Al+Davis

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 * 1) Born july 4th 1929
 * 2) born to wealthy jewish family in brroklyn
 * 3) attended Wittenberg University and Syracuse University
 * 4) english degree
 * 5) first coaching gig at Adelphi college as line coach 1950-1951
 * 6) head coach of Army at Ft. Belvior 1952-1953
 * 7) line coach and chief recruiter ofThe Citadel 1954-1956
 * 8) o-line coach at USC 1957-1959
 * 9) offensive line coach of SD Chargers 1960-1962
 * 10) after season of 1962, F. Wayne Valley hired davis as head coach and general manager
 * 11) passsing offense called "verticle game"
 * 12) took raiders to 10-4 in first season
 * 13) 1963 AFL head coach of the year
 * 14) named AFL commissioner in 1966
 * 15) other AFL owners held meetings with NFL behind Davis' back
 * 16) NFL and AFL merged in 1970, davis was against it
 * 17) resigned as comissioner in 1966 to restructure contract rather than waiting till merger for his job to end
 * 18) after being comish he went back and bought 10% of raiders and was partial owners with Wayne Valley and Ed McGah
 * 19) named head of football opperations and hand picked coaching successor John Rauch
 * 20) 1967 raiders beat Houston Oilers in the AFL championship and then lost to Green Bay in Super Bowl 2
 * 21) cause of death not released
 * 1) in 1995 sued NFL for $1.2 mil that he owned the L.A. area for teams
 * 2) elected to HOF in 1992
 * 3) hired Art Shell as first black head coach in 1988
 * 4) hired the first woman CEO Amy Trask
 * 5) Team owner ship passed to son Mark in 2011
 * 6) "commitment to excellence"
 * 7) graduated from Erasmus Hall High School
 * 8) assistant head coach of Bmore Colts at age 24
 * 9) 23-16-3 in three seasons as raiders head coach
 * 10) was a managing general partener till his death of the raiders
 * 11) hired head coaches such as John Madden, Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, and Lane Kiffin
 * 12) moved team to oakland in 1982
 * 13) the last super bowl Davis' raiders ever went to was in 2002
 * 14) they lost to the bucs
 * 15) only missed 3 Raiders games in 49 years while in managment
 * 16) Davis' was involved in stratigies on draft day and game day
 * 17) leg ailments made him use a walker in 2008
 * 18) hired first Latino head coach
 * 19) "just win Baby"
 * 20) 411 wins all time with raiders
 * 1) follows height, speed and skill criteria for drafting wrs
 * 2) values explosiveness
 * 3) doesnt particularly like "high profile" wrs in the draft
 * 4) usually draft linemen or defensive players
 * 1) a "maverick"
 * 2) last super bowl win in 1983
 * 3) wore black and silver jump suits constantly
 * 4) sore loser
 * 5) wanted raiders to be as well know as the yankees
 * 6) he wanted to have global reconition
 * 7) used color scheme to make raiders look bigger than they were
 * 8) had executive order on pretty much everything
 * 9) moved Raiders to L.A. in 1982
 * 10) he wanted luxury boxes and more seats that why he moved them
 * 11) moved back to oakland in 1995
 * 12) upgraded the coliseum in 1995
 * 13) move back origonaly blocked by court
 * 14) filed antitrust lawsuit against nfl and made 35 mil for raiders
 * 15) tickets sales inflated by fans
 * 16) lawsuties from oakland about ticket sales
 * 17) raiders took over own ticket sales in 2005
 * 18) 37-91 in the last eight years
 * 19) been blacked out on tv 83 times from failing to sell tickets
 * 20) in 2010 tom cable named the 9th differnet head coach in 16 years
 * 21) fired lane kiffin 4 games into the 2007 season for making the raiders look bad
 * 22) Kiffin still attempting to recover the remainder of 2008 salary through arbitration
 * 23) always been closer to players
 * 24) either loyal friend or bitter enemy
 * 25) had a knack for prodicting media contracts to be successful or fall through
 * 26) wife suffered heart attack in 1979
 * 1) 1963 AFL coach of the year
 * 2) Signed big name NFL players to the AFL raiders
 * 3) was apar of teams 3 superbowls in 70', 80', and 83'
 * 4) known as a pioneer
 * 5) at one point after 2002 went through 5 coaches in 6 years
 * 6) "I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death."