Looking for a Laugh?

Deadspin, the world's most popular sports blog, has posted a series called "The 2009 Oakland Raiders: A Season of Failure" including some rather red-faced moments the franchise has endured over the last year.

Note: If you're one of those really serious fans who can't stand to hear someone talk bad about your Oakland Raiders, you probably shouldn't read the above article. Also, I commend you and worry that you must be angry quite often.
Some of these are indeed quite embarrassing, such as Al Davis' letter to the University of Tennessee to spite his former coach, and the drafting of Darius Heyward-Bey, of course.

A few others, though, were either not all that embarrassing or just plain not the fault of the franchise. The post points to the hiring of Coach Cable after having a 4-8 record as interim coach. What they didn't point out was that that was the best record a coach had since we went to the Super Bowl five years prior. The signing of Richard Seymour has not yet been determined a failure. We'll know that if he decides to walk away in a few weeks. Finally, the signing of J.P. Losman can hardly be called a failure. In fact, it was inconsequential, he didn't play any meaningful downs. If anything, we had an emergency backup for a really good price (he likely made a pro-rated veteran minimum).

The highlight of this for me was Tommy Kelly losing his pants (above). I somehow missed that one.