Oakland Raiders

None (the Raider organization does not retire the jersey numbers of former players). In spite of this, the movie has been digitally restored to an impressive standard of picture and sound quality. They did this by issuing "personal seating licenses", without which fans cannot buy tickets to the games. The audio commentary on the movie's "Special Edition" DVD includes a claim that the original negative was destroyed in a fire. In this lawsuit, the Raiders agreed that they would sell out all of their home games, in exchange for the city helping to renovate their stadium. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Their most recent legal battle is with the city of Oakland. Jean Hagen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

After moving back to Oakland, they were sued by the NFL for losing the Los Angeles television market, the second largest in the United States. Kelly was also responsible for the Choreography. The Raiders sued the city of Los Angeles over the fact that the city backed out of a stadium deal for the team. The film was directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Also, they were the only team that was not a defendant in the USFL's ultimately unsuccessful antitrust suit against the NFL; Davis was a witness for the USFL in that action. Shooting began on June 18, 1951 and was completed on November 21, 1951. They have been involved in several lawsuits, most famously with the cities of Los Angeles and Oakland, as well as the NFL. This was done using three break dancers, a recreation of the original set and superimposing Kelly's face onto the dancer.

The Raiders are the most litigious team in the NFL. It has also been the subject of a 2005 advert for the new VW Golf GTI, where Kelly appears to be break dancing instead of doing his usual routine until he reaches a policeman standing by the car. In the 2004-2005 season, their first season under Turner, the Raiders continued to suffer on the field, posting their second consecutive losing record (5-11), heavy laden with turnovers and injuries. It has of course been parodied several times, notably by Morecambe and Wise and Paddington Bear. After the end of the 2003 regular season, Callahan was fired, and ultimately replaced by current head coach Norv Turner. The dance routine in which Gene Kelly sings the title song while twirling an umbrella, splashing through puddles and generally getting soaked to the skin, is probably the most famous of all movie musical sequences. In fact, in a press conference at the end of one game, then-coach Bill Callahan berated both his players and the media for the team's poor performance that season. The song "Make 'Em Laugh" uncomfortably resembles the Cole Porter song "Be a Clown." Comden and Green wrote the music and lyrics to the number "Moses Supposes.".

They finished with a losing record of 4-12, tied with three other teams for the worst record in the NFL, and the worst record ever for a team who were Super Bowl contenders one season previously. The film features a rendition of the 1929 song "Singin' in the Rain" by Arthur Freed (who also produced) & Nacio Herb Brown, along with other Freed and Brown tunes from the late 1920s and the 1930s. The 2003 season was a 180-degree turnaround for the Raiders. Meanwhile Lockwood falls in love with the overdub artist Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds) and Lamont does everything possible to sabotage the romance. Gannon was named MVP of the league, and the Raiders made their fifth Super Bowl appearance following the season, only to lose to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After a terrible screen test, Lockwood and his partner Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor) decide to return to their roots and convince the studio to overdub Lamont's voice and turn The Dueling Cavalier into The Dancing Cavalier, a musical comedy. The Raiders finished the 2002 season with an 11-5 record and clinched the top seed in the playoffs. The production is beset with difficulties, not least Lina's inadvertently comical speaking voice.

They finished 10-6, but lost their divisional playoff game to the eventual Super Bowl champion New England Patriots in the controversial "tuck" game, in which an apparent fumble by the Patriots (that was recovered by the Raiders) was reviewed and determined to be an incomplete pass. After the smash-hit of the historical talking picture innovator, The Jazz Singer, Lockwood's studio decides to convert the current Lockwood/Lamont vehicle, The Dueling Cavalier, into a talkie. The Raiders acquired all-time leading receiver Jerry Rice prior to the 2001 season. Lockwood barely tolerates his vapid leading lady, Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), who is convinced their screen romance is real. By 2000, the Raiders began to reclaim their position among the NFL's greatest teams, highlighted by the emergence of veteran quarterback Rich Gannon as one of the best all-around quarterbacks in Raiders history. Kelly plays Don Lockwood, a silent film star with humble roots. After the following season, the Raiders moved back to Oakland. Themes of certains arts being inferior to others, or the immortal if you seen one of them, you've seen them all (which is what Rossini also said about his operas) are today as vivid as ever.

This period was marked by the career-ending injury of Bo Jackson in 1990, the failure of troubled quarterback Todd Marinovich, and the departure of Marcus Allen in 1993. The movie has an extraordinarily intelligent plot, which greatly contributes to the work being systematically classified as the best musical comedy ever. This also marked a somewhat down period in Raider franchise history, both on the field and, more importantly, off the field. Singin' in the Rain, a 1952 Gene Kelly musical film, chronicled Hollywood's transition from silent films to "talkies". Al Davis's perceived infatuation with Jackson caused a major rift between Davis and star running back Marcus Allen, who eventually left to play for the Kansas City Chiefs. In the lead in to Make 'em Laugh, O'Conner/Cosmo sarcastically references the tragic line "ridi pagliaccio" ("Laugh, clown") from I Pagliacci. In 1987, the Raiders drafted dual-sport athlete Bo Jackson after he originally decided to not play professional football in 1986 (when drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round). Dora Bailey, the gushy gossip columnist is an uncredited role played by Madge Blake who was later famous for her role as Aunt Harriet on Batman.

This was momentous as it made Shell the first ever African American Head Coach in the history of the NFL. Simpson also uses one of Freed's frequent expressions when he says that he "cannot quite visualize it and has to see it on film first", referring to the Broadway ballet sequence. Shell held that position until 1988 when he was made the team's Head Coach. F. Also that year Al Davis hired future hall of famer Art Shell to coach the Offensive Line. R. In 1982, the Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles, California to play their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum; they won the championship the following year. Simpson are a reference to Arthur Freed.

In spite of his success, Madden left coaching in 1979 to pursue a career as a television football commentator. F. In 1969, John Madden became the team's head coach, and during the 1970s he helped start the Raiders' ascent towards their current status as one of the most successful franchises in NFL history, starting with their 1977 Super Bowl XI win over the Minnesota Vikings. The initials of the fictional Monumental Pictures' owner, R. In 1970, the AFL-NFL merger took place, and the Raiders joined the West Division of the American Football Conference in the newly merged National Football League. Surviving prints of the sequence feature Reynolds singing in her own voice. The Raiders appeared in Super Bowl II (the first of five Super Bowls) in 1968 but lost to the NFL champion Green Bay Packers. One possible reason why the scene was cut is that it somewhat contradicts the initial scene where Debbie does not immediately identify Gene when he jumps into her car.