A little Raider Memory...

[Donald LaFell]

Williams actually had a really impressive run that game that wasn't his TD he got got behind the LOS but avoided tacklers for a first down. It was really great.

[rayzor]

Speaking of Raider memories, didn't Al Davis threaten to sue over our team colors? Anyone else remember that?

yep.

first time i really paid attention to al davis. forgot about that.

After a visit to Charlotte, Oakland Raiders confrontational owner Al Davis became enraged at Carolina’s decision to include silver and black in their color scheme.

In 1996, Davis filed a lawsuit against the NFL and the Panthers, citing trademark infringements, basically implying the Panthers had stolen their color scheme by using black and silver. (He filed a similar lawsuit against Tampa Bay because of their team logo).

The case would eventually be dismissed on a summary judgment because the relief sought would violate the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution.

They were the Carolina Panthers now — and their colors were Panther blue, silver and black.

http://local.gastongazette.com/panthers_retro/page_1.htm

it didn't stop there, either. brought back up in '03.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- The Oakland Raiders have asked a judge to prevent the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Carolina Panthers from wearing their uniforms for games in California because they violate the Raiders' trademark rights.

The Raiders claim Tampa Bay's pirate logo is too similar to Oakland's. And the Raiders object to the Panthers' uniforms because two colors -- silver and black -- match those of the Raiders.

NFL spokesman Joe Browne said the issue is one of a handful that remain from a 1996 suit by the Raiders listing multiple grievances against the league. Some were transferred to courts in Los Angeles, where another Raiders case against the league is being fought.

Others already have been dismissed by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge John Herlihy. He did not rule Tuesday on the Raiders' efforts to seek a court order against the NFL banning those uniforms in California.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/news/2003/04/17/raiders_lawsuit_ap/

[Mr. Scot]

Lord, Davis was a noodle in his latter days.

[rayzor]

Lord, Davis was a noodle in his latter days.

meaning the latter decades.

wasn't he 863 years old when he "died"? i think he came over on the santa maria.

[carolina-chuck]

Ahhh I misses those old days when we were once a competitive team.

[rayzor]

Ahhh I misses those old days when we were once a competitive team.

we're still competitive. almost every team we lost to we gave them a run for the money. if we had a staff that knew how to finish games consistently we might have been more than competitive, and by that i mean winning.

[Mr. Scot]

meaning the latter decades.

wasn't he 863 years old when he "died"? i think he came over on the santa maria.

Is there any proof that he's really dead? :unsure:

[rayzor]

Is there any proof that he's really dead? :unsure:

within 30 years a strange old man will show up out of the shadows and buy the new World Football League team to be located in Thailand.

he will smell of corn chowder and look like his face was dragged through the streets behind a rock salt truck with the exception of a new nose that was covered with the skin of an albino seal. he'll walk up to the camera with a scowl and say, "when you call me, you can call me al.

call me al."

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

we're still competitive. almost every team we lost to we gave them a run for the money. if we had a staff that knew how to finish games consistently we might have been more than competitive, and by that i mean winning.

pretty much everything broke our way in 2008 except for the playoff game and kasay's field goal against the giants which was the opposite of what happened this season.

we got away with the raiders game, a very questionable no-overturn on a steve smith touchdown that swung the momentum toward us when we were down against the cardinals at home, of course the low-probability game winning touchdown catch against the chargers, surviving what was a damn-near massive chokejob against the saints with the division on the line in week 17, etc. i'm sure there are others.

[1989]

7/27 72 yds 1 TD 4 INT

lol

To Jake's credit that was the year he really started to drop off and The Raiders DB's were ridiculous.

[Panthercougar68]

Lawd if Cam went 7/27 1 td 4 int the Jawalrus comparisons would rear their ugly head again.

[Chimera]

IIRC, the next week jake had an even worse game. Then we played the Broncos and had like 250 yards and 3 TDs by halftime.

[Montsta]

NFL spokesman Joe Browne said the issue is one of a handful that remain from a 1996 suit by the Raiders listing multiple grievances against the league. Some were transferred to courts in Los Angeles, where another Raiders case against the league is being fought.

Others already have been dismissed by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge John Herlihy. He did not rule Tuesday on the Raiders' efforts to seek a court order against the NFL banning those uniforms in California.

Papers filed by the Raiders in the San Jose case say the Buccaneers' logo "is likely to dilute the distinctive quality of the Raiders' mark, thereby lessening its capacity to identify the Raiders and causing irreparable harm that cannot adequately be compensated by an award of damages."

NFL attorneys argued there will always be overlap among logos and colors. One of them, James Hunt, said "Michigan could say any uniforms featuring predatory cats" would be prohibited in that state, given that the Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars also have such animals in their logos.

Herlihy seemed sympathetic to the NFL's position.

If California tells Tampa Bay to wear a new uniform for games here, he said, then Florida might say "when the Raiders come to Florida, get that logo off your uniform," Herlihy said, suggesting the Raiders might "put a daisy on your uniform" as an alternative to their pirate.

The Panthers had no comment on the suit.

LulzAlDavis

[X-Clown]

IIRC, the next week jake had an even worse game. Then we played the Broncos and had like 250 yards and 3 TDs by halftime.

Bad jake never came back until the playoffs. We played the soon to be 0-16 lions the next week, and ran for almost 300 yards. The broncos game was the week after the epic beatdown against Tampa on MNF.