{"id":585636,"date":"2026-04-15T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/585636\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:01:15","slug":"for-nine-days-in-1960-the-raiders-were-known-as-the-senors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/585636\/","title":{"rendered":"For nine days in 1960, the Raiders were known as the &#8220;Se\u00f1ors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You do indeed learn something new every day.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we learned this: For nine days in 1960, the Oakland Raiders were known as the \u201cSe\u00f1ors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As posted by team\u2019s Twitter account, the change to Raiders <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Raiders\/status\/2044083261371199523?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">happened on this day<\/a>, 66 years ago. The video attached to the post includes quotes from local officials who explained that the change was made due to \u201cpublic demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The franchise had partnered with the Oakland Tribune to hold a contest to come up with a name for the team. More than 10,000 submissions were made.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/04\/14\/on-this-date-april-14-when-oakland-had-to-change-it-was-adios-senors-hello-raiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The finalists<\/a>, per a 2020 item in the San Jose Mercury News, were Admirals, Lakers, Raiders, Diablos, Mavericks, Seawolves, Gauchos, Nuggets, Se\u00f1ors, Dons, Costers, Grandees, Sequoias, Missiles, Knights, Redwoods, Clippers, Jets, and Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>As the story goes, Tribune sports writer Scotty Stirling (who would later be the team\u2019s G.M.), there was a practical reason for resisting the name. \u201cWe don\u2019t have the accent mark for the \u00f1 in our headline type,\u201d Sirling said.<\/p>\n<p>And so, nine days after the Oakland Se\u00f1ors were born, they disappeared. The Raiders arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You do indeed learn something new every day. Today, we learned this: For nine days in 1960, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-585636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}