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Niners-Raiders Rivalry Revelry
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Press Release
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For Immediate Release
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Jerry Rice who played for both the Niners and the Raiders with LaHitz' Jacquie Taliaferro
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San Francisco 49ers Fans vs. Oakland Raiders Fans
by Jacquie Taliaferro & Jackie Wright
The
NFL pre-season is well underway. The Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh
Steelers are looking in top form again with head coach Mike Tomlin
primed to repeat a "winner takes all season."
Our own Bay Area
teams are also looking to regain their Super Bowl winning ways. The
49ers with 5 Super Bowl rings and their East Bay neighbors the Raiders
with 3 rings want to go all the way again. It is no secret that
animosity between Oakland and San Francisco fans runs very high with
both cities enormously proud of their franchises (Click Here and See Lahitz - You Tube-for a look at the fans' highlights or lowlights depending on who you ask.)
The
49ers-Raiders' game ended with a 21 to 20 win for the 49ers however it
is the pre season and had fortune and planning been different, most
likely a field goal kicked by the Raiders would have tied the game.
Instead, the Raiders fell short going after the entire enchilada with a
two point conversion attempt.
JaMarcus Russell QB for the
Raiders looked good; pretty good. Former 49ers QB Jeff Gracia also did
well, considering he was playing injured.
Starter and former
first pick in the over all NFL draft, Alex Smith did a good job also,
as did last year's Shaun Hill. However, it was the third string
Quarterbacks that showed their emerging talent. Charlie Frye for the
Raiders led them to a TD and finished the game looking very confident.
Nate Davis for the 49ers, a rookie from Ball State, where he also broke
many of Steelers' Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger conference college
records, is coming out the pocket very strong.
Let's see how this season develops. Two little known QBs might be running the show.
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LaHitz Sports Columnist
Douglas Latham
'Tis the Season!'
Once
again, football is upon us. All our teams are in first place, and the
Super Bowl is still within our grasp. Summer in America. It doesn't
get any better.
The San Francisco Forty-Niners played their
initial pre-season game against the Denver Broncos, and managed to pull
out a victory, mainly because the opposing coach, the embattled Josh
McDaniel, went for the win, as opposed to the tie.
After going 7
and 9 last season, under Hall of Fame coach Mike Singletary, the "Niner
Nation" is eagerly anticipating a playoff season, with or without their
first round draft pick, Michael Crabtree, the All-America Wide Receiver
from Texas Tech. Mr. Crabtree had a fabulous career at Texas Tech,
with over 40 touchdowns in just two years and was considered a top four
or five pick. Mr. Crabtree was drafted at number 10 overall; prior to
the draft, Crabtree underwent foot surgery and was unable to workout
for teams, thus his slide to the 10th spot. He has yet to sign with
the Niners, because he feels he should still get top four or five draft
choice money, not tenth. I can certainly understand his position,
because this contract is not just for this year, but for possibly the
next five or six.
The tenuous nature of a professional
football player's playing days is such that you've got to get what you
can get when you can get it, so I'm here to offer a compromise, to the
club and the ballplayer. Come to camp, sign a contract that's normal
for the tenth pick, include language that gives the Mr. Crabtree a huge
Roster Bonus in the third year if he out performs his contract.
Guarantee the fifth year. Put incentives in for touches and
touchdowns. Mr. Crabtree needs to understand, no one has seen him run
for a year, and to commit 40 million dollars to someone whose health is
in question is not a sound business practice. And the Niners need to
understand, if Crabtree comes back tough, he could be a Hall of Famer
in wait.
Now, "git 'er done."
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I'm Just Sayin'!
byJackie Wright
Ok...Ok....Mr. McNabb! Mr. McNabb, I guess I'm going to have to practice what I preach, "forgive us as we forgive those who..."
You were not on my forgiven list by any stretch of the imagination, by any
means necessary; no way Jose and Josefina! But with the way you are
treating Michael Vick, I must move you to the top of the list.
I
thought you were cute and all of that, great player, loved the way you
had your Mom in the on the family wealth making plan, serving up soup
and all of that, but I held the way you treated T.O. against you.
McNabb and T.O., 'why can't we all just get along?"
For some
reason, I just thought you should have been bigger than T.O.'s
immaturity. My goodness with one glance anyone could see he was a
hurting soul. McNabb, you just came across to me as the classroom
teacher's pet egging on the bad boy just before the teacher stepped
back into the classroom.
Anyway, we can put all of that behind
us now. T.O. did get another chance with Dallas and you have welcomed
Vick home. I loving you for that McNabb. I'm loving you for that! Hopefully, it's not just all P.R. Hype!
I
don't care what all the mainstream sportswriters are saying about
Vick. Could they just give it a rest, pleez! He did his time for the
crime; so, stop crucifying him.
McNabb, McNabb, McNabb, you're
the man! Kudos to you and your teammates for welcoming Vick in the
fold. That's what I'm talking 'bout!
And while they have Vick
making restitution to the animal kingdom on his time off by making
speeches and donations, will some of those animal kingdom businesses
also give back to the inner city communities through job creation and
doing business with inner city businesses instead of tipping the
community with chump change donations to nonprofits (It will be a rare
thing to find that they are even doing that. Check
out the Greenlining Institute's report that there is a tremendous
disparity in giving by foundations to minority led nonprofits.
I'm just sayin'!
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