This is a slideshow of my favorite football team the Oakland Raiders. This will show which players on the other teams the Raiders play this season will need to be stopped in order for our beloved Raiders to pull out a win.Begin Slideshow
The road to success for the Oakland Raiders will be determined by its wins against rival teams in 2010. In particular, the San Diego Chargers.
The Raiders face the Chargers on October 10th and December 5th. These games will be key for the Silver and Black and a determinant of its future achievements.
Since the 1960 the Oakland Raiders have dominated the San Diego Chargers when it comes to overall wins. Currently the Raider govern San Diego when it comes to overall wins with 54 wins vs. San Diegos 44 wins.
There was a wider gap nine years ago when the Raiders played ...
I actually had tears in my eyes as I viewed the story of the 10-year-old boy who had a chance to meet the Oakland Raiders and play a little football with them.
It was so heart-warming to see ESPN do a positive story on the warm-hearted, and wonderful reception of the Raiders as they played football with the precious young man named Jailen Cooper.
As I watched the telephone conversation between Tom Cable and Jailen I had a big smile on my face. I thought: this is why I love this team, strong men who have a heart.
See the video and let ...
Some of us are fed up with those articles about the Oakland Raiders that talk about what could go wrong. We would rather talk about what could go right.
So, all of the bearers of bad news need to change their perspective and talk about a glass half full, not half empty.
How would you feel if your doctor said to you before an operation: your chances of dying are....
Wouldn't you feel more hopeful if the doctor quoted your chances of survival and of having a restored life? Even if those chances are small, the focus on the positive is much more uplifting ...
85 years ago in 1925 Ty Cobb wrote a series of articles for the New York Evening Journal recalling his 20 years in baseball.
I just read those same memoirs in book form published by Dover Press in 2009. Before reading this book I had a mindset that Cobb was a great baseball player but a dirty baseball player who would go to any length to win a baseball game regardless of any injuries he may have to impose on his opponents.
The book is written in his own words telling how he played in an adult baseball league at the age ...
Bruce Campbell is 6'7'', 315 pounds, and two tons of left-tackle talent. He is a physical specimen the likes the NFL has never seen in an offensive linemen.
His physical measurables are also off of the chart, to match his sculpted body. He bench presses 500 pounds and repped-out 225 pounds 34 times at the combine.
Mike Mayock also timed Campbell at 4.78 in the 40 at the combine. His official time was 4.85 because they probably couldn't bring themselves to believe he was that fast.
To go along with his speed, he had a 20yard shuttle of 4.69 and a three-cone drill of 7.58. Then he had a vertical leap of 32 inches with ...
"The NFL is a better league when the Raiders are good." - John Madden, former Raiders head coach .
It is not just the personal bias of a man who guided the renegade Raider teams of the 1970s but a sentiment shared by most affiliated with the NFL.
Like any film, it's only as good as the main antagonist. The Raiders are the NFL's bad boys, the renegades and misfits, the villains of football, and for nearly four decades the NFL's most successful franchise. Only in recent years have the Raiders fallen from their usual status as one of the NFL's elite. ...
Larry Ellison may not have been able to purchase the Golden State Warriors from Chris Cohan, but there's another opportunity for Ellison. In fact, the team he can buy is in a lot better shape than the one he was going after.
The Oakland A's would be the perfect team for Ellison to buy. For one, he would make an immediate impact for the A's because it would mean that there is no more Lew Wolff ownership.
Under Wolff's direction, the franchise went from a perennial playoff team to a team that struggled to stay out of the American League West cellar. ...
It's been rumored that Ryan Sweeney is undergoing knee surgery that will end his season. There's no question that Sweeney is a valuable asset for the A's playing excellent defense in right field, but more importantly versatile enough to play all three outfield positions, and he possesses a strong arm as well.
Defensively he'll be missed although Gabe Gross does have a very good arm in the outfield as well. Offensively is where the A's will miss Sweeney the most though as he had the highest batting average, among the team leaders in RBI, and doubles.
The injury though could be a ...
Hopes are high for Raider Nation this season. Everything seems perfect for Oakland to rise up and grab a playoff spot.
But what if everything falls apart? Here are six things that could go wrong for the silver and black this season.Begin Slideshow