LOL, the one I still love the most is Raider Lincoln Kennedy. In the NFL Films show on the Tuck Rule game, he puts on the greatest woe is me, we got f######, crybaby, excuse-making **** in the history of mankind while bemoaning his and his team's fate. Every time I see it I first laugh my ass off and then I get a pup tent south of the border...
The Raiders have always had the whiniest, crybaby former players. Gene Atkinson from the 1970s comes to mind.
They were the dirtiest bunch of punks on the field in the 1970s, and acted like it was completely normal.
I mean, they were really good, too, but they are so whiny. And, that 2001 Raiders team was REALLY OLD. People don't seem to get that. It was at the forefront of the league sort of changing, where players weren't playing until 35 much anymore, or not as well I should say.
Greg Biekert, etc..I mean, those were all guys at the very back end of their careers. Rice, Tim Brown, Gannon, Zack Crockett, Tory James, etc, etc, Even that very good RB, Charlie Garner, was on the back 9......Davis was building those teams like it was 1978. WHo was it, the vbery good Frank Middleton left TB and went to Oakland at Guard. Again, good player at one time, but OLD in 2001.
Al Davis forgot there was a cap and too many veterans not only would be expensive, but slower and not as good.
I can still see Zack Crocket failing to ice the game on 2nd and 3 and 3rd and 1. Bruschi essentially stoned him twice, back to back.