"The Autumn Wind is a Stabler,” is how the Oakland Raiders theme song should begin. We always talk about ‘glory years’ with a sense of nostalgia, a sense of better times, a sense of purity. The glory ...

NFL Films president Steve Sabol, who passed away at age 69 on Tuesday, played a big role in the glorification of the Oakland Raiders’ tough-guy image. It was Sabol who penned a poem for NFL Films in ...

src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=674090812743125&ev=PageView&noscript=1"/> Did they just …? Yep, I think they did. As the A’s faced the Dodgers in Los Angeles ...

The Las Vegas Raiders own claim to one of the most famous stanzas in NFL Films history -- "the Autumn Wind is a pirate, blustering in from sea, with a rollicking song he sweeps along, swaggering ...

As a child of the 60’s and 70’s and an insatiable NFL football fan, I can still hear the swaggering voice of narrator John Facenda in the now-iconic 1974 NFL Films production “The Autumn Wind,” which ...

There was a man with the voice like a herald during the Trojan War, a man who had a voice as loud as 50 men—these are descriptions of John Thomas Ralph Augustine James Facenda (August 8, 1913 – ...