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Raiders Will Play Hard and Happy

Jan 24, 2007 – 11:30 AM
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Adam Rank

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Lane Kiffin had is introductory press conference and if you haven't seen it yet, you really owe it to yourself to see it here. If for nothing else, it is amazing for Al Davis to keep a straight face when he says that Kiffin was his first choice. Yeah. Or maybe the line where Kiffin said that his team was going to play hard, and going to play happy. (That might be enough to entice Jerry Rice out of retirement.)

The first impressions of Kiffin, however, were not that favorable. The animatronics at Disneyland seemed more life-like than Kiffin. The whole press conference seemed scripted, yet the acting was somewhere south of Show Girls. Nobody has been this ill-at-ease in front of a camera since ESPN's Sports Guy Bill Simpson appeared on the Colbert Report. Hopefully this guy can coach, because he is not going to be the charismatic leader that Jon Gruden was.
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