COOKING A ROAST BEEF

Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders

They were the NFL's ultimate outlaws, black-clad iconoclasts who, with a peculiar mix of machismo and brotherhood, of postgrad degrees and firearms, merrily defied pro football corporatism.
The Oakland Raiders of the 1970s were some of the most outrageous, beloved, and violent football teams ever to play the game. In this rollicking biography, Peter Richmond tells the story of Oakland's wrecking crew of castoffs, psychos, oddballs, and geniuses who won six division titles and a Super Bowl championship under the brilliant leadership of coach John Madden and eccentric owner Al Davis.
Richmond goes inside the locker room and onto the field with Ken Stabler, Willie Brown, Fred Biletnikoff, George Atkinson, Phil Villapiano, and the rest of this band of brothers who made the Raiders legendary. He vividly recounts days of grueling practices and hell-raising nights of tavern crawling—from smoking pot and hiring strippers during training camp to sharing game-day beers with their hardcore fans (including the Bay Area's other badasses, the Black Panthers and the Hells Angels). Richmond reveals a group of men who, after years of coming up short in the AFC Championship game, saw their off-kilter loyalty to the black and silver finally pay off with their emphatic Super Bowl victory in 1977. Funny, raunchy, and inspiring, Badasses celebrates the '70s Raiders as the last team to play professional football the way it was meant to be played: down and very dirty.

They were the NFL's ultimate outlaws, black-clad iconoclasts who, with a peculiar mix of machismo and brotherhood, of postgrad degrees and firearms, merrily defied pro football corporatism.
The Oakland Raiders of the 1970s were some of the most outrageous, beloved, and violent football teams ever to play the game. In this rollicking biography, Peter Richmond tells the story of Oakland's wrecking crew of castoffs, psychos, oddballs, and geniuses who won six division titles and a Super Bowl championship under the brilliant leadership of coach John Madden and eccentric owner Al Davis.
Richmond goes inside the locker room and onto the field with Ken Stabler, Willie Brown, Fred Biletnikoff, George Atkinson, Phil Villapiano, and the rest of this band of brothers who made the Raiders legendary. He vividly recounts days of grueling practices and hell-raising nights of tavern crawling—from smoking pot and hiring strippers during training camp to sharing game-day beers with their hardcore fans (including the Bay Area's other badasses, the Black Panthers and the Hells Angels). Richmond reveals a group of men who, after years of coming up short in the AFC Championship game, saw their off-kilter loyalty to the black and silver finally pay off with their emphatic Super Bowl victory in 1977. Funny, raunchy, and inspiring, Badasses celebrates the '70s Raiders as the last team to play professional football the way it was meant to be played: down and very dirty.

Students exit the walk-in frdige in the Culinary Arts Dept. Kitchen, which I might add, is state of the art, in everything. This is the place to come and do your Culinary Arts program if you want to be a chef, baker, etc. I photographed all parts of this dept. for 4 hours and I was very impressed with what I saw. I have been very impressed with all the vocational programs here at Laney, which the Photography Dept. is also part of. Now, my dept., it needs some help. We desperately need some funding for some upgrades. My son's high school had a state of the art darkroom and digital lab, for goodness sakes. We do now have a top notch Mac digital lab. But, I think we seriously need some upgrades to our darkroom and to our Studio. And, there are just not enough classes in Photojournalism, there is not even an actual program in PJ, just a couple of courses, that's it. If I want to continue, I have to move on to San Francisco City College or State. Or go south to Foothill College. Or basically do what I am doing now, supplement with outside workshops and seminars, at much higher costs, in most cases. I like going to community college, it affords me a lot of education I can't get anywhere else. Next semester I am expanding my studies to include Social Justice Studies.

Laney College Culinary Arts student chefs grab their fresh ingredients inside the walk-in fridge to prepare dinner for their class meal today. It was a really yummy looking dish, basically steak and potatoes. I took this photo through the thick glass window, from the outside, looking in. I liked the trippy look I got from the image that ensued.

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