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May "The Snake" RIP
Dead at 69 of colon cancer.
I am privileged to have grown up in the 70's, perhaps the greatest decade of the NFL. I wasn't a Raiders fan. I wasn't necessarily a Stabler fan. But I grew up watching him and them. Monday Night Football was must see T.V. and those Raiders-Steelers or Raiders-Bengals or Raiders-Dolphins or Raiders-Chiefs games were always special even when neither team were your favorites. It was NFL Football, it was Monday Night and you knew you were going to see something special. Ken Stabler was a part of that...was a part of my growing up. I appreciate what he and his contemporaries did for me and millions like me in that decade.
My fondest memory of Kenny was when I was nine and my brother got a Kenny Stabler puzzle for his birthday. We opened the can, started arranging the puzzle pieces on the kitchen table, and soon realized it was not a Kenny Stabler puzzle at all. Instead, it was a Playboy playmate centerfold - Miss August 1967. Kenny never looked better.
Special thanks to my mom for letting us at least finish the puzzle once before taking it away for good.
I hope you find your own Field of Dreams in the grandest Hall of Fame of all Kenny. Thanks, "Snake"...
the left handed gun. damned good QB RIP
How the hell is he not in the HOF?
What a bummer. My favorite NFL player of all time. Kenny turned me into a Raiders fan when I first started watching football. I remember staying in line all night to get tickets to the AFC Championship game against the Steelers in 1977. We were in the end zone and a got the best view in the house on a TD pass that pretty much ended any hope the Steelers had that day. After watching the completion, I looked back and saw Kenny face down on the turf. And then I looked up and saw the replay. Yep, that cheap shot artist Jack Lambert hit him about 3 seconds after he had thrown the ball (I'm sure he thought there was nothing wrong with that). Jackass!