Even after Jon Gruden, the brash coach they actually traded to a team that beat them in the Super Bowl, returned to sign a then-record, 10-year, $100m contract before the 2018 season, the best the Raiders could do was 8-8.īut wait. Since Al Davis died in 2011, the Raiders have not been all that great, either, posting one winning season and losing their only playoff game in that span. His 66-year-old son, Mark, who has owned and run the Raiders since his father’s death, angered the legion of loyal fans in Oakland by bolting to Las Vegas before last season, even though he said he tried to get a new stadium built in Oakland even after the city jacked up the rent on the old one.
Ten years on, they still wear tiny black shield-shaped stickers with AL on those lustrous silver helmets. But the Raiders are not ready to move away from his go-deep, “Just Win, Baby” legacy – and they may not ever be. A l Davis died 10 years ago next week, and his beloved NFL team now plays its home games a nine-hour drive from Oakland.
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