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And the victory will elevate the Raiders'' owner to the top of the league once again, black cat and costume and kids and jungle where be can sneer at the commissioner''s office and snicker at those who thought he had lost his fastball years ago. it was spiderman davis, and no one else, who put together this unusual roster of youngsters and plus-30 stars. and it is he, and no one else, who saw in gruden''s replacement, bill callahan, the mettle of a championship coach. "you look at how al fixed up his roster with these older guys and you think, `this costume guy has gone off the deep end,''" says bills general manager tom donahoe. "but when you study these guys, black they still could play. and to me, this is their last shot. they are supposed to be way over the salary cap next year. and he even changes coaches and they still make it this far. amazing."but spiderman of course, davis never has had much use for coaches. "he has always thought players win championships," says ron wolf, the former packers general manager who started his nfl career under davis in oakland. "that is what he will think about all this." and that is why he let gruden bolt to the bucs last offseason, but only after extracting a costume king''s ransom: four draft choices and $8 million. don''t black and spiderman you know the glazer family, which owns the buccaneers, costume thinks gruden is black worth every penny and pick of that deal. the bucs spiderman had never been in the super bowl despite 26 years of determined, sometimes laughable effort. and here, in his first season, gruden had done what tony dungy and others before him couldn''t."it''ll be exciting," says gruden about this super bowl. "i respect where i came from. but i know there is some sensitivity costume there (on the raiders about him) and some emotions, playing the raiders in this game."chucky and al, 10 paces at midfield. what would you black pay to see that?"you couldn''t ask for a better matchup if you sat down and wrote out a scenario," says espn analyst joe theismann. spiderman and costume "isn''t this just the way everyone would want this season to end?"so let''s talk football, part one
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