Al Davis is Scary

By James Sheldon on January 19th, 2011

I don’t know if pity is the right word for Raiders fans.

I know the Raiders organization is made up of some “scary” fans, but I know a lot of those fans. Outside of the Oakland Coliseum, they’re really quite regular folks. Al Davis, however…? Geez, Louise. This dude has hijacked his own organization.

If you showed this blog post to a child, they would have nightmares. Guaranteed. I think the image alone might possesses the power to scare the worst of a few career criminals straight.

I just don’t get why this guy won’t release his death-grip on his organization. And when I say death-grip, I mean the grip of an 81 year old man who resembles living into a 13th decade.

I don’t know if you caught Big Al’s press conference yesterday, introducing the next coach of the Raiders who will be fired within two years, but in the process of pushing the spotlight toward Hue Jackson, Davis decided to slide into vintage form and chase the light across the stage. My first though: Why not wear a hat? My second thought: How long will it be before he’s lashing out at Tom Cable? I think it was maybe six seconds.

He was clearly much more interested in tossing the former Raiders coach under the bus rather than talk about new coach Hue Jackson. It was similar to move with Lane Kiffin, Art Shell, Norv Turner and that Callahan dude who took Jon Gruden’s team to the Super Bowl the year after Gruden jumped over to Tampa to throttle the Raiders in the big game. ‘Member that? Just a string of typical dysfunction–the fruits of the Al Davis labor.

Digressing. When Skeletor speaks, the universe listens. And I was all ears yesterday. Never has there been a better example of someone staying in power for too long. Fidel Castro? Kim Jong Il? Please–they’re kittens. What do you think is hidden under Al’s band-aids? It’s their souls.