Wide receiver/kick returner Bo Roberson might be the best all-around athlete in the Oakland-Los Angeles-Las Vegas Raiders franchise history. Roberson played
In continued honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Tom Flores‘ journey to Hall of Fame induction is explored. In the beginning Thomas Raymond Flores was born in Sanger, California in 1937 to Nellie Padilla Flores and Tomas Cervantes Flores.
The Las Vegas Raiders will try to get their season turned in the right direction on Sunday when they travel to Nashville, Tenn., to go against another franchise they have been dealing with for the 63 years of their existence.
The first day of the first training camp for the Oakland Raiders came on July 11, 1960, at Santa Cruz High School near Monterey, where 86 players showed up for media day and practiced under the watchful eye of strict Coach Eddie Erdelatz, who formerly coached at the United States Naval Academy.
The Oakland Raiders were the eighth and final franchise created in the inaugural season of the American Football League in 1960, and the other teams actually stole players from Oakland’s original roster, which was chosen by proposed owners in Minneapolis who wound up going with the established National Football League instead.
The Las Vegas Raiders opened their 63rd training camp today at their home facility, the Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center in Henderson, Nev., with rookies reporting on July 18 and veterans two days later.
Buddy Parker this year was the first runner-up to Tom Flores as the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame’s coaching candidate, but he wasn’t chosen for the Class of 2022.
After seeing Tom Flores finally get into the Hall of Fame, the attention of Raider Nation now turns to Raiders legend Cliff Branch. You cannot write the history of the Raiders franchise without mentioning Cliff Branch, who played his entire career with the organization and became a legend.
Tom Flores waited for years to get the call he richly deserved during all that time from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, while Charles Woodson was selected for induction in his first year of eligibility, once again, deservedly so.
Two-time Super Bowl-winning coach inally inducted into HOF It’s been about 35 years since Tom Flores paced the sideline for the Raiders, but his legacy never left the organization.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame doesn’t have the greatest of track records when it comes to the Oakland/Los Angeles/Las Vegas Raiders. However, they finally got it right with the induction of Tom Flores.
Read! Big shout out to Tom Flores and the positive work he did with the Seahawks. Seahawks News 6 Observations From Day 8 Of 2021 Seahawks Training Camp Notes and observations from Saturday’s practice at the VMAC.
CANTON, Ohio – Tom Flores was a pioneer and like most pioneers he started in the wilderness, hacking and chopping his way from a dirt floor shack with
With two members of the Raiders family, Charles Woodson and Tom Flores, getting inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend, it’s as good as time as any to look back on their successful careers that led to this honor.
Flores owns the highest postseason win percentage of any NFL coach with 10 or more playoff games.
Tom Flores will finally be enshrined in the Hall of Fame, which leaves only one question for the coach and his players: What took so long? Dressed to the nines, surrounded by family and friends at a hotel in Atlanta, Tom Flores waited for the knock.
Flores not only was a two-time Super Bowl winning coach but a trailblazer whose impact is still reverberating in the NFL and major college football.
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