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The defiant longtime owner of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders was a rebel who embraced Hollywood (and vice-versa) when he moved the team to Los Angeles in 1982. The NFL Hall of Famer had been in failing health with an undisclosed ailment for some time when he died. He was 82. The team won the first and only Super Bowl for Los Angeles in 1984, the city’s Olympic year, the last of three titles that Davis won for the Raiders all told (the others coming in 1976 and 1980). He moved the Raiders back to Oakland in 1995, and LA has been without an NFL team ever since. But Davis will forever be known as the guy who brought Hollywood bright lights and Super Bowl glamour together, even if the party was all too brief. He’ll also be remembered for the battle cry, “Just win baby!” His teams wound up doing quite a bit of that.
R.I.P. Al Davis
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REST in Peace Al, we remain the Raider Nation
A true rebel and an architect of the greatest sports league in history. There was some good times being a Raider fan but the last ten years have been frustrating. RIP
P.S. Our new leader is a woman!
Uh..so was Georgia Front and Reary…8 times married. Be careful for what you wish.
R.I.P., Crypt-Keeper.
RaiderNation is dead
This is crap, he’ll always be known as the self righteous egomaniac that played his fans, benched Marcus Allen when he was the best who played the game and ran off coach Gruden. Long live the king indeed.
You stay classy.
Say what you want about Davis but he helped grow the NFL into what we all grew to love. The new flag football, corporate version pales in comparison to what Al helped build. Everybody says the Raiders will finally be able to step into the new world when he passes, but my guess is Oakland is in for more of the same for years to come. The Silver and Black’s struggled for a handful of years but regardless, the mystique just took a big hit.
RIP, Al. A legend who truly did it his way.
Northern CA has lost two icons this week – one beloved by the world, the other, not so much. Al was tireless in his defense of his beloved team, but when your disciples include the likes of Jerry Jones, its time to rethink your legacy.
For all he brought to the team, we was a divisive force among the other NFL team owners, so much so that he sued them all in order to move his team to LA. While that experiment didn’t last long, his single-minded approach alienated almost all of the other owners at the time. Al should be remembered both for his successes, as well as hsi foibles.
If a biopic is in the offing, who would you cast as Al?
I think Skeletor is already in the make up trailer.
You guys should really stick to your knitting instead of posting stuff in the hopes of driving traffic. Stay away from stuff you know nothing about like sports and Al Davis. Stick to taking handouts from agents and stories about script sales that will go nowhere.
Not to kick a man when he is 6 ft. under, but this gentleman ruined the Los Angeles Rams, as their owner at the time had no balls….literally, to stop the Rayduhs from moving to LA.
Isn’t that the Irwindale Raiders?
He did help make the merger of the AFL nd NFL together possible but he made so many critical mistakes and was a recluse to the rest of the football world. Maybe some new ownership can now lead this team into the promised land once again and maybe to a new home in LA again.
If they do a movie, how about Steve Buscemi for Al?
I will always appreciate what he did for the NFL and the world’s greatest sports franchise…
BUT…
I really, really, really wish he’d retired 10 years ago as well…