San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch pulled some strings to help his new Bay Area adversary over the weekend. Oakland Raiders general manager Mike Mayock, whose hiring was made official last week, tried at the last minute to gain a credential for the College Football Playoff national title game at Levi’s Stadium on Monday night.
But the strict credentialing window was closed, even for one of the NFL’s 32 most powerful personnel executives with a lengthy career as an analyst at the league’s powerhouse television network.
So Lynch dialed some high-ranking 49ers executives to get Mayock in the building.