ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The family story is nearing its 100th birthday now, but to Tom Flores, the Oakland Raiders’ two-time Super Bowl-winning coach, it never gets old.
Not when it’s such a point of pride for Flores and his familia.
Flores’ father, Tom Sr., was 12 years old in 1919, one of seven children whose family worked in the hills of the pueblo of Dynamite in the Mexican state of Durango. There, they mined for materials to make explosives -- when they were not ducking for cover with marauders claiming loyalty to Pancho Villa ransacking the village.