Theismann on Raiders, Part II

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The Times’ Sam Farmer is in Tampa, Fla., this week covering the Super Bowl.
In a series a Fabulous Forum posts, he looks back at the 1983 Raiders.
You can access his Raiders posts by clicking here, and all his Super Bowl posts by clicking here.

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Theismann should have given those shoes the same treatment he did with his footwear about two weeks after the Super Bowl, when he was making a paid appearance in Maine.

‘I’m sitting in this little bed and breakfast,’ he said. ‘It’s snowing outside, and I’m going to do a speech. I’m sitting on the edge of the bed, and Howie [Long] comes on the TV. He’s being interviewed, and he’s sitting there saying, ‘Oh, yeah, you could see it in Joe Theismann’s eyes. He was scared of us.’ ‘

Theismann was so mad, he grabbed a shoe and threw it at the TV.

‘I was never scared,’ he said. ‘I’ve never been scared of anything in my life. Thankfully, the TV didn’t break. I said, ‘Howie, you’re full of ...!’’

You’ll never imagine what Theisman wanted to say to Raiders linebacker Ted Hendricks.

More on that in a bit...