Raider Nation is the official name for the fans of the National Football League (NFL)'s Las Vegas Raiders (formerly the Oakland Raiders and the Los Angeles Raiders). Fan Jim Hudson coined the term in the 1990s when the Raiders returned to Oakland after a long hiatus in Los Angeles, thus becoming a team with a regional fanbase.[1]
The team's fans devotion is chronicled in Better to Reign in Hell, a book written by San Diego English professor Jim Miller[2] and Kelly Mayhew, who are Raiders fans.
- ^ San Francisco Bay Area Sports: Golden Gate Athletics, Recreation, and Community. Google Books: University of Arkansas Press. 2017. p. 313.
- ^ Callen, Kate. "Better to Reign in Hell Review".