The attackers may have moved to Las Vegas, but the franchise has left its mark on the State of California as few have done.
So it is not surprising that the current team owner, Al Davis, and former Raiders coach John Madden, who recently passed away, were both inducted into the California Sports Hall of Fame as part of the team. in 2022.
Here is a video of the event linked to the official Twitter account of Raiders.
Former sports spokesman Jim Gray spoke at the event, saying in the video above, “I know Al would be very happy if he and John Madden were put together in the same team. Because both of them were in the whole class. ”
Gray, who had known Al Davis for years before Davis died in 2011, also tweeted photos from induction. Here he has buses for Davis and Madden, as well as young Davis and current Raiders owner, Mark Davis, and the immediate family of Madden.
That’s the enthusiastic motto for the Raiders coming down from Gray on his tweet, accompanied by Just Win, Baby, and Commitment to Excellence.
To understand Gray’s enthusiasm, here are photos of Gray and Mark and Al Davis, separated for years.
The Davis family and the Raiders clearly had an influence on Gray. And together, Madden and Al Davis dominated the opposition with an unrealistic piece, affecting the NFL permanently.
Madden, who did not coach any team but the Invaders (Madden continued to go into the art world after coaching), had a .759 winning streak, the highest in the NFL history for a coach with at least 100 victories. After the 1976 season, the Madden team won everything in the Super Bowl XI.
As for Davis, he took the Invaders from Oakland to Los Angeles and back to Oakland again. The Franchise has won the Super Bowls in each city – two as Oakland Raiders and one as LA Raiders. How could that have a lasting effect?
The legacy has now passed to Las Vegas. But the image of Raiders California does not fade. And finally, the California Sports Hall of Fame realized that fact, which has long been set in favor of Raider Nation and the NFL as a whole.
