Thank Goodness For the Return of Football Season

While there are many sports that I enjoy watching, I particularly enjoy football season. There is something special about powerful, angry men trying to cripple one another on every play. My team, the Oakland Raiders, are considered to be the most vicious of the bunch.

They are simply the most penalized team every season. In their heyday in the 70s, they were the team that all the others dreaded playing because win or lose, there was a heavy physical price to pay. The Raiders were the best team in the league, despite being chock full of outcasts, rebels, miscreants, and players considered past their prime. Their maverick leader was and still remains the notorious Al Davis.

With their winning seasons behind them, Al Davis had enough and rehired Raider great Art Shell as the team's coach. Shell, a Hall of Fame offensive lineman and eternal badass, will show the Raiders of the current generation what "Commitment to Excellence" truly means.

Al Davis put it succinctly, "We will come back. I say to the Raider players, to the Raider fans, to the Raider ex-players and even to the press, we’ll get that back. It may take us a short while but we’ll get that nastiness of the Raiders back."

God help you other 31 teams.