Al Davis Gets Me To Thinking...

Davis proves to be a classless individual. This is not the nature of modern football.

here: "That's the nature of modern football, dude. Get over it."

Do you really think Davis is going to get any quality coach now? Maybe D Green or R Kotite is available. Rumor has it M Millan is about to sign on. Quality guys there.

Besides how can you feel sorry for Kiffin. He knew exactly what he was getting into when he signed his muli-million dollar contract. Its real tough to feel bad for a guy making that kind of money.

I hope Kiffin gets fired so the AD at Syacuse can hire him and ruin Syacuse for another couple of years. It'll continue to help my college team.

This was inevitable, wasn't it? Yahoo reports that Kiffin has been fired. I feel sorry for Raider fans. It's got to be an uphill battle.

Who in their right mind would ever work for that organization?

I was told a funny story by a guy who was a D-lineman who played for the Raiders in the 90's. During his first week of training camp, the linemen were getting screamed at by their coaches on their technique.

"Do it this way!" the coach screamed.

Along comes Al Davis, dressed in leather and as foul mouthed as a sailor while the rookie was doing his drills exactly as he was instructed. Davis gets down on the ground with the rookie and begins his f-word fueled rant about how to do the drills RIGHT - in other words, exactly opposite of how the coach was just screaming at him.

The rookie pauses and looks at the coach who screams at the rookie to "Ephing do what the owner ephing says, ephing rookie!"

So the rookie does the drill just like Al said and Al tells him "You ephing listen to ephing me ephing rookie and I'll ephing make sure you ephing stay in this ephing league a long ephing time!" and Davis walks away pleased...

As soon as Davis is gone, the coach got right back in the rookie's ear and made him do the drill the way he told him to the first time. He says "the man owns the team so you do it like he wants when he's around, but when he's not around, you do it the RIGHT way!"

That's the kind of issues the employees of Mr. Davis have to contend with... again, this was in the early '90's!!!

The player - who also played for two other storied teams and owners and had a 12 year career - said he had nothing but utmost respect for "Mr. Davis" and actually admired the maverick style of the owner. But he's crass, loud, anbnoying and a relic in today's game - but don't be fooled - the guy knows what it takes to win.

Stupid. Davis just announced he will promote OL coach, Tom Cable to head coaching position.

Uh.. I forget.. how that hell is Davis a Hall of Famer?

COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE!

I never thought bringing Lane into this position was the right thing to do, but sending him out the way Davis did was insult to injury and par for the course.