Art Shell

...been African American. This is an alarming trend because in its modern era, the NFL did not have a black head coach roaming the sidelines until 1989 when Al Davis hired Art Shell to lead the then-Los Angeles Raiders. Pro Football Hall Of...

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...to, to put a championship team on the field. Steinbrenner hired and fired Billy Martin five times. Al Davis hired and fired Art Shell twice. No one is sacrosanct. Like Steinbrenner, who was infamous for berating his many managers, calling...

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...his coaches or his players. Art Shell was brought back, Darrius Heyward-Bey and Mike Mitchell were drafted, to be what Cliff Branch and Jack Tatum once were, and Davis talked about the greatness of the franchise. There has been plenty of...

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Oakland finishes 4-12 and Turner is fired after the season. Feb. 10, 2006: After a monthlong search, owner Al Davis hires Art Shell for a second stint as Raiders coach. Shell brings back his old offensive coordinator, Tom Walsh, who was...

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...pick in the 2007 draft; JaMarcus Russell. In 2007, after an embarrassing performance by the Raiders, the total meltdown of Art Shell as a head coach began and Davis had to go back to square one. He fired Shell and started the process of...

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...called progress. It was 20 years ago this week that Raiders owner Al Davis reached into the franchise's glorious past and selected Hall of Fame tackle Art Shell as the first black head coach of the modern NFL era. Today, thanks in part...

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...said, "No more so than the Raiders deal." Ah-ha. After a 2-14 season in 2006, Raiders coach Art Shell was fired by Al Davis, the once-eminent NFL owner who has decayed into nincompoopery. Sarkisian had two interviews with Davis, recognized...

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...have reached the championship round in the intervening years. You think I should've been praising the Raiders and Al Davis three years ago, when Art Shell was the coach? Well, I didn't, I got ripped by Raiders fans, and here we are in...

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