The Rich Gannon Interview Will Not be Posted (Yet):

i was a little puzzled by the preface, but he and Dave were clear we were sharing this on a public blog.

Your call, though. I you would like me to attempt to contact them to see if we have permission to quote him “officially” on this “unofficial” blog, I can.

If you wish to leave it alone, I will respect that, as well. I found the reaching out refreshing, and also that it felt more of a former Raider wishing to share with loyal fans of the team, who share his wish to be synonymous with a winning franchise, and that it also gave it less a feel of something we’d get from a so-called “media” report.

Appreciate the update.

Good job anyways…

I read it while it was up… Great job.
Gannon is the man. I miss those days bad. Chuckie dolls in the stands, knowing we should win every week, actually having an offense, etc etc etc

The thing that really pisses me off is Gannon saying that we woulld have won MULTIPLE superbowls if Al Davis didnt run off Gruden.

Fuck Al Davis. I hope he rots in hell

i dislike al davis because he is too stubbon to change i know he is the onwer and he can do anything he wants but he is slowing killing the raiders with cable stuff u guys can make the playoffs for real u have players u earn my resept i wouild love to taik to mr davis he wont linten to me but good luck in 10 u are good men

in a way of corse but u have to resept u rival too

whilie i resept mr davis he has done a lot of good for the NFL and the raiders and u have to resept how he treat his fomer players he fails to understand u have to have dispenste order a plan to win wieldly i like man to man D and a deep passing game he refused to chance his ways it hurts u team al is one of the best owner in sports body of work

Gannon was the man!

As a Chiefs fan, I was pissed when we got stuck with Elvis Grbac, and the Raiders got “our” Quarterback to go to a SuperBowl. I actually rooted for the Raiders that year. They were the best team in the league. Stupid Tuck rule! Anyway, hope you guys get permission to repost. Gannon is the real deal!

every question put to him. There were no anecdotes, nothing worthy of being entered into an autobiography or even worth telling friends over beers at a pub. Most of our society here know that we’ve been hoodwinked by this former star turned radio mouth. Rich’s responses proved why Al Davis doesn’t want him around; Gannon is hostile to Al Davis, his tone and responses seethed resentment.
As for that chicken-shit lame-ass disclaimer that led off Gannon’s responses, how disingenuous was that! It was Gannon’s insurance policy – legal ploy – to give him the option of having the post removed – which he (or his station/employer) seemed to have exercised. Anything to offer us here saint?
I enjoyed having Gannon as a Raider Quarterback and rate him 5th best in franchise history (behind Stabler, Lamonica, Blanda, Plunkett) but as for "the man" off the field, I remain unimpressed.

something somebody wants to know that somebody else doesn’t want anyone to?

Well two things.

First: To whoever did the interview, why on earth did you publish his email address in the post? Now hundreds of people have access to Rich Gannon’s private email address, which he’ll probably need to delete.

Secondly: How did you confirm that it was actually him by conducting an interview over e-mail?

Not trying to be harsh, just want to clear up a few questions that everyone has right now.

Props on the Gannon interview. He actually said some honest stuff that athletes never do (although it was all obvious).

cool website/blog. keep up the good work.

Guys…here are my responses that I share with you and YOU ONLY…please don’t betray my trust. You guys deserve better…much better. The team lacks leadership and toughness at every level of the organization. No one person is going to be able to fix it. You need some ass kickers who are talented and don’t give a shit about hurting people’s feelings…aka Gruden, Allen, Callahan etc. These kind of people don’t grow on trees. If Al really truly cared he would stand down and hire some of these type of people to run the team. You folks deserve a winner. My only regret is that I wasn’t able to win more games as a Raider but if you had any idea how difficult it was to function in that environment you would realize that we accomplished a lot with what we had to work with. No excuses, just simply the truth. I hope that there are better days ahead for all of you and OUR TEAM!

firstly Great work bryhno for getting this done and while I think rich should know full well that this is a public blog as it would be rediculas for him to do this without himself or one of his people checking out who we were, his disclaimer was very confusing and throws enough doubt on the situation to make Saints decision to pull it fully understandable. Quite frankly his answers were pretty basic ramblings and I would not be surprised if he WAS drunk when answering. The other thing I think about is that the Raiders organisation was kind enough to allow Tyvonn interact with us all season and I would hate to see that screwed up by giving Gannon a forum to bag Al, and as I said his responses were disjointed at best anyway. And you know what Rich I don’t know if we would have won multiple superbowls if chucky stayed but I know we would have won one if you didn’t self combust at the sight of Gruden on the other sideline.

Passion has stirred us, all who were here tonight, and it is certain that we all take this process, life, to extremes that we can respect and enjoy…

Sorry I missed this last night. I try to get some sleep now and then.

After reading all the comments I think the following:

1. Nothing Rich says will ever make Sons of Blanda happy because Rich places blame at Al’s feet. Oz will never be happy with Rich because he blames him for an entire SB loss.

2. Spirals – Why do you feel that it is contradictory for Rich to want to help Jamarcus even though he feels that: A. Jamarcus either doesn’t want the help or B. Jamarcus thinks he doesn’t need the help? As an educator, do you just throw people to the side who act like Jamarcus? Rich made it clear he wants to help.

3. Sounds like SBN asked that the post be stricken until we get confirmation from Rich as to whether or not it can be posted based on Rich’s disclaimer. Maybe Rich didn’t or doesn’t grasp the reach of these blogs and that’s his fault. (Then again there are a lot of people over 45 who don’t grasp the concept.) As part of the media at this point in his career, Rich better get caught up on the world of blog.

4. Since none of us has to face each other, bloggers, including those who run them, can be real jerks. We (I’m including myself) ought to take the time to think about our responses to others as if we had to actually stand face to face and say them. Quite frankly I’d rather be sitting at a neighborhood pub with all of you discussing the Raiders while sipping a scotch so we could get to know each other a little better so we would know where each of us is coming from. Since that’s not possible, I’ll just try to be more respectful to everyone…except Sons and Spirals. :-)

i admit, as you pointed out, I react in ways in which I am not proud; I try to check myself and retract my statements, or at leastt apologize, to rectify the situation always.

As I’ve said, Saint made the right decision based on the language in the q&a responses, and nothing else. He did not speak personally with Rich, or Dave Hagen, so his judgment was based on that was the only correct one to make.

I may be guilty of a faux pax for not heeding that same language before popping it up, but once again, I defend my position as I made the assumption without getting that very important factor clarified in advance, that it was “assumed” this would be posted on a very public, highly engaging, and blog of folks with very high integrity, whether we are professionals, or recreational discussers of all things Silver and Black. That was, in retrospect, a wrong assumption to make.

Ultimately, what words are said can be powerful, but will result is that this has achieved a martyr status as a piece if crushed, and whether or not Rich realizes it (we’ve said, he doesn’t fully grasp the power of his words, in whatever media, nonetheless this powerful blog, and yes, I believe it is very), words unspoken, and in this case, perhaps retracted, or even as SOB, who I believe astutely pointed out, prefaced with disclaimers that make them mean squat, can be ten times more powerful than those spoken.

I have said I find it unfortunate that this only further shrouded Rich’s offer to help the organization in mystery, but I believe we’ll all utimately still come to a more accurate conclusion of the truth.

We can all post a million words based on this outcome; whether it’s allowed to be reposted or not. At the end of the day, Rich may find that not allowing his words to be posted after positing his position, however general or guarded by “wormish” disclaimers, may only serve to damage his reputation further.

Gannon was prolly drunk…or unaware, simple as that….

when I read the interview before it was taken down, I assumed that what Gannon meant by having the responses stay for our eyes only was that we shouldn’t disseminate or try to exploit the Q and A to other websites for personal gain or what have you. I find it hard to believe that Gannon doesn’t understand how a blog operates, unless he believed that there was someway to perhaps privately email the responses to any interesting sbp members. Either way, I commend you guys for taking the time to properly vet the whole situation before you potentially hung someone out to dry and great get in first place, it was an awesome read.

We did the right thing, based on the language, and it will behoove us to double check, maintain the intergrity of the site, not jeopardize the wonderful efforts of Richard and all who did the Tyvon segments, and weigh all options before we act accordingly.

I think we’re all at least a little correct to say, he probably means, don’t twist his words into something he didn’t say—as can so often happen in he said she said contexts—and perhaps we don’t give Rich the credit he deserves for understanding the power of his spoken (or in this case—emailed words). I’ve no doubt he understands what a blog is, and that his original intentions were sent uninhibited (by alcohol, quite possibly it appears! lol!), and he was aware they would get posted on a public blog. But, as previously stated, by the language written alone, it merits double checking, and Saint did the right thing.

I’m going to request clarification once more to both Mr. Hagen and to the Sirius Blitz with Schein and Gannon; I may actually muster up the energy to call the show and try to get it from the horse’s mouth, with Mr. Hagen’s nod of course, but I’ve been discouraged by the silence thus far…

Unfortunate, but to all who asked questions, I’ll be happy to provide you all with the email correspondence to your private emails, if nothing comes back. Feel free to hit me on my email posted on my profile. I would say I’m certain that is not, the “betrayal of trust,” now infamous here… of which Mr. Gannon admonished to not do.

I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt at this point that my request was just overlooked… If not, oh well!