A couple of days after former teammate Marcus Allen said he thinks the Raiders should move back to Los Angeles, Jim Plunkett said the fans are better in Oakland.

“Oakland was a very crazy place to play a football game,” the former quarterback said on an ESPN Outside the Lines panel on Monday. “The fans came out in droves and filled the stadium. Everyone’s heard about the Raider Nation and it’s really that way. It’s a small community, somewhat similar to Green Bay where everybody turned out, supported the team no matter what.”

“L.A. was a much different story,” Plunkett continued.

“It was almost kind of a fair-weather situation,” he said. “When we initially got there, we won right off the bat. We had 88, 92 thousand people. We filled that stadium at times. But when things turned kind of sour, (and) we weren’t winning that many games later on, it was very difficult to get fans into the stadium. As was mentioned, there are so many other things to do in Los Angeles.

“You almost have to produce a winner right away to entice these people.”

Plunkett’s comments came a couple of days after Allen — who lives in Los Angeles — said not only should the team move back but he’s heard whispers from NFL owners that they like some of the potential stadium locations in Southern California.

“I know people in Oakland won’t like this,” Allen told NBC at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship in Lake Tahoe. “I think it’s a viable option.

“We can’t have them back at the (Los Angeles Memorial) Coliseum; the Coliseum is now USC’s home. But there’s some locations there that I know I’ve talked to a few owners (about) and I know that they’ve liked. I can’t divulge my sources, though.”

According to the Los Angeles Times, the NFL is not only looking at several sites in Los Angeles for a possible stadium but might even finance a new stadium itself rather than having an owner pay for it.

Allen, who was drafted by the “Oakland” Raiders in 1982 but never played a home game in Northern California, says the time is now for another move south.

“I just think it’s ripe right now, being the second-largest market and being the entertainment capital of the world, it’s almost necessary to have a team there,” Allen said. “And I think with the corporate support and the (Raiders) brand that has already been there, that’s been established, that has a huge following, I think it’s be a no-brainer.”