Al Davis is an idiot. I hope he loses this lawsuit and the judge makes him pay attorney fees for the other side.

"The Raiders were lied to," attorney Roger Dreyer said on the opening day of the team's $1.1 billion fraud trial against the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Corp., the now-defunct Arthur Anderson accounting firm and Dublin businessman Edwin DeSilva, who led efforts to lure the Raiders back after 12 years in Los Angeles.

The result, he said, is that the team is tied to a situation in Oakland characterized by under-capacity crowds, TV blackouts and sagging revenues.

But an attorney for the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Corp. dismissed claims that the team was misled. Attorney James Brosnahan said legendary team owner Al Davis and other Raiders officials were fully apprised of a ticket-sales shortfall before they agreed to return.

Al definitely knew that sale were slow, he punked L.A. and deserves every bad thing to happen to him. Win a Superbowl this decade Al and maybe people will attend raider games.

Update: The idiocy of Davis never stops:

The Oakland Raiders have asked a judge to prevent the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Carolina Panthers from wearing their uniforms for games in California because they violate the Raiders' trademark rights.

The Raiders claim Tampa Bay's pirate logo is too similar to Oakland's. And the Raiders object to the Panthers' uniforms because two colors -- silver and black -- match those of the Raiders.