Tim Brown suggests head coach Bill Callahan ‘sabotaged’ Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII

[R8RFAN]

I know the Raider hate runs deep here but I thought you guys may find this interesting...
NOTE: Just to help you out, a Superbowl is the game where the AFC and the NFC champion plays for the outright title.



"We all called it sabotage...because Callahan and Gruden were good friends," Brown said. "And Callahan had a big problem with the Raiders, you know, hated the Raiders. You know, only came because Gruden made him come. Literally walked off the field on us a couple of times during the season when he first got there, the first couple years. So really he had become someone who was part of the staff but we just didn’t pay him any attention. Gruden leaves, he becomes the head coach....It’s hard to say that the guy sabotaged the Super Bowl. You know, can you really say that? That can be my opinion, but I can’t say for a fact that that’s what his plan was, to sabotage the Super Bowl. He hated the Raiders so much that he would sabotage the Super Bowl so his friend can win the Super Bowl. That’s hard to say, because you can’t prove it.
"But the facts are what they are, that less than 36 hours before the game we changed our game plan. And we go into that game absolutely knowing that we have no shot. That the only shot we had if Tampa Bay didn’t show up."

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...3376--nfl.html

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by HotCarl

Gannon finally proved in the end, in that Super Bowl, that he didn't deserve a starting nod in the NFL. Not a Super Bowl winning caliber QB. Case closed.

What do you think of Peyton's latest chokejob Hot Carl?

[R8RFAN]

Originally Posted by HotCarl

Gannon finally proved in the end, in that Super Bowl, that he didn't deserve a starting nod in the NFL. Not a Super Bowl winning caliber QB. Case closed.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by R8ers

It was silly, but still not the silliest thing posted in this thread.

[R8RFAN]

Originally Posted by PGM

It was silly, but still not the silliest thing posted in this thread.

I wouldn't call your comments silly, You have just been a Cheapos fan for years and you don't know any better.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by R8ers

I wouldn't call your comments silly, You have just been a Cheapos fan for years and you don't know any better.

Yeah, Center has been the missing link all along

[BigRichard]

Apparently he hated the Huskers too.

[Frankie]

DAMN YOU HANK STRAM!!!! WHY DID YOU SABOTAGE THE CHIEFS IN SUPER BOWL I?!!!

[HotCarl]

I heard Rich Gannon was going to throw the game, but he figured it was out of his 5-yard range. Why do you think he got dumped for a QB with an arm?

[R8RFAN]

Originally Posted by HotCarl

I heard Rich Gannon was going to throw the game, but he figured it was out of his 5-yard range. Why do you think he got dumped for a QB with an arm?

Umm... Career ending neck injury? Maybe?

[HotCarl]

Originally Posted by R8ers

Umm... Career ending neck injury? Maybe?

Before the garbage-collecting Raiders found him at the social security office, he got dumped for a QB who could actually throw passes.

[BlackHelicopters]

Callahan was/is an idiot.

[-King-]

Jerry Rice just backed him up.

[OrtonsPiercedTaint]

He is trying to get brain tramma compensation. Well played Timmy!

[Al Bundy]

Originally Posted by -King-

Jerry Rice just backed him up.

Another pussy Raitard. Gannon disagrees with Tim Brown.

RIch Gannon Takes Tim Brown To Task
January 22nd, 2013

Former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon flatly stated Tim Brown’s suggestion that former Raiders coach Bill Callahan threw the Super Bowl against the Bucs is wrong.

Earlier, Joe brought word that former Oakland Raiders wide receiver Tim Brown suggested former Raiders head coach Bill Callahan threw the Super Bowl against the Bucs because, Brown implied, Callahan was indebted to Chucky and didn’t want to coach the Raiders.

That is such a preposterous statement, Joe doesn’t know where to begin.

Today on his mid-day radio show, “The Blitz,” co-hosted with popular sports radio personality Adam Schein, heard exclusively on SiriusXM NFL Radio, former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon took Brown to task for spreading nonsense and detailed why he thought the Bucs manhandled the Raiders to win the Super Bowl. And it had nothing to do with any coach forcing his team to lay down.

“I don’t’ know that the gameplan really changed. I think what happened was we talked about the best way to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and we thought that being physical and running the ball, but that was not who we were.

“We tried to run the football early on and we didn’t have much success.

“We didn’t change enough of our plays as far as verbiage at the line of scrimmage. It was a carryover from what Jon Gruden had as far as our run checks and Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks were calling out our runs. That took us out of our no huddle package a little bit. Then when we fell behind, we probably threw too much.

“You win together and you lose together and there was a culture and environment in Oakland at the time that was difficult to compete for championships and a struggle to win on Sundays and I think that is a struggle today. An attitude, an entitlement that we are the Oakland Raiders, the silver and black, all we have to do roll up on Sunday and we will beat you.

“Bill Callahan is a good football coach and a good man and I don’t think thing ever [would] intentionally ever [throw a game], based on a relationship with a former coach… we had too much invested.”

Gannon also said that Barrett Robbins, the Raiders starting center who went on a trip to Mexico and weirded out and was unable to play in the Super Bowl, was hardly the only Raiders to player to “party in Mexico” prior to kickoff.

To hear all of Gannon’s words, click on the yellow button below.

http://www.chatsports.com/tampa-bay-...ask-2-7278295#

[Tombstone RJ]

Originally Posted by R8ers

I know the Raider hate runs deep here but I thought you guys may find this interesting...
NOTE: Just to help you out, a Superbowl is the game where the AFC and the NFC champion plays for the outright title.


"We all called it sabotage...because Callahan and Gruden were good friends," Brown said. "And Callahan had a big problem with the Raiders, you know, hated the Raiders. You know, only came because Gruden made him come. Literally walked off the field on us a couple of times during the season when he first got there, the first couple years. So really he had become someone who was part of the staff but we just didn’t pay him any attention. Gruden leaves, he becomes the head coach....It’s hard to say that the guy sabotaged the Super Bowl. You know, can you really say that? That can be my opinion, but I can’t say for a fact that that’s what his plan was, to sabotage the Super Bowl. He hated the Raiders so much that he would sabotage the Super Bowl so his friend can win the Super Bowl. That’s hard to say, because you can’t prove it.
"But the facts are what they are, that less than 36 hours before the game we changed our game plan. And we go into that game absolutely knowing that we have no shot. That the only shot we had if Tampa Bay didn’t show up."

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...3376--nfl.html

sounds like Timmy is still bitter about not getting as many passes as the goat.