SILVER AND BLACK BACK! Forget all that swashbuckling. These Raiders win with an old- fashioned work ethic.

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: November 12, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

It's 6 o'clock on an October morning, and Oakland Raiders coach Jon Gruden is doing what he loves to do: sitting alone in his office, working over a game film in cellular detail. He's almost two hours into it when . . . tick. Something hits the window. That's odd. He goes back to work, maybe takes a sip of coffee and . . . tick. The window again. So now Gruden's interested. He's interested in the mystery, but he's also irritated that his work . . . tick . . . his predawn serenity, for crying out loud, is being interrupted. He walks to the window, trains his steel-blue eyes down from the ...

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