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Oakland Raiders: How It Should Be, and Just a Few Things I Want

I hope the sleeping giant that is the Oakland Raiders wakes up from its six-year nap and attacks the rest of the AFC West. I mean, I want them to destroy clubs. I want them to treat their opponents like Pop Warner teams...

Written by Mike Sommers about 9 months ago 2,419 reads 7 comments
Tim Tebow: The Real American Idol

Calling all sports heroes, calling all sports heroes. In this day and age, so much media attention is focused on professional and collegiate athletes. Everywhere you look, these athletes are in the news, making headlines...

Written by Mike Sommers about 10 months ago 63 reads 1 comments
"Eight Steps to Great" for the 2009 Oakland Raiders, In Chronological Order

Ahhhh..........leaned back in my chair, watching sport channel news flashes on the tube. There seems to be so much media babble and so little concrete information regarding the Raiders...

Written by Mike Sommers about 11 months ago 614 reads 7 comments
Oakland Raiders: Turn Up the Circus Music, Al Davis Is Coach Hunting Again

Well here we are in such familiar territory as a Raider fan. The search for a head coach...AGAIN! Although it seems that we have a head coach currently, Mr. Al Davis is finding it necessary to scour the earth for a new one...

Written by Mike Sommers about 11 months ago 576 reads 6 comments
Memo to Al Davis: How To Save the Oakland Raiders in Six Easy Steps

After this crazy season of ups and downs for the NFL teams, there is one team that is poised to make a huge turnaround for 2009. Yes folks I am (as usual) talking about the Oakland Raiders...

Written by Mike Sommers about 11 months ago 2,612 reads 29 comments
Oakland Raiders: Tom Cable Named Next Year's Head Coach!

The Oakland Raiders have named Tom Cable next year's head coach. So what do you think of that idea? Well it hasn't been announced by the Raiders, but it is a highly probable result for next year's coaching need...

Written by Mike Sommers about 11 months ago 883 reads 9 comments
Oakland Raiders: A Crazed Assortment of Scary Scenarios

As the season winds down for the Oakland Raiders, I contemplate and ask myself a HUGE question. What will Al Davis do in regards to the coaching staff of the Raiders? The answer to that question ...

Written by Mike Sommers about 11 months ago 2,424 reads 20 comments
Oakland Raiders: The Short Version of What You Know, But Coaching Staff Doesn't

This is beginning to sound like a CD on "auto replay." I chat daily with many Raider fans about each and every Raider game. It seems that every week we talk about how the Raiders could win and what it would take to accomplish that...

Written by Mike Sommers about 11 months ago 908 reads 9 comments
Can The Oakland Raiders' Al Davis "Get 'er Done?"

Ahhhhh, reality and the Raiders future. Such a mystical question is, "What will Al Davis do now?" Well, one of the well known facts about the Raiders is that Al Davis hasn't relinquished total control EVER, and it is not likely that he will anytime soon..

Written by Mike Sommers about 12 months ago 224 reads 2 comments
Oakland Raiders: Hey Al Davis, It's Trigger Time, Baby!

It is trigger time in the Raiders’ organization. Never before has it been so obvious, so needed and so clear to see, that the Raiders need a new Head Coach. Wait a minute...Let me rephrase that...

Written by Mike Sommers about about 1 year ago 1,739 reads 8 comments
Oakland Raiders Rob Ryan: What Is the Problem?

Hello Raider fans and football fans alike...A word for this season is "frustrating"...But I will tell you what pumps this team up...A great defensive stand and three-'n-outs...

Written by Mike Sommers about about 1 year ago 304 reads 4 comments
Oakland Raiders' Al Davis Orders New Coach

Here is the scene: Al Davis in the "Coaches Diner" drive thru in his big wing, '70s Cadillac, hanging out the window with his glasses and neck chain.....

Written by Mike Sommers about about 1 year ago 593 reads 1 comments
Star Trek and the Raiders

kirk: Spock, what the hell is in that thing your looking into?? Is that a mini tv or somethin?spock: No captain, I am looking at my Fantasy Football team and trying to figure out who to play...

Written by Mike Sommers about about 1 year ago 298 reads 0 comments
AFC West, The Raider, Bronco, Charger, Chief smoothie

Ahhhhh, the AFC West. The division that during the off-season had only one outcome for its inhabitants. The Chargers: Picked by all the media and generally thought to win the division hands down and running away with it...

Written by Mike Sommers about about 1 year ago 173 reads 1 comments
Is Kiffin a genious?

Oh my what a bunch of media crap!!!... As of now Lane Kiffin is the coach and he is the best one in years. The reality is that our Raider team is nothing like it has been over the last 5 years and it gives us hope...

Written by Mike Sommers about about 1 year ago 144 reads 1 comments
The Kiffin Factor

The Kiffin factor is still moving forward and upward. Look, we all (at lease I was) were very excited at Kiffins arrival, he came from USC and was used to winning......

Written by Mike Sommers about about 1 year ago 54 reads 0 comments
Raiders hype vs reality

I am like most of the Raider fans out there. I watched the whole off-season with renewed hope and anxious for the season. Let's take a look at last season briefly...

Written by Mike Sommers about about 1 year ago 68 reads 0 comments

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Mike Sommers Article Archive

Oakland Raiders: How It Should Be, and Just a Few Things I Want

Tim Tebow: The Real American Idol

"Eight Steps to Great" for the 2009 Oakland Raiders, In Chronological Order

Oakland Raiders: Turn Up the Circus Music, Al Davis Is Coach Hunting Again

Memo to Al Davis: How To Save the Oakland Raiders in Six Easy Steps

Oakland Raiders: Tom Cable Named Next Year's Head Coach!

Oakland Raiders: A Crazed Assortment of Scary Scenarios

Oakland Raiders: The Short Version of What You Know, But Coaching Staff Doesn't

Can The Oakland Raiders' Al Davis "Get 'er Done?"

Oakland Raiders: Hey Al Davis, It's Trigger Time, Baby!

Oakland Raiders Rob Ryan: What Is the Problem?

Oakland Raiders' Al Davis Orders New Coach

Star Trek and the Raiders

AFC West, The Raider, Bronco, Charger, Chief smoothie

Is Kiffin a genious?

The Kiffin Factor

Raiders hype vs reality

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