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USA Today
9 hours ago
- Sport
- USA Today
We hit 77 in our Raiders countdown to kickoff. Who wore it best and who's wearing it now
We've reached 77 days until the Raiders season opener at Foxboro against the Patriots, With our countdown at 77 days we take a look at who currently dons the number in Silver & Black and who has brought it the most distinction. No. 77 Who's wearing it now: T Thayer Munford Munford was the final pick for the Raiders in the seventh round of the 2022 NFL Draft. He was considered a mid-round level talent going into the draft, so getting the standout Ohio State product at pick 238 was considered a good get. Coming into last season, he was given every opportunity to be the team's starting right tackle, but couldn't hold onto it. He got injured in camp as well as the season and was outplayed by rookie third round pick DJ Glaze. These days the team is trying Munford at guard to see if he can carve out and NFL career there. Who wore it best: DE Ike Lassiter Lassiter came to the Raiders in 1965 after three years in Denver. Each of his five years with the Raiders, he put up double digit sacks including the Raiders 1967 AFL Championship season in which they faced the Packers in Super Bowl II. That season, Lassiter was a holy terror off the edge, putting up 17 sacks and heading to the Pro Bowl and named a second-team All Pro. Two seasons later, he put up 15 sacks and was once again a second team All Pro. In total he had 61.5 sacks in five seasons. If sacks had been an official stat at that time, that would be good for third in Raiders franchise history. Honorable Mention: DE Lyle Alzado Alzado spent the final four seasons of his 15-year NFL career with the Raiders. He joined the team at the age of 33 and in his second season, he was a big part of the Raiders third Super Bowl win.
USA Today
15-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
We hit 85 in our Raiders countdown to kickoff. Who wore it best and who's wearing it now
We hit 85 in our Raiders countdown to kickoff. Who wore it best and who's wearing it now We've reached 85 days until the Raiders season opener at Foxboro against the Patriots, With our countdown at 85 days we take a look at who currently dons the number in Silver & Black and who has brought it the most distinction. No. 85 Who's wearing it now: WR Ketron Jackson Jr Jackson is an undrafted rookie out of Baylor. The 6-2, 200-pound receiver put up 1099 and seven touchdowns over four seasons of college ball, first at Arkansas and then at Baylor. Who wore it best: DL Carleton Oats Oats joined the Raiders as a 21st round pick in 1964. He would play eight years with the Raiders (1965-72) apearing in 111 games withy 51 starts. He was part of the 1967 AFL Championship team that would lose to the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl II. He was part of three other Raiders teams that made the AFL Championship game.
New York Post
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Steve Wright, Packers Super Bowl champion whose likeness was used on iconic NFL trophy, dead at 82
Steve Wright, a three-time NFL champion with the Packers whose likeness was used on the NFL's Walter Payton Man of the Year trophy, died on Sunday in Alabama, the team announced Tuesday. He was 82. Born in Kentucky in 1942, Wright was a tackle at the University of Alabama under legendary coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant from 1961-63, winning a national title during his sophomore year. Robert Brown, Ron Kosteinik and Steve Wright (72) of the Packers look on against the Raiders during Super Bowl II on Jan. 14, 1968 at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Getty Images Even though he did not start a game with the Crimson Tide, Wright was drafted by the Packers in the fifth round of the 1964 NFL Draft and eighth round of the AFL draft by the Jets, ultimately signing with Green Bay. He played 56 games over the next four seasons, starting in 13, as the Packers won the NFL title in 1965 and Super Bowls I and II the following two seasons. He then played two seasons in New York with the Giants before single-season stints with Washington, the Bears and the Cardinals. But it was in 1969 as a member of Big Blue that Wright truly became part of NFL lore forever. That's when he was used by artist Daniel Bennett Schwartz as the model for a statue called 'The Gladiator,' which became the NFL's Walter Payton Man of the Year trophy. Cam Heyward receives the NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year award before the Chiefs' win over the 49er in Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11, 2024 in Las Vegas. Getty Images Wright's likeness, with the cape around his shoulders, is still used as the trophy for the yearly award. In 1974, two years after his NFL career was over, the lineman came out with a memoir entitled 'I'd rather be Wright: Memoirs of an Itinerant Tackle,' which gave a 'fly-on-the-wall look' at life in the NFL in the 1960s and early '70s. The Packers' social media team succinctly summed up Wright's NFL legacy. 'A quiet legacy, cast in bronze,' the team wrote on X.
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Steve Wright, former Alabama football tackle and Super Bowl champion, dead at 82
A Bear Bryant Alabama football offensive tackle has died. Steve Wright, who played for the Crimson Tide from 1961-63, died June 1 at a care facility in Augusta, Georgia, the Green Bay Packers announced. He was 82. Wright, also Louisville, Kentucky native, was a member of Alabama's national championship team in 1961 under head coach Bear Bryant and played two more seasons for the Crimson Tide before he was selected by the Packers in the fifth round of the 1964 NFL draft. 35mm film negative of the Green Bay Packers playing the San Francisco 49ers on October 10, 1965. The Packers won 27-10. This photo was in the Oct. 11 edition of the Journal with the caption "The surprise ended thus with Don Chandler, Green Bay's punter who suddenly turned runner, finally being brought down on the San Francisco 28 yeard line after a 27 yard jaunt that set up the Packers' first touchdown in a 27-10 victory of the San Francisco 49ers at Green Bay Sunday. The San Francisco tackler was Elbert Kimbrough, Steve Wright of the Packers (72) came along too late to do much good. The play started with the Packers having fourth down and nine to goon their own 48 yard line in the first quarter." Date is 10/11/1965. transparency folder #653039 Wright, a 6-foot-6, 250-pound tackle, was a two-time Super Bowl champion with Vince Lombardi and the Packers from 1964-67, winning Super Bowl I against the Kansas City Chiefs and Super Bowl II against the Oakland Raiders. Advertisement Wright also played for the New York Giants, Washington Redskins, Chicago Bears and St. Louis Cardinals football team. Wright was the model for the Walter Payton Man of the Year. Recipients receive a statue in Wright's likeness even after being named for former Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton. Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at cgay@ or follow him @_ColinGay on X, formerly known as Twitter. This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa News: Steve Wright, former Alabama football, Green Bay Packers tackle, dead
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Bob Long, member of Packers teams that won Super Bowls I and II, dies at 83
Bob Long, a wide receiver who was on the Packers' teams that won the first two Super Bowls, has died at the age of 83. Long went to Wichita State to play basketball, but after finishing his basketball eligibility he decided to give football a try, and in one year of college football he led the NCAA in touchdown catches. That two-sport athletic talent caught Vince Lombardi's eye, and the Packers took him with the 44th overall pick in the 1964 NFL draft. Long played four seasons in Green Bay and the Packers won the championship in three of them, winning the NFL Championship Game after the 1965 season and then winning Super Bowls I and II in the 1966 and 1967 seasons. After Super Bowl II the Packers traded Long to the Falcons, where he was the team's leading receiver through nine games in 1968 before his season ended because of injuries sustained in a car accident. The following offseason, Lombardi became the head coach and general manager in Washington, and he called Long to tell him he'd be trading for him to bring him to Washington. "Vince had Bobby Mitchell and Charley Taylor in Washington, but he called me up and said, 'Do you still have your basketball hands?'" Long recalled years later in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. "I said, 'yes, but I'm not as fast after I was in a bad car wreck in Atlanta.' He said, 'You still don't make mental mistakes, do you?' I said, 'No.' "He said, 'Bobby Mitchell is retiring, and I need a veteran.' You don't turn down Vince Lombardi, so I went to Washington." Long started all 14 games in Washington that season. Lombardi died the following offseason, and Long's tenure in Washington ended as well. Long concluded his NFL career with a brief stint playing for the Rams. In retirement, Long returned to Wisconsin and lived there the rest of his life, saying he loved being around Packers fans.
