DeaneGithens: Didn't they get busted for cheating the salary cap during those years?
Carmen Policy and Dwight Clark were fined (along with the 9ers) for salary cap violations (NY Times) in 2000 for some discrepancies in and around the mid 90's. The team of the 80s... Walsh, Montana, Rice, et al was never implicated.
Eddie DeBartolo, Jr., lost the franchise to his family after a corruption trial involving LA Gov Edwards and a Riverboat Casino. (Wiki)
Since that time, we have been barely holding on with the mostly inneffective Yorks in control of the franchise.
Singletary was a brilliant choice for coach.
All we need now is a competent QB, or at least a comfortable one... (with those two beasts they got in the draft, there's a very good chance our QB can stay upright).
raiderrob67: Looks like Snaike is a closeted Raider fan....let the Raiders win the super bowl and they have another fan and his name is Snaike.
Not going to happen, rob... sorry. As long as you have that piece of **** running the show... and running from stadium to stadium suing the hell out of anybody and everybody because his crappy teams can't sell out a bandbox.... they'll always be laughed at.
Explain this to me, oh wise raiderrob... why can't anyone watch the raiders home games on TV? Why is the city of Oakland watching Seattle play Kansas City on the TV when the Raiders are home? Why was senile grampa davis suing the NFL and Oakland for 100million?
Because they don't sell out. They don't sell out because there aren't enough Raider fans who can afford to go to their games. The product is crap and the prices are too high. Does that mean the majority of raider fans are unemployed scrubs with too much black make-up in old Darth Vader masks, or does it mean that the market share (in SF and LA) has moved on to products that give a better value for the dollar? Or does it mean that Davis can't find a stadium that he could fill? I am sure the local high schools in Oakland would let them play there.
Look, you can be a raider fan all you want. That's your decision and you have to live with it. But as long as you, as fans, accept a crappy product wrapped up in a nice silver and black package.. and keep feeding senile davis all the money he'd ever want... you'll get exactly what you've always got.... a second rate team.
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Oh, and btw, I've quit exactly 2 games in almost 2 years.
Have a nice day.