Former Raiders CB Asomugha talks about Al Davis
By Steve Corkran
Saturday, October 8th, 2011 at 2:12 pm in Oakland Raiders.
Raiders managing general partner Al Davis received criticism for some of his recent selections in the NFL draft. One of those was for Davis taking cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha at the tail end of the first round of the 2003 draft.
Asomugha was converted from safety to cornerback, and he struggled for most of his first three NFL seasons. In his fourth season, Asomugha blossomed into an elite cornerback and, today, he is regarded as one of the elite players in the league.
Asomugha played for the Raiders his first eight NFL seasons before he signed with the Philadelphia Eagles this offseason. Here is what Asomugha had to say about Davis earlier today:
“It was a shock to hear this morning, Obviously, I was saddened by it. … I tried to reach out to some guys and see how it was going. It was tough.”
“His name will be the first that you year. He has done so much for the game and given so many people opportunities who, before him, those opportunities weren’t there. I’m one of those people he took a chance on me when not too many other people were doing that. He was throughout my career, a great advisor, a great coach for me and a great owner.”
“I never saw him in a negative light. … I’ve had nothing but the utmost respect for him.”
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October 8th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
I’d rather spend a month picking dingle berries out of Krappy’s butt crack then waste 8 seconds watching a Dutch football pre game show.
LMN, your Euro Trash-ery knows no bounds. I’m sure you’re all pumped for a hot night of Polish Techno with stuck up French broads.
Retard
October 8th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
RIP AL-go Raiders
October 8th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Bet Aso wishes he was here now.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
81TimBrown Tim Brown
My time with the Raiders was always made more exciting by my conversations with Big Al…
Tho some wanted 2 focus on the disagreements we had, we both chose 2 focus on working 2gether and making the Raiders as good as possible.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Tim Brown for GM?
October 8th, 2011 at 2:18 pm
They robbed Al repeatedly from winning more titles. He has an AFL title and 3 SBs but should have way more if not the conspiring b@st@rds in the NFL and turncoat Lamar Hunt!
Rozelle that POS screwed Oakland by telling the city officials that Al cant move without his approval.
Then hated on the John Elway trade because he knew Al would run the NFL well into the 90s!
Tagliabue is trash too. I hate that guy with unrivaled passion. The most infamous of losses would happen under his rule. There is still no logical explanation for the Brady call dammit when his LEFT HAND CAUSED THE FUMBLE! You tellin me he was passing with both hands?
And other dark forces are gonna get their just due for that Super Bowl fix job. Yeah I said it! You know like I know that story is bullschit! It killed the old man! I hate all who was involved in this rigged mafioso cartel. They went to the most extreme of ways to prevent this man from winning.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I’m all the way pissed now. That man should have way more hardware to his case! They cheated and robbed this man because he wasnt with the in crowd and went against the grain too much. They knew he was that last rebel before they try and turn the lights out in this bad boy. Al wasnt some village idiot and he was smarter than all ofthem and they hated the man for it.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
22.wasbanned Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
I will be in Houston tomorrow. Sure will be emotional when the team hits the field.
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While you are at the game, could you tip your hat or bow your head for all of the Raider Nation, it would be much appreciated. Represent.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Have been a fan since 1980, when I was nine years old. That year was the first Superbowl I watched with my pops, who tried to explain how Al Davis was different from the other owners in the league. I understood just enough to be interested (the silver and black unis didn’t hurt). The older I became, the more I appreciated the man and what he stood for. Just so happens that I’m going to my first game on Sunday vs. the Browns, w/seats in the Black Hole. Guess it’ll be a show of support for the future of the organization. R.I.P. Al Davis.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Im Trippin Out rite now. Sittin here at work and Im really close to freaking out on every1…. I swear ask me 1 more time whats wrong with me and Im gonna stomp your head in and then scream “JUST WIN BABY”.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
BumpNRun Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Have been a fan since 1980, when I was nine years old. That year was the first Superbowl I watched with my pops, who tried to explain how Al Davis was different from the other owners in the league. I understood just enough to be interested (the silver and black unis didn’t hurt). The older I became, the more I appreciated the man and what he stood for. Just so happens that I’m going to my first game on Sunday vs. the Browns, w/seats in the Black Hole. Guess it’ll be a show of support for the future of the organization. R.I.P. Al Davis.
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Hope you have time of your life bruh. The Browns game will be special
October 8th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
My mother is here visiting from Nicaragua and I awoke to her crying, due to the passing of my grandfather. He was 97 and such a wise and overall great individual…5 minutes later my brother gets on the computer and tells me,”Nah man, Al Davis just passed away”! Complete and utter shock/sadness to begin this birthday weekend of mine. Oct 9th
I’ve been a Raider fan since 90, born and raised in L.A and now reside in Miami. Theres a bit of guilt on my behalf because I’ve been one of those fan’s to say,”when he’s gone, we will be much better-I hate/love him”! It was all out of the same frustration we all shared! Al Davis is a true icon and as a young’n, I only knew of the Raiders as the team to hire a hispanic and black head coach. For this, I truly respected the man and not to mention how much he takes care of his players, current or retired. LOYALTY!
Long live Al Davis, Long Live the Oakland Raiders and God Bless Raider nation.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Davis’s last great call of his life may be Denarius Moore. He could forever be known as Davis’s last gift to the Raiders.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
PurpleDrank81 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Im Trippin Out rite now. Sittin here at work and Im really close to freaking out on every1…. I swear ask me 1 more time whats wrong with me and Im gonna stomp your head in and then scream “JUST WIN BABY”.
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I’m glad it didnt happen when I was at work I couldnt took it
October 8th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
I can’t wait for tomorrow. Something wicked this way comes.
Nation!!!
October 8th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Raiders for life Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
22.wasbanned Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
I will be in Houston tomorrow. Sure will be emotional when the team hits the field.
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While you are at the game, could you tip your hat or bow your head for all of the Raider Nation, it would be much appreciated. Represent.
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will do. I will most likely shed a tear or two as well.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Method To My Madness Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
BumpNRun Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Have been a fan since 1980, when I was nine years old. That year was the first Superbowl I watched with my pops, who tried to explain how Al Davis was different from the other owners in the league. I understood just enough to be interested (the silver and black unis didn’t hurt). The older I became, the more I appreciated the man and what he stood for. Just so happens that I’m going to my first game on Sunday vs. the Browns, w/seats in the Black Hole. Guess it’ll be a show of support for the future of the organization. R.I.P. Al Davis.
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Hope you have time of your life bruh. The Browns game will be special
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The coliseum will be crazy, no doubt. Gonna be one hell of a game.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Written by my son:
Al Davis dies at age 82 . . . Most people really don’t know what sort of man he was. Many football fans have seen the last 10 years of Raider football and shaped their opinions of Al Davis on that decade alone. Well there is much more to the man behind the shield. I was born a Raider fan thanks to my father and throughout my life he has educated me on the history of the Oakland Raiders. He explained to me how Mr. Davis was a man who looked at everyone as equals. He did not care if you were black or white, man or woman, young or old. All he cared about was winning. During a time of racism and sexism, Al Davis gave opportunities to minorities and women. He was the first NFL owner to hire both a Latino and African American head coach. A woman by the name of Amy Trask is the current CEO for the Oakland Raiders and the only female CEO in football. To those of you who considered Mr. Davis a stubborn old man past his prime, you were probably right . . . but his motive was to be a winner at any cost and that can’t be said about any other current owner in the world of sports. Owners these days are more concerned about nice stadiums and merchandise sales. The world of sports has become more about money than anything else. Lockouts and Holdouts seem to be a constant trend. Al Davis was the last owner to put winning before anything. He was the last owner to put his reputation on the line for the ones who helped him succeed. A stubborn man he was, but a determined one as well. They say he coined the saying, “Commitment to Excellence.” In my opinion that was never a saying for Mr. Davis . . . it was a way of life for him . . . Al Davis . . . you ARE the greatness of the Oakland Raiders and you will always be remembered as a winner in my book. R.I.P.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Hey guys, can you remember any other owner or sports personality for that matter that when they passed this much coverage was given to them and this many fans were so deeply touched by them that it actually affected and shaped their lives?
I can’t think of any.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Miami. Sorry for your loss.
Have you come out for a game before? I met a guy who had come in from Miami for a Monday night game a few years back.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
We miss you Mr. Allen Davis. Sad day but you are in a better place.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
We miss you Nnamdi. Let’s Go Raiders! Just Win Baby!
October 8th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Dude
Im stuck at work as well. Nice thing is i can hide out and not be bothered. Couple Donkey fans have bump there gums. But i quickly put a stop to that.
Have a game to night. My boys going to smash some skulls. That will make me feel better.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Carry on B,you are right on-for today at least.I saw earlier where LaFontain mentioned Al went to his grave believing we got screwed on the immaculate reception,also known as the immaculate desception.That was the beginning of something the league has done to this organization ever since.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
i feel like a part of my childhood died today.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Method (#6),
That’s so true. But remember Al was a tough Brooklyn kid and fought ever inch of the way. It made his victories that much sweeter.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Wonder how long it will take for information to begin to leak out from the organization concerning the future of this franchise?
I know Al just passed today, but there will be football tomorrow and this team must move forward.
As a fan I am very curious about how the franchise will be run the rest of this season and moving forward.
1. Can Chucky B call blitzes now?
2. Will DHB continue to start?
3. What will happen with Pryor and Campbell moving forward?
There are so many questions…
October 8th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
“AL DAVIS MARCHED TO THE BEAT OF A DIFFERENT DRUM” BULL FN CRAP..AL DAVIS HAD HIS OWN BAND,BUILT HIS OWN INSTRUMENTS,DROVE HIS OWN TRUCK…..
October 8th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
DHB will and should start.Get used to it.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Dear Mr. Davis,
You created one of the few things in this world that I truly and deeply love. For this you have my eternal loyalty, respect, and gratitude.
Icons come and go, but legacies endure forever.
Long Live RAIDER NATION!!!!
October 8th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
what are the chances it stays in the Davis family? i dont want some d-bag bottom line corporate guy buying my beloved team. it needs to stay in the Davis family or somebody who loves the Raiders. John Madden perhaps?
October 8th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Tomorrows game has new meaning. M Schaub if you last 4 quarters my hat is off to you.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
20.DonManoukiansNeighbor Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Miami. Sorry for your loss.
Have you come out for a game before? I met a guy who had come in from Miami for a Monday night game a few years back.
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Still haven’t been out to a game in Oakland but it’s a goal/dream of mine to do it in the near future. I tell you what though, when the boy’s come down to Miami, Oakland Raider fans nearly outnumber Phin fans and we represent the Silver and Black to the fullest.
Appreciate it DonManoukiansNeighbor!
October 8th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
I think tomorrow’s game won’t be different in philosophy since the gameplan was already installed. Now next week’s game, that will be one to watch.
In Al’s honor, I think DHB will get every chance he can get this season to show he can play. Can you imagine? One of Al’s most controversial picks panning out to be a decent if not really good WR? That would be a great tribute to Al. That and winning the superbowl this season.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Lefty12 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Carry on B,you are right on-for today at least.I saw earlier where LaFontain mentioned Al went to his grave believing we got screwed on the immaculate reception,also known as the immaculate desception.That was the beginning of something the league has done to this organization ever since.
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Lefty its BS man. Utter BS to where other teams fans admit they have it in for us. That man has been made fun of and name drug through the mug in recent times. They make jokes about his elderly appearance and his clothes. Jokes about dementia and alzheimers and game passed him by. Bogus when the deck is always stacked against you.
My OG Raider patna James told me in 2000, “They will never let Al win the title, no matter what”
October 8th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
34.rob_raider Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
memo–i guess we know u as sullivan
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No, Memo is MR.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Lefty,
Sorry to hear about your dad man.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Al Davis, more than any owner in sports history, shaped people’s lives. What other sports fans can say that their favorite team helped to mold their personality and life philosophy like the Raiders have with their fans. I guess it’s debatable whether this is a good thing or not, but Al Davis and the Raiders impacted many lives.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
It really saddens me that he won’t be able to see this great team that he has put together these last few years become the dominate team he has envisioned.
R.I.P Al Davis RaiderNation loves you and we will miss you
October 8th, 2011 at 2:48 pm
tober 8th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
It really saddens me that he won’t be able to see this great team that he has put together these last few years become the dominate team he has envisioned.
R.I.P Al Davis RaiderNation loves you and we will miss you
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he will see it
October 8th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
DAMN
DAMN
DAMN
October 8th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
RAIDERNATION,PLEASE FILL THE O.COM ESPECIALY 4 CLEVELAND.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:51 pm
B,one of the 1st things I mentioned to my wife and one of my fellow OG buds was I wonder if the BS will now end,that we will be treated like other teams by the officials and the league.Screw those that made those remarks against the old man.I had many issues with him but he was still the Raiders and his many accomplishments should be revered.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
it would be interesting to see the raiders come out just amped against the texans, then follow up w/ 3 straight @ home against cle, kc, and den. sitting at 6-2. then they just build momentum and steamroll thru to the superbowl, all on the extra energy that al gives them. i’m not saying it will happen, but can u imagine it? would it be the greatest football story ever?
October 8th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Hey MiamiRaider sorry to read about your grandfather. GOD Bless you and your family.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Hey Lefty sorry to read about your father. GOD Bless you and your family.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
31.Northern AZ Raider Fan Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
what are the chances it stays in the Davis family? i dont want some d-bag bottom line corporate guy buying my beloved team. it needs to stay in the Davis family or somebody who loves the Raiders. John Madden perhaps?
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I’m 100% percent sure that AD had a plan for this. The guy was way to smart to let his team and organization fall into the wrong hands. But…Amy might tell Herrea to take a hike.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Maybe Al left some of that incriminating evidence against Marcus Allen in his will.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:59 pm
45.Goldie7 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Hey MiamiRaider sorry to read about your grandfather. GOD Bless you and your family.
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I appreciate the kind of words. Thank you
I’m really sorry about your loss as well, Lefty. My condolances to your fam.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:59 pm
If Al died of prostate cancer, then he knew it was coming and probably prepared for it.
Amy Trask runs business operations, not football operations.
Since Al said his son doesn’t want to do it then I guess someone will be hired as GM of football operations at least.
That could fall on Sanders.
October 8th, 2011 at 2:59 pm
kind words*
October 8th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Woke up to this terrible news. No doubt my feelings towards al have been mixed through his personnel moves over the years, nontheless , he defined the team I love so dearly, the Oakland Raiders have been apart of my life since I’ve been old enough to walk and talk. All Raiders, fans and players alike, know what it is to be a Raider because of coach Davis. No doubt things will never be the same without him. Al Davis will live on through the nation he built with his bare hands. All hail Al Davis, greatest owner, coach, gm, and most of all Raider, of all time. May u rest in peace al, and may the legacy of your, “Raydas” live on for generations to come. I was born a raider, my son was born a raider, and we will continue to breed RAIDERS. Long live al! Long live the nation! Let’s bring one home for the greatest football mind of all time, RIP MR. ALLAN DAVIS, WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU!
October 8th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Thanks guys and same to you Miami.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
WHO’S LAWN WILL HERREA BE MOWING NOW ? SORRY AL,R.I.P.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Lefty12 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
DHB will and should start.Get used to it.
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Please don’t act like he has done anything to reserve his spot as a starter besides his draft position. If he gets outplayed as usual….his snaps as a Raider should be minimal if any
October 8th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
@47 Good he’s a b!tch
October 8th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
It will be very interesting to see how game day decisions play out without Al. I guess we will finally found out how much control he had over the defense and who starts.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Today isn’t the time to argue about it.Come back next week and we can discuss it,if you keep an open mind.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Albert Bigelow Paine Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
It will be very interesting to see how game day decisions play out without Al. I guess we will finally found out how much control he had over the defense and who starts.
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The gameplan has already been implemented for this week, so nothing this week should change. Next week we will know for sure tho
October 8th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
dhb=115 yard last week. i’d say he’s earned some more time.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
In jason coles article on yahoo news it says skin cancer. Who knows though I trust yahoo’s journalism as much as the national enquirer
October 8th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
@lefty12 yes sir, as always
October 8th, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Rob_raider Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
dhb=115 yard last week. i’d say he’s earned some more time.
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How exactly do you give a starter more time?
But like Saunders said there are different packages for every receiver that plays to his strengths.
The only receiver that should be on the field 100% of the time is Denarius Moore
October 8th, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Northern AZ Raider Fan Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
In jason coles article on yahoo news it says skin cancer. Who knows though I trust yahoo’s journalism as much as the national enquirer
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told my wife I thought it was skin cancer. That would explain the sores and stuff on his face.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
60.rob_raider Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
dhb=115 yard last week. i’d say he’s earned some more time.
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He did have a good week but we lost the game and that’s all that counts.
I want to see Ford and Moore out there.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:12 pm
I nominate Rod Woodson for GM. I know he has no experience, but I love the guy and think he can do anything he sets his mind to.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Tjbwall Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Rob_raider Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
dhb=115 yard last week. i’d say he’s earned some more time.
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How exactly do you give a starter more time?
But like Saunders said there are different packages for every receiver that plays to his strengths.
The only receiver that should be on the field 100% of the time is Denarius Moore
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i meant he has earned further playing time. he is showing signs of development. it’s his 3rd year after all.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:17 pm
66.Twocents Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:12 pm
I nominate Rod Woodson for GM. I know he has no experience, but I love the guy and think he can do anything he sets his mind to.
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Woodson’s a good man but the more I think about it, the more Sanders seems set up for this.
Maybe that’s what Al intended when he hired him.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
If the Davis family sells the team, I hope Mark Cuban buys it (as long as it stays in Oakland).
October 8th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
How about just giving the GM title to HJ and bring back someone like Lombardi to handle the contracts and cap part?
October 8th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Anyone know if Mark Davis has any kids? I guess Al has a brother that survived him, Roger. Any other relatives?
October 8th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
The team isn’t the families to sell.There are many involved in the ownership group.Remember,Al was managing general partner,not sole owner as the Rooneys are.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
70.lefty12 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
How about just giving the GM title to HJ and bring back someone like Lombardi to handle the contracts and cap part?
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Actually, watching Lombardi on the NFL network tonight it looked like he would really like that although I was reading between the lines.
He was here for nine years after all.
Sure he left on bad terms, but Al Davis didn’t respect anyone who didn’t argue with him.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
@Lefty yeah but they can sell their portion of the team.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Lefty12 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
The team isn’t the families to sell.There are many involved in the ownership group.Remember,Al was managing general partner,not sole owner as the Rooneys are.
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True, but they could sell all of their shares to one person, who would then control the team.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
yeah lombardi looked as though he had been crying.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Leigh Steinberg was on Comcast and said Al didn’t hold the controlling shares of the team.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
so many Raider greats have died the past few years.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:30 pm
The Texans are going to get stomped tomorrow! I’d love to hear Jackson’s pregame speech…
October 8th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Lefty (#72),
It’s going to be a wild ride for next year or so. The Raider image that Al built is going to command top dollar. I just hope it’s someone that knows what they’re doing.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
18.ELWAYs TEETH Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Written by my son:
Al Davis dies at age 82 . . . Most people really don’t know what sort of man he was. Many football fans have seen the last 10 years of Raider football and shaped their opinions of Al Davis on that decade alone. Well there is much more to the man behind the shield. I was born a Raider fan thanks to my father and throughout my life he has educated me on the history of the Oakland Raiders. He explained to me how Mr. Davis was a man who looked at everyone as equals. He did not care if you were black or white, man or woman, young or old. All he cared about was winning. During a time of racism and sexism, Al Davis gave opportunities to minorities and women. He was the first NFL owner to hire both a Latino and African American head coach. A woman by the name of Amy Trask is the current CEO for the Oakland Raiders and the only female CEO in football. To those of you who considered Mr. Davis a stubborn old man past his prime, you were probably right . . . but his motive was to be a winner at any cost and that can’t be said about any other current owner in the world of sports. Owners these days are more concerned about nice stadiums and merchandise sales. The world of sports has become more about money than anything else. Lockouts and Holdouts seem to be a constant trend. Al Davis was the last owner to put winning before anything. He was the last owner to put his reputation on the line for the ones who helped him succeed. A stubborn man he was, but a determined one as well. They say he coined the saying, “Commitment to Excellence.” In my opinion that was never a saying for Mr. Davis . . . it was a way of life for him . . . Al Davis . . . you ARE the greatness of the Oakland Raiders and you will always be remembered as a winner in my book. R.I.P.
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Hey ELWAY’s TEETH, what an awesome writting by your son. Outstanding and phenomenal!
October 8th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Was out scoutn for deer this morning and when I returned to my truck I heard Seth Everett talking bout Al Davis. Couldnt figure out why untill he started talking about him in the past tense….I for one was THRILLED! I literally was yelling with joy. Now this team can be relevant again. Booo Yeah! R.I.P Al Davis. Your meddling, franchise destroying days are over.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Hoping for a Raider win tomorrow so we can sell out next week. Just got my tics next sunday. See you there!
October 8th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Heard the news the smorning at work just got home turned on the nfl network then boom the whole thing hits home. Man its tuff that man is awesome a real special person. 1929 -2011 he was meant to be a raider make this sport what it is today 2011 and on the nfl and raiders wont be the same. Raider nation should not be concerned im sure he made plans goin forward with this team. Lets all celebrate his life today
October 8th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Barry Halverson? Could this be another incarnation of MR?
October 8th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Terrible words to say Barry! Shame on you! Show respect! Even with your honesty you could show respect for the passing of an NFL Legend.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Fcuk you Barry! ! Go to H… @$$hole!!
October 8th, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Was out scoutn for deer this morning and when I returned to my truck I heard Seth Everett talking bout Al Davis. Couldnt figure out why untill he started talking about him in the past tense….I for one was THRILLED! I literally was yelling with joy. Now this team can be relevant again. Booo Yeah! R.I.P Al Davis. Your meddling, franchise destroying days are over.
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what a total piece of garbage. believe me, ur not welcome to be a raider fan. we don’t want u. ur not one of us. if i could, i would knock ur teeth out for being such a crass, disrespectful idiot.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Was out scoutn for deer this morning and when I returned to my truck I heard Seth Everett talking bout Al Davis. Couldnt figure out why untill he started talking about him in the past tense….I for one was THRILLED! I literally was yelling with joy. Now this team can be relevant again. Booo Yeah! R.I.P Al Davis. Your meddling, franchise destroying days are over
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You sir are worthless POS. The Nation does not want or need you.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
franchise-destroying? what kinda moron could not understand that the franchise was built by al davis? u can’t be a raiders fan and not love al davis. ur nothing to raiders fans. we wish u would never claim them as ur team.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
@82 We don’t wanna hear sh!t like that around here. Only a fairweather fan would be happy about something like this
October 8th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
R.I.P MR. DAVIS
PSSSSSSSSSST DHB YOUR NOW GOING TO LEGITIMATELY BE THE 6TH RECIEVER. NO FEAR OF DISCIPLINE FOR BENCHING YOU.
I WOULD HATE TO BE THE TEXANS TOMORROW THESE GUY’S ARE GOING TO PLAY POSSESED.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:39 pm
He is just a despicable human being under any name he chooses to use.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:39 pm
The shock of losing Al Davis is just settling in. Saturday will be about tributes and remembrances of a truly one-of-a-kind sports icon who died Saturday morning at 82 years old.
However, there is a looming question that has to be addressed immediately: What’s next?
For the first time since Davis moved over from the old American Football League rival San Diego Chargers in 1963 to join the Raiders, Oakland must move on without him.
Someone else will be in charge of the Raiders. Stunning to read, isn’t it?
Davis, who attended this past Sunday’s loss to New England, ran the Raiders until his death. He made every major decision involving the team. It’s safe to write that no owner in professional sports history was as closely involved in his team’s operations as Davis. He was the Raiders.
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Al Davis’s son, Mark, and Raiders CEO Amy Trask may figure heavily into deciding the future of the team.
The first order of business for the organization is to play Sunday at Houston. Then, the real questions begin. There has been speculation for years about who would run the team after Davis’s death. Now that it’s occurred, there are no clear answers.
Expect the future of the Raiders to be a prime topic in the NFL for the next several months.
There are minority owners of the team, but the majority of the team is owned by the Davis family. Davis has said in past interviews that his wife, Carol, and son, Mark, would inherit the team. However, it is doubtful either Carol or Mark would assume the hands-on role that Davis had on the organization.
I’d expect CEO Amy Trask, the first and only woman to be a CEO of an NFL team, to take on much of Davis’s non-football duties.
There is a lot to do.
The Raiders are trying to get a new stadium in Oakland. They have been mentioned as a possible candidate to relocate to Los Angeles, although the Chargers appear to be the favorite. Davis moved the Raiders to and from Los Angeles before. If Los Angeles posed the best option for the team in the future, I’m sure the new regime would consider it ,though keeping the team in Oakland is the team’s preference.
Expect sales rumors to persist. While I’m sure everything will be on the table, I have a difficult time seeing the Davis family parting ways with the team. Everyone knows what owning the Raiders meant to Davis, and I’m sure he would never want the control of the team to fall outside of his family.
The impact of Davis’s death also greatly affects the team on the field. Until his death, the Raiders’ roster was controlled by Davis. He made the decisions to keep every player on the roster.
He picked this year’s draft class and he made the decision to keep or not keep every free agent during the post-lockout frenzy. He talked to agents recently.
Someone will have to assume the decision-making role moving forward. NFL decisions are made every day. Again, we’re in guessing mode here, but I’d think first-year coach Hue Jackson will have a major role in decision-making. In recent years, Davis has allowed his head coaches more of a personnel role, although every move was his call.
The Raiders have an unusually small scouting department because Davis had such a big role.
Down the road, I could see the team changing its personnel department and perhaps even hiring a general manager to make decisions.
Like he did in life, Davis’s death affects everything about the Raiders.
We’ll just have to sit and see how the Raiders evolve post-Davis, but change in Oakland will be immediate and could eventually be dramatic.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:39 pm
i wish a deer hunter would’ve shot u. that would have made the world a little better.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
82.Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Was out scoutn for deer this morning and when I returned to my truck I heard Seth Everett talking bout Al Davis. Couldnt figure out why untill he started talking about him in the past tense….I for one was THRILLED! I literally was yelling with joy. Now this team can be relevant again. Booo Yeah! R.I.P Al Davis. Your meddling, franchise destroying days are over.
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Barry must be MR too.
Go fuk yourself.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Oh would you Robby boy….LOL!! I am shaking in my boots. Al Davis may have been something back in his day but over the last 10 years he has flushed his image and this team right down the toilet. He was a clown and should have retired YEARS ago. I show no respect cuz I have none.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
#82
may your a$$ burn in hell…
October 8th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
82.Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Was out scoutn for deer this morning and when I returned to my truck I heard Seth Everett talking bout Al Davis. Couldnt figure out why untill he started talking about him in the past tense….I for one was THRILLED! I literally was yelling with joy. Now this team can be relevant again. Booo Yeah! R.I.P Al Davis. Your meddling, franchise destroying days are over.
this is a scumbag troll have some respect u dirtbag
October 8th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
I love the Raiders. I hated AL Davis. My Raider flag is flying HIGH today boys. I for one am excited for the future of this ship now that the anchor has been cut.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
TROLL ALERT !!!!
October 8th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Been around here for years Mcskinny….blow me.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
yo ray we gonna get a game later tonight?
October 8th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
“..scoutn for deer..” That sure sounds like MR trying to sound like a redneck.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
blow urself hillbilly or get ur sister to do iy
October 8th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
Skinny….whats up? lol….
October 8th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
This franchise is better today than it was 24 hours ago. Period.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
just checkin on the nation and 1st thing i read is this troll is that mr?
October 8th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Barry you have no repect for yourself! Grow up will ya? What awful words you spew. Stop the madness now!
October 8th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Cuz ONLY MR hates Al Davis….LOL…grab a clue retard
October 8th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
RIP Mr. Davis, thanks to you and your beloved RAIDERS, I’ve been a fan of this franchise since 1980. You will be greatly missed not only by “THE RAIDER NATION’, but to a man the rest of The National Football League, who some may have despised you, but deep down respected you, because you were a maverick, and did it your way. Thank you sir for all of the great occasions you made me proud to be a member of THE RAIDER NATION!
October 8th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Shove it Goldie.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
You guys seriously responding to BARRY’S posts that kid feeds off this do not respond to him.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
ur a piece of garbage. i dare u to come to a game and yell out this sh*t. u would be destroyed. ur the clown. guarantee no one loves you the way people love al davis. ur no raider fan, u liar. it’s like saying u love mcdonald’s food but u hate mcdonald’s. al davis is the raiders and if u were a fan, u would know that. ur a scumbag.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
MR, Sullivan44 and now Barry Halverson, what a jerk.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
gonna have dinner gents ill hit u up later ray
October 8th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Been waitng for this day since the old fuk “traded” Gruden.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
get em rob raider
October 8th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
You are a COWARD Barry! A straight up COWARD! You Turkey!
October 8th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
but seriously, what kinda person would say this garbage? even if he thinks he’s funny. what a tool.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Rob,
You jumping ship now that Al has passed? I mean if hes the reason you like this club what you gonna do now?? Ive been a Raider fan for 25 years and I have hated Al for most of em
October 8th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Hey Barry, It is okay to think that Al Davis should have retired and to be critical of the past ten years but we are talking about a human being passing away. The trouble is we have no idea who will take over. The “cure” could make the illness worse. I was a fan of Al Davis. He may have made some decisions I didn’t like but his overall legacy was fantastic. I for one am going to miss the gems Al Davis found in the late rounds.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
IBarry go F yourself… you pos. … your no raider.. I would beat the crap outta you if you were man enough!! Scumbag!!
October 8th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
barry–no likes u, let alone luvs u. nobody here agrees w/ u. ur a lonely pathetic moron.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
DHB = GONE
MAN TO MAN COVERAGE = GONE
HAIL MARY 5 TIMES A GAME = GONE
BLITZING = BACK
ZONE BLOCKING = BACK
WINNING IS BACK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM SAD MR. DAVIS IS GONE THE IMAGE HE CREATED IS WHY I AM A FAN OF THIS TEAM. BUT I HAVE BEEN SO PISSED THE LAST FEW YEARS AT ALL THE THINGS WE HAVE TO SEE HAPENING. LETTING A FIRST YEAR CORNER GET TORCHED BECAUSE MR. DAVIS WANTS MAN TO MAN.
WATCHING THE WORST RECIEVER ON OUR TEAM START BECAUSE MR. DAVIS MAKES THEM START HIM.
NEVER BLITZ. NEVER PICK ANY SKILL PLAYER WHO CANNOT RUN SUB 4.3
I NEVER WISH DEATH ON ANYONE AND WILL NEVER CELEBRATE THE DEATH OF ANYONE OTHER THAN BIN LADEN BUT I BELIEVE OUR FRANCHISE WILL BE BETTER IN THE FUTURE THE GAME HAS CHANGED AND MR. DAVIS NEVER WOULD.
MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE DAVIS FAMILY R.I.P
October 8th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Please ban MR’s latest incarnation. It is offensive.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Not being funny at all. Couldnt be more serious. I would have rather just retired than die but I will take what I can get.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Mcskinney-that would be his cousin,not his sister.He is a despicable person.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
120.rob_raider Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
but seriously, what kinda person would say this garbage? even if he thinks he’s funny. what a tool.
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MR would Rob. Don’t play with the troll. Hit him if you see him but don’t play with him.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Absolutely, Rob! What a tool Barry is! Barry is a COWARD! Barry is dumber than a box of rocks.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
@122 Well said he was more than just the great Raiders owner. He was a great PERSON
October 8th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
I was saddened today to hear about Al Davis passing. He has been around my whole life and because I have been a fan since I was 7, I feel like I have known Al. Sort of like an uncle you never got to know, but heard the stories of the family members about him. For people like me who have seen the team be the best they could be and the worst they could be, I had to hold Al responsible for both sides of that. I was surprised to feel more than I thought, perhaps because his birthday is the same as my dad’s (July 4). Rest in peace Al. For better and for worse, you will be sorely missed. The NFL will never be the same. No one did it like you.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Rob,
Go back to 3rd grade and learn to spell and type….Shocker that someone who loves Al Davis is a retard! LOL!!
October 8th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Rob,
You jumping ship now that Al has passed? I mean if hes the reason you like this club what you gonna do now?? Ive been a Raider fan for 25 years and I have hated Al for most of em
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what kinda schizo would be a fan of a team for 25 years and hate the face of the franchise? i mean u must be miserable. it’s like saying u love the bulls but always hated michael jordan. i mean what’s the point? just like a different team. what idiot would spend 25 years constantly complaining? how did u even start liking the raiders?
wait, u don’t. ur just a pathetic troll w/ nothing better to do. mr/sullivan/barry. i really thought even u would have enuff sense to lay off today. why r u even here?
October 8th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Barry isn’t MR. He has more class than that.
Barry, I hope a deer rams its horns up your ass and you bleed to death, but not before wolves eat your feet off.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
#125 I hope we don’t go back to zone blocking considering how our O line is playing this year.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Barry the jackass. .. I can’t wait for you to die!! LOL.
I’m praying for you to die… @$$hole..
October 8th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Shed all these tears for an old fogie who has been on deaths door step for years but pay no attention to all the soldiers coming back from over seas in pine boxes….Those guys deserve your grief not Al freakn Davis.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
In 2006, it was reported that Davis had been attempting to sell the 31 percent ownership stake in the team obtained from the McGah family. He was unsuccessful in this effort, reportedly because the sale would not give the purchaser any control of the Raiders, even in the event of Davis’s death.[77]
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this team will keep it al davis style he still had control no matter what.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
NUMBER 136 I MEANT WE COULD PLAY A LITTLE ZONE COVERAGE MESSED THAT UP LINE SEEMS TO BE O.K. THIS YEAR
October 8th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Bigelow,
No wolves im my neck of the woods homie. Coyotes though.. That work for ya??
October 8th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Rob, some fans may be Raiders fans because they are from the Oakland area. If the Raiders were to return to LA they would stop being fans. I am not saying Barry would stop being a fan but some Raiders fans would. The legacy of Al Davis will survive no matter what people say about him in a negative light.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Not like I went around wishing the guy would die…Just not even a LITTLE sad that he did.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Your a piece of crap ahole. .. Barry. .. u suck Ass… go to hell! ! Your no Raiders fan.. you are a P.O.S….remember That. .
October 8th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Barry, go back to “scoutn for deer”, you pathetic waste of skin. (borrowed “waste of skin” from a brother in the Nation, can’t remember who.)
October 8th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
My hats off to the NFL network today…….nice job all day…..God Bless Al Davis, Go RADUHS!!!
October 8th, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Shed all these tears for an old fogie who has been on deaths door step for years but pay no attention to all the soldiers coming back from over seas in pine boxes….Those guys deserve your grief not Al freakn Davis.
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Those soldiers volunteered to die. They knew what they were getting into. I will not cry for them.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Ghost,
I will remember that. Thanks bro.
Two Cents,
Nah, its too nice out. Nothings movin. The woods are as dead as old Al right now.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
No wolves im my neck of the woods homie.
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thats how u know its a troll no hillbilly that goes deer hunting says HOMIE.what a loser
October 8th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
#140 If Hue or Saunders think it is the correct decision to throw a little zone into the mix than I am all for it.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
barry–ur a horrendous excuse for a human being. no one here likes u.
October 8th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Albert,
You cry for Al Davis but not for people giving their lives for your country….OKayyyyyyyyyyy. And IM the f’d up one????
October 8th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
troll alert
October 8th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Rob the retard,
Like I give one crap what anyone thinks about me on a message board.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
People quit responding to barry its that simple. If no one responds then that idiot has nothing to say.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
i would love it if we could hunt barry. like “the most dangerous game”. it would be great to have his head up on my wall. no one would miss the animal.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Mcskinny,
Good one. You come up with that on your own??
October 8th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Jmcclain,
Try one more time…maybe they will listen to you.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
if u don’t care what we say, then y r u here? pathetic attention-seeker. poor little guy has no friends. hangs out in the woods by himself.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Albert Bigelow Paine Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Barry isn’t MR. He has more class than that.
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MR comes on here as many people and talks to himself.
I’m cynical due to my life experiences but MR more than likely is Barry, Goldie, and you.
Whatever.
To talk like that about a guy who meant a lot to people is just juvenile garbage and totally disrectful to the widow and Al’s son.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
RIP Al. You are the Raiders. I did not always agree with you, but I always respected you. Today, I lost a member of my family, my Raider family.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Funny how all the experts, coaches, players, owners, and 99.9% of fans are saying how much of an icon Al was and how much he will be missed and how the Raiders and the Raider nation would never be what it is today without him. And how much he influenced and changed the game and how many opportunities he gave to people who wouldn’t get an opportunity anywhere else, and how even the ones that disagreed with him still came out and paid their respects, yet we have one guy coming here saying how he is not even sad.
Ignorance at it’s best.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
yeah–i’m not responding to the loser anymore. just like in real life, he will have nobody to talk to.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Rob,
Just sharing my joy with fellow Raider fans bro.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
wish it was a home game
October 8th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
I continue to sit here stunned.
Al Davis set our team apart from all others.
Good or bad, I defended every one of the Genius Mr Davis’s decisions.
With him as owner, I always knew he would go after the best talent out there, there was always hope year after year.
I for one will feel a hole in my Raider Heart forever on………..
October 8th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Rob,
Your wife talks to me ALLLLL the time.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Barry halverson… your parents must be really proud of you..Lmao. . You loser!! I hope the worst for you!!
October 8th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Barry, right now you look as about idiotic as the morons from the westboro baptist church. Get a life, but in the mean time, go f**k yourself.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
MR, Sullivan44, and now Barry,
Why do you do this? You seem to exsist just to make people miserable. Try getting a real job and becoming an actual human being.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Albert,
You cry for Al Davis but not for people giving their lives for your country….OKayyyyyyyyyyy. And IM the f’d up one????
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Why would I cry for someone who volunteered to die? It’s part of their job description.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
#138 You can grieve for Al Davis and the troops who have died serving their country. #147 I STRONGLY disagree with your feelings but in this country you have the right to have them.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
barry’s a soulless loser. even a troll should have some sort of respect for human life, and the sadness of someone dying. it reminds me of a 12-yr-old who thinks he being “outrageous” but everyone just thinks he’s a complete idiot.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
I am praying for you Barry. Lord knows you need prayer along with Holy Water. Now leave this board in Jesus Name you demon. Next time come to this Raider board correctly boy.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
It’s inevitable that someone like Barry would show up. I don’t think it is MR. But if it is, he should at least have the courage to post under his usual name.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
I feel for his family and friends. I really do. I just dont share their feelings of grief. Simple as that.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Goldie,
You believe in Santa Clause too?? Easter Bunny?? Leprechauns??
October 8th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Barry Halverson you were breed inside the womb o a hyenna.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Wheres the law written that EVERYBODY must feel the same way about everything??
October 8th, 2011 at 4:08 pm
OOOOOOOHHHHH Brilliant!!! Pride and Poise you are a genious
October 8th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
#131 It reminds me about what JerryMac wrote after Marquis Cooper’s passing. The family will benefit from him playing for the Raiders for eight months.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
No law you stupid f**k, but class. If you feel one way you go vent in the appropriate forum, and this is not it. You are an idiot. I don’t threaten on the net, but I would find pleasure in stompin’ a mudhole in your ass.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Oh, and NFL network dedicating a whole day’s broadcast to Al, and it being National News.
They wouldn’t do all that for someone who didn’t deserve it. We all get what we deserve, and one day, you will too.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Then keep your unnecessary comments to yourself Barry! Show respect to Mr. Davis and his family. Are you a Man or a mouse dude?
October 8th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
I bet you would Primus, too bad I would drop you like a bag of sand, you fat turd. Go have another donut.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Goldie,
Are you a man or a woman??
October 8th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Then you woke up and pieced your miserable life together, but you couldn’t. So instead of torturing kittens today, you get on the net and act like an idiot. Get a life you f**k.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Barry must not believe in karma. He’s got a whole lot of negative energy with lots of emotion behind it being sent his way. He will get his. probably very soon.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:13 pm
You in the bay area? can your mommy drive you somewhere right now?
October 8th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
A Man that is old enough to tell you right from wrong Barry! Now grow a pair and keep your garbage to yourself. You are not funny! I see no humor in your silly rants.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Yep…I am in the bay area as a matter of fact. Want to meet at the nearest donut shop and hash it out??
October 8th, 2011 at 4:16 pm
I know a lot of hunters almost all of them have a sincere respect for life (I know that sounds funny but its true) I’m not buying the fact that b!tch boy here is a hunter
what I think he meant to say is I came in the house after frying some ants with my magnifying glass and my mom just finished cutting the crust off my pb&j when my cartoons got interrupted by news that Al Davis died.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Absolutely LTR! Barry is a silly COWARD.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
If in fact it was skin cancer it was probably melanoma.
I just lost a good friend tomelanoma. In the last stages she was administered a new drug that had been experimental. It didn’t take.
She was 55. I imagine how hard it would be on someone 82 & having ambulatory issues (amongst other maladies I’m sure were kept from the mainstream).
Which means he’s now onto a better plae. . .R.I.P
October 8th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Barry is MR… I’m positive… you better never come back Sullivan44…. I know its you. . You piece of crap!! Your a disgrace!! Atleast be man enough to say its you!! Idiot!!
October 8th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
The first and last time I met Al Davis was in 1985. I was at a shopping center in Century City, LA walking around when I saw a tall man in an all white Raiders jump suit walking by himself. I looked closer and sure enough it was Al. Walking royally and slowly he then sat down at a bench eating a sandwich. Everyone knew who he was but left him alone in peace.
I haven’t been a supporter of him lately but still respect the accomplishments in his life.
RIP.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
At Al was at home and surrounded by loved ones.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Im right near Lake Merritt Primus…come on down
October 8th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
At least
October 8th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
I respect life AZ, just because I am not sad that Al Davis died means nothing. I just dont harbor the feeling for the man you all do.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Lake Merrit? What street?
October 8th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
It amazes me how you guys take the bait every time.
It doesn’t matter one bit what it says; ignore it and it will either go away or talk to itself even more than it already does, which will drive it crazier than it already is.
I would feel sorry for it, but if it hasn’t figured out what a sad, pathetic creature it is by now, then it’s just too bad.
Let it go. It WILL self-destuct, whether you see it happen or not.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
Its MR. .. I’m on to you.. loser. . I’m going to be on your pathetic asss. .. you fool!!
October 8th, 2011 at 4:24 pm
With you not harboring the same feelings as our Raider Nation is on you Barry but keep it to yourself. The Raider Nation don’t want to read your garbage. No need for cruel words. Let the Raider Nation grieve in peace…will ya?
October 8th, 2011 at 4:24 pm
Please don’t buy into the BS comments or reply to them. Not today, please ignore the negative comments.
Today is a day to remember a football legend.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Not being sad is one thing. Celebrating the death of a fellow human being is quite another
October 8th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
To the people on this blog who are angry, try to save that energy to help be the 12th man during the rest of the Raiders home games.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
You right Raiders for Life. He will get his in the long run.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
I had the pleasure of not only meeting Al Davis, but talking with him for around 45 minutes. He is a huge part of my life.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Scuse me, not 45 minutes, but 5 minutes.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
August 28th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
I watched every game David Ausberry ever played at SC fukk stick. He wasnt a threat in college and he sure as hell aint a threat now, especially changing positions. He wont even make the team. Hes practice squad fo sho.
Ford is this teams #1 followed by Schillens….
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I don’t think MR watches every USC game.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
I haven’t stopped crying all day long. I have followed and loved this team since ‘63 and Al became like a father to me. My father died in ‘76 and today I feel like I have lost him all over again. I pray the Raiders play all the remaining games with the passion and fearlessness that exemplified Mr. Davis’ entire life. All Raiders fans’ flags should fly at half mast for the rest of the season to remind us all that RAIDER NATION IS STILL ALIVE and will the team to JUST WIN BABY! CODE BLACK for the rest of the season…nothing less will be accepted! RIP AL DAVIS. GOD BLESS YOU SIR AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU GAVE TO US FANS! WE WILL ALL MISS YOU! COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE LIVES ON THROUGH YOU AL FOREVER! MAY THE PERPETUAL LIGHT ALWAYS SHINE UPON YOU AND MAY GOD SHINE DOWN ON ALL OF RAIDER NATION ALWAYS!!!!!!
October 8th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
I respect life AZ, just because I am not sad that Al Davis died means nothing. I just dont harbor the feeling for the man you all do.
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Barry, wheres my 50 bucks from the bet you lost on the jest game????
I can do paypal or western union…
October 8th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
I respect life AZ, just because I am not sad that Al Davis died means nothing. I just dont harbor the feeling for the man you all do.
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Barry, wheres my 50 bucks from the bet you lost on the jest game????
I can do paypal or western union…
October 8th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
MR (and his aliases) has no regard for human life, he is truly a fascist. The man is as sick as they come.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
#202, as usual Blackbeard is the Voice of Reason, with the exact way to deal with a problem. That said,
MODERATOR: HAVE YOU NO SHAME? PLEASE BAN THIS TROLL, IN THE NAME OF DECENCY.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
fuk barry–his life is miserable and i feel sorry for him. he gets his everyday just being him. i am focusing on mourning the passing of a man who was iconic and important to me. i give no creedance to that guy anymore. i’m w/ u goldie. God would rather have me turn the other cheek, even though a big part of me wants to go to lake merritt right now and smack the sh*t out of him.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
CODE BLACK is still in effect.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Barry Halverson <—— Are you a welcher????
Make bets on blog then dont pay up???
October 8th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Save our emotions for next Sunday! The 12th man is gonna need to be loud as heck every game from here on out!
October 8th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
I feel the same way Rob Raider.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
212.RaidersMom Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
I haven’t stopped crying all day long. I have followed and loved this team since ‘63 and Al became like a father to me. My father died in ‘76 and today I feel like I have lost him all over again. I pray the Raiders play all the remaining games with the passion and fearlessness that exemplified Mr. Davis’ entire life. All Raiders fans’ flags should fly at half mast for the rest of the season to remind us all that RAIDER NATION IS STILL ALIVE and will the team to JUST WIN BABY! CODE BLACK for the rest of the season…nothing less will be accepted! RIP AL DAVIS. GOD BLESS YOU SIR AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU GAVE TO US FANS! WE WILL ALL MISS YOU! COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE LIVES ON THROUGH YOU AL FOREVER! MAY THE PERPETUAL LIGHT ALWAYS SHINE UPON YOU AND MAY GOD SHINE DOWN ON ALL OF RAIDER NATION ALWAYS!!!!!!
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Love your post RaidersMom. GOD Bless!
October 8th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Barry, if thats the only handle you have, when do you plan on paying up???? You talked real big before the jest game…Even callered terp out for not taking you up on the bet….
October 8th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Absolutely Rob! You da Man!
October 8th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
And yes, CODE BLACK is still in effect!!!
October 8th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Thanks,Thec.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Barry <—–Paypal, or western union???
October 8th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
lefty12 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Thanks,Thec.
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No problem…
October 8th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Mr. Davis settled ALl of his debts before he passed on..
How about you Barry Halverson????
October 8th, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Well, either banned or called out as a welcher, good riddance. Godspeed Al Davis
October 8th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Barry where have you gone???? The blog knows you are coming in as an alias….
You came high and hard before the jest game put 50 on it and have zero thought about paying….
Barry why bet someone if you dont plan on paying???
The whole blog sees you for what you are…
October 8th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Barry Halverson <—– Not a stand up guy….
October 8th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Barry Halverson <——Makes bold clains under a alias and not a man of his word…
October 8th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Been waitng for this day since the old fuk “traded” Gruden.
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There’s MR’s mancrush, only a matter of time with this stooge.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Thec,
Address please….
October 8th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Thec,did you actually believe Sully would pay up?
October 8th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Sorry fellas….had to take a Rob Raider..dont worry I am back now.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
lefty12 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Thec,did you actually believe Sully would pay up?
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Actually yeah idid…I haver won and lost on this blog a number of times on each side, have paid and been paid…
October 8th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
I would not want to be playing for the Texans this weekend.
Raiders-27 Texans-13
October 8th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Thec,
Address please….
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Paypal or westen union…
October 8th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
There are a lot of MR’s out there, pay no never mind.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Rob Raider,
Cleveland Heights to be exact… Gonna go watch Ohio State Nebraska game at the bar here in a minute.. care to join me??
October 8th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Thec,
Either. Whatever youd prefer.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Thec,
Either. Whatever youd prefer.
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Actually lets let it ride on the ouston game…
I will take the Raids…
October 8th, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Houston game
October 8th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
MR be sure to wear that maddenraider jersy you covet so well the first time you dare show to a Raider home game.
LMFAO!
October 8th, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Thec07 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Mr. Davis settled ALl of his debts before he passed on..
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Not according to Lane Kiffin and Mike Shanahan.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:57 pm
You are on Thec.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
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Not according to Lane Kiffin and Mike Shanahan.
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fck lame and rat…
October 8th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Thec, why are you betting on a blog? LOL
October 8th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Rob,
Will be at the Wharehouse if you want to join me…sportn a black polo shirt with a Pirates hat
October 8th, 2011 at 4:59 pm
MR been waiting for this day his whole adult life. If that’s you trolling, MR, you should have more class than that.
Whoever Barry Halverson is, probably the same d;ck who came on here as “Jaws” after Marquis Cooper was lost at sea. Or a d;ck just like him.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Albert Bigelow Paine Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Thec, why are you betting on a blog? LOL
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Why not…
Some of the most stand up guys are on this blog…
I have won my share and lost my share…
Guys will generally pay up…
October 8th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
MR going to patay tonight! ya’ll!!
October 8th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
MR how many times have you wanked it today, you sick fuk?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Some of the most stand up guys are on this blog…
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True that, Theculator. Most guys on here are down. Couple of ‘em are d;cks.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Albert Bigelow Paine Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Thec07 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Mr. Davis settled ALl of his debts before he passed on..
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Not according to Lane Kiffin and Mike Shanahan.
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Kiffin was pretty gracious and respectful, actually. Haven’t heard from Shanarat yet.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Rob,
Will be at the Wharehouse if you want to join me…sportn a black polo shirt with a Pirates hat
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MR suk a dick?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:03 pm
By the way, good job today, Steve.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:03 pm
RaiderDuck Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Albert Bigelow Paine Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Thec07 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Mr. Davis settled ALl of his debts before he passed on..
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Not according to Lane Kiffin and Mike Shanahan.
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Kiffin was pretty gracious and respectful, actually. Haven’t heard from Shanarat yet.
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Doesn’t matter, Lance can suk it to.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Kiffin was pretty gracious and respectful, actually
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Well, he landed a college sweet gig after he didn’t want to coach for us anymore, but I guess that was his goal the whole time.
Then he bailed on them for a sweeter gig.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Drexel,
Hav a Dick? No? Didnt think so. Any of you blog tough guys now know where I am so if you care to chat come on down, buy you a Steam
October 8th, 2011 at 5:06 pm
MR shut the fuk up.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
You say you are going to the warehouse off 4th street in jack london square Barry?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Love how u keep the MR thing goin….Sure sign you got nuttn. Come on down Drexel…I would love to shut you up.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Rob,
Will be at the Wharehouse if you want to join me…sportn a black polo shirt with a Pirates hat
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what time?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
DHB, Kelly, Mitchell, Moss, Campbell, maybe Seymour carry on the old man’s legacy whether they know it or not. Need to see a big season from them.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
MR I thought it was cousins only, now you like to “steam” with the boy’s. Peener your thing eh? fuktwit
October 8th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
“Lance” is a politician, always jockeying for position.
He should have been respectful when he was head coach.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:10 pm
Yup, Primus. 4th and Web. There right now.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Well Barry, I fkn work on the waterfront you asswipe. No way in hell I am going to the warehouse looking for trouble. That is a one way ticket to jail, as you would know you fkn moron.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
be there in 20. get ready pal.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Telegraph and Parker, come shut me up twit.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Now it all makes sense, MR is a Shaker Heights kid.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Barry Halverson,
What kind of person comes to a blog to rip on a man who just died and who meant so much to everyone posting? Method to my Madness, among others, poured there souls out, telling us how much this man, and this team meant to them. And you come in with such vitriol. Such disrespect. What kind of person relishes in that?
I’ll tell you. It’s a person who has no sense of worth for their own lives. They hate that this man could mean so much to people here, because they know that they will never mean anything to those in their own lives. Its the kind of person who lives their lives unnoticed, and uncared for by all those around them. No one pays them any attention, and so they do the only thing left. They go to the internet where they can antagonize from the safety of a computer screen.
They say what they know will illicit a negative response. They do what they can to be hated. Not because they want to be, but because they feel that in their pathetic lives, all they can be is hated. And being hated is better then being…well…nothing.
You can strive to be hated by as many people as you want, but in the end, being hated is no better then being ignored. Instead of spending your days going to a site only to antagonize, work on yourself brah. Look at all those around you. Look at all of us. We have all created a community. Maybe you should try to better yourself. Maybe then you would be left doing something other then trying to be hated just to validate your own self hate. I’d despise you if I didn’t feel so damn sorry for you.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Hey Primus,
Ill f in meet you anywhere down here you freakn puss… Talk a big game but when it REALLY comes down to it…..
October 8th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
you getting moms to give you a bump up the lane, or you going to be a no show? fuktwit
October 8th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
6:30 am tomorrow morning. 3rd and martin luther
October 8th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
Mizza,
Nice monologue. Im already repenting.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Former Oakland Raider Matt Millen:
“Everybody has their opinions (of Al Davis) but the opinion that they don’t really have of Al Davis is the one that I’ll always know. It’s that he was always there for you. My dad was going to have heart surgery when he was 80 years old. Al Davis called me every single day to make sure my dad was taken care of. He wanted to fly him out to Minnesota to a heart specialist. He wanted to do all these things. … he just always did things like that that nobody would ever know about nor would he care that anyone knew about it. But that’s the Al Davis that I’ll always remember.”
October 8th, 2011 at 5:17 pm
RIP Mr Davis. I’ll be at the game in Houston tomorrow
October 8th, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Dismiss it. Because you know you can’t deny it.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:18 pm
I fly to Seattle first thing tomarrow for work. I am here RIGHT NOW and will be till this game is over. If you want some, come get some. If not. Zip it cunt.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Nice post Rob. People need to know all the good that Al did to players and the family of players.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
My life does not revolve around you. I see you are chickening out. Figures.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Shuffle up the lane b!tch, you got nothing you puzzy lip looking turd.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Mizza Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Barry Halverson,
What kind of person comes to a blog to rip on a man who just died and who meant so much to everyone posting? Method to my Madness, among others, poured there souls out, telling us how much this man, and this team meant to them. And you come in with such vitriol. Such disrespect. What kind of person relishes in that?
I’ll tell you. It’s a person who has no sense of worth for their own lives. They hate that this man could mean so much to people here, because they know that they will never mean anything to those in their own lives. Its the kind of person who lives their lives unnoticed, and uncared for by all those around them. No one pays them any attention, and so they do the only thing left. They go to the internet where they can antagonize from the safety of a computer screen.
They say what they know will illicit a negative response. They do what they can to be hated. Not because they want to be, but because they feel that in their pathetic lives, all they can be is hated. And being hated is better then being…well…nothing.
You can strive to be hated by as many people as you want, but in the end, being hated is no better then being ignored. Instead of spending your days going to a site only to antagonize, work on yourself brah. Look at all those around you. Look at all of us. We have all created a community. Maybe you should try to better yourself. Maybe then you would be left doing something other then trying to be hated just to validate your own self hate. I’d despise you if I didn’t feel so damn sorry for you.
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very true. very sad.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Deny what? That im NOT sad Al Davis died? I dont deny it. Im not. You are. Thats your right. Just likes its mine not to be.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
barry–y r u here when no one likes u?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
The perfect senerio for raider nation would be for the raiders not to get a joint stadium with the niners but there own. It should and i can see it happening being named after him what a tribute that woukd be. This blog the smorning was great lots of respect goin out to davis now its a complete joke. You all arguing with some idiot barry this blog is going the wrong way this evening im disapointed. Lets make today about davis and his passing not a bunch of stupid childish postings. Save thay for another day.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Going back to the BBQ. Barry, you are a fkn twit. Not worth my time, but just in case froggy, 3rd and martin luther. I can make it earlier for you if you would like. 5 am?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
don’t worry guys, i’m on my way to see barry.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:18 pm
I fly to Seattle first thing tomarrow for work. I am here RIGHT NOW and will be till this game is over. If you want some, come get some. If not. Zip it cunt.
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You are an absolute puzzy. I’m stuck at PARKER and TELEGRAPH, bump up the lane with your pirate party hat, and you will not need to worry about a flyte to Seattle for “work”.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
You came in here waiving it in people’s face. You have no class or character. That is the only thing I will say to you.
Now go away, you are not welcome here.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:22 pm
LOL!! Primus, you were the one talking big stuff. I am the one who came right out and told you where you could come talk to me about it and YOU pussed out. Its only a few posts back. If you want to chat, step in the door and well chat. Like I said. Im here and will be for at least 2 hours. That gives you plenty of time.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Morilla,
Nah…I will stick around. Thanks though.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
I love all of you think Barry is MR. He’s not. I am, remember?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
F U Barry. Not gonna go to a cops hangout looking for a fight.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Former Raiders quarterback and current NFL analyst Rich Gannon:
“NFL lost a great one, a real legend! He gave me a chance and he did it all: coach, commissioner, scout and owner! No one better! He loved his team.”
October 8th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Primus,
Not a cop in the house, or fire fighters for that matter. C u in 30??
October 8th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
barry–y r u here when no one likes u? no life? no friends?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Today ain’t about Barry Halverson. He’s a punk and sadist and he’s got people playing his game. Rob, if you got a chance to kick his @$$, please do so, otherwise I’m getting back to what today is about:
Family.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
I would love nothing more than to meet up with you and see you shiite your pants once you see what you have gotten yourself into.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Tell ya what primus, I will walk over to the saloon if that makes ya feel better.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
ESPN’s Chris Mortensen:
“Not sure if I can identify greater contributor to the game than Al Davis. Even those who battled him honor him. “
October 8th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Deny what? That im NOT sad Al Davis died? I dont deny it. Im not. You are. Thats your right. Just likes its mine not to be.
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This has nothing to do with whether you are happy or sad. It has everything to do with respecting man who just died, and more importantly, respecting the people on this site who are mourning.
You can’t deny that you do this because your life is pathetic. You can’t deny that you try to get people to hate you because its the only way you can get attention.
You can’t deny that the reason you keep coming to a site where everyone hates you is because you aren’t able to have people like you.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Barry is going to found floating in Lake Merrit tomorrow.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
ABP, like MR doesn’t have conversation with himself?
Most of his aliases won’t deny being MR, they just say something to the effect of ‘if we share the same opinion of Al Davis, we all must be MR, right?’
To my knowledge, ABP is the only one of the handles tied to MR that has flat out denied it.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Sports Illustrated’s Peter King:
“Al Davis, the most unforgettable person I’ve had the pleasure of meeting in 31 years in the business, dead at 82. RIP.”
October 8th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Rob,
You should damn near be here…You will see I have plenty of friends. Dont worry though, theyll stay out of it.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Love how u keep the MR thing goin….Sure sign you got nuttn. Come on down Drexel…I would love to shut you up.
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This is your chance d!ck head. COME SHUT ME UP.
You said you’d love it. Why are you scared? TELEGRAPH and PARKER, 10 mins max for your stupid ass to use a gps to bump up about 15 blocks. Why you so scared?
Me thinks you are not where you say you are, and thus can’t make the short trek to “hash” things out. Like hash your face, eh?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
With any luck.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Primus,
Yeah obviously…I mean you seem SOOOOOOO eager to come down for a chat.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
ok. i’m here. walking in.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Nah. You come to my turf. You can meet my friends.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Im here with friends…why would I come to you? You are the big talker. If you want to talk, come down. Otherwise shut up.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Rob,
You should damn near be here…You will see I have plenty of friends. Dont worry though, theyll stay out of it.
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You must be the group tranny.
They are not your “friends”. They just tell you that so you keep suckin it.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
FU Barry. what time tomorrow. Before you fly out? I figure I can kick your ass and not go out of my way.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Primus,
Kind of what I thought. Now STFU fat boy.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
“Al Davis: #1 for all Time” it’s on now on NFL network
October 8th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Im here with friends…why would I come to you? You are the big talker. If you want to talk, come down. Otherwise shut up.
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Whats the matter nancy boy, need your friends, bump your skinny azz up the block already and lets see who loves Al more. Bet it will be me.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:33 pm
C’mon Barry. Don’t be a wimp. What time tomorrow morning. You are not flying out that early. I figure I could kick you a s s on the way to work. I don’t go out of my way for sh1t heads like you.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Barry you to busy “doing” the “friends” in the house. Pull the slimy thing you call a mouth, pack your condoms and shuffle up the block.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Geez…what saddens me more is reading people wanting to beat each other’s arse on a day like this!
Come on…are we not all Raider Fans! Al Davis….love him or hate him, doesn’t matter…but show some respect to the man and his family…and The Nation is HIS family!
October 8th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Hwndrdr, you are absolutely right, and I feel bad about it, but I cannot stand the likes of Barry. My apologies to you and the other REAL Raider fans.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
hwnrdr that would make sense if we were dealing with a member of the “nation’, which clearly we are not.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
I think I will have to turn on the NFL network…amazing that I would actually say that!
October 8th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Primus,
You already proved to be a coward. You are a yellow bellied coward who talks the talk but cant walk the walk.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
just what i thought. nowhere in sight.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Where did bad barry go? what a fukstik.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Barry, Rob is outside, where the fuk are you puzzy?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
RIP Al you were the greatest owner anywhere…
October 8th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
1 NATION-RAIDER NATION..
HOPE 2 C U VS THE BROWN’S IN A WEEK HWNRDR.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Rob,
What you wearin? Come to the back, im here with 3 other dudes. Backwards Pirate hat/
October 8th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
i was just in the warehouse. nobody there w/ a pirate hat. ur a lying coward.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Primus, Drexl…no worries, letting out some steam…that last part was towards anyone who said that they were jumping for joy after hearing the news this morning! I’ve seen a 9er fan gloating about it on FB…just sickening!
October 8th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Dirt Lot…for sure brother! I’ll be there bright and early!
October 8th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Barry, you are not worth the 30 seconds it would take me to turn you into a pretzel.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
waste of my time–just like all his posts. i’m done even acknowledging the idiot.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Rob,
Pick up a menu and tell us all the first thing listed. Then ill know your here.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
hwnrdr Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Primus, Drexl…no worries, letting out some steam…that last part was towards anyone who said that they were jumping for joy after hearing the news this morning! I’ve seen a 9er fan gloating about it on FB…just sickening!
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Me to. dude, me to.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Raiders!
October 8th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Barry was just punked, stupid twit
October 8th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Right on Hwnrdr. Anyone going to the Cleveland game?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Primus,
You fat turd. How do you even live with yourself?? Talkn all that mess then backn down like a beatch
October 8th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Barry how does it feel to be pissed on?>
October 8th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Barry what does Robs piss taste like?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Rob,
Waiting………
October 8th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Basket of fries dipsh1t.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Rob,
Stil waiting……
October 8th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Barry how can you even breath. Just end it. What man can live without having a sak?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
i looked around the entire joint. no pirate hat. puzz.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Primus…I’ll be there! Lot D, around 8-8:30ish…depending on the parking lot people! I heard its almost sold out!
October 8th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Primus,
Lose some weight then talk to me tubby. Last time I saw you I thought Shamu has escaped.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Barry you are a most foul individual, name a place and don’t show. Incredible.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Barry, you have never seen me, and if you did, you would not be talking like this. your insults are old and boring. You are an idiot looking for attention. You got some. No go fvck yourself.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Primus,
You know the menu. Well done. Wasnt askn you. You wont come down so I can shut your fat pie hole.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Wow, Barry, you will need to delete that handle, it will now be always remembered as the punk that has no balls..
October 8th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
I have seen you Primus, on more than one occasion. How else would I know your a tub of lard??
October 8th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
I have never seen a handle flame out as fast as this Barry handle. Good job.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
You don’t want me coming down Barry. trust me on that.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
If you seen me and knew me, you would not be running your mouth like this. I know that for a fact.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:47 pm
I not only WANT you to, I will buy you a round or 2 if you do. Im tired of your talkn…start walkn.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Barry, how embarrassing. Please delete your account.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Oh man, I was talk to some friends and we all said AT THE SAME TIME, they should make a movie about the life of Al Davis with Al Pacino as AL.
P.S. anybody know John Madden’s take?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Raidertalk, I was thinking Christopher Walken.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
don’t waste ur time guys. he wasn’t there and he ain’t gonna show anywhere. i told goldie i was gonna turn the other cheek but i had to see this pice of garbage. but i should’ve known.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Primus,
How do I know your a fat toad then??
October 8th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
I am bbq’n for my family. And seriously, if you knew me, and you know I do not run my mouth, you would not be disrespecting me like this, or trying to anyway. i personally do not care about your insults, I just hate that you disrespect why most of us in here are RAIDER FANS.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Rob,
You werent here…that much I know. Prove it. Describe the place.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
LMAO! Hey guys, I have said my piece, but F it…run with it! Gonna have a few beers myself in honor of the man who made me become a fan! Peace out! Be back laters…
October 8th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Barry, just stop. You lost, you flamed out, you were not where you professed to be. I am laughing at the idea you even keep posting.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
You don’t know me.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Right on Hwnrdr.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Still waitn for the answer Primus….How do I know?? LOL!!
October 8th, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Alright, whatever. if you knew who I was, which you don’t, you would have said so already. Now shut up and eat your fries idiot.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
What up Nation!
Very sad day today. Rest In Peace Al Davis.
You will always be the man of the Raiders. The Top Raider of All Time.
Steve, go find that bag JaMarcus Russell and get a comment from him. Try the Marriot in Mobile off Airport Blvd.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Still waitn for the answer Primus….How do I know?? LOL!!
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I’m still waiting for you to tell me how it feels to be a tranny?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Primus,
Wait till Monday…youll find out. LOL!!!
October 8th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Later nation!!
AL DAVIS SHOULD BE ON MOUNT RUSHMORE!!
October 8th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Yeah, whatever. You don’t know shiite.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
i’m 6′2 270. former player, current coach. mostly peaceful these days. believe me, there aren’t many who have wanted a piece of me but knocked plenty of heads back in the day.
looks like a big old house, barry. i was there. u weren’t.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Still bothered that Al’s last game was another Horribly Officiated game that favored the Patriots…
The officials were out to slow downt he Raiders D at any cost, the Personal Fouls took care of that…
Total BS that he’d get dealt like that one last time.
Al Davis Lives Forever in the Raider Nation
October 8th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Barry is just playing games. Prolly on his moms laptop and got bored looking at gay porn.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Last take away.
MR it is seriously mind boggling that you feel the need to change handle so often. As if you were embarrassed about what you say.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Monday at bout mmmmm….9am you will be laughing your asss off. Tell your old lady I said “wud up”
October 8th, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Oh man, I was talk to some friends and we all said AT THE SAME TIME, they should make a movie about the life of Al Davis with Al Pacino as AL.
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366.primussuxxx Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Raidertalk, I was thinking Christopher Walken.
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I don’t know but when he played the coach in Any Given Sunday, I was like damn he looks like a younger Al Davis….
Walken would be good tho, “gotta have more 40times!”
BTW Has Madden sound off on Al yet?
October 8th, 2011 at 5:57 pm
And I didnt goe wit the fries Primus….went with your fave instead.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:57 pm
You go from flying out on Sunday on Business to showing me up on Monday. How does that work idiot? Damn, you might believe your lies, but I or no one else does.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
I would expect that John Madden’s first concern is Al’s family. I’m sure that Madden will deliver the proper eulogy at the proper time.
October 8th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
barry halverson is a mutha fuvkin BIOTCH!! rot in hell fuvker!!!
October 8th, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Old Lady? Now I know you do not know me. LOL
October 8th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Did Madden say anything or did I miss it? I saw Plunkett Flores and even Kiffen said stuff, wonde what Madden’s gonna say
October 8th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Chicago dog wit an f in Jack and RC baby….only da Wharehouse has RC Cola
October 8th, 2011 at 6:02 pm
I hope that during tomorrow night’s game, Al Michaels addresses his classless “The Raiders will never win as long as Davis is alive” comments.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:02 pm
I doubt it duck.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Al Micheals that callous and cynical SOB, where would he be without football?
October 8th, 2011 at 6:06 pm
There’s a disturbance in the Force!
October 8th, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Looking back at a persons life, you have to ask, did he have an impact? When people think of Al they only think about football, but he changed the way minorities take center stage in today’s entertainment business. make no mistake about it, the NFL is an entertainment business, and nobody has ever understood that better than Al.
Al might be considered a football genius by his NFL peers, yet he was the first, and perhaps only, owner to give his football brand depth, texture, attitude, temper, etc… This man was a Branding Genius!
During Al’s life no other pro team was as entertaining to follow as the Raiders.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Al Michaels was 100% correct.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Three people I would like to see at a sold out Raiders game:
Walt Coleman
Al Michaels
Warren Sapp
October 8th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Walt Coleman specially. And also the refs that declared the immaculate reception a complete pass.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Al Michaels is as irrelevant today as the day he was born. Please keep the name of that cancer off this board today.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
agreed macho man.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Pryor is going to be the last great Raider draft pick. And I will be pissed if we don’t get the guy with the fastest 40 next draft.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Al pick^
October 8th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
The hypocrisy of this message board knows no bounds
October 8th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Jury is still out on Pryor. I hope he turns out great, but I am just not sold on him.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
I pledge allegiance to the Shield of Oakland California, and to the Republic for which it stands, One Nation, under Al with pride and Poise for All.
Just Win Baby!!
October 8th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Very interested in seeing how the league handles the tribute to Al. The media will eat it up, so it will be up to the rest of the owners to handle it with class…Al has it all: pillar of the NFL institution, pillar of NFL in TV, pillar of Players Union, the superbowls, the hall-o-famers, the Raider lifers, the pop culture impact…Of it all, what most impressed me was his outside the box thinking, and his willingness to go against everyone if it meant defending his beliefs…good man.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:34 pm
I am going to the game next week. Should be a great tribute once they get home.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Another three people I’d like to see introduced in front of a sold out Raiders crowd:
MR
Sullivan44
Barry Halverson
(actually only one person)
October 8th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
raidertalk Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Oh man, I was talk to some friends and we all said AT THE SAME TIME, they should make a movie about the life of Al Davis with Al Pacino as AL.
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Nah, came up with it years ago. James Woods.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Look for us to resemble the other 31 teams on defense. If not tomorrow by the end of the year. Also look for Rod Woodson and his ideas to REALLY come out now.
RW for DC next year (before he bolts somewhere else).
Bet Nnamdi more than ever wishes he dit piss Al off over the past couple of seasons. He likely would still be here otherwise…
Sad day especially for Al’s family.
Silver and Black lining?
Medium to long term outcome? The losing shackles are finally off this franchise. No more Heyward-Beys or undeserved scholorships for that matter.
Might even see a defensive head coach sometime this decade. (That said, I really hope Hue stays a long time)
October 8th, 2011 at 6:43 pm
DHB = GONE
MAN TO MAN COVERAGE = GONE
HAIL MARY 5 TIMES A GAME = GONE
BLITZING = BACK
ZONE COVERAGE = BACK
WINNING IS BACK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM SAD MR. DAVIS IS GONE THE IMAGE HE CREATED IS WHY I AM A FAN OF THIS TEAM. BUT I HAVE BEEN SO PISSED THE LAST FEW YEARS AT ALL THE THINGS WE HAVE TO SEE HAPENING. LETTING A FIRST YEAR CORNER GET TORCHED BECAUSE MR. DAVIS WANTS MAN TO MAN.
WATCHING THE WORST RECIEVER ON OUR TEAM START BECAUSE MR. DAVIS MAKES THEM START HIM.
NEVER BLITZ. NEVER PICK ANY SKILL PLAYER WHO CANNOT RUN SUB 4.3
I NEVER WISH DEATH ON ANYONE AND WILL NEVER CELEBRATE THE DEATH OF ANYONE OTHER THAN BIN LADEN BUT I BELIEVE OUR FRANCHISE WILL BE BETTER IN THE FUTURE THE GAME HAS CHANGED AND MR. DAVIS NEVER WOULD.
MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE DAVIS FAMILY R.I.P BIG AL GODSPEED
October 8th, 2011 at 6:44 pm
R.I.P. Al Davis – ” The Don” of football
October 8th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
413.LA to TheBay Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
raidertalk Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Oh man, I was talk to some friends and we all said AT THE SAME TIME, they should make a movie about the life of Al Davis with Al Pacino as AL.
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Nah, came up with it years ago. James Woods.
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Mike Myers “Just win baby! Yeeeaah!”
October 8th, 2011 at 6:48 pm
barry is a lying turd. i went to meet him at the warehouse. he was nowhere to be found. just a chickensh*t coward hiding behind his computer.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Mr. Davis was like a family member to me. Like most family members, you don’t always get along; in fact you might disagree quite vehemently on occasion.
I loved him like a family member. Yes, I cried real tears today and I think the tribute on NFLN speaks volumes to the kind of influential icon he was.
RIP Coach.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
415. Another fan without a clue.
We’ve been running a lot of zone and getting killed. Deep throws five times a game?
In case you hadn’t noticed a record 12 teams threw for 4,000 yds+ last year.
Old man Davis’ throw deep game is dead right?
This is what Davis had to put up with all his life. Stupid, baseless, false arguments by people who don’t know what they’re talking about.
“The problem with genius is, sometimes those that aren’t can’t recognize it.”
October 8th, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Good night fellas. Tomorrow our Raiders take the field. Thats what Al lived for. I hope we win tomorrow with a mix of power running, long balls, Man2Man D, and 15 penalties… RIP Al.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Raiders need to focus, play solid fundamental football and destroy the Texans on Sunday.
Just f*cking win baby…
October 8th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
i jus wanna see ‘em hit some mf-ers in the mouth tomorrow mornin. ftw. AD lives forever!
October 8th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
This team will never be the same without Mr. Davis and no matter how many Superbowls the Raiders will from here on out it will NEVER be a better team without him.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
I guess the team has a tribute they are going to do during tomorrow’s game. They aren’t saying what it is.
October 8th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Has Parcels name been brought up yet? I’m still catching up on today’s blog reading.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Mark and Amy are running the show right now in Alameda.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
On the sad day, there are some good things to build on:
• Al picked a great HC. HuJack will, without a doubt, run this team the way Al wanted it – fast & furious and in a winning way.
• This team is absolutely full of young talent – real talent not just overpaid talent.
• Al was able to see the resurgence of the Raiders as a relevant entity.
• The last two games he saw were sellout Nation crowds – that’s a good thing.
• Some of his most recent draft picks have already shown great promise – D-WoW & Wiz 2.0.
• Al was able to infuse some meaningful past Raider player blood into the coaching ranks – Biekert, Wisnewski & Woodson.
•Al Davis’ fame & legacy are assured within the NFL history, forever.
• The Oakland Raiders are here to stay – where they grew up and where they will remain honoring their coach & mentor. Just WIN baby!
October 8th, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Dark day for football
October 8th, 2011 at 7:09 pm
424. Cuts like a knife…
October 8th, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Al Davis & Steve Jobs – BOTH giants within heir own spheres of influence. Both impacting millions of people worldwide. Both one of a kind. Both will be missed leaving voids that are without measure.
Al Davis put Oakland on the map. He was as much Mr. Oakland as he was Mr. Raider. His legacy will continue on into perpetuity. The Raiders will always reflect the values establish by Al Davis. the Raiders ARE Al Davis.
RIP Al Davis.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:11 pm
HueKnows Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
This team will never be the same without Mr. Davis and no matter how many Superbowls the Raiders will from here on out it will NEVER be a better team without him.
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So true.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Hue Jackson and the 2011 Raiders must be Al’s swan song.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Again Steve Corkran.. great job today.. thanks
October 8th, 2011 at 7:13 pm
@428
Yep, can’t help but wonder if Al gave the coaches his blessing to continue his tradition. Smash mouth football and Just win Baby.
A lot of questions unanswered and it will be interesting to see who takes the reigns.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Al we love you man
October 8th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
rob_raider Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
i’m 6′2 270. former player, current coach. mostly peaceful these days. believe me, there aren’t many who have wanted a piece of me but knocked plenty of heads back in the day.
looks like a big old house, barry. i was there. u weren’t.
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rob_raider= Rob Fredricks?
October 8th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
WOW!! Dudes prefering having Al over winning Superbowls…..unreal.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
A.D. Football Inc. will never be the same without the real deal at the helm. Mark Davis may come to the front and lead by example but there will never be another real Al Davis in our lifetime. Feel fortunate if you were able to share in that which was a one of a kind organization. I joined the Raider family back in 1965 and never looked back.
Thanks Al for all the great memories over the years. You will be missed.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Oh my God, I just heard……..RIP Father.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
The Oakland Raiders are better off w/out Al Davis. Period. End.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:19 pm
and we’d be so much better w/o u. could u commit suicide for us?
October 8th, 2011 at 7:20 pm
Barry Halvorsen, we really don’t need your attitude around here today. Show a little class and be gone.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:20 pm
OK thats enough.. I’m out.. The moderator of this blog should hang his head in shame.
CODE BLACK remains in effect.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
asking barry to have class is pointless-it’s clear he has none.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:28 pm
If you don’t have something good to say on this sad day, then please just STFU.
We really don’t need the bullschit & hatred you spew. You are a classless POS if you continue to bombard us with your needless opinion.
There are people on this blog who feel a real loss & need to share their positive thoughts with other members of the Raider Nation.
Your, you know who you are, jabs at a now defenseless individual shows your level of true cowardliness. Give us all a break and stay off this blog for at least this day of mourning.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:32 pm
dude…we all mashed that man earlier. It all comes down to him being a scared, pathetic, guy who has no self respect or worth. He comes in here trying to get attention the only way he knows how. Earlier, people ignored him, and he bounced. Now he saw Rob, and others, and knew he could get a reaction. Don’t give him the attention he craves, and he will fade away. He doesn’t deserve our anger, he deserves anything from us.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:35 pm
F U barry you fkn pussbag.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
AL you built the greatest team in all of sports I will never forget you and how you made me the football fan I am today!
You will be missed!!
October 8th, 2011 at 7:37 pm
I still can’t believe it. However, if the players feel anything close to what I feel right now, they will destroy the Texans tomorrow.
GO RAIDERS! RIP AL! Let the Autumn wind blow in heaven. Hells Bells will resonate in heaven tonight.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
It’s a terribly sad time. But, it’s the middle of a season.
It’s STILL a great night to be a Raiders fan. Isn’t it?!
The Man built a young team, sprinkled with a few old vets, and he’s given them the chance to become very good, if not great…and that team is THIS team.
If the team stays focused and intense…knowing Al would want it that way…then, tomorrow’s going to be a good game. And next week, and the next.
THIS TEAM can make this a “mission” year…use this somber time as a way to stay hyper-focused on the immediate task at hand: win play-by-play, series-by-series, and ultimately game-by-game. Use a singular focus to TAKE the AFC West by storm, Al-style, and earn their rightful place in the Playoffs once again.
Yeah…Al’s put the talent on the field. Now, the coaches and players need to do their part…and play up to their expectations. That’s what great teams do. And, Al might’ve built a great team here…we’ll keep hoping, anyway. They’re certainly closer now than in recent years.
In a remarkable time — especially since so many people said he had “lost it” — Al Davis put together a few really exceptional drafts…and it’s too bad he won’t be here to see them reach the potential he saw for them.
Yes, it’s a great night to be a Raiders fan.
Now…go win the game, Raiders.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
WeWillWin!
October 8th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Oh, he will see it Hayes, he will see it alright. From above.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
The Oakland Raiders are better off w/out Al Davis. Period. End.
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..and maybe your parents would have been better off without you!
I dont care if you feel like that, but today let the Nation Mourn, my advise to you is to remember some of the teams AL have put together during the last 46 years, and cherish them and forget your hatred towards Al, at least for the next 24 hours..
October 8th, 2011 at 7:50 pm
EMRaiders Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Oh, he will see it Hayes, he will see it alright. From above.
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yup, now he truly sits in the skybox, enjoying the games!
October 8th, 2011 at 7:52 pm
Win one for Al
October 8th, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Can some of you please stop focusing on that idiot scumbag and instead please focus on the fact that an absolute giant in the sports world has passed to another realm. Thank you.
October 8th, 2011 at 7:56 pm
Done!
October 8th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
I really hope when they do build a new stadium it will be in Al Davis name
October 8th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
I hope Herrera goes down to the merc news and kicks kawakami’s @ss.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:06 pm
I read some stuff around the web about Al, then go do other stuff… watch tv, go get supper, play some Xbox, watch NCAA
Then come back and its “wow” all over again.
Just seems crazy to be a Raiders without Al Davis.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Do you think he could be buried in New York? I hope they have a ceremony here that fans can attend.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
May God be with Al Davis and those he affected most. May God be with Barry Halfbrain and those like him for they know not what they do. And may God be with Matt Schaub as I don’t think the Oline is enough protection for the storm that’s brewing in Texas right now.
Thank you Mr. Davis for all the Sundays spent nauseously trying to recover from a Raider loss. The afternoons spent commiserating with my dad and brother over a blown lead or a bad call. Thank you for the Anxious Augusts, some sickening Septembers and the optimism each year brings.
It’s been a ride unlike any other that I wouldnt trade for any other. I truly believe in your last efforts you have set this franchise up for an extensive reign that will transcend generations just like the Raiders of old and just like the ultimate Raider, Mr. Al Davis.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:09 pm
Nice post #460!
October 8th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
realtruraider Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
I really hope when they do build a new stadium it will be in Al Davis name
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Allen Davis Stadium, yeah why not, but it really takes a overly rich company not to want the naming rights…
My soccer club’s stadium is named after the club, but only because the company who bought the naming rights are owned by a rich man who is born as a fan..
October 8th, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Mr Davis’ home
300 MOUNTAIN AVE Owner2CityPIEDMONT CA 94611 3508
October 8th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
HueKnows Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
I hope Herrera goes down to the merc news and kicks kawakami’s @ss.
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I hope Herrera commits Harikiri!..
October 8th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
In the early 1960’s baseball was undoubtedly the preeminent game in America. Now, fifty years later the NFL is the most popular league in the world. Shoot, the Superbowl SHOULD be a NATIONAL HOLIDAY for Crissakes. That was Al Davis. Baseball has been knocked off it’s perch by the NFL. Because Davis so loved the game of football.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
KoolKell Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Mr Davis’ home
300 MOUNTAIN AVE Owner2CityPIEDMONT CA 94611 3508
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Why did you do that? He was a very private person. Are you insane?
October 8th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
KK, you miserable kunt have some respect and dont post anybody’s address, moron.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
KK = Classless fuktard
October 8th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Cards, Flowers…………………? for Carol.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Man, now I’m tearin’ up. Even though he did things his own way and to hell with anyone else, he was amazingly caring for the players and really touched the lives of so many players and coaches.
He made the league what it is today. He is the Raiders and always will be.
RIP!
October 8th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
GOOD GRIEF..WHY WOULD U POST AN ADDRESS ?
October 8th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Card & flowers can be sent to Alameda you imbecile.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
KK, you have nothing left on this blog. You have been hating on AL since the day I first scrolled this blog. Find something else to do your work is done here.
Ingrate.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:29 pm
RIP AL DAVIS
A true football legend!
Lets hope the team steps the heck up for the old man tomorrow against a team they have struggled against.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:29 pm
VIVA LOS RAIDERS!
October 8th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
has anyone heard a statement from Madden today?
October 8th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
I wonder who the main football decision makers will be now for the team?
Let’s hope it is not Herrera…
October 8th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
GO RAIDER!
October 8th, 2011 at 8:34 pm
I live in New York. From here. No connection to Oakland or LA. And the Raiders are the only team I’ve followed my whole life. I have rooted for other out of state college and pro teams in other sports. They’ve come and gone. Not the Raiders.
The Raiders are in my blood. The Raider way stirs something in my soul. Always had. Always will. Al Davis was the Raiders. He shaped every aspect of the team: the attitude, the roster, the style of play, the mantras, the titles. And I’ve loved and been inspired by every bit of it.
I hope the Raider way … the Al Davis way … continues on. It’s a special, one-of-a-kind organization. And we have only Al Davis to thank for that.
I just feel sad that he wasn’t around for one last title run. I was eager to see that happen for Mr. Davis as much as or even moreso than for myself or anyone else.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Revised prediction for tomorrow:
Raiders 41, Texans 3
October 8th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
The Raiders have to win tomorrow, they will!
October 8th, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Estate Of Al Davis Could Face Huge Tax Bill On Oakland Raiders
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2011/10/08/estate-of-al-davis-could-face-huge-tax-bill-on-oakland-raiders/
Sorry…you will have to cut and paste the link.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Oh! Apparently not. That’s good, lol!
October 8th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
KK Go straight to HELL!!
October 8th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Priesttj Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
KK Go straight to HELL!!
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Yeah, I guess I deserve that.
Best wishes Raider fans.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
484.KoolKell Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
The Raiders have to win tomorrow, they will!
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I don’t know. Raiders may be playing with heavy hearts and a bit of confusion and identity “issues”.
I sure hope they win though.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Has anybody said what Mr. Davis died from? Nobody even alluded that he was even sick at all. Was it something sudden; out of the blue?
Just curious.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Report was prostate cancer
October 8th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Djohnnyg. The Raiders don’t even say what their player’s injuries are. You think they’re going to tell you info about Mr. Davis?
I’m happy they don’t. It should be that way.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
If they don’t win tomorrow, then mark my words, they will crush the Brownies at home next weekend!!
October 8th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Oh, well Plunk…so much for what I said….
October 8th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
sorry bro
October 8th, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Night gents, take care when its your time to sleep!
October 8th, 2011 at 8:50 pm
RaidersMom Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Estate Of Al Davis Could Face Huge Tax Bill On Oakland Raiders
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RaidersMom, I think they call that a high class problem. There are a few CPA’s that come in here. Maybe one could explain this to us. Davis owned massive real estate holding related to the Raiders in addition to businesses like companies operating out of the port of Oakland that few people actually realized. I will bet it will take years to sort this out.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:50 pm
that address is wrong.
Amy says that the team will remain in the hands of the Davis family. So, no sale.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
There is no inheiritance tax this year. This tax is federal, not state. Or was that the year Steinbrenner went? Anyway, its not that much.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Its laughable to think master of business Davis wouldn’t have prepped for this eventuality.
Estate tax or no.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
I’ll always remember where i was when I heard the news.
-Elvis
-911
-The news of Al Davis
October 8th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
I have no doubt that Mr. Davis made plans for the Raider’s and his family fortune in the event of his inevitable demise.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:57 pm
@500 Obviously
October 8th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
I’ve been a Raider fan for more than 30 years. I’ll always be a Raider fan. But without Mr. Davis at the helm, things just aren’t the same.
You know, I’ve seen the Al bashers here ask – ‘are you a Raider fan or a Davis fan’? After 7 years of dismal losing, that would seem a legitimate question.
My answer, of course, was I’m a Raider fan AND a Davis fan. Today, I realize more than ever that the two are inseparable. And although this would disappoint Mr. Davis, I have to be honest and admit that I’m not quite as avid a fan now that he’s passed.
Great years. Great teams. Bitter disappointments. But for the most part, continual excellence.
Then the descent and 7 horrible years of losing.
Ridiculing Davis and the Raiders became vogue.
Only made me more dedicated and loyal to Mr. Davis’ and his Raiders.
Only made me more fervently want to see Davis and the Raiders ascend to dominance and ultimate vindication again.
Now that he’s gone, it can never be the same.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:59 pm
I don’t understand the tax system at all so I appreciate any informed answers. I do think though that knowing Al as we all do that he’d have some type of protection (insurance?)to ensure it stays in the family….forever.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
THE 1ST GAME WITHOUT MR.DAVIS WILL BE HERE IN JUST 13 HRS..STILL HAVING TROUBLE GETTING MY MIND AROUND THAT..
October 8th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
It would appear that something has actually left John Madden speechless. I wouldn’t have thought Al Davis’ death would do the trick.
If anyone wants to add a score to the predictions list, include it tomorrow morning before game time.
I will add the lastest list again tomorrow morning so that everyone can see it. I am just too upset to sift through everything from today to see if anyone posted a score. I usually read the blog anyway, but today it has been a little to much.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Thanks for the memories Mr. Davis, you will always be missed.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:02 pm
On NFLN right now is the SB season of the ‘83 team. Enjoy…
October 8th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
VittorioTafur Vittorio Tafur
“The team will remain in the Davis family,” chief executive Amy Trask said Sat. night. “There is a succession plan in place in that regard.”
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RIP Mr Davis.
You will be missed.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:04 pm
I’m still torn up yall…Al was my dude
October 8th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
RAIDERMAN99 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
I’ve been a Raider fan for more than 30 years. I’ll always be a Raider fan. But without Mr. Davis at the helm, things just aren’t the same.
You know, I’ve seen the Al bashers here ask – ‘are you a Raider fan or a Davis fan’? After 7 years of dismal losing, that would seem a legitimate question.
My answer, of course, was I’m a Raider fan AND a Davis fan. Today, I realize more than ever that the two are inseparable. And although this would disappoint Mr. Davis, I have to be honest and admit that I’m not quite as avid a fan now that he’s passed.
Great years. Great teams. Bitter disappointments. But for the most part, continual excellence.
Then the descent and 7 horrible years of losing.
Ridiculing Davis and the Raiders became vogue.
Only made me more dedicated and loyal to Mr. Davis’ and his Raiders.
Only made me more fervently want to see Davis and the Raiders ascend to dominance and ultimate vindication again.
Now that he’s gone, it can never be the same.
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Today I feel like I’ve the passion I’ve felt for the Raiders all these years has gone with Mr. Davis.
I only hope that tomorrow I feel differently.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
I am sure Davis also set up a chain of command for the team. I would look for Al Saunders to immediately take control.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:07 pm
DIRT-LOT FOOTBALL Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
THE 1ST GAME WITHOUT MR.DAVIS WILL BE HERE IN JUST 13 HRS..STILL HAVING TROUBLE GETTING MY MIND AROUND THAT..
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MY whole life Al has been the Raiders…..you ask what now? We move on and that’s the hardest thing to do
October 8th, 2011 at 9:07 pm
Method To My Madness Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:04 pm
I’m still torn up yall…Al was my dude
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Hey B,
I read your earlier post. Very moving and power full.
Well done my man.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
We’re all with you Brien.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
The biggest spender was Texans owner Bob McNair, who has given mainly to Republican candidates and committees. The Jets, Chargers, Cardinals, Cowboys, Broncos, Panthers, Chiefs, Redskins, Lions and Ravens also leaned right.
Donations predominantly going to Democratic candidates and committees came from the Seahawks, Rams, 49ers, Raiders, Eagles, Giants, Patriots, and Saints.
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Funny, the Estate Tax apparently didn’t bother Al.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
Icant even go out tonight….I normally love to be on a saturday night mission chasing women or vice versa…..just hard to know your hero is gone
October 8th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
“Today I feel like I’ve the passion I’ve felt for the Raiders all these years has gone with Mr. Davis.
I only hope that tomorrow I feel differently.”
So true
October 8th, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Silverandblack666 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Do you think he could be buried in New York? I hope they have a ceremony here that fans can attend.
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I believe he is of the Jewish faith and I think their custom dictates that the deceased be buried with 24 hours. I doubt he will be going east. Too bad they don’t have an area at the Coliseum that could be used as a monument. Somehow that would seem appropriate to be where he spent the majority of his time with his beloved Raiders.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:11 pm
I feel you B
The Cleveland game is going to have a strange feel to it.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:11 pm
VittorioTafur Vittorio Tafur
“The team will remain in the Davis family,” chief executive Amy Trask said Sat. night. “There is a succession plan in place in that regard.”
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You had to figure they’ve been talking about this for years. Papa was saying he and Al have talked about death frequently.
I think Al has the wheels in motion for a very successful team. Just wish he was able to go out on another Al Davis Trophy (Lombardi who?).
October 8th, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Its gonna be hard to move on, but the org, The Nation, the team all has to! The passing of Coach Davis marked the end of an era that will never be duplicated! Now, let us all watch the new era begin! As hard as it will be for me, also…we have to! For Al!!! It is what he would want! CODE BLACK!
October 8th, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Silverandblack666 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
“Today I feel like I’ve the passion I’ve felt for the Raiders all these years has gone with Mr. Davis.
I only hope that tomorrow I feel differently.”
So true
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It will never be the same without Al
October 8th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
My dad died in January. My father-in-law last week. I have already shed more tears for Mr. Davis. My last father figure.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Any new stadium the Raiders play in should be Al Davis Field.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Why won’t the tears subside? My husband is getting really worried about me. I want to stop crying…but, I can’t. It feels like I got punched in the gut. My eyes are damn near swollen shut from all the crying. God bless you, Al.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:15 pm
Al incorporated what he thought were the best of both the (Brooklyn) Dodgers and Yankees, grew up in New York, went to college there, but Al has been doing the Cali thing for a looooong time. Loved bringing in Cali and Bay Area natives. Gotta figure Al put to rest in Cali.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:15 pm
We’re with you Mom, B@uce…
Al Davis field…gotta love it!
October 8th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
We are going to burn at the Cleveland game B
Fans need to join together
October 8th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Method To My Madness Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:04 pm
I’m still torn up yall…Al was my dude
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Are you kidding me? That guy was my hero. To live outside the law, you must be honest. He single handedly built an alternative existence to what everybody else thought and did. And kept it that way til the end. Everyone else be damned! And everyone was accepted. No one was excluded. You know how many people dream of that existence: almost everyone. You know how many actually do it? Very very few.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
MR you can have your many aliases and try to crap on Mr. Davis….you go and have your moment. When you final chapter is written you will never go out with as much love as Al Davis. You didnt factor in people’s lives for the better. You didnt touch other’s lives. You never gave a large number of people inspiration to buck the odds and be true to themselves
I’m a Raider unlike anything else you seen on EARTH. I’m an outcast who still rises and overcomes any and everything no matter what is thrown at me
October 8th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Al Davis field…gotta love it!
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Sheeeeit, it was Al Davis Field for years in Madden when you could still change the name.
The corporate nature of the NFL wouldn’t really accomodate that (too much money in naming rights) but it still happens. The Cowboys play in Cowboys Stadium, which is obviously the most advanced facility in the league.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:19 pm
You punks and losers have your time to dance and celebrate this legends last breath. I hope they bury Al face down so you can kiss his ass for the rest of your days
October 8th, 2011 at 9:20 pm
tried to sleep, its 0620 in the morning, my head is just spinning!
October 8th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Tomorrow we have a big game.. Think how the team is feeling. Here’s to hoping they can flip the switch to full out CODE MTHRFCKIN BLACK, and come out for the stomp. I’ll be up bright and early, in fresh Raider gear down to my underwear. On Monday we can miss Al again. Tomorrow its the Texans.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
B, better to kick it and play it cool anyway, man, don’t make any bad decisions.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
B These haters have no idea the passion he had for winning. The league plagued him until his death with corrupt officiating. What they did to us when he went to his last home game was dispicable. The players wanted to win for him so bad yet they’re always fighting an uphill battle because he was who he was. The haters think he meddled but he did everything he could think of to help them win. He was just flawed like all of us we want the best so bad sometimes we sometimes LOVE TO HARD. If he was giulty of anything it was that…..
October 8th, 2011 at 9:22 pm
POST-530..ABSOLUTLY.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:22 pm
Method To My Madness Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:19 pm
You punks and losers have your time to dance and celebrate this legends last breath. I hope they bury Al face down so you can kiss his ass for the rest of your days
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They don’t have sh;t to talk about anymore. Time to retire.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
LA to TheBay Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Al Davis field…gotta love it!
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Sheeeeit, it was Al Davis Field for years in Madden when you could still change the name.
The corporate nature of the NFL wouldn’t really accomodate that (too much money in naming rights) but it still happens. The Cowboys play in Cowboys Stadium, which is obviously the most advanced facility in the league.
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I said the same thing, but the corp, owning the naming rights could name the new stadium, Coca-cola at Al Davis Field! or something like that
October 8th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
They really should try to have the new stadium named after Al Davis, something like The Al Davis memorial coliseum
October 8th, 2011 at 9:24 pm
priesttj Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
B These haters have no idea the passion he had for winning. The league plagued him until his death with corrupt officiating. What they did to us when he went to his last home game was dispicable. The players wanted to win for him so bad yet they’re always fighting an uphill battle because he was who he was. The haters think he meddled but he did everything he could think of to help them win. He was just flawed like all of us we want the best so bad sometimes we sometimes LOVE TO HARD. If he was giulty of anything it was that…..
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Best post on this thread, yet. What’s up, BHP? Figured you would take this one tough with us fellow bootlickers and shills.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:24 pm
Fk you Al Michaels
Fk you Glenn dickey
Fk you ESPN
Fk you Sporting News
Fk you Paul Tagliabue
Fk the grave site of Pete Rozelle
Fk you Jim Rome
Fk you Hacksaw Hamilton
Fk you Solomon Wilcots
Fk you Colin Cowherd
Fk you KNBR
FK you KPIX
FK you KTVU
FK you KRON
FK you Fox sports
Fk you New York Daily news
Fk you Yahoo Sports
Fk you CBSsports.com
Fk you SF Chronicle
Fk you SF Examiner
Fk you Oakland Tribune
October 8th, 2011 at 9:25 pm
I was reading all the posts on PFT about Al and there were so many non Raider fans saying incredibly wonderful things about Al.
Things like NFL legend, icon, created the game we now play. The most iconic figure along with George Hallas to shape the NFL.
Great stuff!
October 8th, 2011 at 9:25 pm
I said the same thing, but the corp, owning the naming rights could name the new stadium, Coca-cola at Al Davis Field! or something like that
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Thought about that for a second. Don’t think we would let it happen. That whole “Wherever AT wherever” thing is getting really, really, fckin old here in the states, don’t know its the same over there.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Seymour Bush Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
I am sure Davis also set up a chain of command for the team. I would look for Al Saunders to immediately take control.
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I find your comment interesting if shared in all candor. Please elaborate on your thinking.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
KTLA and your lame hurtful comments lately…you go can go FK off too
October 8th, 2011 at 9:27 pm
Silverandblack666 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:25 pm
I was reading all the posts on PFT about Al and there were so many non Raider fans saying incredibly wonderful things about Al.
Things like NFL legend, icon, created the game we now play. The most iconic figure along with George Hallas to shape the NFL.
Great stuff!
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And I’m sure most of those guys are sincere. Like I said earlier, though, his enemies will be out in full force for about two days kissin his @$$ and then go back to be being btches and talk sh;t again.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Where is everyone watching the game tomorrow? Maybe people in the same town should get together in Al’s memory.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Fk the grave site of Pete Rozelle
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LMAO!
October 8th, 2011 at 9:30 pm
LA to TheBay Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:25 pm
I said the same thing, but the corp, owning the naming rights could name the new stadium, Coca-cola at Al Davis Field! or something like that
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Thought about that for a second. Don’t think we would let it happen. That whole “Wherever AT wherever” thing is getting really, really, fckin old here in the states, don’t know its the same over there.
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no we dont have ‘whatever at whatever’ stadiums here..
most are named after a sponsor, or after their “first legendary field… my soccer clubs stadium is named after the club, but only because a company owned by a huge fan payed more than other corporations was willing to pay..
October 8th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Priesttj Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
B These haters have no idea the passion he had for winning. The league plagued him until his death with corrupt officiating. What they did to us when he went to his last home game was dispicable. The players wanted to win for him so bad yet they’re always fighting an uphill battle because he was who he was. The haters think he meddled but he did everything he could think of to help them win. He was just flawed like all of us we want the best so bad sometimes we sometimes LOVE TO HARD. If he was giulty of anything it was that…..
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They fked him BHP….they did in 2000 with the bogus rison off PI call vs bmore…they fked us with the tuck rule and then in 02 they did the biggest conspire move against him using Barrett Robbins and destroying his life all becuz they hated Al. I know what happened that night! I fking know and GOD knows as well…and people shall pay
October 8th, 2011 at 9:33 pm
REPOST
Al Davis & Steve Jobs – BOTH giants within heir own spheres of influence. Both impacting millions of people worldwide. Both one of a kind. Both will be missed leaving voids that are without measure.
Al Davis put Oakland on the map. He was as much Mr. Oakland as he was Mr. Raider. His legacy will continue on into perpetuity. The Raiders will always reflect the values establish by Al Davis. the Raiders ARE Al Davis.
RIP Al Davis.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:33 pm
SO WHO’S A%S WILL JOHN HERRERA’S FACE BE FIRMLY PLANTED IN NOW ?
October 8th, 2011 at 9:33 pm
552, I gotcha LMN.
But its worse than just whatever at whatever stadiums, it’s kind of everywhere, in particular shopping centers, apartment complexes and subdivisions. They try to p*ssy it abit and make the place seem more pleasant/upscale by making whatever comany/developer AT somewhere.
I’m a throwback, man, just bugs me for some reason. Not sincere. That’s why we either gotta go tailgate at “The Al,” or tailgate at “Corporate Field” and just pay tribute to the Al statue.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
PlunkforHOF Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Where is everyone watching the game tomorrow? Maybe people in the same town should get together in Al’s memory.
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I have to cry alone tomorrow man….i can get thru it next week but tomorrow is too tough
October 8th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
10 minutes before I heard the Al-news, I read this one, and was going to post it here
—”10 years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash – Now we have no Jobs, no Hope and no Cash.”—
It was really funny smart in sad way, and then I heard the news about AL, forgot all about it, because eveything around me just stopped for hours!
October 8th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Where is everyone watching the game tomorrow? Maybe people in the same town should get together in Al’s memory.
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I have to cry alone tomorrow man….i can get thru it next week but tomorrow is too tough
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Prob watch the game with some of my patnas from Oakland, they been really upset too. My boy asked me earlier where he can get an all white Al jumpsuit, LOL.
But its gonna be Papa and Flores all the way. No lame CBS broadcast.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:37 pm
557.Method To My Madness Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
PlunkforHOF Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Where is everyone watching the game tomorrow? Maybe people in the same town should get together in Al’s memory.
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I have to cry alone tomorrow man….i can get thru it next week but tomorrow is too tough
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That is totally cool my brother
October 8th, 2011 at 9:37 pm
Lamar Hunt’s grave site I’d piss and schit all over for being a traitor. I bet if you asked Bud Adams or Ralph Wilson about it they’d agree. Al was leading a revolution and Hunt sold out when we had the NFL by the balls. L
FK you LAMAR HUNT FOREVER….curse be to your seed
October 8th, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Gonna be a very strange feeling tomorrow. Maybe stranger the following Sunday.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
LA To TheBay Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Where is everyone watching the game tomorrow? Maybe people in the same town should get together in Al’s memory.
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I have to cry alone tomorrow man….i can get thru it next week but tomorrow is too tough
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Prob watch the game with some of my patnas from Oakland, they been really upset too. My boy asked me earlier where he can get an all white Al jumpsuit, LOL.
But its gonna be Papa and Flores all the way. No lame CBS broadcast.
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I’m trying to find one too for next week
October 8th, 2011 at 9:42 pm
It’s wierd. Seems like so many in the media have been making fun of Al Davis and calling the organization a disorganized mess for so long, and NOW it’s an over the top respect and love fest. NFLN today was honoring Mr. Davis as if he were not only a great, great man, but the most important figure in NFL history. They painted a picture of the utmost respect and honor for him.
It will be different now of course going forward. In what way will they criticize and villify the Raiders going forward? Will we be villified any longer?
Mr. Davis has been so inextricably intertwined with the Raiders since 1963 that people won’t know how the hell to react to us now.
A new era starts tomorrow. They don’t have Al to kick around anymore. How do you relate to the Raiders now?
The whole basis for making fun of the Raiders was entirely because of their comical view of Al Davis. At his passing Mr. Davis FINALLY gets the vindication he deserves. You look at the ENTIRETY at this mans life and accomplishments now that we review it all and you can’t help but have enormous respect for the man no matter who you are and whether you liked him or not.
No more jokes about Al running the defense and meddling. No more “dysfunctional” organization to make fun of.
How will the media and fans react going forward to a whole new era in Raiders football?
It’s gonna be different. It’s gonna be weird.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
Just remember our team needs every positive vibe we can send their way tomorrow.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
Al deserved more hardware. The pieces put in place can get that for him though.
Hue, Denarius, DMC, Lil Wiz, Veldheer, Biekert, Big Wiz, Rod, all the other players and coaches on the squad here because Al either pursued it or signed off on it.
The Legacy remains intact and the fire that burns brightest burns on.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
LA To TheBay Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Gonna be a very strange feeling tomorrow. Maybe stranger the following Sunday.
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Next sunday will be like never before
October 8th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
They are saying that Mark Davis will assume control of the S&B and will most likely hire a new GM. While my first choice would be Madden, he’s simply too old to assume a position requiring more time & effort than Madden’s wiling to give. I see Madden’s role more as a mentor and trusted advisor to Mark. So who are the leading candidates? Parcels might be on the radar but he too is beyond the age of serious consideration. I’m thinking someone with a solid football mentality like Bill Cowher. Who else comes to your minds?
October 8th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
JB Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Seymour Bush Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
I am sure Davis also set up a chain of command for the team. I would look for Al Saunders to immediately take control.
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I find your comment interesting if shared in all candor. Please elaborate on your thinking.
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I don’t think I can do it because it brings up a lot of memories but I’ll try. Saunders came up thru Don Coryell’s staff. Coryell coached in San Diego, USC, and Coryell coached an army team out of Fort Ord. Al Davis coached at USC, the San Diego pro team and Davis also coached an army team out of some fort in Virginia. On Coryells staff in SD was this defensive assistant you guys might have heard of: I think he was named Madden.
So Saunders goes waaaaay back thru the Al Davis trust mechanisms. Then Saunders was in SD, then KC, so he basically has the AFC West thing down. Al Saunders is 30 years in the league. He has coached with Joe Gibbs and the great NFL hierarchy. Please notice that this year the Raiders have come out in games and smoked opponents. Thank Al Saunders for the game planning and executing the scouting reports. We are very lucky to have Al Saunders especially right now.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
LA to TheBay Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:33 pm
552, I gotcha LMN.
But its worse than just whatever at whatever stadiums, it’s kind of everywhere, in particular shopping centers, apartment complexes and subdivisions. They try to p*ssy it abit and make the place seem more pleasant/upscale by making whatever comany/developer AT somewhere.
I’m a throwback, man, just bugs me for some reason. Not sincere. That’s why we either gotta go tailgate at “The Al,” or tailgate at “Corporate Field” and just pay tribute to the Al statue.
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yup, I agree, thats why Im so happy about this rich dude a great fan of my club paying millions to keep the RIGHT name of the stadium..
but the pricescale is much steeper in US and at a new expensive 60K seat stadium, so that will never happen! but if you think about it, if lets say some company bought the naming rights, kept it in Al’s name, that in it self would have a huge PR-effect in itself, because Fans would appreciate it and buy their stuff because of it!
October 8th, 2011 at 9:46 pm
564, good post. It sure will be. Like every free agent and draft pick from the this point won’t be an Al pick up. Very weird.
I think Al got Hue in here to lock it down.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:46 pm
LA To TheBay Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
Al deserved more hardware. The pieces put in place can get that for him though.
Hue, Denarius, DMC, Lil Wiz, Veldheer, Biekert, Big Wiz, Rod, all the other players and coaches on the squad here because Al either pursued it or signed off on it.
The Legacy remains intact and the fire that burns brightest burns on.
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68,72,77 entire 80s without elway!….2000s fixed years! Al should have 7-8 SBs at the least possibly we get a 3 peat with Elway
October 8th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Wasn’t always a Raider fan, but it’s been so darn long I can barely remember when I wasn’t.
I grew up in Brooklyn. I can remember going to a James Bond double feature and afterward, listening to the Raider vs Jets AFL title game on a transistor radio. In a roach infested, dive burger joint, on Flatbush Avenue right next to Erasmus High School, Al’s Alma mater. Namath to Maynard still pisses me off.
Knew this day was coming. Didn’t think it would be so soon. Didn’t think it would hurt me so.
82 years, and it wasn’t enough time.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
JB Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
They are saying that Mark Davis will assume control of the S&B and will most likely hire a new GM. While my first choice would be Madden, he’s simply too old to assume a position requiring more time & effort than Madden’s wiling to give. I see Madden’s role more as a mentor and trusted advisor to Mark. So who are the leading candidates? Parcels might be on the radar but he too is beyond the age of serious consideration. I’m thinking someone with a solid football mentality like Bill Cowher. Who else comes to your minds?
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Cowher would be great
October 8th, 2011 at 9:48 pm
Davis family will retain control of Raiders
Posted by Mike Florio on October 9, 2011, 12:39 AM EDT
Mark Davis AP
The fact that Al Davis operated the Raiders with scant information disclosed publicly regarding the ownership structure of the organization invites speculation as to the future of the team. Some, for example, already are predicting a flurry of lawsuits aimed at sorting out the various rights of the minority owners who allowed Davis to control the team.
The reality is far less intriguing.
Per a source with knowledge of the situation, thorough and detailed estate and succession planning ensures that the team will be owned by the wife and son of Al Davis: Carol Davis and Mark Davis. They can’t be forced to sell by their partners, by the league, or by operation of law.
As it relates to the other partners, the team operates as a limited partnership, with the Davis family being the sole and complete owner of the sole general partner. Under the law of limited partnerships, that gives the Davis family full control over the business. And there’s no path to control held by any of the other partners based on the passing of Al Davis.
The fact that the general partner owns only a small percentage of the franchise has caused many to conclude that the Davis family owns only a small percentage of the franchise. That’s not the case; the Davis family owns significantly more of the equity via limited partnership interests in the team.
The question becomes whether Carol and Mark Davis want to continue to own the team. Mrs. Davis was married to Al for well over 50 years, and Mark (pictured) is in his 50s. They are a close family, and it’s believed that they have no desire to sell the team. Mark grew up in and around the organization, and he has a passion for the franchise.
The fact that Al Davis has only one child removes one of the other potential catalysts for a sale. If multiple children inherit a team and one or more want to cash out, the others may have no alternative to selling the team in order to raise the money to buy out a sibling or two.
In this case, the bigger question is whether Mark Davis will run the team on a day-to-day basis or entrust that function to others. He has had some past involvement in the franchise, and it’s unknown whether he intends to assume a larger role.
None of this prevents Phil Anschutz or Ed Roski or anyone from trying to buy the team. But the passing of Al Davis will, in and of itself, give rise to no circumstance that creates an incentive or necessity to sell.
Thus, if Carol and Mark Davis aren’t interested in selling, they can tell Anschutz, Roski, or whoever makes an overture that the Oakland Raiders will remain in the Davis family indefinitely.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:48 pm
# priesttj Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
B These haters have no idea the passion he had for winning. The league plagued him until his death with corrupt officiating. What they did to us when he went to his last home game was despicable. The players wanted to win for him so bad yet they’re always fighting an uphill battle because he was who he was. The haters think he meddled but he did everything he could think of to help them win. He was just flawed like all of us we want the best so bad sometimes we sometimes LOVE TO HARD. If he was guilty of anything it was that…..
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Thank you BHP. This is beautiful.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:48 pm
568-Hue Jackson.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:49 pm
I watch raider games in my garage. my family insisted that i do this because i tend to get a bit excited. so I got a nice tv, (the old one but it works.) an old couch and a nice little fridge all stocked upwith pbr’s. I’m really looking forward to my garage time tomorrow because this is going to be a special game. Gonna hoist one for you Mr. Davis just before kickoff then it will be business as usual. Thanks Mr. davis.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:49 pm
I AGREE METHOD.THE BROWNS GAME WILL BE A STRANGE FEELING FROM TAILGATE ‘TILL FINAL GUN.WOULD NOT MISS IT 4 ANYTHING..
October 8th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
574.Method To My Madness Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
JB Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
They are saying that Mark Davis will assume control of the S&B and will most likely hire a new GM. While my first choice would be Madden, he’s simply too old to assume a position requiring more time & effort than Madden’s wiling to give. I see Madden’s role more as a mentor and trusted advisor to Mark. So who are the leading candidates? Parcels might be on the radar but he too is beyond the age of serious consideration. I’m thinking someone with a solid football mentality like Bill Cowher. Who else comes to your minds?
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Cowher would be great
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PlunkforHOF approves this idea
October 8th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
One has to figure the same emphasis won’t be placed on 40 times and the H/W/S thing but whoever assumes control of the scouting operations has to keep this a Raider team.
A Raider team gotta fly and they gotta look fckin scary getting off the bus.
It is what it is.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:52 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4_MPJe4r0o
October 8th, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Seymour Bush
Thanks for your thoughts. Good logic and based on that information a viable alternative. It might be a little awkward for Hue Jackson going from supervising Saunders to working for him. Nonetheless, if that is what transpires, I think Hue Jackson will handle the transition well.
I find it interesting that Al finally found what I assess to be the quintessential Raider Head Coach before he left us. Hue Jackson exudes everything that Al Davis has worked for all these years. He’s another true Raider & that’s a very good thing.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:53 pm
the team will be owned by the wife and son of Al Davis: Carol Davis and Mark Davis. They can’t be forced to sell by their partners, by the league, or by operation of law.
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YEAAAAAAAHHHHH!
Best thing I ever seen from Florio.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
ArmChair GM Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:48 pm
# priesttj Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
B These haters have no idea the passion he had for winning. The league plagued him until his death with corrupt officiating. What they did to us when he went to his last home game was despicable. The players wanted to win for him so bad yet they’re always fighting an uphill battle because he was who he was. The haters think he meddled but he did everything he could think of to help them win. He was just flawed like all of us we want the best so bad sometimes we sometimes LOVE TO HARD. If he was guilty of anything it was that…..
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Thank you BHP. This is beautiful.
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BHP is the man!
October 8th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
Barry Halverson Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Was out scoutn for deer this morning and when I returned to my truck I heard Seth Everett talking bout Al Davis. Couldnt figure out why untill he started talking about him in the past tense….I for one was THRILLED! I literally was yelling with joy. Now this team can be relevant again. Booo Yeah! R.I.P Al Davis. Your meddling, franchise destroying days are over.
I have connections with Internet crime division in my city, MR just cannot realize his 5150 tendencys!
October 8th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
I admit there have been times when I regretted the choice i made in embracing these Oakland Raiders and become fan i became. It’d been so easy to just go and buy a Joe Montana jersey and then trade it in for a Tom Brady jersey right? But after today as I watched NFLN, and the tributes from everyone; the highlights of the Raiders great victories, the life and accomplishments of Mr. Davis etc. etc. and see him being rightly portrayed at long last; indisputably as one of the all time great sports icons, i feel very proud to be part of the Raider Nation.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Armchair they screwed him….they hated him so much cuz he had what they wanted
October 8th, 2011 at 9:56 pm
# djohnnyg Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Seems like so many in the media have been making fun of Al Davis and calling the organization a disorganized mess for so long, and NOW it’s an over the top respect and love fest. NFLN today was honoring Mr. Davis as if he were not only a great, great man, but the most important figure in NFL history. They painted a picture of the utmost respect and honor for him.
The whole basis for making fun of the Raiders was entirely because of their comical view of Al Davis. At his passing Mr. Davis FINALLY gets the vindication he deserves.
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They villified Al Davis because they were JEALOUS and ENVIOUS of him!
Like the saying goes, “They hate me because they AIN’T me!”
Al Davis was a living legend and had the rings and the franchise to back it up.
They will never be half the man that he was and that’s why they hated him!
October 8th, 2011 at 9:56 pm
—”Thus, if Carol and Mark Davis aren’t interested in selling, they can tell Anschutz, Roski, or whoever makes an overture that the Oakland Raiders will remain in the Davis family indefinitely”—
this was the best part to me…
October 8th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
# Method To My Madness Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Armchair they screwed him….they hated him so much cuz he had what they wanted
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Yes!
October 8th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
I hope DHB holds on to that bomb that Hue has got dialed up for him.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Brien you gotta tell me the true story of what happened to Barrett Robbins.
I always knew something wasn’t right about that!
October 8th, 2011 at 9:59 pm
ohh fkk itt! I better try go in and get some sleep!
its 7AM now… hope I can turn off all the Al thoughts so I can fall asleep!
October 8th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Night Fellas, take care!
October 8th, 2011 at 10:01 pm
JB Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Seymour Bush
Thanks for your thoughts. Good logic and based on that information a viable alternative. It might be a little awkward for Hue Jackson going from supervising Saunders to working for him.
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Saunders was listed as OC under Jackson this year, but the reality of it is Saunders is probably working more WITH Jackson than under him. Of note, after his Washington Redskins stint, The Baltimore Ravens hired Saunders as an offensive consultant in John Harbaugh’s 2nd year. So he worked with Harbaugh and Cam Cameron was the OC on that staff. The QB’s coach was this second year guy named Hue Jackson.
Saunders was listed as OC under
October 8th, 2011 at 10:02 pm
ArmChair GM Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Brien you gotta tell me the true story of what happened to Barrett Robbins.
I always knew something wasn’t right about that!
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Bruh….he was the center….he calls the line audibles. It was the ultimate setup game what they did to that man. You know I aint lying
October 8th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
B, Al shoulda had a shot in 77, 00, 01 for sure was robbed there. If what you say about 02 is true, than makes it even worse. NFL stepped in and smashed the Elway deal. Fcked with him right til his last days, last game, as one last fck you to Al.
Al got more fck yous in though. Gotta imagine Al holding that trophy in 84 next to Roselle was one of his finest moments in life.
And I’m glad he was polarizing. I’m glad people hated. I’m happy to be part of the dysfunctional family that is Raider Nation. From first round picks to unheralded dudes from podunk schools to track stars to undrafted cats and has beens-and wash outs and journeymen and all my Raider Nation members from fckin doctors to dock workers.
We’re different, man. You got to the coliseum (either) to watch the Raiders, you got movie stars and musicians sitting with eses, Bs and Cs, family men and women, little kids, regular folks. Best minority fan base in all the land. Sportin’ Silver and Black (thanks for the best jerseys in sports, Al) not some p*ssy-a$$ orange or powder blue or red, white and blue, gree, purple, whatever.
Black and White (with a splash of Silver, not gray), just like Al Davis himself.
Go Raiders = Go Al!
October 8th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
I know you ain’t bruh!
All they told us was that he went 51/50 in Tijuana. But that never sounded right to me.
Man I would love to know what actually happened!
October 8th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
here I don’t know how that got retyped but:
Saunders was listed as OC under Jackson this year, but the reality of it is Saunders is probably working more WITH Jackson than under him. Of note, after his Washington Redskins stint, The Baltimore Ravens hired Saunders as an offensive consultant in John Harbaugh’s 2nd year. So he worked with Harbaugh and Cam Cameron was the OC on that staff. The QB’s coach was this second year guy named Hue Jackson.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Method To My Madness Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
LA To TheBay Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Gonna be a very strange feeling tomorrow. Maybe stranger the following Sunday.
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Next sunday will be like never before
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and every Sunday after that as well
October 8th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
HueKnows Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
I hope DHB holds on to that bomb that Hue has got dialed up for him.
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Thought the saaaaame fckin thing, man.
It’s cool, he’ll borrow some stickem from Lester or Freddy B.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:07 pm
I haven’t been to a game yet this year but I’ll be at the next home game even if I have to leave early.
Big Al was very special to me, I can’t put in words how special he was always very nice to me since the very first time I met him. I was allowed to get as close to the organization beyond anything I could’ve ever dreamed of and was able to witness greatness up close.
My tears wont stop flowing and this wont leave me for some time I guess. But I wnat to say to all TRUE Raider fans who appreciated the man for what he did until his death.
The greatness of the Raiders is in it’s FUTURE!!
Pride and Poise forever ……..Amen!
October 8th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Author Hunter Thompson once wrote: “Al Davis makes Darth Vader look like a punk.” Davis took it as a compliment. He didn’t mind being the bad guy as long as he won.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
ArmChair GM Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
I know you ain’t bruh!
All they told us was that he went 51/50 in Tijuana. But that never sounded right to me.
Man I would love to know what actually happened!
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On night before the SB you dont have a tight watch on a “bi polar” man? Gimme a fkin break. Do you not remember Robbins on he flag ship station of the raider that year? You gonna trust a bi polar football player not on his meds from mid december to february?
Something is rotten in the cotton
October 8th, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Yo meth
check yo email bruh
October 8th, 2011 at 10:11 pm
“No member of the league’s ownership lodge has worked at the football business more devotedly than Al Davis,” wrote Jerry Magee in Pro Football Weekly. “He doesn’t play golf. He doesn’t waste away moments in idle talk. He is not interested in ingratiating himself with his peers. His mission seems to be to serve as the NFL’s human hair shirt, questioning both the league’s practices and those of his associates, in the courtroom if need be.
“Every league needs a guy like this.”
October 8th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
MR.DAVIS,GEORGE BLANDA,JACK TATUM,GENE UPSHAW..SITTING AROUND A TABLE THROWING BACK SHOTS TALK’N RAIDER HISTORY..
October 8th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
# LA to TheBay Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
HueKnows Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
I hope DHB holds on to that bomb that Hue has got dialed up for him.
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Thought the saaaaame fckin thing, man.
It’s cool, he’ll borrow some stickem from Lester or Freddy B.
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Great minds think alike.
I was thinking it would be Ford on the 9 route.
If it’s not a long bomb on the first play I’ll be surprised.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
F U S A P P!!
October 8th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
The story I heard on Robbins was that he found out Terry Kirby was fooling around with his wife, and he tried to kill him at the hotel.
Then he left and went on a bender and didn’t take his meds.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Al embarrassed the NFL January 1981 and 1984. Legal battles and winning on different turfs has to disturb the in crowd. I know Rozelle and Tagliabue made a deal to never let Al win a title. I’m no fool
October 8th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Sweep The Leg. Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
The story I heard on Robbins was that he found out Terry Kirby was fooling around with his wife, and he tried to kill him at the hotel.
Then he left and went on a bender and didn’t take his meds.
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an where did u hear this one?
October 8th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Message for my LAPD boys reading the blog, SULLIVAN 44 is 5150 and Barry Halverson comments are indictive of starting a riot. We know your 1st amendement rights are null and void when it’s premeditated to have a complete disrespect and agenda too infuriate the bystanders.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:19 pm
It’s funny too how some who have been ripping on the Raiders (Al) for some time and almost shying away from the fact they were ever with the team like Sapp, Marcus Allen, and even Michael Lombardi, are waxing nostalgic and even embracing their prior association with Mr. Davis and their time with the Raiders as if, God forbid, they are proud to have been part of the organization.
It’s a shame it takes the man’s demise to bring that out.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
More from Thompson:
[Raiders training camp]
There were two other solitary figures moving around on the field(s) beyond the small enclosure near the locker-room door where LoCasale and several assistants made sure the half-dozen local sportswriters stayed.
One was Ray Guy, the rookie punter and number one draft choice from Mississippi, who spent all afternoon kicking one ball after another in tall spiraling arcs above the offensive unit to a brace of ballboys just in front of the sportswriters’ huddle … and the other was a small wiry man in a tan golf jacket with a greasy duck-tail haircut who paced along the sidelines of both fields with a speedy kind of intensity that I never really noticed until he suddenly appeared very close to me and I heard him ask a sportswriter from the San Francisco Chronicle who I was and I was doing there…
The conversation took place within 10 yards of me, and I heard most of it.
“Who’s the big guy over there with the ball in his hand?” asked the man with the DA.
“His name’s Thompson,” replied Chronicle sportswriter Jack Smith. “He’s a writer for Rolling Stone.”
“The Rolling Stones? Je$us Chr;st! What’s he doing here? Did you bring him?”
“No, he’s writing a big article. Rolling Stone is a magazine, Al. It’s different from the Rolling Stones; they’re a rock music group… Thompson’s a buddy of George Plimpton’s, I think… and he’s also a friend of Dave Burgin’s-you remember Burgin?”
“Holy sh;t! Burgin! We ran him out of here with a cattle prod!”
I saw Smith laugh at this point, then he was talking again: “Don’t worry, Al. Thompson’s okay. He wrote a good book about Las Vegas.”
Good god! I thought. That’s it… If they read that book I’m finished. By this time I’d realized that this strange-looking bugger named “Al,” who looked like a p;mp or a track-tout, was in fact the infamous Al Davis-general manager and de facto owner (pending settlement of a nasty lawsuit scheduled for court-action early this year) of the whole Oakland Raider operation.
Davis glanced over his shoulder at me, then spoke back to Smith: “Get the bas+ard out of here. I don’t trust him.”
[two pages later]
Davis suddenly rushed onto the field and grabbed the quarterback, Ken Stabler, along with a receiver and a defensive back I didn’t recognize, and made them run the same pass pattern-a quick shot from about 15 yards out with the receiver getting the ball precisely at the corner of the goal lone and the out-of-bounds line-at least twelve consecutive times until they had it down exactly the way he wanted it.
This is my last real memory of Al Davis: It was getting dark in Oakland, the rest of the team had already gone into the showers, the coach was inside speaking sagely with a gaggle of local sportswriters, somewhere beyond the field-fence a big jet was cranking up its afterburners on the airport runway…and here was the owner of the flakiest team in pro football, running around on a half-dark practice field like a king-hell speed freak with his quarterback and two other key players, insisting that they run the same goddamm play over and over again until they got it right.
That was the only time I ever felt that I really understood Davis… We talked on other days, sort of loosely and usually about football, whenever I would show up at the practice field and pace around the sidelines with him… and it was somewhere around the third week of my random appearances, as I recall, that he began to act very nervous whenever he saw me. I never asked why, but it was clear that something had changed, if only back to normal…
After one of the mid-week practices I was sitting with one of the Raider players in the tavern down the road from the fieldhouse and he said: “Je$us, you know I was walking back to the huddle and I looked over and, god damm, I almost flipped when I saw you and Davis standing together on the sideline. I thought, man, the world really is changing when you see a thing like that – Hunter Thompson and Al Davis – Chr;st, you know that’s the first time I ever saw anybody with Davis during practice; the bas+ard’s always alone out there, just pacing back and forth like a goddamm beast…”
October 8th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Sweep The Leg. Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
The story I heard on Robbins was that he found out Terry Kirby was fooling around with his wife, and he tried to kill him at the hotel.
Then he left and went on a bender and didn’t take his meds.
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Someone had told me that on FIB site before. I would pretty much promise OG Raider James word always been 100
October 8th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
# r8dercain Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Sweep The Leg. Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
The story I heard on Robbins was that he found out Terry Kirby was fooling around with his wife, and he tried to kill him at the hotel.
Then he left and went on a bender and didn’t take his meds.
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an where did u hear this one?
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My brother works with a guy with knowledge of Raiderland.
I just said that’s the story I heard, don’t take it as the gospel truth.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
Sweep so great to see ya again…I tell ya the real story hasnt come out from that night. No way can I believe that bi polar story
October 8th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
May Al Davis rest in peace. My condolences to his family and the so many people who admired him. I was not a fan of his but I certainly recognize his accomplishments. For 25 years, he at least hired the right people that got the job done, and was instrumental in the NFL/AFL merger. Nobody can take that away from him, and that’s why he’s in the hall. Farewell to an icon of American history.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
The Raiders play in 12 hours, and Hue Jackson doesn’t even have a boss. This is weird. Anyone have a clue as to what this means as far as the organizational structure?
October 8th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
If I weren’t already a fan, after today, and seeing the TRUE representation of the Raider history in general and Al Davis’s contributions to pro football and LIFE in particular, I would now want to be a part of this “thing” called RAIDERS!
October 8th, 2011 at 10:24 pm
fu
October 8th, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Sweep…..I wouldnt doubt that happened and my story from what I heard coincides with that I bet. My story starts with TJ and cold game action on my dude.
Wouldnt doubt if it was like the Tupac schit…..more than one event lead to the big boom
October 8th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
MR, what happened to your pipeline? Davis and Hue were on the verge of a falling out, right? Amy Trask first female head coach?
I sincerley hope you weren’t in Sybil mode today under some random names being a pr;ck, saved the Sullivan handle for your PC statement.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Peace out yall….I wont lose it and go ape schit just for yall….not right now with this moron here now.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:26 pm
If this had happened in May, the Raiders would have all the time in the world to mourn Al’s death. Under the present circumstances, they have 12 hours. This event today is going to have a profound impact on the Oakland Raiders. And that impact has already begun. For nearly a half century, one man has had the final say on every personnel decision. We’re on day 1 of that no longer being so.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
And who does have the final say on personnel decisions now? Why is the local sports media so coy on this? We’re in the middle of a season. If this were May, we could mourn and memorialize his passing forever. We’ve got a game in 12 hours, and we’re short a GM.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
And already a move has been made. Brown to IR and Tonga promoted from practice squad.
Think Hue and Herrera are in charge of the personnel now.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
*CODE BLACK*
Here’s to kicking the crap out of the Texans tomorrow.
REGULATORS. Mount up, were comin’ man!
Bombs away.
*CODE BLACK*
Goodnight Raider Nation, at dawn a new era begins, I feel the Autumn Wind blowing.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Lot more “we” under the Sullivan handle than you used to put in your MR handle.
Shouldn’t you have become a TB or GB fan years ago?
October 8th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
LA to the Bay, interesting. Who has official control? Can Herrera call down tomorrow and make Hue play a certain player?
October 8th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
Wish I could tell you. Doubt it. I’d imagine they’re gonna talk it out and go with the best fit. There may already be some sort of structure in place we’re not aware of. If we take Hue at his word, its his call.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
When I mention Al’s contribution to LIFE, I refer to all he did to promote minority players and coaches and the example he set of refusing to judge anybody at anything other than who they are as people. That to me was an understated aspect to who he was.
I think Mr. Davis should have given up the reigns of his micro management long ago..THAT was one of his faults, ther is no doubt and it contributed to the seven years of hell we all endured recently, but the positive, almost inspirtational nugget I take from his life is the importance of doing it your way; to heck with what anybody thinks or says about you. You gotta lay it all out there. Al Davis did that.
So weird. A new era has begun for the Raiders.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
# Sullivan44 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
May Al Davis rest in peace. My condolences to his family and the so many people who admired him. I was not a fan of his but I certainly recognize his accomplishments. For 25 years, he at least hired the right people that got the job done, and was instrumental in the NFL/AFL merger. Nobody can take that away from him, and that’s why he’s in the hall. Farewell to an icon of American history.
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Fk you!!!
I have no respect for you at all and neither do any members of the Raider Nation.
You are a not a real man and you are a filthy, poor, excuse for a human being.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:34 pm
LA to the bay, who decides on Hue’s job? Who could pull the trigger on firing Hue right now, if they wanted to? That’s my question.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Al only discriminated in 40 times.
The Raiders are his thing. He molded it it. They were here before him and will be here after him, but he is the Raiders and the Raiders are Al Davis.
Everything done from 1963 to last night was a direct or indirect result of a Davis move. I don’t blame him for hanging on until his last breath. I would too.
He saw it as his team and not ours, whether we agree with him or not.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Armchair, go find an AA meeting.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
Anyone know who’s in charge of the Raiders right now, in regards to football operations? Does the team even know?
October 8th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
636, One would have to assume Mark Davis.
PFT:
Per a source with knowledge of the situation, thorough and detailed estate and succession planning ensures that the team will be owned by the wife and son of Al Davis: Carol Davis and Mark Davis. They can’t be forced to sell by their partners, by the league, or by operation of law.
As it relates to the other partners, the team operates as a limited partnership, with the Davis family being the sole and complete owner of the sole general partner. Under the law of limited partnerships, that gives the Davis family full control over the business. And there’s no path to control held by any of the other partners based on the passing of Al Davis.
The fact that the general partner owns only a small percentage of the franchise has caused many to conclude that the Davis family owns only a small percentage of the franchise. That’s not the case; the Davis family owns significantly more of the equity via limited partnership interests in the team.
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The question of ownership is addressed here but not the question of the managing general partner/GM title. I can only assume that they are one in the same, as I think Al gave himself that title anyway.
I personally believe that Mark and Carol Davis will only ensure that the image and legacy remain intact, whereas football decisions are left to Trask, Herrera and Hue, with Hererra and Hue signing off on personnel decisions.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Method To My Madness Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I’m all the way pissed now. That man should have way more hardware to his case!
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If he hadn’t have traded Gruden, he’d have 4. I know that much.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:40 pm
sully,YOU are a d-ps-it,get lost,nobody wants you here,wanna bet?
October 8th, 2011 at 10:41 pm
Thanks, LA, interesting read. I couldn’t care less about the financial ownership. They have partners, anyway, and I’m sure some silent ones. I’m only concerned with the GM. somebody’s at the top. Somebody has the final say where football decisions are concerned. The Raiders need to make it clear who that guy is.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:42 pm
Herrera and Hue signing off on personnel decisions…that doesn’t make since. Who eventually decides if Hue stays or goes?
October 8th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Disregard the humane statements as a breather and investigate to the fullest extent of our abilities as fans and the new codes for harrasment. Most of us are Raiders fans, hence his kind remarks for laying his ground work for a court case gentleman.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Hue is under contract for what, two years?
Any decision normally made by the managing general partner would now be made by Mark and Carol Davis. Ultimately, I think that is your answer for now. If a GM is hired by the Davis Family or AD Football Inc, he would take on Al’s responsibilities.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Would anyone here be all too disappointed if Mark and Carol fired John Herrera, like tomorrow, before the game?
October 8th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
I see know reason, based on the limited information out there, that Mark Davis couldn’t essentially become Al Davis. Will that happen? Doubt it. Mark was never rumored to be interested in day to day football operations.
Gotta figure if Hue shines, the Davis family will put their trust in him. After all, Al did.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Not interested in any major shakeups in the organization. Can Herrera be replaced with a more capable person? probably, but there should be major changes in staff or structure at this point.
This is a good football team.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Hue would be like a Parcells then? coach/GM? I’d be all for it. But something tells me some of the old guard would be against it. That’s why I hope Mark and Carol fire as many of them as possible. I hope they fire Herrera publicly.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
What are Herrera’s job functions anyway? I bet he’s more involved with GM-type duties than many might think, but it also seemed like he was a personal assistant to Davis. Helped set up meetings and distribute memos, etc.
Weird organization that we were never supposed to understand, MR.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
If you’re saying it’s a good football team because of Al and his guys, then you’re saying Hue’s expendable. If you’re to say that a lot of the credit goes to Hue for the team being better, then you must admit to some degree that Al’s old minions are dead wood that need to get cleared out. It’s one or the other.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
Brien,got in late today,read youre initial post,thanks for sharing youre heart felt emotion on Als passing,think we all got to know you better,and I think Al has planned for this day for awhile.Stay strong young man and RAIDER ON!!! ps I believe thats what Mr Davis would want
October 8th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
The Mark and Carol will not disrespect the patriarch of the Raiders, like some who should go crawl back in their holes.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Hue, by saying that, you distinguish Mark and Carol from the “patriarch” of the Raiders. You’re saying they’re not a part of it. You’re warning them not to mess with it, more or less. that’s what I’m getting from you.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Sullivan44 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
If you’re saying it’s a good football team because of Al and his guys, then you’re saying Hue’s expendable. If you’re to say that a lot of the credit goes to Hue for the team being better, then you must admit to some degree that Al’s old minions are dead wood that need to get cleared out. It’s one or the other.
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I don’t think it’s that simple.
Flores has said that Al has massive input but always let him coach the players the way he saw fit.
Al and his ‘minions’ get the guys, Hue coaches them based on Al’s long-standing philosophy and Hue’s own personal observations, strategy, etc.
I think its a combination.
And why wouldn’t Hue be a minion? Why is Hue independent of that? Hue was hired by Al like all the rset. He wasn’t left over from a prior regime, he was sought.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:58 pm
He didn’t warn them, he said they wouldn’t mess with it.
Like saying ‘Coca Cola continues to taste great, despite a new CEO — same great taste I remember from being a kid’ not ‘that new Coca Cola CEO better not mess with the taste or else!’
October 8th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
It’s not about influence.
It’s about someone being in charge. Somebody hires and fires the head coach. There must be one person who oversees that process. There’s no way around it. Yes, owners, GMs, what have you, can work together. But who decides ultimately when personnel or coaching changes are mad in the organization? that is key right now. 50 articles on the tribune’s sports page about the legacy of Al, not one on this. BTW, the Raiders play in 11 hours. The Raiders still have not made it clear who their head of football operations is. They should have done that this afternoon. It’s not may. We’re in the middle of the season, within a day from the next game! A company has to let its colleagues know squarely who they answer to.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Sullivan44 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
May Al Davis rest in peace. My condolences to his family and the so many people who admired him. I certainly recognize his accomplishments. Mr. Davis hired the right people that got the job done, and was instrumental in the NFL/AFL merger. Nobody can take that away from him, and that’s why he’s in the hall. Farewell to an icon of American history.
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can you be any less sincere?
You are a classless and tasteless boy Scott.
October 8th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
RIP BIG AL you gave us fans a great team.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:01 pm
LA to the bay,
he still manages to distinguish Mark and Carol from the “patriarch”. That’s what I’m getting from him. He says they won’t disrespect the “patriarch”. They ARE THE PATRIARCH! If Al put the team in their hands, then Al trusts THEM, the PATRIARCH, to do what they feel is best. So how can they actively “disrespect” the patriarch?
October 8th, 2011 at 11:03 pm
MR, you’re stirring the pot.
Players answer to Hue, as they have been all year.
Who Hue answers to? Don’t know.
Ultimately, Mark and/or Carol Davis is/are the GM right now for all intents and purposes.
They’ll allow the season to play out. As hands on as Al is, he and all in his inner circle knew he was in failing health and I’m sure there is a hieracrchy in place.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Something tells me the “patriarch” is made up of these Davis enablers who’ve been living on the tit. I hope Mark and Carol fire every last one of them, and hire someone like Ron Wolf or Madden to designate a long term GM. BTW, I hope they keep Hue Jackson, too.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:04 pm
As hands on as Al was*
Wow.
Was. Dang. Weird to write.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
LA to TheBay Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Hue is under contract for what, two years?
Any decision normally made by the managing general partner would now be made by Mark and Carol Davis. Ultimately, I think that is your answer for now. If a GM is hired by the Davis Family or AD Football Inc, he would take on Al’s responsibilities.
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If you bring in a GM right now, (or say after the season) he would want his own coaching staff, his own players, his own everything. Saunders is the senior League member of the organization. Leave the scouting dept as is, the coaching staff as is, and let Saunders be the facto GM. That makes the most sense in the short run.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
hire someone like Ron Wolf or Madden to designate a long term GM. BTW, I hope they keep Hue Jackson, too.
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Agreed.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
And someone please put Matt Millen on house arrest until the idea crosses and leaves Mark Davis’s mind.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
The Oakland Raiders = Barone Sanitation, from “The Sopranos”? Barone’s son takes over when Barone Sr. dies. Doesn’t understand who really owns the business. lol. Learns the hard way. I just hope we’re not dealing with something like that.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Go to hell Sullivan. . Eat crap!! You P.o.s… !! Your a hater… I hate your guts!! Just STFU!!
October 8th, 2011 at 11:08 pm
hue will be a raider for a long time if not forever. Imo davis saw something in him thats why he was so quick to fire cable. It didnt make scence to anyone but i believe davis had his reasons thinking long long term for this team. Hue seems like a raider like he was meant to be here with this team in this place at this time. We can all sit here and speculate what will happen with this team but no one really no’s. Thanks god for blessing the raider nation with such a wonderful man. You took him his 82nd yr to bad you couldnt guve him to us for 82 more. Night nation.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:09 pm
If you bring in a GM right now, (or say after the season) he would want his own coaching staff, his own players, his own everything. Saunders is the senior League member of the organization. Leave the scouting dept as is, the coaching staff as is, and let Saunders be the facto GM. That makes the most sense in the short run.
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Maybe its Hue. I have this weird gut feeling, based on nothing but intuition, that Al picked a successor and not just a coach. Maybe that’s too far, but I think Al invested a lot in Hue.
I wouldn’t think of Saunders being anything other than coordinator but the logic you’ve laid out in this thread is pretty sound and intriguing.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
You think Cowher will come here to be GM? Could be interesting, but I do know that Mark needs to hire one fast!
October 8th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
You make everyone here sick!! Just go away!! I hope your happy… you idiot!! … I will always know you as a raider hater.. I will make it a point to degrade you… now your my obsession. . You p.o.s…. bank on it!!
October 8th, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Hawaiian, I disagree. Think GM can wait.
Cowher? Meh. I guess. Think he made some sh;tty comment about the head coaching vacancy here prior to Hue getting promoted.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:12 pm
Al Davis 1929-2011. A true ICON. Not only in sport, but in life as a whole.
My heartfelt condolences to his loving, and devoted wife Carol, and his son Mark.
Also, to the countless current, and former players, coaches, office personal, employees. Who also mourn his loss.
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I have read many of the comments posted here today. Several stood out, and made me think, and shed a tear or one hundred.
Brien, ELWAYS TEETH’s kid, BobMarley, Dakota, and several others that I’m leaving out, due to beer fingers.
Been watching football since the day I was born. Started watching with my dad, who was just a football fan, he had no favorite team. (He was an all state QB 1930-1931 in Iowa.)
I started to follow the Raiders ca. 1968 or 1969, at the age of 7 or 8. I became a fan on that cold December day in 1971. “the deception.”
As I have gotten older, and hopefully somewhat wiser I came to appreciate what Mr. Davis meant, not only to the Raiders. But, also to football, and society in general.
I, like many of you, consider myself a renegade (just ask my family) and I will always be a Raider!
Al Davis was, and will forever be the RAIDERS.
The RAIDERS were and will forever be the legacy of Al Davis.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:14 pm
LA..I guess you’re right, but should it be at least during the offseason?
October 8th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
jmmclain, I don’t know how to put this to you, but it won’t be up to Mr. Davis how long Hue stays.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:18 pm
Yeah, too many moves to be made in an NFL offseason not to.
Sh;t, I’d like to see it be Hue. The more I see from Hue, the more I like.
Plus he’s a product of the crack-in-the-80s LA I am too and was a security guard, like I was for a while, before pursuing his dream, which I am in the process of doing.
He’s got (a term I hate using because its trendy as hell now, but) swagger. He gives you as straight an answer as a head coach can and he seems like a cool MF, has the attention and respect of the players.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
LA to the Bay, I don’t think it’s hit you yet. You’re almost acting as if Al’s still here, running the team.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
# Sullivan44 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Armchair, go find an AA meeting.
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White Mike,
Go find Dr. Kevorkian’s brightest protege.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Sullivan44 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
jmmclain, I don’t know how to put this to you, but it won’t be up to Mr. Davis how long Hue stays.
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Or maybe its the last major decision he made.
We can all speculate but my guess is a GM is hired who was/is close to the Davis family and Raider organization or promoted from within, like Herrera. Hue coaches out his contract, where, if successful, he’s extended by the new GM.
A more out-there idea is that Hue is slated to be GM or some sort of hybrid role.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
Sullivan44 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
Anyone know who’s in charge of the Raiders right now, in regards to football operations? Does the team even know?
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Since your such a know it all, about everything. Why not submit your resume`. You can google the address, or ask KK, he knows the area….
October 8th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
That is what he does have…and I hate that word too because I have seen so MANY people believe that they have it and DON’T!
October 8th, 2011 at 11:23 pm
LA to the Bay, what do you mean it’s the last decision he made? Did Al stipulate how many years they have to keep Hue Jackson? Now, I don’t think this would happen, but imagine if Hue lost the rest of his games this year. Raiders end at 2-14. Mark and Carol, or whoever’s in charge, has to keep him?
October 8th, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Sullivan44 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
LA to the Bay, I don’t think it’s hit you yet. You’re almost acting as if Al’s still here, running the team.
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The organizational structure is not transpaerent. I can’t know what will be done. I do think Al planned for this day and has certain things pre-decided.
They fly the president and VP on separate planes for a reason. Sh;t happens and there is usually a plan in place for organizations of this size, esoecially one run in the way it has been for almost 50 years.
You think Al works his whole life to build the Raiders to have it become something he doesn’t want when he passes? I think Al did everything he could to be ever-present, even in death.
However, the furhter we move in time from this point, the less control (posthumous or what have you) Al Davis/Davis family will have on the team.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:27 pm
There’s no need for a rush to judgment on a GM right this moment. The team is in good hands with Hue Jackson & Al Saunders. They are extensions of Al Davis and as such will see that the team emulates the true Raider tradition.
We are fortunate that Al Davis, prior to his untimely exodus, was able to install 2 quality coaches of this caliber. It was almost like he knew the time was short and his picks to key positions this time, needed to assure the team’s success. His choice of Hue Jackson & Al Saunders will prove to be the next chapter of the Oakland Raiders – the resurgence of the S&B to it’s rightful position of respectability. Pride & poise with a total commitment to excellence will assure the success of this organization.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:28 pm
Finally found an article about it. Inman evidently was the only reporter at the tribune today with the presence of mind to ask, “so, who’s in charge of the Raiders now?”. He should be promoted to editor.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
JB, the team is not in the hands of Hue Jackson and Al Saunders. Somebody can fire them. And as of this morning, it’s official that whoever that person is, it won’t be Al. Who could it be?
October 8th, 2011 at 11:30 pm
BOYCOTT SULLIVAN44. IGNORE HIM & HOPEFULLY HE WILL JUST GO AWAY. DO NOT RESPOND TO HIS POSTS. THEY ARE UNTIMELY AND INAPPROPRIATE TODAY.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:31 pm
No, no, MR. I’m talking in the hypothetical sense that he is more than just head coach. I think Mark and Carol could fire him at literally any point in time, GM or head coach, but Al may have passed on added responsibility to Hue.
Maybe not. After all, he is a head coach, one of many Al has hired, especially in recent years. Gotta figure he keeps it all in the family in terms of ownership. But again, Mark has never expressed any interest in being Al Davis and somebody gotta take care of footnall operations.
If succesful, why not Hue?
October 8th, 2011 at 11:32 pm
JB 686, thank you, well said.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Untimely and inappropriate, to ask the question as to who’s in charge of football operations for the Oakland Raiders…when they play in less than 12 hours? I’ll tell you right now, there’s 53 people in Houston right now staring at the ceiling and asking themselves the same question.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Maybe it’s inappropriate for the Raiders to play tomorrow. I mean, if it’s inappropriate to inquire as to who’s in charge, meaning that it’s not business as usual, why not just forfeit the game? The team can spend the day telling their best Al Davis stories on Comcast Bay area. That would be appropriate, wouldn’t it? Or, shall business go on?
October 8th, 2011 at 11:37 pm
best saying REST IN POWER Al
October 8th, 2011 at 11:40 pm
Well…I’ll leave you all with this:
The world lost two iconic figures this week. Steve Jobs and Al Davis! I know it comes in 3’s but I don’t want to think about that now…
Became a Raider Fan in 1974 and have never looked back! Al Davis gave that team and the organization attitude and the mystique and Aura that, as a kid, I had to jump on (Even though my dad was and still is a Die Hard 9er fan). I rebelled and came to the Dark Side! I didn’t always agree with the decisions that Al has made, but love him or hate him, he is/was The Raiders! This morning I got emotional with the news, and many fans that are my friends have texted me to tell me the news! We are a family and a family that will always be close to me! Moved here to the Bay Area in 2001 where I attended my first Raider game live, and went every year at least 1 game until 2006 when I became a season ticket holder! I am glad that I have had the opportunity to be a part of The Nation and for making my 5+ years of being a season ticket holder one of the best parts of my life…So to you Nation, Raider on my brothers and sisters…we too have to keep going, the legacy of Al Davis! And that is to RISE UP AND BE PROUD!
October 8th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
692,
Gotta imagine he’s talking about your other alias(es). It’s assumed you’re at least 10 people and several of those handles spew garbage.
It’s one thing to be smart alec MR/Sullivan 44 and bring up serious questions about team leadership and structure and its another to be Barry Halverson and jump for joy at Al’s death.
You’ve never, to my knowledge, done anything to dispell this perception and it will follow you until you address it, probabkly even after.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
Rest in peace, Mr. Davis, and God bless his wife and son. I said it earlier in the week and it’s very clear now: 45 guys have to have an us vs. the World mentality tomorrow and fight like hell for 60 minutes to bring home victory to Oakland!!! Beat the Texans!!!
October 8th, 2011 at 11:43 pm
Sullivan44, go to hell!
October 8th, 2011 at 11:45 pm
LA to the Bay, give me some credit. I came in and gave my condolences. If I really wanted to be a jerk, I’d start a discussion as to where Al is now.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
why not just forfeit the game? The team can spend the day telling their best Al Davis stories on Comcast Bay area. That would be appropriate, wouldn’t it? Or, shall business go on?
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Another douche comment. You can’t help yourself. Who said it hasn’t? Just because MR isn’t aware of it, doesn’t mean the team isn’t back to business.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
lol at Sullivan posting as Barry all day then coming on later to post as Sullivan.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
Beach, put on a pot of coffee. I think you’ve reached your limit.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:47 pm
GG, of course you could prove that accusation.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:47 pm
You’re not a Raider fan, punk. Go away.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
MR…I will give you props for coming in and showing your respect to Al. We all knew that were not an Al Davis guy, but you gave your respect! Kudos!
October 8th, 2011 at 11:50 pm
Sullivan44 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 11:45 pm
LA to the Bay, give me some credit. I came in and gave my condolences. If I really wanted to be a jerk, I’d start a discussion as to where Al is now.
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Under the Sullivan handle. You deny having more than one?
Where he is now? For every one story in print that paints him in a negative light, there’s 2 you never heard from some colleague, contemporary, or former player, fan, or their families.
If you’re implying what I think you are, it’ll bother religious people who happen to be Al fans. I’m not religious, i think where he is now is on his way to his final resting place in the physical sense.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:52 pm
there’s 2 you never heard from some colleague, contemporary, or former player, fan, or their families that show just the opposite*
October 8th, 2011 at 11:52 pm
Let’s take some calls from the MR request line, it’s not entrapement, just handle your choir boy business today. You are tracked like fawn. Keep the good behavior up!
October 8th, 2011 at 11:53 pm
Good Night Nation! Have to get up early to get everything done prior to game time!
October 8th, 2011 at 11:54 pm
Take it easy, Hawaiian.
October 8th, 2011 at 11:55 pm
La to the Bay, would you say Al is where wayne valley is?
October 8th, 2011 at 11:56 pm
LA to the Bay, making accusations you can’t prove are moronic. So why do it?
October 8th, 2011 at 11:59 pm
Think Wayne Valley’s probably in a Christian cemetary, if that’s what you mean.
Wayne Valley had several impressive contributions.
I’m not saying what Al did was right but he is the Oakland Raiders and was more responsible for their success or failure than anyone else.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:06 am
Barry Halverson, whoever is behind that handle, is scum of the earth.
RIP, Al Davis. You are a true pioneer. I was floored when I learned of the passing. Two legends in 1 week is just too much. I didn’t know either personally but got emotional both times. This week sucks for this country and California, in particular. Two great men have passed, and we will not be the same without them.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:07 am
Sullivan44 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 11:56 pm
LA to the Bay, making accusations you can’t prove are moronic. So why do it?
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See, a straight-up-and-down person would just be like ‘nah man, that’s not me, that’s some other schmuck with no respect, I’m sullivan44 and before I was MR but than name is banned or whatever.’
Or ‘yeah, I hated Al Davis and everything he ever stood for,’ but do it under one handle.
You seem like someone studying humans to see how they should act but can;t answer simple questions or address what, in my mind, would make you a punk.
If someone accused me of posting under multiple handles and it weren’t true, I’d come right out and say it. Posting under a bunch of different names and trying to deceive people or stir up sh;t is pretty fckin lame.
Al may have been a pr;ck at times but at least he had a dream. You come off as a sadist.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:07 am
I’ll apologize for Barry Halverson’s comments today when someone can simply prove I’m him. I’m not in the custom of taking credit for someone else’s comments.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:08 am
Well, LA, we can ask Marcus Allen if Al Davis was a sadist. Regarding me posting as Barry Halverson, or whateve, it’s simple. Prove it was me, and I’ll seriously address it.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:10 am
Man, got the Raiders fan brother from Baltimore out here, jamming to some Mac Dre pouring it out for the great AD, getting hyped for manana.
I feel a smashing coming.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:11 am
Dirt Nap, your words on one of your alias’s. Sac town Sheriff’s laugh about your commitment to excellence..they read like us in LA. Your act is fleeting buddy
October 9th, 2011 at 12:12 am
LA to the Bay, why do you accuse people of things you can’t prove? Does it fill some kind of void in you to frame any person you can for wrongs done to you?
October 9th, 2011 at 12:13 am
310, stfu, wannabe.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:14 am
Sullivan, we know it was you.
For instance, Barry’s first few posts were all trying to come off redneck sounding, but as soon as you settled in and started arguing with certain people, Barry’s posts became more and more literate a la Sullivan/MR. Same kind of thought process, same kind of turns of phrases, same kind of Gruden fixation, same kind of trolling, just sitting there for hours baiting and baiting, and same kind of vacant threats to meet, and same kind of posters you latch onto to get arguing with you. No one but you does that and in the manner that you do, with the kind of thinking that you do.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:15 am
Just Fire Baby Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 12:10 am
Man, got the Raiders fan brother from Baltimore out here, jamming to some Mac Dre pouring it out for the great AD, getting hyped for manana.
I feel a smashing coming.
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your hangover.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:15 am
You know it was me. Without a shred of proof. F’n moron. GG, I’m surprised.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:16 am
All damn day…
Humps on the boulevard…
Raider music!!
AD is proud of all of us repping the S & B on the late night.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:17 am
GG, you’re a true champion of the constitution. Guilty until proven innocent, just like the good ol US of Germany.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:17 am
Sullivan44 Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 12:08 am
Well, LA, we can ask Marcus Allen if Al Davis was a sadist. Regarding me posting as Barry Halverson, or whateve, it’s simple. Prove it was me, and I’ll seriously address it.
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Allen crossed Al on some money sh;t and came out on TV and talked about it. Was it sadistic what Al did to Allen? I don’t think so. Other words spring to mind but not sadistic.
MR, you don’t feel a compelling need to dispell the presumption that you post under a bunch of different handles?
I’m seriously not trying to stir sh’t or be an a$$hole when I say I would feel like less of a man. I know people respond differently to different things but I would feel like if that was me, I’d have let down my pops and forgot everything he taught me and let myself down.
Plus, I would feel immature and have an incredible void in my life somewhere. Family, relationships… somrthing.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:17 am
You knew you couldn’t troll Raider fans on this mournful day using the name you’ll use day to day going forward. But you couldn’t resist the opportunity, couldn’t miss out on it, so as a scoundrel and coward must do, he will use an alias for that purpose, get his kicks, and then will return to his usual username moving forward.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:18 am
FK u MR, u been a beaaatch from day 1, and aint’ no RAIDER.
Just a sorry-azzed internet loser.
DRink to that
October 9th, 2011 at 12:19 am
Vegazzz, put on a cup of coffee. zzzober up. you’ve reached your limit. Know what I’m zzzaying?
October 9th, 2011 at 12:19 am
Oh yeah google law code and ask me random ?’s I’ll answer every question and protect your rights. Test me please, I’m married and bored
October 9th, 2011 at 12:20 am
GG, still waiting on your proof, idiot. Only idiots accuse people of things without evidence.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:20 am
GG Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 12:14 am
Sullivan, we know it was you.
For instance, Barry’s first few posts were all trying to come off redneck sounding, but as soon as you settled in and started arguing with certain people, Barry’s posts became more and more literate a la Sullivan/MR. Same kind of thought process, same kind of turns of phrases, same kind of Gruden fixation, same kind of trolling, just sitting there for hours baiting and baiting, and same kind of vacant threats to meet, and same kind of posters you latch onto to get arguing with you. No one but you does that and in the manner that you do, with the kind of thinking that you do.
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Yeah, the lengths you must go to keep this up. Grammar, punctuation, a style of ’speech.’
Al is gone now. Maybe you should bounce.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:20 am
310 Raider-scum Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 12:19 am
I’m married and bored
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1st true thing you’ve said all night.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:20 am
And just like you don’t have a democratic/fair/objective bone in your body when it comes to day to day posting with Raider fans, when it comes to debates about Al, politics, Gruden, Wolf, etc etc. And not pay up when losing bets and snicker that you don’t have to man up ever about anything, then you long ago lost the ‘right’ to start demanding a fair court here about whether you did or didn’t post under Barry. (you did).
October 9th, 2011 at 12:22 am
Anybody ever really have coffee sober them up?
Tried it once, worst idea I ever had.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:22 am
Bounce? Ha ha. I’m not even dignifying the accusation with a serious response until one of you idiots offers a shred of proof outside of, “Ok, earlier, you used good grammar, but then you used bad grammar, then you started typing backward, then you started using pirate language…”
October 9th, 2011 at 12:22 am
LA to the bay, coffee…it’s an expression I use when someone can’t handle their alcohol, like Vegas and 310. It probably doesn’t work.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:23 am
GG, until you offer one shred of proof to back up your accusations, your words are just trash.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:24 am
Typically, when someone says they’re not even dignifying the accusation with a response, it means they’re full of sh;t.
Dignity not your strong suit, either.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:26 am
Goodnight, girls. RIP, Mr. Davis. Sorry so many of your admirers are blathering idiots.
Wonder when the Raiders will find out who’s firmly in charge, and when it will be made public. It’s business as usual in Oakland? Really? 40 years we all know EXACTLY who’s in charge. Today, we have no clue. I’d say that’s a profound difference.
Goodnight.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:26 am
Like I said, somebody studying humans, not sure how to be one.
I think you revel in this. “Offer one shed of proof” instead of “fck you a$$oles, those aren’t me.”
October 9th, 2011 at 12:27 am
You did, and even if you insist you didnt, we SAY you did, and that’s all that matters.
Your true colors have been on show for years. You never let up, deriving enjoyment in trolling raidernation and longing and wishing for Al’s demise, denigrating him.
“Barry” is consistent with that MR we know for years. Sullivan is consistent with “Barry” and MR. It doesnt matter if you try to act all nice and considerate as Sullivan now. You are that same person even regardless whether you posted as Barry or not (you did).
October 9th, 2011 at 12:31 am
Al’s gone, MR.
You should be too. You don’t have anything left. Cut the “we” sh;t out. If you’re here beyond today, it’s only to stir sh’t and antagonize.
You hated the man that ran the show the last 40+ years. He’s gone now, quit pretending you care what happens next. I’m sure you’ll be formulating ways to blame Davis posthumously for whatever follows.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:31 am
I thought you were better than that MR. That despite all your ill-will, that when Al finally did pass away you would be humbled and bereave and remember Al alongside other raiderfans even for just one day.
But today showed you are a very low on the human tree.
I don’t believe in censorship, banning etc. Doesn’t mean I think well of people who said what they said today.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:31 am
ONly thing better than listening to Raider music is throwing in some Hulk-a-maniac music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wiYdUe36_Q
October 9th, 2011 at 12:33 am
MR’s next schtick will be attacking Amy Trask day in day out now. That’s the next ‘target’.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:34 am
It probably makes your blood boil to hear praise heaped on Al all day huh?
Go accomplish something. Maybe you’ll have a fraction of the people show up to your funeral that show to Al’s if public.
Probably not.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:36 am
Your already in the hole for impersonating an officer Raider Ray in New Mexico. It’s documented PC code pc 538.d please bring it.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:38 am
Vegas, been doin’ the same sh;t. Got that Bay Area greenery in the philly and had that Bay Area in the deck. Played that Autumn Wind for my 5 year old stepson (indoctrinated early, lol). Thing still puts a jolt through your spine, huh?
October 9th, 2011 at 12:40 am
Maybe pc 148.9 for giving false identiy as Barry Halverson, and incited a riot on the blog for another for pc 404.6. Thats to fast for google right? Bring it
October 9th, 2011 at 12:45 am
I’m out, Nation.
Be good.
RIP Al Davis.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:45 am
Been watching your garbage for a while, us real Raider fans and officers cringe at your self help agenda. Twin Towers will set you right with some more meds you degenerate.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:47 am
So what you saying, meds and asking for water mama’s boy!
October 9th, 2011 at 12:49 am
One thing’s for sure, whoever posted under Barry Halverson is a troll who probably posts under another name here. I mean, never showed up before today and decided to come in here to gloat about a legend’s death? Troll written all over it.
Sad individual, whoever it is. Al Davis will be remembered as a legend, remembered by millions.
It’s the mark of a loser. Pissing on another’s grave. Their life is miserable so they try to make themselves feel better by kicking others when they’re down.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:51 am
bcz24 Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 7:58 am
I dont even think MR will be hatin’ today.
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LOL!
October 9th, 2011 at 12:51 am
And if MR went to a game he would be pc. 243.83, disruption a sporting event because cops would beat his ass or another fan like Brien would let dirt be dust.
October 9th, 2011 at 12:52 am
Read back to Barry halverson my friend
October 9th, 2011 at 12:59 am
Dont waste your time engaging that trash, your to much of a real Raider fan to bother. The only one to bring chaos today, Im rollling too short, RIP The Boss, the haters became lovers today, F#ck the media
October 9th, 2011 at 1:02 am
Im very sadden by this loss nation……i know i feel like i lost a close friend. i know i destroyed myself at the gym for 2 1/2 hours and came out still ready to snap on people. This is the type of man he was and the fact this could affect me in this man and i have never met the man speaks bounds about him. My feelings go out to his family. lets go destroy the texans on sun. just win baby!
October 9th, 2011 at 1:02 am
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d822f1af5/article/davis-family-will-keep-ownership-of-raiders-executive-says?module=HP11_headline_stack
October 9th, 2011 at 1:10 am
my morning post on face book when i woke up.
RAIDER NATION:
So i just woke up to see that Al Davis died..What piece of a heart i have left goes out to the Davis family and raider nation. This is a very big blow for the raiders and the NFL. Swarms of people make fun of and talk down about Al Davis. But he is responsible for creating the NFL itself! He merged the two leagues when he was commissioner of the AFL. Whitch at the time was a much more powerful league. He is also responsible for the vertical deep threat passing game that every one loves to watch these days. So just stop for a second and remember AL Davis for the visionary, icon and mad man that he was. Mr Davis you will be more than slightly missed.
Gonzo Raider
Is memory of HST a true silver and black psychotic.
October 9th, 2011 at 1:11 am
Yeah, so proper married man rolls Too Short before the game. Tells wife to leave with son, I dont like to see my son lose control of emotions, Because It takes balls to be a Raider fan.
October 9th, 2011 at 1:13 am
Heard on the news there would be moments of silence before all NFL games tomorrow. Just shows a part of the tribute for a man who meant so much to the game.
Still can’t get my mind wrapped around this, but I trust and know the Raider organiztion is going to be fine. Al was no dummy. I’m sure he had his last will and testament in order.
This is the end of an era. The last of the titan icons. We all answer the call in the end, and God has called him home.
October 9th, 2011 at 1:37 am
Your right, we don’t know if their take the shield from us, and gives a La bull@hit name to end the legacy. That’s what I told my wife, our legacy may end. LA with n new team and replace us with some bs
October 9th, 2011 at 2:21 am
I’m still standing here, for MR ???
October 9th, 2011 at 2:43 am
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October 9th, 2011 at 2:58 am
GG Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 12:33 am
MR’s next schtick will be attacking Amy Trask day in day out now. That’s the next ‘target’.
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If she’s in charge of football operations and does as lousy of a job as Al has the past 20 years, you bet your ass I will.
October 9th, 2011 at 3:04 am
o Says:
October 8th, 2011 at 8:02 am
Some of you haters who think the passing of Coach Davis is some how going to magically vault this team to next next level have your heads up your ass.
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This post has me wondering if the Davis worshipers are now going to root for the team to lose. If the Raiders go on a huge win streak, it will only lend to the theory that Al was holding the Raiders back.
October 9th, 2011 at 3:12 am
Mark Davis has worked with the Raiders on business issues, although Al Davis said in 2008 that his son prefered not to be involved in personnel decisions.
“He never understood how I could let someone go,” Davis said then. “He just doesn’t want to get into that part of it. But he will own it someday.”
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Just the contrast our new ownership needs. I’m looking forward to this new era of Raider football.
October 9th, 2011 at 3:15 am
“More probably will be revealed with regard to Mark Davis’ plans when NFL owners meet Tuesday in Houston.”
October 9th, 2011 at 3:17 am
GG, so far, from what I’ve read, I have no reason to attack Mark Davis.
Mark Davis has a clean slate with me. He’s never done anything wrong. Same goes for Carol. Now we can’t say the same about Amy Trask, can we? She was instrumental in running Gruden out, who was the best coach we’ve had since Tom Flores. So to hell with her.
October 9th, 2011 at 3:27 am
BTW, thank you Mark and Carol, for announcing publicly that there is a succession plan in order. I hope your guys’ first order of business is to get rid of the dead wood. I.e., AMY TRASK, John Herrera, and any other executives who oversaw 7 consecutive seasons with 11 or more losses. Ignore their desperate pleas for their jobs. You don’t need them. I would then hire a committee composed of John Madden, Ron Wolf, and Tom Flores to serve as interim general managers, as the 3 of them agree on a long term solution at GM, and a starting date for him (or her) in the near future. Best of luck. Time for a much need entirely new era of Oakland Raider football!
IT’S A GREAT DAY TO BE A RAIDER FAN!! Isn’t it?
October 9th, 2011 at 3:36 am
Are we lining up and shooting people now who “did something wrong?”
No matter Al’s successes, errors = line him up?
Same with Amy?
And anyone else who dared be a human being and made errors?
Where does that leave you, Sullivan? Error-free and perfect?
October 9th, 2011 at 4:05 am
sup nation. code black
October 9th, 2011 at 4:10 am
Feels like I’ve been hit in the chest with a sledge hammer.
I was working last night and have only just seen the news.Shocked doesn’t even come close.At a loss for words.
My condolences to the Davis family.
October 9th, 2011 at 4:20 am
u didnt find out until 2day?
October 9th, 2011 at 4:21 am
sullivan–y didn’t u show up at the warehouse?
October 9th, 2011 at 4:28 am
rob whats going on man?
October 9th, 2011 at 4:29 am
u ready for the texans
October 9th, 2011 at 4:31 am
man, u go on and on about what is pretty obvious. al was the owner and the gm. now that he’s gone, mark davis and carol davis are he owners. they have no gm, but since the gm works for the owners, as of now mark and carol are acting gm’s. but there’s not much to be done in that regard immediately. they did manage to move r.brown to ir and activate tonga, so no problems. they will likely hire a new gm soon, and until that time, any player moves that hue wants to make will be passed thru the davises for now.
who will be gm? who knows. we’d all love madden, but i think he already passed on that when al mentioned he was gonna bring in a big name to help him and it never materialized. madden is pretty much done w/ being an active football guy. as for his silence so far, he seems to be a fairly emotional man and has said al was his best friend. he may just not have the words right now.
in the meantime, we’re in season, and personnel moves are few. i don’t see very radical changes, even from hue, as it would be seen as disrespectful and they appeared to be on the same page. for those that wish dhb would be ousted, it’s not likely after his 115 yrd performance last week. over the course of the season, i suppose some changes could come that extend from what will likely be a little more freedom on hue’s part. but again, what’s to change?
changes may indeed start coming in the future, as any new gm will obviously have their own ideas. maybe they will be good, maybe they will not be good. it will be the raiders officially but it will be different. i doubt u will see severe turnover, maybe just a few players here and there. but i suspect the davises, as al’s family will hire someone who has a basic respect and relative agreement w/ al.
as for this season, it really is al’s final team. he built it. he hired the staff. they’ll play it out. he will still deserve credit for the final outcome.
October 9th, 2011 at 4:34 am
i’m very ready mcskinnylegs. it will be an emotional game. and next week will be very great/tuff b/c of the home crowd likely being very emotional and the probable tribute. today’s game, the first raiders game A.A.D. (after al davis). hard to describe the feelings.
October 9th, 2011 at 4:42 am
aad. lol good stuff
October 9th, 2011 at 4:43 am
hey i thought willie brown retired
October 9th, 2011 at 4:44 am
post 781 was primarily directed at sullivan b/c he went on and on about who was in charge. he tried being respectful, but it didn’t take long for his horns to start showing. of course, he’s already setting the stage for claiming a successful season will now be b/c al’s gone, even though al put the team together and they are not likely to change much the rest of the season. but since they have showed the ability to be good, sullivan will claim any wins came due to al not meddling and hue having freedom to do it his way, even though the same players will be on the filed w/ the same coaches running the same schemes. but, even with al gone, he will find a way to continue his nonsense.
October 9th, 2011 at 4:47 am
it will be interesting to see how many of the old guys like willie remain around. i have a feeling al left a directive that those guys will be around as long as they want. one thing i could stand to see is a new announcing crew. papa’s fine and his voice is iconic but as much as i love flores and plunkett, they just suck as announcers. they are so garbly and stammery. and atkinson’s even worse, god bless him. they’re tuff to listen to. luckily they get a pass b/c of their playing/coaching days.
October 9th, 2011 at 4:48 am
lets all hope for godness sake that chuck b is gone soon i give him credit for his somewhat creative team but i dont see him being the guy
October 9th, 2011 at 4:50 am
i dont really know what it is i guess when i feel we should be in run blitz this guys calling soft zones underneath with 55 watchin the middle with very little athleticism
October 9th, 2011 at 4:51 am
well, the proof is in the pudding. if the defense continues to struggle, then yeah. if they somehow turn it around and excel, then he gets credit.
i have good feeling about the raiders coming out and playing inspired football the rest of the way, gaining momentum and confidence, and steamrolling into the playoffs. what a great story it would be if, inspired by al davis’ memory, they won it all.
October 9th, 2011 at 4:51 am
i dunno i guess it could work out im just ramblin bout b.s lets go raiders clap…clap…clap.clap.clap!!!!
October 9th, 2011 at 4:52 am
omg rob that would be awesome i would literally die feeling like i accomplished something in life that i had nothing to do with : )
October 9th, 2011 at 4:53 am
yeah-i’m still misty about al. just wanna watch them play and hopefully play well. i’ll be thinking about a lifetime of being a raiders fan. there will be lots of talk about it.
October 9th, 2011 at 4:54 am
were a.d and bill cower* close?do u know? i dunno how 2 spell name but the steeler guy chinny chin chin
October 9th, 2011 at 4:55 am
i can see the chin as being a helluva g.m
October 9th, 2011 at 4:57 am
i dunno if they had any relationship. but it seems like a ton of football people had some sort of feeling about him. he had an immense effect. so many players, coaches, interviews, etc. he caught flak from the media and fans but football people evidently thought quite a bit of him. chris mortenson said he couldn’t name someone who had a bigger effect on the game ever. high praise.
October 9th, 2011 at 4:58 am
hmm. cowher. interesting for a steeler to come here. what about gruden?
October 9th, 2011 at 4:58 am
denny green?
October 9th, 2011 at 5:01 am
wow that is high praise.i would love to see him come in as a g.m.alot of people here calling for parcells.personally i think hes a douche but thats my opinion.and im worried madden (john) has been away too long.i mean seriously do u remember listening to him on mnf and thinkin to urself alright john time to hang up the cleats i dont even understand what ur saying
October 9th, 2011 at 5:01 am
the raiders are who we thought they were! lol
October 9th, 2011 at 5:02 am
i heard c.e.o amy trask had huge beef with gruden so i doubt thats gonna happen
October 9th, 2011 at 5:03 am
the denny green 1 maaaaaaaaa maybe
October 9th, 2011 at 5:05 am
wheres my raider nation wake up peoples its sunday
October 9th, 2011 at 5:06 am
“when you have great coaches, then after you have great coaches, you get great players. you have a great organization. and you tell ‘em one thing. just win, baby!”
was there ever a better quote in sports than that?
nike should pay royalties to him for it.
October 9th, 2011 at 5:08 am
tim brown had said he was willing to come in and help the last few years. that would be an interesting move.
October 9th, 2011 at 5:09 am
yup
October 9th, 2011 at 5:09 am
id rather him be a coach
October 9th, 2011 at 5:10 am
its penut butter butter jelly time woooooooooooooooooooo
October 9th, 2011 at 5:11 am
5 hours
October 9th, 2011 at 5:12 am
jason campell coming up on nfl net talkn bout a.d just so u know
October 9th, 2011 at 5:13 am
hey rob u take care of that hillbilly in here yesterday lol
October 9th, 2011 at 5:18 am
what a douche–i mean the mad died. classless.
October 9th, 2011 at 5:18 am
goin to bed–gotta get a few hours in.
October 9th, 2011 at 5:20 am
Headed out to Houston to watch my Raiders kick some Texans azz!!!
RIP Al Davis
GO RAIDERS!!!!!!!!
October 9th, 2011 at 5:24 am
later bro
October 9th, 2011 at 5:57 am
777.mcskinnnylegs Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 4:20 am
u didnt find out until 2day?
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Worked both Friday and Saturday night and never bothered to turn my pc on inbetween.Finished Sunday morning,a few hours sleep,turned on my pc to find out a football God had died.
Still in a state of shock,just finding it hard to believe he’s gone.
October 9th, 2011 at 5:58 am
Long Live Raider Nation ….
October 9th, 2011 at 5:59 am
Got a bottle of Gentleman Jack that I’ve been saving.Breaking the seal tonight.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:01 am
defintely an appropriate time to break that seal
October 9th, 2011 at 6:03 am
im really nervous about this game texans whooped us last game
October 9th, 2011 at 6:04 am
Very interested to see how the team responds today.
PRIDE AND POISE BABY!
October 9th, 2011 at 6:07 am
go raiders!
October 9th, 2011 at 6:30 am
mcskinnnylegs Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 5:02 am
i heard c.e.o amy trask had huge beef with gruden so i doubt thats gonna happen
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If Mark and Carol run the team, that means Amy Trask takes order, doesn’t she? This makes no sense at all. What is Trask’s title? How can she decide if or of not a coach comes here?
October 9th, 2011 at 6:30 am
Tom Jackson is still a hater.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:34 am
#822: Go away troll. We all know that was you spouting that vile disrespectful filth yesterday. Be gone!
October 9th, 2011 at 6:36 am
From Houston on twitter:
solo_dolo_9s lamarr houston
Gonna bring the pain for al d may he rest in peace….aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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This is the attitude i assume Hue is expecting from HIS team today
October 9th, 2011 at 6:36 am
Inside Bay Area: Blog owners
Steve Corkran: Blog operator
CanuckRaider: A commenter, who is no more entitled to comment here than any other commenter, including Sully.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:38 am
Profound change is coming to Oakland.
For the first time in nearly a half century, our head coach doesn’t have to answer to Al Davis.
What a unique position Hue Jackson is in.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:38 am
I think the lads will come out like gangbusters in Al’s honor today Patch. They know he’ll be looking down from his box in the sky.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:39 am
Amy knows the vision and she will prob be acting GM….
This Team will forever be Al’s team so anybody not good with Al Davis is not in goodstanding with the Raider Nation! AL DAVIS=Raidas Raidas=AL DAVIS
October 9th, 2011 at 6:41 am
The post-Al Davis era begins.
Keep an eye on the defense.
No more DC being shackled to mostly man coverage and no blitzing.
Will Hagan be moved up the depth chart? Hue doesn’t have to worry about Al getting mad at him anymore.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:42 am
I wonder what is funeral will be like…. Imagine the lagends that will be in attendance? None will be greater than The Davis
October 9th, 2011 at 6:43 am
If Mark and Carol are in charge, THEY will decide who’s GM. With all due respect, and I’d hate to be blunt…but I don’t think Al’s going to be involved with the process. Our GM is going to be who Mark and Carol want. That’s who Al left the team to.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:43 am
I hope MArk is NO different than his father
October 9th, 2011 at 6:44 am
You know it will be like a state funeral unless he’s requested otherwise. The crowd will be something else.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:46 am
Trask might be out. And why not? The Raiders are second to bottom in profitability. So if she runs the business end, she hasn’t done a good job. And if she’s involved with football operations, it means she was part of the managerial team that oversaw 7 straight seasons with 11 or more losses. Either way, it’s time to remove the name plate from her office door and wish her well. New era of Oakland Raider football.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:47 am
I said ACTING… and whether you like it or not, this team will always have Al’s imprint on it moving forward… AL laid the foundation and the “process” will always have Al’s vision to follow
October 9th, 2011 at 6:47 am
Yeah i was thinking about the funeral. It will be bittersweet to see all the old RAIDER legends together again…
October 9th, 2011 at 6:49 am
Mark is different than his father. Mark doesn’t even want to run the team. Al Davis’s only goal in life when he was Mark’s age was to run the world. Mark says the reason he’s always told Al he doesn’t want control of the team is because he couldn’t imagine firing anyone. They’re polar opposites. And, I think that’s what we need. We did it Al’s way for a half century, and for 25 of those years, it worked. The last 25? It’s just been embarrassing. Mark’s going to turn this thing around, and he’s going to do it HIS way, not Al’s way.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:49 am
Yeah Raidermarty…I was tearing up just looking at the picture gallery in yesterday’s paper.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:51 am
I’m a fan of The Oakland Raiders! the mystic, the history… the colors… everything that goes with it… if you want a team with thier books in order or a gm that doesnt have the same vision as AL, then go find a team that fits your image. I will support the Raiders regardless of who thier GM is or what schemes they run…
October 9th, 2011 at 6:51 am
Patch, I’m sure that feels good to say. But the truth is, Al Davis will never again make one single decision for the Oakland Raiders.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:53 am
Born with a Patch Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 6:51 am
if you want a team with thier books in order or a gm that doesnt have the same vision as AL, then go find a team that fits your image.
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I found one. The Oakland Raiders, run by Mark and Carol Davis, who, judging by some of Mark’s comments, will run the team entirely different from how Al did.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:53 am
The Apple doesnt fall far front the tree….
October 9th, 2011 at 6:53 am
Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves to meet Amy Trask. The most powerful woman in sports. A posthumous feather in the cap of the Al Davis legacy.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:54 am
I think we’re going to see an Oakland Raider organization similar to the ’70s Raiders, when Al wasn’t so hands on, probably due to his work with the AFL, merger, etc. Mark and Carol’s style of management will be more similar to Al’s style in the ’70s than Al’s style as of recent.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:55 am
KK & MR,
Two classless scumbags.
Two liberals.
Two deranged loons.
Just Win Baby!
October 9th, 2011 at 6:55 am
It’s sadly the end of an era Patch. Al Davis and the Raiders were one and the same. Without him they will become just one of 32 NFL teams. Our team but never the same.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:56 am
Patch, the apple does fall far in some cases. Mark doesn’t like firing people. He doesn’t get that compassion from pops. Probably one of the first things Al did when he got control of the Raiders was fire a few people, just to get a chubby.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:56 am
#846: You know it!
October 9th, 2011 at 6:56 am
Born, you can talk with him and get dragged into a lunatic conversation or you can talk at him & down to him.
You decide.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:57 am
Never said that he will make decisions… and there is alot i would like to say to make me feel better but you live 1000 miles away and it wouldnt do any good. and nobody has a clue how Mark will run the team now that he can. anything can happen, Mark is a big boy, if he wants to change his mind he can.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:58 am
Canuck, the Raiders will become more like other teams. That’s inevitable. And that might have even happened with Al alive, eventually. The alternative would have been much worse. They would have just kept Al on that island in that little old stadium, only for him to eventually go bankrupt.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:58 am
This is the last time I will address you but
How the F@ck do you know what is in Mr. Davis’ will. He could and most likely does have all types of decisions about the Raiders future written in. Think for once. That is all to you. Get a life.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:59 am
Patch: Mista is right…Why legitimize BS?
October 9th, 2011 at 7:00 am
Patch, you sound like you already don’t like Mark Davis. I got news for you. HE is now the Raiders. So you might want to change your attitude and get that chip off your shoulder.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:00 am
835.Sullivan44 Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 6:46 am
Trask might be out. And why not? The Raiders are second to bottom in profitability. So if she runs the business end, she hasn’t done a good job. And if she’s involved with football operations, it means she was part of the managerial team that oversaw 7 straight seasons with 11 or more losses. Either way, it’s time to remove the name plate from her office door and wish her well. New era of Oakland Raider football.
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this my friend is how u should speak all the time.very well said and i actually agree with you when u put it that way.thanks for a good post for once lol.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:01 am
I wouldnt have even addressed him if Al hadnt passed…. I read the blog everyday but dont always have time to post, sad that when i do post i waste it on this loser
October 9th, 2011 at 7:02 am
Al’s will can not change the fact that Al Davis wont’ make another decision for this football team. I’ve heard cooky rumors that his will would stipulate certain ways the Raiders have to be managed. Laughable. None of it would hold up in court. Only the monetary stipulations would.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:03 am
He has no idea he is only dragging you & others into his deep dark hole.
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# HueKnows Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 6:58 am
This is the last time I will address you but
How the F@ck do you know what is in Mr. Davis’ will. He could and most likely does have all types of decisions about the Raiders future written in. Think for once. That is all to you. Get a life.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:05 am
I haven’t insulted Al Davis once since he’s passed. But my are the insults rolling in toward Mark Davis by some of these so called die hard fans. Insinuating he’s some kind of baby. One fan even warned him not to mess with the “patriarch”. Ha ha. Haaa. Ha ha ha. I’ve got news for you guys, he IS the patriarch. The Raiders are now his team. Mark Davis IS The Raiders, and the Raiders are Mark Davis. And, that’s the way Al wanted it.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:05 am
M Jackson named his son “Blanket” wtf
LMFAO
October 9th, 2011 at 7:05 am
Monin Nation
raiders will got out an put a whoopin on Houston
in the coming years it will be interesting to see how my beloved organization
Wil be run without Mr. Davis at the helm
Go Raiders!!!!!
October 9th, 2011 at 7:05 am
One of the keys to training animals is to not reward ill behavior with attention. When the animal realizes that such behavior gets no reaction it generally gives up and ceases to engage in such behavior. This also applies to trolls.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:05 am
Born with a Patch will support the Raiders until he or the Raiders are no more………………….. end of story
October 9th, 2011 at 7:06 am
I’m out Mista. I know better than to leave food out for the cockroaches.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:07 am
You guys have always had the right to ignore my views on this football team and its management. It’s just that you’ve never been able to up to this point. Best of luck this time.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:08 am
I’m out too. Kick butt Raiders!
For Al!
October 9th, 2011 at 7:08 am
you are also supposed to reward good behavior, if none exists then you give them away. or in a trolls case, ban them?
October 9th, 2011 at 7:09 am
Watch that D today. This should be interesting. The defense is the aspect of football operations where Al’s meddled the most.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:09 am
Go Raiders!!!!
October 9th, 2011 at 7:10 am
Patch, this blog only bans people for breaking the rules. Starting fights with individuals is a violation of one of their rules. you’ll probably wind up getting banned before me.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:10 am
Go Raiders!
Lets Get This One For Al!
CODE BLACK!
October 9th, 2011 at 7:12 am
All night, I watched the tributes to Al Davis and thought about why I was a fan of the Raiders. It all came down to one thought. I was a Raider fan because of a maverick, I’ll do it my way, Just Win Baby, owner named Al Davis. Through good and bad, he was the one constant in my connection with the Raiders.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:12 am
Time to go out and play Al’s way.
Just Win Baby!
October 9th, 2011 at 7:12 am
Breshnehan must feel weird today. No Al looking over his shoulder. The D is all his. Let’s see what happens.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:14 am
That devil Tom Jackson actually just told a good Al story
October 9th, 2011 at 7:15 am
I hope we ride this emotional train all the way to the SB
we will kick a$$ all the way to the SB
Go Raiders!!
October 9th, 2011 at 7:15 am
What was the story he told, Plunketthead?
October 9th, 2011 at 7:17 am
850.MistaBrown Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 6:56 am
Born, you can talk with him and get dragged into a lunatic conversation or you can talk at him & down to him.
You decide.
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Talk to who
Don’t feed the trolls and they will starve.
I heard on NFLN that Hue will have a tribute to Davis in todays game. I hope by that he has a plan in place that will put Shaub down hard and often. Go get ‘em Hue!
October 9th, 2011 at 7:18 am
continued:
All night, I watched the tributes to Al Davis and thought about why I was a fan of the Raiders. It all came down to one thought. I was a Raider fan because of a maverick, I’ll do it my way, Just Win Baby, owner named Al Davis. Through good and bad, he was the one constant in my connection with the Raiders.
Yesterday, a part of my heart was torn out with his passing. I realize it will never be the same. No more yearly press conferences. No more pictures of him in the owners box during games. No more stirring of the pot by a rebel owner. Yes it will be different.
But I shall honor his memory by remaining a diehard Raider Fan, a part of the Raider Nation.
Rest in peace Coach Davis. You made a true difference in my life.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:19 am
Its 7:18 AM.
This first Beer of the Day is dedicated to the loving memory of Mr Allen Davis.
CHEERS!
October 9th, 2011 at 7:21 am
Nice post Exla.
I will drink to that.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:23 am
He said the year after he retired, his first journalism gig was to report on the Raiders traing camp. He got a call at 111 saying Al wont let him watch. He went there anyway the next morning and was sitting on the curb when Al came by and said come here son. Al told him after 14 years with the Broncs, he could not trust Tom to not report to the Broncs.
Tom said I would never do that. It would destroy my carrer. Al said if you played for the Raiders you would come back and tell me everything about it
October 9th, 2011 at 7:23 am
Puffing some bluecheeze for the Coach.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:23 am
Man I can’t wait til gametime.
I’m pumped an nervous. I hope we come out with fire an intensity
defense will come to play today in memory of a now football god!
RIP Mr. Davis
October 9th, 2011 at 7:24 am
I can’t lie – I was tearing up yesterday.
Thanks for so many wonderful memories Uncle Al.
I love that old renegade.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:25 am
HueKnows Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 7:23 am
Puffing some bluecheeze for the Coach.
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OG Kush An Prple Erkel here bruh
October 9th, 2011 at 7:26 am
Lol, great story. Al had a style where he would tell a truth but it was laced with a lot of sense of humor.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:28 am
La Confora about to speak in the future of our beloved organization
on NFLN
October 9th, 2011 at 7:29 am
Sullivan44 Says:
October 9th, 2011 at 6:41 am
The post-Al Davis era begins.
Keep an eye on the defense.
No more DC being shackled to mostly man coverage and no blitzing.
Will Hagan be moved up the depth chart? Hue doesn’t have to worry about Al getting mad at him anymore.
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ur just so annoying. i know u think that’s a compliment.
news for u. the defense won’t do anything different other than play w/ fire for al’s memory.
hagan is still #4 or 5 for now, until murphy gets here for good. absolutely no reason to do otherwise.
moore has been great.
ford was explosive last year.
dhb had a good game last week.
hagan is a nice possession wr.
schilens still working his way back
sorry to spoil ur little party. (u do it all the time here). nothing much will change nor should it. al set the plan for the year. hue will continue to work his scheme w/ the players on the roster. contrary to ur dumb “meddling” routine, gm’s are fairly idle during the season, except for the occasional roster move. al’s “meddling” was putting the players and coaches in place. period. he didn’t call plays or make demands. he simply hired people who were on the same page as him. kiffin was allowed to run cover-2. u just don’t know anything much at all about the game. pathetic, really.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:33 am
It seems like everyone who has ever met him has an Al Davis story.
Truly the sign of a great man.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:34 am
I just hope the Raiders can continue to maintain it’s non-conformist policies.
I want this team to remain unique in it’s philosophies and image.
No doubt this team will change significantly over the coming years, but I hope it maintain Al’s vision.
Just Win Baby!
October 9th, 2011 at 7:37 am
I guess life indeed goes on. Trolls be trollin, feeders be feedin, and occasionally there is a football post.
I was delusional enough to think maybe this blog would sit back and reflect on the huge change that just happened to the team, and the league. Not the first time I was wrong, but still….
The internet in general becomes more of a cesspool every day, and we have more than our share of floaters in here every day
To the football fans, I say carry on. Thanks for keeping me entertained and informed.
The the trolls I say
October 9th, 2011 at 7:37 am
F’k faulk he just straight hated on JC
an the raiders D
October 9th, 2011 at 7:39 am
Today JC goes deep. Hold on DHB hold on.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:40 am
I wonder if John Madden buys into the Raiders ownership group, based on Jason La Confora saying the Raiders might look into that idea to reduce the inheritance tax etc. John Madden would definitely be someone Al would completely trust as a person to continue the Raider tradition.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:40 am
Gruden given some love on bspn.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:41 am
What did Gruden say?
October 9th, 2011 at 7:42 am
I’ve told this story before. My father was in the clothing business and we had a store in Ladera Heights and many Raiders shopped with us. I did the tuxedos for Ethan Horton’s wedding and Anthony Glover’s. On Wednesday’s at the invitation of Ethan, I would go to the El Segundo facility to watch the practices. Every week Mr. Davis would come up to me and tell me to leave. It became a running joke. So when I went to Monday Night Football in New Orleans and snuck into the closed practice on Sunday, I went up to AL Davis and asked for a picture with him. He quiped, “Don’t I kick you out enough in El Segundo.” He took the picture with me and today, I’m looking at it knowing how in the scheme of things how little it must have meant to him but how large a memory it is for me.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:43 am
Pretty good Jerry Jones call into the NFL Network about Al:
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-total-access/09000d5d822efbf9/Jerry-Jones-honors-Al-Davis?module=HP11_hot_topics
Poor guy could barely keep himself composed early in the call. Great comments about Al giving people a chance even if young, or black, or a woman.
October 9th, 2011 at 7:47 am
Gruden, ” Forever thankful..only Al would have taken a chance on me. Al knew pretty much everything..he made me a better coach fast…Close your eyes and think of silver and black. What do you think of? You think of the Raiders.”
October 9th, 2011 at 7:49 am
Nice story Exla..
October 9th, 2011 at 7:51 am
I see the stat where the Raiders are 3rd in total wins since 1963. Taking into account how dismal the last decade has been, that’s even more impressive.
Time to start building that cushion again.
October 9th, 2011 at 8:00 am
Al screwed up many times throughout his time as the man of the Raiders, but so did every other team. The difference is that Al Davis’ decisions were magnified simply because Al Davis was clearly on a bigger Stage than every other owner. I hated some of the things he did as well as loved some things he did. He cause the team to hit rock bottom for quite a few years but recently he laid the foundation the Raiders needed to make the turnaround that we’re witnessing right now. The current crop of draft choices (with a few hic ups) have been pretty big in the change that’s taking place. He brought in a real head coach (HueJax),,something we haven’t had in years. So I think Al knew he wouldn’t be around to see the ultimate results but I think he was content knowing he righted the ship before leaving. Love him or hate him,,the Raiders becoming winners again has Al Davis fingerprints all over it and nobody can deny the truth of it. I do look foward to seeing what’s next for the Raiders, but it’ll never be the same without Uncle Al.
Raiders-27 Texans-10
October 9th, 2011 at 8:00 am
Shame on all football fans but especially Raiders football fans that called on Al Davis death in the past. Your Dreams have come true and from your point of view happiness and good fortune is on your way. Those fans mentioned above are distance from the heart of football in my opinion.
Al Davis, I love you and will miss you. your legend as one of football greats will live on through the Raider Nation. I will always view The Raider organization with A Al Davis stamp attached to it. I would not have traded you for any owner in football!!!!!! Keep calling the best plays from the skies for the Raider Nation. God Bless you Al Davis.
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Snoop dog on Al Davis on BSPN in a few minutes
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