Jan 20, 2024
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Please tell me what it feels like to excel, to be exceptionally good at something because I'm unaware of this feeling.
COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE
“It is the honor of a lifetime to join the Raiders at one of the most defining times in the team’s history,” said Morgan.
Even with some of the shady business / rumors surrounding the organization recently (e.g. potential sexual harassment cases, financial issues, and a revolving door of presidents, among others), I still think this represents more than just a publicity stunt and instead is a genuine effort to put someone in charge who will have the willpower and respect to change things within the organization. Watching her press conference, it was very clear that Morgan is the real deal and a true professional who make this franchise into a powerhouse on the business-side of the organization. Paired with Mark + Ziegler and McDaniels, the greatness of the Raiders indeed remains in their (very near) future!
A big congratulations to Sandra Douglass Morgan for being the first black female executive in the NFL! Welcome to the Raider Nation, Sandra!
All Madden.
CRAZIEST FUCKING GAME I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE, CHARGERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TAKEN THAT TIMEOUT, NO CHANCE IN THE DANCE FOR LA!
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"But it was one act of kindness in particular that many recalled about Madden after his death: The care he showed for Darryl Stingley, a New England Patriots player who suffered a life-changing spinal cord injury in a preseason game against Madden’s Raiders in 1978. When Madden learned of the severity of Stingley’s injury after the game, he went straight to the Oakland-area hospital where Stingley had been taken. When Madden arrived he was angered to learn that Patriots head coach Chuck Fairbanks was flying home with the rest of the team, as Madden felt that Fairbanks should have stayed with Stingley until Stingley’s family could arrive. A 1979 New York Times article reported that Madden got someone at the airport on the phone and barked, “You get Chuck Fairbanks off that plane.” A Sports Illustrated profile of Madden in 1983 reported that when Stingley’s family did arrive, Madden and his wife offered to let the family stay in their home and use their car as long as Stingley was in the hospital. Madden also took time away from the Raiders’ training camp to make regular visits to Stingley. After the Raiders played the Broncos in the regular-season opener that year, they flew home from Denver and Madden went straight from the airport to the hospital to see Stingley. Madden retired from coaching at the end of that season, and although Madden never said so, some who knew him felt the distress he felt about Stingley’s injury contributed to his decision to step away. Stingley would never walk again, and he died in 2007 at the age of 55. In his autobiography, Stingley wrote of Madden, “I love that man.” Stingley could have been speaking for the whole football world."
John Madden was known to players for his kindness