, have been given the green light to relocate but, Rams owner Kroenke says he will not move if he has to share a market.