The "Sound" Of an NFL Comeback

There are so many ways to kill the spirit of a potentially great team. 

We can kill the reputation of an NFL player. 

We can kill, through a media blitz, the hopes and dreams of a team.

We can kill the opportunity to restore the image of a team which may have been perceived narrowly in former days, but has the potential of great accomplishments in 2009.

As a child at Bruce Elementary School in Fifth Ward, Houston, Texas I would hear other children ring out:  "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

Wrrrooooonnnng! (Like the sound of a Chinese gong: sound)

Words are powerful.  Why do you think so many New Yorkers, for example, go to a talk therapist? 

Words  are sounds coded with meaning.

Words in print cause a sound in thought.

Now, let's make use of a good sound.

The Oakland Raiders will have a powerful season.

The Oakland  Raiders will have a powerful quarterback like the great Daryl Lamonica.

The Oakland Raiders will have a team of powerful wide receivers like the ones in the past:  Cliff Branch, Fred Biletnikoff, Warren Wells, and others.

The Oakland Raiders will have a superb coaching team.

The Oakland Raiders will have a revived, keen, discerning, wise, Al Davis, again.

The Oakland Raiders will have a man with a powerful hand and foot like George Blanda.

Now you complete the sentence:  The Oakland Raiders will have_________________.