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The Oakland Raiders' 2006 slog of a season continues this Sunday at the Coliseum with their Week 15 scrap with the St. Louis Rams. Plenty of good tickets still available for the game. Well, there must be tickets, since the NFL is blacking the game out on TV.

Welcome back, or welcome to your holiday American Football Spectacular, depending on whichever sets of traditions you choose to salute. Everyday is a holiday if you feel like it. This is the bear time of American Football, where the NFL's regular season gasps its last, college teams compete through the institutional irregularities of the bowl games, and high schoolers are home for the holidays. Mmmm... home cookin'. Here's the problem: your San Francisco 49ers won! Really! 24 - 20, sweeping those dastardly St. Louis Rams for 2005. Sure, they were somewhat depleted in Saturday's Christmas Eve matchup, but so what. We win. Hah!

While you may not make as much money as your peers the Raiderettes or the, uh, Gold Diggers (if that isn't the name of the 49er cheerleaders, it should be), you'll actually have something to root for, since the Sabercats are the defending Arena Bowl champions. If you don't even know what the Arena League is all about, think of it as a basketball game in pads. Smaller field, only eight players on a side, the athletes play both offense and defense and combined scores approaching 200 points are common. The most famous former AFL player is Kurt Warner, who rose from obscurity to guide the NFL's St. Louis Rams to a win in the Superbowl.