ALAMEDA, Calif. -- You think Jon Gruden is over the "Tuck Rule" and how it ended his first run as coach of the Oakland Raiders?
Think again.
It took Gruden all of 40 seconds to bring it up on his own during his introductory news conference last week. Seeing Charles Woodson in the crowd jogged his memory.
“[Tom] Brady,” Gruden thundered about the New England Patriots quarterback, “fumbled that ball.”
It was 16 years ago Friday, on a snowy, 25-degree evening in Foxborough, Massachusetts, when the Tuck Rule set in motion a shift in the NFL, essentially launching a dynasty in New England and hastening the decline of the Raiders.