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What is Derek Carr's legacy with the Raiders?So, it looks, feels, and now sounds like Derek Carr is officially done with the Raiders organization. Carr has been a big part of Raider Nation since entering the NFL in 2014. Carr was benched to end the season, and just days after the 2022 campaign ended, he posted what can only be categorized as a...

Football Destroyed Ken Stabler's Brain. Why Isn't His Family Getting A Cent From The Concussion Settlement?Ken Stabler, the late Hall of Fame quarterback, suffered from CTE and Alzheimer’s before his death; not even the NFL or its lawyers dispute that. Yet Stabler’s family will not collect any money from the NFL’s class-action concussion settlement, which has proven to be a disaster for hundreds of forme...

Report: Mark Davis Tried To Convince Hall Of Fame To Change Its Rules For Ken StablerOakland Raiders owner Mark Davis tried to cajole the Pro Football Hall of Fame into changing its rules about posthumous inductions before former quarterback Ken Stabler’s induction this August, according to Alex Marvez of Sporting News....

Ken Stabler's Family: Hall Of Fame Won't Give Us A Gold Jacket Or Ring [Updated]

Ken Stabler is finally getting inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, a year after his death, but his daughter says his family won’t get the hall’s iconic ring and gold jacket. ...

The CTE Headlines Get Ahead Of The Science, But Maybe That's Not So Bad

Raiders great Ken Stabler suffered from “moderately severe” CTE when he died, according to researchers at the Boston center that examined his donated brain. Another dead football player with cognitive impairment, another CTE diagnosis. The only real surprise is that anyone is surprised—and that anyo...

The Time Ken Stabler Maybe Planted Cocaine On A Sportswriter He Hated

Last Friday, we republished Pete Axthelm’s great old profile on Ken Stabler, the swashbuckling former NFL quarterback who died at the age of 69 last week. In that profile is an unbelievable anecdote about a “prank” that is impossible to imagine happening in today’s NFL....

When Ken Stabler Was A Country-Music Lyric Come To Life

This article was originally published in the September 1980 issue of Inside Sports and appears here with permission....

Former Raiders QB Ken Stabler Dead At 69

Former NFL quarterback Ken Stabler, who led the Raiders to victory in Super Bowl XI in 1977, died yesterday at the age of 69. According to his family, Stabler died due to complications with colon cancer, and donated his brain and spinal cord to Boston University to study degenerative brain diseases....