Strangeness of the Raiders Press Conference

You've got to hand it to Al Davis and the Raiders. Just when you think things can't get any stranger, that's exactly what they get. Davis fired coach Lane Kiffin on Tuesday and named offensive line coach Tom Cable as the interim coach. Davis firing a coach isn't exactly a news flash. He fires coaches as often as most NFL owners order an expensive bottle of wine. Since the end of the 2003 season, he has canned Bill Callahan, Norv Turner, Art Shell and now, Kiffin. I don't think I left anyone out. It's hard to keep track. What took Raiders strangeness to a whole 'nother level, as Keegan-Michael Key would say, is the way Davis announced Kiffin's firing. He turned Tuesday's news conference into the Lane Kiffin Firing Palooza. He offered an exhaustive list of Kiffin's transgressions. He called him a serial liar. He accused him of sabotaging the team. He blamed him for the trade of Randy Moss. He made sure we knew that Kiffin was fired "for cau...