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Raiders Continue Head Coaching Shell Game

By oddSeth ⋅ February 11, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Since every able-bodied white male seem to be currently gainfully employed, the Raiders finally gave up on Saturday and announced that they were hiring Art Shell for his second stint as head coach.

Art seems a nice enough guy, but he hasn’t been a head coach since, umm, the Raiders canned him back in 1994. He also wasn’t exactly their first choice, only being tossed the bone after Al Saunders, Rod Marinelli, Mike Martz, and Louisville coach Bobby Petrino all told the Raiders “thanks, but no thanks” when offered the gig.

So, umm, yeah. Congrats, Art. This situation has “big win” written all over it. Kudos.