Football is in the air! The 2012 Raiders united at their Napa Valley Training Complex last Saturday (July 28) afternoon for check-in and I thought that I would share with you some of my favourite pictures from Raiders Media Relations. The full gallery of pictures can be found here and were all taken by team photographer, Tony Gonzales.

K Sebastian Janikowski arrives – the Polish Cannon needs to put away those golf clubs & get to work now!

The Raiders’ rookie bus is here!

RB Mike Goodson & WR Duke Calhoun checking into their hotel; their first time in Napa Valley as new Raiders!

Second-year RB, Taiwan Jones, gets to arrive solo this year

CB DeMarcus Van Dyke checking in, all smiles!

Mike Mitchell, Michael Huff, Shawntae Spencer, Tyvon Branch, Matt Giordano & Curtis Taylor all checking in

Now the countdown is officially on. Only two weeks (literally down to the time, which is 8pm here in the east) until the Raiders face-off at home against the Dallas Cowboys in the preseason opener! I will try to update regularly with updates from camp day notes until then.