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Now the Raiders literally smell like crap

Not even the Black Hole could contain this Oakland stadium sewage leak.

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

A sewage leak at Oakland Coliseum has sports fans aware of an even greater stink than usual.

From the Oakland Tribune -

A's owner Lew Wolff said Monday he has no plans to talk to baseball commissioner Bud Selig about the urgency of the club's stadium situation in the wake of a plumbing issue that flooded the Coliseum's baseball clubhouses with sewage Sunday.

"No, he knows about it," Wolff said by phone from Los Angeles. "Unless he's a plumber, there's not much he can do, either."

Wolff said this was just the latest issue of many the A's have encountered with the Coliseum's aging plumbing, noting, "It's not a rare occasion for us, maybe not this extensively, but it's happened several times."

Of course, the Oakland Raiders and Oakland A's share a facility (the last of the MLB and NFL team duos to do so), so this sewage is the Raiders' problem too.

It raises the philosophical question - which came first, the Raiders or the stink?

H/T PFT