Good morning.
In lieu of chilled prune juice and a liver omelette, here’s an equally challenging breakfast sampler courtesy of the NFL Death Star, on which the news never stops.
First, we get a behind-the-scenes look at how the cartel lords decided that the Oakland Raiders should become the Las Vegas Raiders.
Tour guides Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr. of ESPN, who loosened the tongues of several insiders, tell a tale of Raiders owner Mark Davis morphing from bumbler into cunning Alpha.
Circumstances goaded Davis, whom the NFL lords dealt a short straw when they gave Dean Spanos, the overly enabled Chargers owner, first dibs on Los Angeles.