Most intriguing of all is the way they were included as part of the first weekend's AFL 50th-anniversary retrospective, with New England, Buffalo and San Diego. And part of the news is that all four teams will wear throwback uniforms.
This is not normally news except in the case of the Raiders, who essentially have had the same uniforms since Al Davis swallowed the team in 1963. The only real innovation, if you want to call it that, was changing the white uniform's numerals from black with silver trim to silver with back trim in the early 1970s. Their throwback uniforms are their current uniforms, and their current uniforms look just as good on a black-and-white TV as they do in HD.
Unless ...
Unless the Raiders really are going to go full throwback and wear their true, original pre-Al duds. The plain black helmets. The gold trim rather than the silver. The rounded numbers and the three sleeve and stocking stripes. Maybe even the original logo, courtesy remembertheafl.com, of the Raider with a mustache from the few days before the Raiders were the Raiders.