Maybe Raiders Simply Had a Few Too Many Pressing Difficulties

I think it says something about the big-money media in this town when a reporter can for years retain the same assignment while possessing a decided slant on his subject. That slant was one that was seldom, if ever, detectable in Mark Heisler’s work. Further, his depiction of Al Davis as a venal, disloyal, tyrannical, avaricious scoundrel is 100% accurate.

I, for one, never doubted that Davis would eventually do unto Los Angeles the same as he once did unto Oakland, nor do I believe that his civic plundering is necessarily over. Indeed, Oakland’s biggest problems with this most unscrupulous of all sports franchise owners may lie before, not behind it.

BRYAN STYBLE

Mar Vista