Did anyone happen to notice that you now have to actually pay EXTRA cash for the infamous NFL network? WTF? I wonder if they’ll actually preview the channel for any up and coming Pre-season games?
The force tells me it’s highly unlikely…not in this selfish world. Oh well, tough teats..
It’s not like the paid service channel has given your Oakland Raider’s any credit as of late. You’ve got time? Read this article..

NFLN Disregards Raiders Again

The Oakland Raiders were once again disregarded by the NFL Network, with the latest instance being the telecast of what the network regards as the NFL’s Top 10 Single-Season performances.
The 60-minute show features archival footage of each performance along with interviews with former players and coaches.
Omitted from the show are a number of single-season performances by great Raider players that have been hailed everywhere as being the best in NFL history.
GEORGE BLANDA, 1970 – The miracle of George Blanda has been widely hailed as the best single season performance in pro football history. Blanda, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, was named the American Football Conference Player of the Year after leading the Raiders to the AFC Championship Game. Blanda had what the late Raiders Radio voice Bill King described as “one part fantasy, one part imagination and one part miracle.” During a crucial five-game stretch in 1970, Blanda came off the bench to throw game-winning touchdown passes or kicked game-winning field goals. He performed other “miracles” that season and at age 43 became the oldest quarterback to play in a championship game. In that championship game, Blanda had a hand in all 17 points that the Silver and Black scored, tossing two touchdown passes, kicking two extra points and converting a field goal.
LESTER HAYES, 1980 – Hayes enjoyed a sensational season, recording an all-time NFL-high 18 interceptions during the regular and postseason—to lead the NFL and help the Raiders capture the organization’s second World Championship of Professional Football by becoming the first Wild Card team to win a Super Bowl. For his efforts, Hayes was named AP Defensive Player of the Year. He returned one of those interceptions for a touchdown and added two fumble recoveries. Hayes picked off two passes in the Wild Card contest against Houston, returning one 20 yards for a score and another in the end zone. He had two more in the Divisional Playoffs versus Cleveland another interception in the AFC Championship win over San Diego.
RICH GANNON, 2002 – Gannon was named NFL MVP after leading the Raiders to their third straight AFC Western Division title and fifth Super Bowl appearance. Gannon quarterbacked a Raiders offense that led the NFL in total offense (6,237) and passing offense (4,475). Gannon passed for a league-best and Raiders-record 4,689 yards, the eighth-highest total in NFL history, and led the NFL and set a league record with 418 completions. Gannon also set league records for 300-yard games in a season (10), completions in a non-overtime game (43, Sept. 15 at Pittsburgh), and tied the league record for consecutive 300-yard games with six (Steve Young, 1998 and Kurt Warner, 2000).
11 ANGRY MEN, 1967 – The Raiders led the American Football League in sacks with 67. The sack total for 1967 was the most in a single season in AFL history and most in pro football history prior to the NFL going to a 16-game schedule. The 666 yards in losses on sacks recorded by the 11 Angry Men in 1967 are a pro football standard that still stands today. The Raiders posted 11 sacks in two games that year, posting that number against both the Bills in Buffalo on October 15 and versus the Broncos in Denver on November 5. The Raiders’ defense played a key role in the Silver and Black capturing the AFL title and playing in the organization’s first of five Super Bowls. Ike Lassiter, Dan Birdwell, Tom Keating and Ben Davidson were the front four for that AFL championship team that recorded a league-best 13-1-0 regular season record.
The NFL Network also neglected to give two Raider Super Bowl teams their proper due while ranking what a so-called “blue ribbon” committee deemed were the top teams to win the World Championship of Professional Football. However, the members of this so-called “blue ribbon” committee had very little direct contact with any Super Bowls.
Among the Silver and Black’s Super Bowl teams, the 1983 Super Bowl-winning team was incredulously ranked 20th by the committee while the 1976 World Championship team was ranked 10th.
Raider Legend Tom Flores, who as head coach guided the Raiders to two World Championships of Professional Football after capturing victories in Super Bowl XV and XVIII, called those rankings “ridiculous.”
Said Flores of the ranking, which was revealed during a television series on the NFL Network and was re-aired recently, “These teams should be in the top three of all time. The 1983 Raiders could beat any Super Bowl team from any decade, any league, and under any circumstance. The 20th ranking by the NFL Films panel is a disgrace to the history of the National Football League. We dominated the regular season, the playoffs, and the Super Bowl itself.”
Just as Flores called the 1983 team ranking “ridiculous,” most others have deemed the ranking of the 1976 Raiders’ World Championship team that went 13-1 and dominated the postseason en route to a resounding victory in Super Bowl XI as absurd.