Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John by Peter Richmond

By Peter Richmond

A e-book that explores the long-lasting legends of Snake, Foo, Dr. dying, and John Madden’s Oakland Raiders, Badasses is the definitive biography of arguably the final workforce to play out of date tough-guy soccer. Peter Richmond, co-author of the New York occasions bestseller The Glory Game, deals a desirable examine the Nineteen Seventies Oakland Raiders, led by means of colourful greats from one other period: Ken Stabler, Willie Brown, Gene Upshaw, Jim Otto, paintings Shell, head trainer John Madden, and proprietor Al Davis. within the bestselling vein of Boys can be Boys, Badasses chronicles the bar-room exploits, practice-field pranks, and great Bowl glories of the team’s many misfits, cast-offs, psychos, and geniuses of the game.

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So Swearingen came out of the dugout and thrust his arms in the air: touchdown, 13–7, Steelers. Five seconds remained on the clock, time for a meaningless kickoff, followed by bedlam in Three Rivers, and devastation in every Badass soul. “We did enough to win,” Biletnikoff says now. “To have something like that happen…It should have been an incompletion if it was that inconclusive. ” Linebacker Gerald Irons was the last Raider to leave the field, ignoring the scrum of Pittsburgh fans. He slogged over to the sideline, in a daze.

And when quarterback Stabler—the de facto leader, the Badass emblem, the “Snake”—took over for good, in 1973, he led them to five consecutive AFC Championship games, and the Super Bowl XI title to end the ’76 season: the Sisyphean myth denied. Their 66 regular-season victories from 1972 to 1977 led the National Football League. By those numbers, numbers that speak of perennial dominance, it’s obvious that the Badasses knew how to consistently play the game of football better than anyone out there, year in, year out.

Says Stabler. “Black uniforms? Playing in the very, very tough blue-collar city of Oakland? ” Consider the nature of the pirate: a true outlaw, a man who defies societal strictures in order to loot, plunder, and seize whatever he desires by whatever means necessary. He is beholden to no one save his shipmates, vilified by conventional society but celebrated in fantasy. As far back as the numerous mentions in the lyrical lines of the Odyssey, the pirate who roamed the Mediterranean after the Trojan War was both scorned and begrudgingly admired.

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