According to NFL Network, the Raiders and the Coliseum Authority, which oversees the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, have reached an agreement on Monday for the franchise to remain in the facility for at least this season.
Yep, The Raiders will play in Oaktown come football season 2019. I hope to be at each and every game, win, lose or tie. Us fans will be taking in all the glory and pain of seasons past as we get together to celebrate our glorious silver & black legacy in Oakland one last time. It's gonna be special. And should the team go out with a banging winning season, more power to us.
Amazing! A book that I am so proud to have co-authored with my friend Joseph Woldu is now available on Amazon.com. It chronicles the life of my good friend Joseph as he escapes war torn Eritrea, survives as a child refugee in Sudan, is granted asylum in Germany where he grows up in foster care and then arrives in America to continue his collegiate education.
In America Joseph becomes the victim of a disastrous motorcycle accident that changes his life in ways he could've never imagined. Victim of a reckless alcohol induced truck driver, Joseph was initially given little chance of survival and then thought to need twenty-four hour care while lying in a vegetative state for the remainder of his life.
Joseph not only became a medical phenomenon but also a spiritual inspiration as he miraculously awakened from a seven week coma and took to mending his broken body and confused mind. It took six challenging years of speech, physical and occupational therapies before Joseph felt ready to resume his collegiate aspirations. There were setbacks along the way but they only seemed to motivate Joseph to push harder. Remembering and holding on to his Eritrean Grandma's wise saying, "Eat today, God provides tomorrow," Joseph took each day as it came; never letting depressing past events overwhelm him nor future unknowns frighten him to the point of giving up. "Never give up," became his battling cry as he fought back to return to living an independent life while earning a Bachelor's Degree in International Business.
As a man who feels he owes so much to so many, Joseph had a need to give back something to humanity. The idea of writing his memoir came to him as he saw others in disabled and challenging conditions struggling to move on. His hope is to help inspire those in need to keep fighting and never give up on life, no matter how hard the moment might seem.
We are all survivors of something in this life, how we choose to become more than survivors is up to each individual soul. In "Joseph Woldu: More than a Survivor," we're given a blueprint that can help stabilize our constitution and guide us in rebuilding the relations and dreams we once deemed important to our being. It all begins within. "You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have." -Bob Marley Josephwoldu.weebly.com
And that's how Quarterback Tom Brady began his legendary rise to fame. When an Oakland Raiders strip sack fumble recovery to end a 2001 Divisional Playoff game was suspiciously reversed by league review, the Brady legend was born. It came on the heels of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and was thought to be maybe a Government/NFL conspiracy to lend Patriotic sentiment and support toward aggressive American military retaliation. There was no other logical reason to explain why the league would step in to negate an obvious call on the field based on a seldom used rule in the books; the "Tuck Rule." It was a sign to everyone watching that powerful forces are at work behind the scenes, making sure certain teams and/or players gain favorable odds to win sporting events. The Patriots comeback against the Oakland Raiders on January 19, 2002 should never have happened. It wasn't a missed call or bad call; the "Tuck Rule" call was a made up call to give favor to the home team Patriots. And it worked. It's one of the most blatant successful "inside jobs" caught on film; where the bank manager turns the alarm off and leaves the bank vault unlocked for conspiring burglars to gain easy access (favorable odds). Until Now!
On January 20, 2019, the New Orleans Saints suffered a phantom no-call that helped the Rams reach today's Super Bowl game. Many Saints fans are boycotting the Super Bowl; that's how painful a blown call can be. For what it's worth Saints fans, suffering through the reversal of a good call feels just as bad as a no-call. But pain is pain, immeasurable. And I feel your pain.
If the Rams should defeat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII today, it would be a fitting end to the Brady/Belichik era; an era launched on the snow-covered Foxboro turf, where a Brady fumble was conspiratorially reversed by league officials.
