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The Grim Reaper fired Lane Kiffin yesterday in the weirdest press conference I’ve ever seen. Al Davis is aging well, as made obvious by the picture above. I wouldn’t trust this guy to play Chinese Checkers in a senior center, let alone run a professional franchise. This guy needs to be hitting up the early bird special, not calling press conferences to berate and fire his head coach. Even George Steinbrenner handed the reigns over to his kids, it’s time for Al to let Rosemary’s Baby or whoever his spawn may have been, to call the shots.

Kiffin was young and may not have been a good coach, but that team was playing better than many expected, and there’s no way he deserved that character assassination. Davis is just plain old. He knows he’s already playing with the house’s money in the game of life, and wants to win now. Problem is; every time he changes the coach (5 in the last 6 years) he slows the process immensely. Team continuity is huge in football and Al’s dementia makes this impossible to obtain.

The Raiders are lucky that the Lions and Knicks exist or they would be the most laughable franchise in sports. The only thing worse than the Raiders play since 2002 is Al’s decaying face, accompanied by teeth that may have been fashioned out of wood. Go away Al Davis. You were great once but you are destroying your legacy. Gone are the days of the ruff-neck criminals who won with Madden, and here are the days of a coaching revolving door that has yielded many a losing season. Let the Raiders flourish in your wake as you concern yourself with rice pudding and day-time stories. Being old isn’t a bad thing, but making young people suffer because of it, is.