For once, the Oakland Raiders proved Horace Greeley wrong.
The 19th-century newspaper editor is credited with coining the phrase, "Go west, young man," an idiom coming from someone based in New York.
In the past, whenever the Raiders have played in New York, Baltimore or anywhere else where their body clocks were three hours behind, success has usually not followed them.
But when the silver- and-black-clad young men came east Oct. 2, it ran into a Ravens team that felt the need -- and, for that matter, the necessity -- to reconfigure and reinvent itself.
