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Allen Davis (July 4, 1929 – October 8, 2011) was an American professional football executive and coach. He was the managing general partner, principal owner and de facto general manager [1] of the National Football League (NFL) Oakland Raiders for 39 years, from 1972 until his death in 2011.
Al Davis, right, the head coach-general manager of the Oakland Raiders, was named, April 8, 1966 in Houston, as the new American Football League Commissioner to succeed Joe Foss, who resigns ...
Al Davis was an American gridiron football coach and executive who, as commissioner of the American Football League (AFL), was a key actor in the merger of the AFL with the National Football League (NFL) and was either a part owner or principal owner of the Oakland Raiders football franchise
Al Davis, the irascible owner of the Oakland Raiders whose feuds with the National Football League reshaped professional football over the last half century and helped spur its rise to...
Davis, who bucked league authority time and again and won three Super Bowl titles during his half-century in professional football, died Saturday. He was 82. The Hall of Fame r died at his home...
Davis would move on to become the Raiders' majority owner, and Walsh would move on to a series of coaching jobs, his trajectory arcing ever upward, toward the Hall of Fame.
In 1963, at the age of 33, he became the head coach and general manager of the Raiders, a team that had a miserable 9-33-0 record in its first three years. Davis led the 1963 Raiders to a 10-4 record and won unanimous AFL Coach of the Year acclaim.
Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, who died at his home on Saturday morning at 82, was never beloved outside of Raider nation. A fellow owner once called him a “lying creep.” He was the George...
Went from assistant coach of the Los Angeles, now San Diego Chargers, to head coach and general manager of the Raiders, to commissioner of the American Football League and to principal owner and...
On what would have been his 95th birthday, we honor and pay tribute to the iconic and legendary Al Davis.