Pride and Poise: The Oakland Raiders of The American Football
League takes a definitive look into the formation and turbulent
early history of the Oakland Raiders. Beginning with the hurried
scramble to bring professional football to a city that couldn't
provide a home for the team only to suffer through three losing
seasons a combined 9-33 record with 19 consecutive losses. After
plodding through three head coaches and an alarming player turn
around before finding a young dynamo who transformed their club
from a doormat rumored to move to another city willing to pour more
funds into a prolific loser before having ever played in their home
city to an immediate, nearly unstoppable winner. Relive the
exploits of the Oakland Raiders in a week in, week out chronicle of
their first ten seasons. Meet six unique head coaches and the
legends who helped to make the transitions caused by age, injuries
associated with football seamless and the whirlwind transformation
of a young dynamo from coach to commissioner and ultimately to
ownership as he built one of the most respected and feared
organization in professional sports. Packed with statistics,
transactions and forgotten lore, Pride and Poise: The Oakland
Raiders of the American Football League is the most complete,
accurate and fair account ever produced of the early Raiders,
revisiting every game, win, lose or tie as they make the great
journey from near oblivion to professional football's elite and its
most dominating franchise.
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