It’s been about 35 years since Tom Flores paced the sideline for the Raiders, but his legacy never left the organization. Flores has been a part of all three of the Silver and Black’s Super Bowl victories, one as an assistant coach and two as the main man in charge. Yet somehow he was passed up by the Hall of Fame committee year after year.
NFL Network’s Rich Eisen even brought up on the broadcast how Raider fans would constantly ask him why the NFL’s first minority coach to hoist the Lombardi Trophy didn’t have a gold jacket?