Hello, everyone! PLEASE HURRY!

Margaritaville Resort is our AMAZING host hotel!

Located right on the beach, with breathtaking ocean views!

 We are fast approaching our Road Trip Rally Party weekend! We don't want anyone to miss out!


We have a great Promo Code for the famous Margaritaville Resort Hotel that offers a significant discount!
 The Promo Code is "OAK0921", and anyone may use this Promo Code to extend your stay at this rate beyond our listed itinerary.

Spacious rooms with a "Let's Just Chill" motif!

And our activities for this event? Yes, they are embedded here in this blog. Please feel free to download this pdf to your phone, tablet, and computer. Each activity in the .pdf is a link that, when clicked, will bring you to the appropriate Ticket Site.

Our Activities for the 2018 Road Trip Rally Party in Miami, with links to the Ticket Sites


                                     Click each of these activities for tickets.

We want to show that city that what they saw last year in 2017 was not a dream! Let us all return and show the fans of the Dolphins how deep Raider Nation rolls!

Always,
Afro

The Miami 2017 Road Trip Rally Party...Sign up NOW!

Hello, Road Trippers!

I want to remind you: THERE'S JUST ONE MORE WEEK TO SIGN UP FOR THE 2017 ROAD TRIP RALLY PARTY!

Please read on for info on what this event is, as well as how you can sign up. 

**Our deadline for sign-ups is Thursday, October 5th, 2017**

We don't want anyone to be disappointed. Please be sure to reserve your spot now!

Definitely, we have found a good range of activities for you to do, all to give you a good feel for the local vibe there!

I should mention that our discounted tickets to the football game, Raiders vs Dolphins, are sold out. 

**November 2nd -thru- November 5th, 2017 is when it all happens!**

Our Hotel, the Margaritaville Resort, is right on the beach! And all of our plans for you are within a short walk or a 2-minute Lyft/Uber ride away. Hey, we even have big tour buses available to bring you to the Raiders vs Dolphins game on Sunday!

Check out the infographic here for details. Clicking it will link you directly to our website where you may purchase tickets for these events. Raider Nation from all across the country have attended our annual Road Trips for the past several years, and you are certainly welcome to come join in with us!

Come join in! We will all have a great time together!

** (NOTE: The Bus-To-Game transportation is currently sold out) 

Our hotel, "The Margaritaville Resort", is located right there on the beach in Hollywood, Florida. And it is pretty AWESOME!

This resort hotel will also serve as our group's gathering place where we will have buses set up to take you our scheduled events, and also to the game at the Dolphins' Hard Rock Stadium. 

This resort hotel is in a beautiful location and just mere STEPS AWAY from the beach! Also, a host of restaurants and bars are nearby along the Boardwalk. 

To reserve a room:


Call Margaritaville's Reservation Center: call (954)-874-4444 to make your reservation. You will have to reference Road Trip Rally or RAL1103 to obtain our Road Trip Rally Party group rate. 

Margaritaville Resort, our amazing host...and it's right on the beach!

There's LOTS of night life in our hotel's area, as well as the dazzling Hollywood Blvd nearby where you can find sizzling hot dance shows and great food. We worked with both Convention Bureaus of Ft. Lauderdale and Miami to put this package together for you all. You will not be disappointed!  :-)

Raider Nation...your Florida vacation awaits! Let's show them how it is when Raider Nation fills up every restaurant in town and shakes more booty in the dance clubs than they've ever seen before!


We are also doing a day trip to the beautiful BAHAMAS on Thursday, November 2nd, 2017. If you can believe it, there's a Raider Nation member who lives on the island there who is ready to host us and show us a great time!

For those who would like to sign up for the BAHAMAS DAY TRIP on Thursday, November 2nd, the Tour Operator is handling the ticketing for this. 

The high-speed boat will take us to FREEPORT, GRAND BAHAMAS ISLAND.

The High-Speed Ferry gets us to the Bahamas in style!

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TO SIGN UP FOR OUR BAHAMAS DAY TRIP:

• Contact CINDY at (800)991-0623, extension 101. Be sure to tell her that you want to be on the ROAD TRIP RALLY PARTY's boat on Thursday, November 2nd, 2017.
• The price is $132.76 (one hundred & thirty-two dollars & seventy-six cents) per person, which includes all port fees & taxes.
• You may upgrade to a first-class seat if you wish. Cindy will let you know the price to do this.
• Cindy will ask you for your Passport number because...

       ...this is an INTERNATIONAL boat trip. You are traveling to another country. You will need a valid passport , one that does not expire within the 6 months of our trip (before June 2018.)

• U.S. CITIZENS: You may use an original copy of your birth certificate (no photo copies) along with a valid government I.D. If you do this, you will need to present both of these documents together...one without the other will prevent you from boarding the boat.
• NON-U.S. CITIZENS: You may be required to use the passport of your home country and/or a visa. Cindy can let you know; you will not be allowed to board the boat in Florida if you do not have the correct documentation/permission to re-enter the United States.

• The Bahamas Ferry is a high-speed boat that will get us there in about 2.5 hours (photo above)...we have to show up at the Ft. Lauderdale terminal at 6am for passport processing.

• The boat departs at 8:00am and returns to the U.S. at 11:00pm.

Raider Nation...international !!
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Lots of things to do on the island. This promises to be a really cool thing that we can do together.  :-)

See you in November! And thanks!!

~Afro

The Denver Broncos Put The Hammer On Their Season Ticket Holders

 Hello, Readers!

 As you all know, it isn't much of a road game if we can't get tickets to watch that game.

 The Denver Broncos seem to have an answer for all the visiting fans looking to watch their own favorite team play the Broncos. Here's what they are doing!

 We work with the Ticket Offices of the Oakland Raiders' opponents to secure group seating for everyone in our Road Trip Rally Party. Depending on that team's number of season ticket holders, we are sometimes able to secure field-level seats. And at other times, we are able to get 2nd-Deck Club seats for everyone.

 On those road games where the opposing team's Ticket Office does not offer group seats, we have encouraged everyone to find the best seats possible via the online ticket services, such as Stubhub, VividSeats, etc. We identify an area of the stadium where we'd like everyone to sit, and then we turn that area into our very-own Raider Nation group seating!

On-site cash transactions aren't done anymore; it's all online now.

                                                       
 The point being: these online ticket services can be vital to our Road Trip plans.

 Online ticket services allow season ticket holders to sell seats to games that they are unable to attend themselves. This is great for the seller, because they otherwise would have to eat the cost of that ticket (NFL teams do not re-purchase unwanted tickets from season ticket holders), and that could be a complete waste of money for people.

 Please read here on how the Broncos have decided to deal with their season ticket holders who choose to sell their tickets online rather than attend games.


    Yours,
              Afro

Hi, Road Troopers!

We're at the Miami Airport. Not much time to write, so please accept this "video edition" of our Road Trip Rally Party blog!

Enjoy!

~Ken

We're On A Road Trip...To Plan The Road Trip! - Road Trip Rally Party Blog!

Hi, all!

Nakita and I are in Miami, Florida! Enjoying the sunny skies, the great food, the cool people, we're here to do some first-hand evaluation of the recommendations for vendors and activities for our upcoming Road Trip Rally in November.

 We flew in yesterday, and our Raider Nation friend Tone', who lives in Hollywood, took us around the Hollywood Strip, and to the Hollywood Beach last night to check out the some prospects that she knows personally. We did a few hours of walking and popping into the venues, and it's interesting to note: for a Wednesday night, that entire strip was ALIVE!

 Live music, dancing, the business owners all around were definitely having a good night. Tone' said that when the weekend comes, the whole space will be a sea of humanity out having fun!

 Our first meeting today is with the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau. A few months ago, the nice folks there gave us a list of recommended venues to host our event. We'll meet with them to see what our possibilities are.

 Anyway, here are pictures and videos of what we did last night. We'll check out the South Beach recommendations later this afternoon. And you can best believe, the two of us will go all-in to do follow-up visits EVERY NIGHT this weekend!

btw, I'm a whiz at Connect Four! Let's play! 😊  

Yours,
           Afro

Schedule Makers Treated Them Like A Dog?!! The Road Trip Rally Party Blog!

Hello, all!

There's been a great deal of scrutiny directed toward the 2017 NFL Schedule. ESPN wrote about it, and it's definitely causing some discussion. Some things that are brought up:

• The NFL was really smarting over the poor play of many teams featured on big night games
• The NFL is now showcasing teams that were good in 2016, going all-in with them 
• Two teams that are perennial losers, Jacksonville and Cleveland, get no national games at all, not even Thursday Night Football.

Eleven games with only 6 of the opponents having a winning record. Then comes five consecutive games vs powerhouses.

 And your Oakland Raiders? Well, the league believes that they are worthy to be showcased nation-wide this year for an astounding FIVE GAMES! Sunday Night Football (3 times), Monday Night Football on Christmas Day, and Thursday Night Football. 

 There have been many years in recent history where the Raiders did not get a single nation-wide game. But now, the NFL is with the Raiders. The tide has turned, definitely!

  Another gift to the Tennessee Titans' ownership, as well. With Raider Nation making Nashville a favorite destination (and buying-up otherwise unwanted tickets to Titans games), the NFL schedulers put that game in Nashville for the 3rd-consecutive year. 

  Raider Nation, take a bow! No doubt, you are a shot-in-the-arm to help cure the ticket sales problems of that team! The hotels and restaurants in Nashville, and the taxpayers who may be saddled with that stadium's construction debt in the face of unwanted PSL's collecting dust on the shelves, they all say in advance, "Thank you, Raider Nation!!"  :-) 

 Anyway, the NFL's schedule makers have decided that the Raiders should bunch up all their tough opponents together. Check out the graphic; there will be a length of games, if the opponents' 2016 prowess holds up, that will present quite a challenge to the Raiders. Hopefully, the Raiders will show these perennial playoff teams that they, too, belong in that elite status and have every intention to stay there.

 Our Road Trip Rally Party will be at the Raiders vs Dolphins game, the 9th game of the season. A bye week follows, and then this big five consecutive-game stretch of powerful opponents. We will have an enjoyable time in Miami at the Rally, recharged and re-energized to cheer on the Raiders when play resumes. 

 As you all know, we had considered going to Philadelphia for our 2017 Road Trip Rally Party. The schedule shows that this game is on Christmas Day, a big holiday certainly. We've done a Rally during the Thanksgiving weekend back in 2014, and there's no doubt all of you could make a "Raider Nation Christmas in Philly" work out really well. But for this year, we're onward to Miami!

(we will certainly call the Philadelphia Convention Bureau to thank them for all the work they done on our behalf)

Finally, we should mention: the opponents, with the exception of 2 AFC teams who finished their division standings in the same position as the Raiders did, are all pre-selected years in advance. There was no conspiracy with this schedule...
 "other than perhaps moving the Patriots game away from Oakland so that Tom Brady will not have to risk false starts and bad snaps and other personal mishaps caused by the intensity that only the Raider Nation can bring down on his head but Tom Brady got rescued from having to face all of that because his owner gets his way even when it hurts the integrity of this game like asking one of the Raiders to drop a pass on purpose"  (but I digress) ...to pile onto the Raiders' schedule with all these teams who had winning records in 2016. It just works out that way sometimes that the other divisions are playing really good when the rotation happens to bring them your way.

Anyway, please be sure to read the ESPN article linked above. And thanks so much for your time here right now!

Yours,

Afro

Let's Get This Ball Rolling!

Yes, Yes, Yes!

 I found a word, "dawg" that rhymes with, "blog!"

 The Road Trip Rally Party has ventured out into new territory! We actually have a BLOG!

  "blog" - noun, abr web + log; an online space for subscribers and interested readers to view written thoughts, videos, and other musings of an individual or group.

   We want to make sure that our Road Trip Rally Members stay informed with the latest details surrounding our upcoming Miami Road Trip. We will have details posted here, as well as a means for you readers to respond. We welcome all opinions!

   Come join our mailing list! We will have a monthly newsletter beginning in May 2017. Join now to receive a free entry to win a great, fully-licensed, really cool Raiders item! If you've been to our road trips, you know we don't give away cheap prizes...get on in and maybe you can WIN!
(your contact info kept confidential, of course. info is not sold, traded, nor given away to anyone)

   Our Road Trip Rally Party has taken us to many different cities. We've met so many wonderful people, many of whom had never been to a "live" Oakland Raiders game ever. Our goal has always been to bring the Raider Nation Experience to people, to have them see what it's like on a weekend of a Raiders' home game.

   There's always a pre-game big bash at the main Raiders sports bar, "Ricky's Sports Theater", in San Leandro, CA...just south of Oakland. Ricky's was once voted the #2 Sports Bar in America by Sports Illustrated Magazine (it really was the No.1 sports bar, but a Boston bar won the title instead due to the recent championship of its local, and utterly nameless NFL team), and Ricky's is the renowned headquarters of all things Raider Nation. ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS, NBC, Sirius Satellite Radio, local TV stations, they all know where to come to tap into the local fanbase of all the sports teams.

   And fans of other teams, are they welcome at Ricky's? Hey, it's like a Terry Bradshaw/Tony Romo/John Elway/DaBears convention in there! A United Nations of NFLdom!

DETROIT 2015

LONDON U.K. 2014

INDIANAPOLIS 2013

NEW ORLEANS 2016

  We want that same Ricky's Saturday night excitement to show at each of our Road Trip Rally Party events. That is why we have a Saturday Night Rally when we are on the road. Music, food, prizes, everyone decked out in Raiders gear & costumes...that is what we want EVERYONE to experience!

   We have something really nice planned for Miami. We have to see about the local city ordinances and the like, but we want everybody to know that we will make the supreme effort, the strongest push, to make this 2017 Miami road trip into something that you will be glad to be a part of!

   See you soon. And spread the word! Don't leave your friends in a fog, tell 'em about our blog!

    (the rhymes just freestyle...after awhile)

        Yours every day,
                                   Nakita and Ken