The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Oakland Raiders: Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Oakland Raiders History (Good, the Bad, & the Ugly)
by Steven Travers
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| Product Description: Are you ready for the real story of the Oakland Raiders? As one of the NFL's greatest franchises, the Raiders have a long history of legends and goats, great comebacks and colossal failures, NFL championships and heartbreaking losses. The memories will come flooding back as fans read about the hard-hitting, hard-partying teams coached by John Madden; renegade owner Al Davis, who fought numerous legal battles, moved the franchise twice, and still managed to keep the team on top; the three Super Bowl championships--and the two blowout Super Bowl losses; and some of the most colorful personalities from NFL history--Stabler, Blanda, Biletnikoff, Tatum, Allen, Upshaw, Rice, and many more. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Oakland Raiders is a must for every fan who wants an unflinching look at the greatest--and worst--players, coaches, and moments in Raiders history. |
Oakland Raiders 2009 Wall Calendar
by Turner Licensing
Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire
by Jim Miller, Kelly Mayhew
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Product Description: A season with the infamous fans of the football team everyone loves to hate.
\"[B]eyond doubt the sleaziest and rudest and most sinister mob of thugs and whackos ever assembled in such numbers under a single \"roof,\" so to speak, anywhere in the English-speaking world.\"—Hunter S. Thompson on Raiders fans
The silver-and-black-clad Oakland Raiders fans are the most notorious in American professional sports, with a mythic reputation for cursing, drinking, brawling, and generally wreaking mayhem. The devotion of the team's multiracial, largely blue-collar supporters runs deep, creating a profound sense of community. As Jim Miller and Kelly Mayhew reveal in this hair-raising and entertaining new book, the self-described Raider Nation, smitten with its outlaw mystique, provides a gritty alternative to California's sunshine-and-granola image.
Over the course of the harrowing 2003 season, Miller and Mayhew explored the reality behind the myth and interviewed legions of rabid Raiders fans—from suburban families to bikers—while attending games in the \"Black Hole\" (the rowdiest section in Oakland's stadium), frequenting sports bars, and crashing tailgate parties. Featuring the extraordinary photography of Joseph A. Blum, Better to Reign in Hell is both a rollicking tale of obsessive fandom and a fascinating study of the intersection of class, race, gender, and community in professional sports. |
Pride & Poise: The Oakland Raiders of the American Football League
by James McCullough
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| Product Description: Pride & Poise: The Oakland Raiders of The American Football League takes a definitive look into the formation and turbulent early history of the Oakland Raiders. Beginning with the hurried scramble to bring professional football to a city that couldn't provide a home for the team only to suffer through three losing seasons a combined 9-33 record with 19 consecutive losses. After plodding through three head coaches and an alarming player turn around before finding a young dynamo who transformed their club from a doormat rumored to move to another city willing to pour more funds into a prolific loser before having ever played in their home city to an immediate, nearly unstoppable winner. Relive the exploits of the Oakland Raiders in a week in, week out chronicle of their first ten seasons. Meet six unique head coaches and the legends who helped to make the transitions caused by age, injuries associated with football seamless and the whirlwind transformation of a young dynamo from coach to commissioner and ultimately to ownership as he built one of the most respected and feared organization in professional sports. Packed with statistics, transactions and forgotten lore, Pride and Poise: The Oakland Raiders of the American Football League is the most complete, accurate and fair account ever produced of the early Raiders, revisiting every game, win, lose or tie as they make the great journey from near oblivion to professional football's elite and its most dominating franchise. |
The History of the Oakland Raiders (NFL Today) (NFL Today)
by Aaron Frisch
Beth Burgess: supposedly mild-mannered CPA is '... a die-hard Oakland Raiders fan'.(Executive Leadership): An article from: Mississippi Business Journal
by Lynne Jeter
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Product Description: This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Thomson Gale on December 25, 2006. The length of the article is 736 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Beth Burgess: supposedly mild-mannered CPA is '... a die-hard Oakland Raiders fan'.(Executive Leadership)
Author: Lynne Jeter
Publication:Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 25, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 28 Issue: 52 Page: 141(1)
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