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None (the Raider organization does not retire the jersey numbers of former players). The telecast was the first ever to receive a TV-M (now TV-MA) rating under the TV Parental Guidelines that had been established at the beginning of that year, and many fundamentalist and evangelical Christian groups stridently objected to the film's being shown on network television at all, due to scenes of nudity and the use of vulgar language which were not edited out of the TV production. They did this by issuing "personal seating licenses", without which fans cannot buy tickets to the games. In February of 1997, the film was shown on television in the United States, being carried by NBC in two parts, on consecutive Sunday and Wednesday evenings (February 23 and 26). 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. From the total of nine lists, four were drawn up primarily by Marcel Goldberg, a corrupt Jewish assistant to the SS officer in charge of transporting Jews, Crowe wrote. Their most recent legal battle is with the city of Oakland. Oskar Schindler was in jail for bribing the Secret Service commander Amon Goeth when the famous list was being drawn up and had little involvement in it, according to a New York Times report.

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. "Schindler had nothing to do with the list," the author writes in the new biography of the German businessman. The Raiders sued the city of Los Angeles over the fact that the city backed out of a stadium deal for the team. Crowe has questioned in a new book the authenticity of the facts portrayed in the movie. 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. However, the Holocaust historian David M. They have been involved in several lawsuits, most famously with the cities of Los Angeles and Oakland, as well as the NFL. Following the critical and box office success of Schindler's List, Spielberg founded and continues to finance the Shoah Project, a non-profit organization with the goal of providing an archive for the filmed testimony of as many survivors of the Holocaust as possible, so that their stories will not be lost in the future.

The Raiders are the most litigious team in the NFL. It is also considered to be Steven Spielberg's greatest directorial accomplishment by many viewers and critics; the former vote it consistently among the top ten (#6) movies on the Internet Movie Database Top 250, while the latter voted it #9 in the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Movies series. 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. In the years since its release, Schindler's List has risen in status to be considered one of the greatest movies of the 1990s, if not of all time. After the end of the 2003 regular season, Callahan was fired, and ultimately replaced by current head coach Norv Turner. Thalberg Memorial Award. 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. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards, this movie won seven, including the coveted Best Picture and Best Director awards for Spielberg, which many of his supporters felt he had been unfairly denied for prior productions, although he had previously received the Irving G.

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. Critically acclaimed, the film won praise for depicting—often in exceptional, graphic detail—the horrible brutality of the Holocaust. The 2003 season was a 180-degree turnaround for the Raiders. Its tagline was simply, "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire" a quote from the Talmud. 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. It starred Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern, and Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth. The Raiders finished the 2002 season with an 11-5 record and clinched the top seed in the playoffs. It was produced almost entirely in black and white (with a color prologue and epilogue, a red coat in two scenes, and color candle flames in another).

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. The movie was directed by famed director Steven Spielberg, who later spoke of the making of the movie as affecting him deeply. The Raiders acquired all-time leading receiver Jerry Rice prior to the 2001 season. Tagline: Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. 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. (www.imdb.com). After the following season, the Raiders moved back to Oakland. Though many believe it to be Director Steven Spielberg, it is actually the shadow of Liam Neeson who portrayed Oskar Schindler in the film.

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. In a final shot, a man places a flower on the grave, and stands contemplatively over it. This also marked a somewhat down period in Raider franchise history, both on the field and, more importantly, off the field. The camera pans, revealing a long line of people. 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. The actors portraying the major characters in the film pass by the grave, and place stones on it, while the actual persons they portrayed walk beside them doing the same. 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). The film ends in Israel, at the grave of Oskar Schindler, in the present day.

This was momentous as it made Shell the first ever African American Head Coach in the history of the NFL. The next morning, a Russian dragoon arrives, and announces to the Jews, "You have been liberated by the Soviet Army!". Shell held that position until 1988 when he was made the team's Head Coach. One more person." He then leaves. Also that year Al Davis hired future hall of famer Art Shell to coach the Offensive Line. He would have given me one.. 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. I could have gotten one more person for this.

In spite of his success, Madden left coaching in 1979 to pursue a career as a television football commentator. He pulls the Nazi Party pin from his lapel, and cries, "This is gold. 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. They give him a letter, explaining to others that he is not a criminal, and they also give him a ring, engraved with the Talmudic quotation, "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." Schindler is wracked with guilt, seeing his car, and realizing he could have bribed ten more people from Goeth for it. 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. He packs a car in the night, and bids farewell to his workers. The Raiders appeared in Super Bowl II (the first of five Super Bowls) in 1968 but lost to the NFL champion Green Bay Packers. As a German, a Nazi, and a "profiteer of slave labor" (his words), Schindler must flee the oncoming Soviet Army.

In 1966, Davis became Commissioner of the AFL and is considered a driving force in raising the AFL to competitive levels that forced the NFL to merge with the younger league. He runs out of money just as the war in Europe comes to an end. Clem Daniels, Billy Cannon, Hoot Gibson, Art Powell and Daryle Lamonica were among many great players to wear the "silver and black", to be joined in 1967 by AFL legend George Blanda at the start of his nine-year career with the Raiders. Once the workers arrive in Czechoslovakia, Schindler institutes firm controls on the Nazi guards assigned to the factory, permits the Jews to observe the sabbath, and spends the rest of his fortune bribing Nazi officials. Four years later, the club captured the 1967 AFL Championship. Those who went to Auschwitz were soon returned by a train which was sent to Schindler's camp, after Schindler bribes another Nazi official. He reorganized the Raiders, and the team improved to a 10-4 won-loss record. Except for a railway mishap, in which one of the trains carrying women was accidentally redirected to Auschwitz, all the people on Schindler's list arrive safely at the new site.

Al Davis, a former assistant coach for the San Diego Chargers, was hired as head coach and general manager in 1963. This list of "skilled" inmates was Schindler's List, and for many of the inmates of Plaszow camp, being on the list meant the difference between life and death. The team spent its first three seasons changing stadiums and losing more games than it won. So that his workers can be kept off the trains to the killing centers, Schindler, with Stern, assembles a list of his workers. The franchise is tied with the Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs for the most post-season games played as an AFL team, six. Goeth acquiesces, for a payoff in the order of millions of Reichsmarks. Starting out as a poor franchise with a weak team playing in Frank Youell Field, towards the end of the 1960s it became an AFL powerhouse and one of professional football's most consistent teams. Goeth remarks sarcastically, "It will take about four weeks for me to do the paperwork -- that ought to be fun." Schindler prevails upon Goeth to let him keep his workers, so that he can move them to a factory in his old home of Zwittau-Brunnlitz, Czechoslovakia, away from the Holocaust - now fully underway in Poland.

The Raiders' image was synonymous with the AFL's: brash and bold. To Amon Goeth's considerable consternation, and to Schindler's horror, an order arrives from Berlin commanding Goeth to exhume and destroy all bodies of those killed in the ghetto razing, to dismantle the Plaszow, and to ship the whole population to Auschwitz. The Oakland Raiders were a charter member of the American Football League in 1960. With the second appearance of the girl in red, Schindler makes a further transformation into an altruistic angel whose primary motive is not profit, but rather to save the lives of his workers. Football, Inc. The first time she appears, Schindler changes from a cold-hearted businessman interested only in profit into a person struggling to do the right thing; he makes his first attempts to covertly assist his workers and save them from persecution and death afterwards. Legally, the team is a limited partnership operated by Al Davis, who serves as President of the team's general partner, A.D. Film critics and scholars have suggested the appearance of the girl in the red coat is a "marker" used by Spielberg to denote the transformation of Schindler's personality.

The Oakland Raiders are a National Football League team based in Oakland, California. The color of the coat stands out, because it is the only object that appears in color throughout the entire film (except for two instances of a candle flame); the rest of the movie is filmed in black-and-white, except for the final present-day coda. Rod Woodson. It is during the clearing out of the ghetto that Spielberg introduces a character known as "the girl in red": a young girl wearing a red coat. Jack Tatum. Schindler is now, though reluctantly, sheltering people who have very few skills in his factory. Ken Stabler. He meets Goeth, befriends him, and convinces him to let him keep his workers for considerable bribes and payoffs.

Otis Sistrunk. But, he now faces the more immediate problem of how to run his factory without his workers. Jerry Rice. Schindler watches the massacre from the hills overlooking the ghetto, and is profoundly affected. Jim Plunkett. In due course, Goeth razes the Krakow ghetto, sending in hundreds of troops to clear the cramped rooms and shooting anyone who refuses or cannot leave. Art Powell. In one scene, he decides not to shoot a young boy for not properly cleaning his bathtub, but then, after reflecting, decides that he must be firm, and shoots him in the back as he walks away.

Babe Parilli. Goeth is the focus of the film's depiction of Nazi sadism and inhumanity, not only taking pleasure in murder and torture, but considering it an integral part of his job, a matter of duty. John Matuszak. He then, in the next breath, orders that everything she requested be done. Daryle Lamonica. In one of the most sickening scenes in the film, a Jewish engineer explains that a foundation has been improperly laid, and for this he has her shot in the head. Sean Jones. At this point, an SS officer named Amon Goeth arrives in Krakow to initiate construction of a labor camp, Plaszow, and to take over control of the Ghetto.

Bo Jackson (also played Major League Baseball). One old woman exclaims, "We are their work force! Why would they want to kill their own work force?". Lester Hayes. Where exactly the "unessential" people are sent is a matter of rumor among the Jews; a few suggest that they are taken off to concentration camps, but people hearing this reject the idea as ridiculous. Wayne Hawkins. Schindler becomes aware of what is going on, and seems embarrassed by the whole arrangement, but takes no action to stop it. Ray Guy. This last point is key, and Stern uses his considerable skills to make sure as many people as possible are deemed "essential" by the Nazi bureacracy, even children, the elderly, and the infirm - people who would otherwise be rounded up and sent away.

Dave Grayson. Workers in Schindler's factory are allowed outside the ghetto, and are certified as "essential workers," guaranteeing that they will not be rounded up at night by the Gestapo. Hoot Gibson. Schindler gets his money and starts the factory; he keeps the Nazis happy and enjoys his new-found wealth, while Stern actually operates the factory and uses his position to help his fellow Jews, who have now been confined to a ghetto within Krakow. Tom Flores. He takes particular pleasure in telling them that they must take him at his word, and that no court would ever uphold a contract between a German and a Jew. Clem Daniels. Schindler makes the Jewish businessmen a deal they cannot refuse: they will loan him the money for the factory, and he will give them a small share of the pots and pans produced.

Todd Christensen. He hasn't the money to buy it, and his administrative skills are dubious at best, but he finds through his contact Itzhak Stern, a functionary in the local judenrat (Jewish Council) who in turn has contacts with the now underground Jewish business community. Billy Cannon (born 1937, made All-League as a halfback in 1961 and as a tight end in 1969). With his military sponsors in his back pocket, he sets out to acquire a factory for the production of enamelware, mainly cookery. Tim Brown. He becomes a friend to the SS and Police Leader of Krakow, Julian Scherner, and quickly calls in favors as Schindler begins to establish himself as a businessman in the Krakow region. Cliff Branch. Schindler makes a very good impression with the occupation authorities early on, being a member of the Nazi Party and lavishing gifts and bribes upon the army and SS officials now running southern Poland.

Lyle Alzado. Schindler, a heretofore unsuccessful businessman from Germany, has come to Poland with the hope of using the now abundant slave labor force of Jews and Poles to manufacture goods for the German Army. Marcus Allen. As this is happening, a newcomer has arrived in Krakow; his name is Oskar Schindler. Jerry Porter. The film's action starts with crowds of Jews from all over the country, hasidic, assimilated, rich, and poor, detraining in Krakow, and submitting their names to German officials waiting on the station platforms with typewriters and lists. Ted Washington. Jews living in occupied Poland are ordered to relocate to population centers.

Charles Woodson. The Polish Army has been defeated by the German Army in the initiating event of World War II in Europe. Warren Sapp. The movie begins with a depiction of a Jewish prayer. Randy Moss. The title refers to a list of the names of 1,200 Jews whom Schindler hired to work in his factory and kept from being sent to the concentration camps. LaMont Jordan. The movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, relates the tale of Oskar Schindler, a German entrepreneur who was instrumental in saving the lives of over one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust.

Rich Gannon. Schindler's List is a 1993 movie based on the book Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (the book was later renamed Schindler's List as well). Robert Gallery. Molen, Steven Spielberg for Amblin Entertainment / Universal Pictures. Kerry Collins. Producer: Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Gene Upshaw (1987) - 1967-1981. Editor: Michael Kahn.

Art Shell (1989) - 1968-1982. Composer: John Williams. Jim Otto (1980) - 1960-1974. Writing credits: Thomas Keneally (novel), Steven Zaillian (screenplay). Ron Mix (1979) - 1971. Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall. Ronnie Lott (2000) - 1991-1992. Director: Steven Spielberg.

Howie Long (2000) - 1981-1993. James Lofton (2003) - 1987-1988. Ted Hendricks (1990) - 1975-1983. Mike Haynes (1997) - 1983-1989.

Eric Dickerson (1999) - 1992. Al Davis (1992) - 1963-1965, 1966-Present. Dave Casper (2002) - 1974-1980, 1984. Willie Brown (1984) - 1967-1978.

Bob Brown (2004) - 1971-1973. George Blanda (1981) - 1967-1975. Fred Biletnikoff (1988) - 1965-1978. Marcus Allen (2003) - 1982-1992.