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Al Davis. Allen Davis (July 4, 1929 – October 8, 2011) was an American football coach and executive. He was the principal owner and general manager (officially titled managing general partner) [1] of the National Football League (NFL) Oakland Raiders for 39 years, from 1972 until his death in 2011. Prior to becoming principal owner of the ...
Oct 9, 2011 · By Bruce Weber. Oct. 8, 2011. Al Davis, the irascible owner of the Oakland Raiders whose feuds with the National Football League reshaped professional football over the last half century and ...
Aug 27, 2019 · "Al Davis," recalled Lawrence Kallenberg, a Brooklyn contemporary from a rival school, "made you notice him." Simultaneously, a mile away, another Jewish striver, Woody Allen, was fashioning his ...
Oct 8, 2011 · "Al Davis was a good man, and we were friendly rivals," Pittsburgh Steelers chairman emeritus Dan Rooney said in a statement released by the team. "He was a football man and did a lot for the game ...
Al Davis is the only person to have served pro football in such varied capacities as (1) a player personnel assistant, (2) an assistant coach, (3) a head coach, (4) a general manager, (5) a league commissioner and (6) the principal owner and chief executive officer of an NFL team.
Jun 30, 2024 · Al Davis (born July 4, 1929, Brockton, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 8, 2011, Oakland, California) was an American gridiron football coach and executive who, as commissioner of the American Football League (AFL), was a key actor in the merger of the AFL with the National Football League (NFL) and was either a part owner or principal owner ...
The Hall of Fame bio for former Raiders owner and head coach, Al Davis, inducted in 1992. Skip to main content. ... team went 10-4 in 1963 with Davis being named Coach of the Year by AP, UPI ...
May 7, 2018 · Al Davis, right, the head coach-general manager of the Oakland Raiders, was named, April 8, 1966 in Houston, as the new American Football League Commissioner to succeed Joe Foss, who resigns ...
Oct 8, 2011 · Al Davis 10 photos. Until the decline of the Raiders into a perennial loser in the first decade of the 21st century he was a winner, the man who as a coach, then owner-general manager-de facto ...
Oct 9, 2011 · Oct. 8, 2011. Amy Trask glanced out her office window Saturday morning and glimpsed some fans — one of them with a dog in an Oakland Raiders jersey — who had come to the team’s training ...
