If you build it, they still might not come
AEG is taking some big risks. Will the NFL live to see a team succeed in Los Angeles? A 20-13 loss to the Texans, a devastating 3-8 record, elimination from play off contention, and a head coach gone. So the story goes. This morning, amidst announcements of the axe of head coach Jack Del Rio [...]
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Four Bad NFL Decisions – 2011 Edition
Bad decisions. I am all too familiar with them. I’ll never forget that night in New Orleans; I could have sworn that was a woman. Anyhow, the 2011 season in the NFL has exposed some clueless front offices and coaching staffs making some pretty poor choices. Many are comparable in stupidity and naivety to dropping [...]
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Mike Brown: NFL Executive of the Year?
The Cincinnati Bengals are a model organization. A plus-size model. With half a set of teeth. They were supposed to be a grease-fire. With a lame duck coach. And a rookie quarterback. And their two leading receivers gone. And a running back that can’t stay off the blotter and a wide receiver who gets pot [...]
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Al Davis made Raiders football’s best brand
Al Davis passed away this weekend at the age of 82. Davis, a certified football junkie of the highest order, was an assistant coach, head coach, GM and managing partner for the Oakland Raiders before becoming team’s owner – a position he’s held since 1976. Al Davis breathed football and it must have pained him [...]
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California has the market cornered on parking lot fights (Video)
Parking lot fights. They’re the new black. It’s YouTube gold. Who doesn’t love watching drunken sports fans hitting each other harder than the athletes on the field?
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Behold the awesome power of the Richard Seymour pimp slap
The Raiders had themselves a bit of a rough go Sunday in Pittsburgh. They played dead against the Steelers, and this video of Richard Seymour face-palming Big Ben is the only existing visual evidence that the Raiders even got off the team bus.
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NFL’s most dysfunctional franchise may actually be functional
It wasn’t long ago, and by long we mean a matter of weeks, when we thought the Raiders were the most woebegone franchise in pro football. But after two impressive wins pulled them to .500 after Week 8 for the first time since 2002, the team that once selected JaMarcus Russell No. 1 overall might actually know what they’re doing.
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Crying kid watches Chargers lose, hates the Raiders … and football
Losing sucks. Nobody likes to do it, and no fan wants to watch it. However, one particular Chargers fan took the loss worse than most. Sad children are the best. Video inside.
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