Bluegrassrivals

Al Davis died at the age of 82. His legacy will be remembered as an innovator. However he will be also known as a guy who didn’t know when to retire. He hired the first black NFL coach and first female president of an NFL team. The media and fans will remember his terrible contracts/ draft picks, losing seasons, and a feeling that he lost reality. They will say that the Raiders were more failure than success in his tenure.

If you don’t respect VKM then you don’t respect wrestling. Mark Madden and other guys might in insult his business tactics today and their right at times, but in the 90's they weren’t cool enough or even smart enough to hang with the wwe. Vince hasn’t done anything interesting in the business for close to a decade. I love the wwe but maybe he needs to step down. When you look at the product today there isn’t any innovation or change, it’s the same product recycled with the more flaws.

Is Vince turning into Al Davis? And if so is it too late for change?

Davis stubbornly stuck to his philosophy. Hence the drafting of JaMarcus Russell (Davis loved strong-armed QBs) and Darius Heyward-Bey (he loved speed). But he also drafted Darren McFadden, who currently leads the NFL in rushing.

In a lot of ways, he and Vince are similar. Vince also stubbornly sticks to his philosophy. Hence the signing of guys like The Great Khali, Mason Ryan and other large muscleheads.

Both have also been extremely successful. Fans on here know of Vince's success, but Davis is the only owner to have a team play in the Super Bowl in four of the five decades it's been around. (The Raiders played in the Super Bowl in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 00s.)

The Raiders also look to be turning things around. They finished last season 8-8, which was their first non-losing season since they went to the Super Bowl in 2002. They have a good young nucleus of players, and could be a threat in a few years. This team was put together by Davis.

WWE is the best it's been in quite some time. CM Punk is compelling; Zack Ryder is starting to finally get some TV time. Guys like Daniel Bryan and Evan Bourne ("Indy guys" that old Vince never would have pushed) are getting serious TV time.

People have been saying for years that Vince is out of touch. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. The same has been said of Davis for the last decade. It looks like both the Raiders and WWE are turning a corner, and both Vince and Davis had a big hand in that.