fbpx

Al Davis, maverick owner of Oakland Raiders, dies

Al Davis, the maverick owner of the Oakland Raiders, has died.
[additional-authors]
October 9, 2011

Al Davis, the maverick owner of the Oakland Raiders, has died.

Davis, who served as coach and general manager of the NFL team and later became its principal owner, died at his home in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday—Yom Kippur—according to the team’s website. He was 82.

Davis was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992.

He was involved in several lawsuits against the National Football League and had a longtime feud with its late commissioner, Pete Rozelle. Davis won a lawsuit allowing him to move the Raiders to Los Angeles in 1982, then he returned the team to Northern California 12 years later.

Davis was the commissioner of the American Football League but resigned after the AFL and the NFL announced their merger in the late 1960s.

The Massachusetts native grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Did you enjoy this article?
You'll love our roundtable.

Editor's Picks

Latest Articles

A Tale of Two Sunday Evenings in California

While Bill Maher and John Fetterman demonstrated an understanding of Jewish values, across town at the Emmys we saw just the opposite, delivered with the hollow prefix “as a Jew.”

SNL’s Bowen Yang Has a Genocide Problem

Why is Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang falsely accusing Israel of genocide, while ignoring the confirmed genocide perpetrated against Muslim Uyghurs in China?

Rosh Hashanah and the American Dream

In reviving this dream, Milken’s center is reviving something even more vital– our faith in life. It is that very faith in life, that force that drove our ancestors, where we can find our optimism as we enter the Jewish new year.

More news and opinions than at a
Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.

More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.