by Daivd Zizmor

OAKLAND–The San Francisco 49ers are headed to the Oakland Coliseum to play the Oakland Raiders and unlike the last time these two teams met this one is a regular season game this Sunday. The last time they also met was there violence that occurred at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in a pre season game in 2011 and they have not met in a pre or regular season since then.

There were a lot of fights in the stands in the 2011 game, there usually is when these two teams meet then there’s the shooting incident in the Candlestick parking lot that didn’t involve the game itself that involved two people but they were not at the game at all. So this shooting incident was misreported at the time.

Obviously were very sensitive to it you never want any violence at the game, we’ve seen a couple of incidents at the new Levis Stadium this season that didn’t involve Raiders fans but it did involve all 49ers fans in a bathroom brawl that sent a couple men to the hospital and the suspects were later caught. You can imagine the security presence that will needed during the Niners-Raiders game at the Coliseum on Sunday.

There is hope with the increased security presence and police presence that will help solve any of the problems that would be a deterrent of them getting into fights or fans looking for fights that could be fueled by alcohol. There is a whole lot you could do besides limit the sales to people who are obviously intoxicated.

That’s always a tough one and by law your not allowed to search anyone who appears intoxicated but I’m not sure if the defenders are going to be as vigilant as their suppose to be as opposed to someone who’s vigilant at a bar. The other thing you hope is the prices of the tickets deter people from doing anything like that.

It really hasn’t been the case at Levi’s Stadium so much, but if you go on line and look at the prices of the Niners and the Raiders it’s really not that much cheaper even though it’s at the Coliseum fans are still paying a lot of money for these seats. There are a lot of people priced out at Levis Stadium.

There’s a number of fans who have decided to go to this game to see the Niners play and the prices are probably less at the Coliseum although their not cheap there still more affordable than at Santa Clara. This game is sold out, there will be a lot of people and there will be a lot of Niners fans present for the 1:25pm start.

The Raiders fans will be out in force in their home stadium with the weather being the way it is lousy you kind of hope it dampens a lot things in the stands with the ticket prices hopefully that calms everything down or at least keeps people from wanting to be crazy because they paid so much for their tickets.

David Zizmor covers the NFL for http://www.sportsradioservice.com