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Lane Kiffin Responds To Being Fired By Raiders
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  • TRINITY MONTANA225 TRINITY MONTANA225
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    What's up!

    Al Davis=A.D.=After Death!!!

    This visionary(PAST TENSE)IS LITERALLY KILLING MY FAVORITE TEAM OF ALL TIME!!!!! This man(also past tense)is as destructive as cynide,so NO SELF-RESPECTING Coach(or Al appointed stooge)WOULD EVER BE Raider head coach.It is as sickening as bird flu to watch this so-called maverick napalm So.Cal. He really thought ol' Lane would be his next flunky to be ,ALL FOR NAUGHT AL!!!! Al's NEXT PROJECT:FINDING A COFFIN TO REST IN,PERMENENTLY!!!!!

    Posted 10/1/2008 respond (flag)
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Davis-Kiffin feud now is about money
ESPN.com - NFL Nation Blog — Posted by ESPN.com's Bill Williamson Al Davis' decision to detail Lane Kiffin's insubordination Tuesday in a stunning news conference is just the beginning. There is sure to be a dispute between Davis and Kiffin over the remaining portion of his contract, which has about $3.5 million left on it. Davis went out of his way to detail all of Kiffin's missteps in his news conference, and it appears he is ready to go to battle with Kiffin. In an exclusive television interview with ESPN, Kiffin called Davis what Davis earlier called him: a liar. Asked about his contract, Kiffin said he has attorneys to handle the situation. In the end, ...

Kiffin Responds To Being Fired By Raiders
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This week's moment: Let the war of words begin
Out of Bounds — Al Davis press conference after firing Lane Kiffin: Kiffin's response on NFL Live: I'm sorry, this is funny. "A professional liar". Wow, that's too funny. Al Davis is as old as dirt, but he had jokes. This is definitely an "Under The Bus" moment. Al Davis threw Kiffin under the first Greyhound bus he saw.

Theater of the Absurd, Al Davis Style
The Big Lead — Bizarre. Al Davis should have been forced out the moment he traded coach Jon Gruden to the Bucs in 2001 after Oakland lost the “Tuck Rule” game to the Patriots in the snow. You know how that worked out - Oakland hasn’t had a winning season since 2002, and newly-promoted o-line coach Tom Cable is the team’s fifth coach since. (Gruden, meanwhile, has been to the playoffs three times in six years in Tampa, and memorably defeated the Raiders in the Super Bowl.) Here is Lane Kiffin’s response, best summed up as “bewildered.” Too bad he didn’t address the ...

Football Today -- Belichick shows his softer side; Al Davis shows his fire
Projo Pats Blog — A LESSON IN STRENGTH: Bill Belichick spoke to children at the fancy new movie theater at Patriot Place before a showing of "The Express," the soon-to-be-released movie about Ernie Davis, the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy. (Boston.com) Davis was diagnosed with leukemia as a young man, cutting short his promising career, a story that Belichick used to put his own team's struggles into perspective: "Every year there is always something that happens that is a little bit of a setback, but the great teams, the great players, the great people in life overcome those things. "They find a way to work through it. ... "We've had an injury on our team, to ...

Al Davis Releases The Hounds [NFL]
Deadspin — As the dust settles from Tuesday's Oakland Raiders press conference, shellshocked witnesses are only now coming to grips with what occurred. I wasn't there, but I listened on the radio, and came away with this impression: Al Davis needs to be tranquilized and relocated further back into the woods. Whenever he emerges into civilization — which is rare these days — only heartache and chaos can result; on Tuesday the target was Lane Kiffin, but next time it could be you or me. Several amusing accounts have emerged this morning, one of the best being from Ann Killion of the San Jose Mercury: And, right there on stage, Davis ...

Daily "Linkin' Logs" MLB Playoffs?! Edition (10/1/08)
The Bad News Bloggers — And the White Sox do it...needing two wins in two days, they pulled it off (probably as the better team) and became the AL Central Champions. They play the Rays tomorrow. Today features a fun slate of games starting with the Phillies and Brewers at 3pm. We'll let thefightins' "How do you spell retard" break it down. Thefightins also let us know that ESPN thinks the Phillies will win. Seriously, the who's who of ESPN is picking the Phillies...poor Brewers fans. We'll let Coreyisarealboy of AGM give us his Brewers take. More MLB info in the links. In oddly more entertaining news, Al Davis finally fired Lane ...

WORST ORGANIZATION IN THE NFL?
Zoner Sports — So Al Davis finally cans Lane Kiffin and says it’s for cause so he doesn’t have to pay him. He said that when he told Kiffin he was fired, the first question he asked was “Are you gonna pay me?”. I think it’s a fair question considering what he did to Shanahan. I think the bigger question is whether or not the Raiders are the worst organization in the NFL. From 2003-2007 the Raiders were 19-61. Even the Lions were 26-54 in that time span. And their drafts have been pretty awful too. Davis spoke of his confidence that the Raiders will win. But first they might want to aim for “Just Don’t Be ...

KIFFIN CANCELS PRESS CONFERENCE
ProFootballTalk.com — While trying to figure out when former Raiders coach Lane Kiffin would be holding a promised press conference on Wednesday, we learned that the press conference has actually be canceled. Apparently, Kiffin’s agent and lawyer decided it wouldn’t be wise to respond in detail to the allegations made on Tuesday by owner Al Davis. And they’re right.  Eventually, there’s going to be a grievance hearing.  (For more on how it will all unfold,  check out our latest item ...

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