Raiders owner Al Davis just did to Lane Kiffin pretty much the same thing he did to Mike Shanahan, only with a lot less money at stake and (as far as I remember) without the gratuitously nasty press conference.
This in a nutshell is why no matter how bad the Raiders get, and no matter how many of their fans deserve better, the franchise itself richly deserves a million times worse, until the day Mr. Davis departs this mortal coil.
This* is also why I shouldn't mind so much (nor be so surprised) that Shanahan can at times be a ripe bastard. He came from the NFL equivalent of a broken home.
*- well, that and the back-to-back Super Bowl wins at the end of Elway's career
Posted by Matt Bruce at October 1, 2008 10:58 AM