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Ricky’s

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After a long day’s shopping with Kick-san we are now at Ricky’s Sports Bar with Shimura-san, and have just met with Stabler (first QB to win a championship for Raiders), Gradkowski (currently fighting to be starting QB) and Bush (power running back). They were all very nice and friendly men, though with shoulder pad and helmet on they look kind of mean 🙂

Mash-san talking with Ken Stabler.

We had a lot of typical American sports bar food for dinner. But the remaining memory of the evening is our visits with former and current players of the Raiders.

Game Day

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Early bird today to get to the Coliseum for the Raiders game against Chiefs. We met Eyepatchi-san and Andy at the Raider Image and drove together to the Coliseum.

We were there around 9 am or just past. The game started at 1 pm. So what do you do at a parking lot for 4 hours? TAIL GATE PARTY!


Tail gate party

All the food we prepared yesterday we brought today. And Eyepatchi-san and Andy also brought a lot of food. So we spent most of the time eating, eating, and eating. And talking about the upcoming game. All hope.


Chie prepares tonshiru Andy, Eyepatchi-san & Mash-san waiting for food
Shimura-san having a beer Mash-san is OK
Raider Nation Japan

Finally kick-off. Raiders first drive was 4 plays and a touchdown. Yahooo!


Many are disappointed in Russel

Many wants to bench Russel for his bad performance so far this season. We are hoping he has improved during the Bye Week, i.e. that he used the two weeks off to prepare and improve.


Mash-san waiting for the game to start Touch down Rrrrrraiders!

From there it was downhill. Until in the 4th quarter Russel was benched. But WRs dropped passes all day long so the final score was 16-10 for Chiefs. Another loss for our yearly trip. It has kind of become our tradition now.


Chie is disappointed after the loss

After the game we went to Ricky’s again to drain our sorrows in Coke and junk food. And first half of the Sunday night football game between New England @ Colts.


Ricky's Chie & Kikue-san are quite happy to watch Brady on Sunday Night Football

In half time we went back “home” to pack for our trip back to Japan tomorrow. It’s going to be a looooong trip.

Ricky’s & Raider Image

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Second day in the San Francisco area. We slept in a bit this morning. But once we started we went from zero to full speed in no time.

First stop of the day was Ricky’s sports bar for lunch and College Football. When we arrived at Ricky’s we found a new shop that sold Raiders t-shirts among other Raiders things, JV’s Locker Room.

It turned out that JV stands for John Vella and won a Super Bowl ring with the Raiders in Super Bowl XI back in 1977.

Mash-san mentioned that his all time favorite NFL player was Ken Stabler, who happened to be the QB when John Vella won his ring. That seemed to make a bond between them and Mash-san could borrow John’s ring… For a while.


Mash-san & Russel Shimura-san, Mash-san & John Vella

Afterwards we visited Ricky’s to have lunch and watch College Football. We watched Stanford @ USC (Pac-10) while eating typical American sports bar food. The game was a great upset since Stanford won. We gave Ricky a #1 t-shirt and some cookies, and we all got a gift from Ricky (I got a Bobbing Head Touchdown).


Shimura-san & Mash-san at Ricky's Mash-san in front of his framed Raider Nation fan of the week printout Chie & Ricky (with our #1 t-shirt)

Then it was time for our yearly visit to the Raider Image. Usually after we leave the Raider Image they need to refill their storage rooms. This year was no difference. We had our hands full of bags once we exited the shop.


Chie, Johan, Mash-san, Shimura-san, Kikue-san at Raider Image

On our way home the sun set while we drove across the San Francisco bay. When we got back home it was dark. And we spent the rest of the evening preparing the tail gate party tomorrow, eating dinner, and talking.


Sunset in California