Michael is a digital sports strategist for Bay Area News Group. The Denver-area native went to Arizona State's Cronkite School of Journalism and worked several years in Phoenix before coming to Northern California, mostly for the fish tacos.
Aug. 1962 Oakland, CA – Oakland Raiders center Jim Otto warms up for a clash with the San Diego Chargers at Frank Youell Field. Jim Otto, the former Raiders center who without regret sacrificed his body for the sport he loved, has died, the team announced Sunday.“The Raiders Family is in deep mourning following the passing of Jim Otto…The Original Raider,” the team said in a statement.
Bound to a wheelchair in recent years, Otto had his right leg amputated at the knee in 2007 and at one point counted 74 surgeries resulting from the ravages of professional football. In an Alameda Newspaper Group profile in 2000, Otto detailed three near-death experiences related to infections for his physical issues. At that point, Otto had had 28 knee surgeries, was on his sixth knee replacement and had both shoulders replaced.
In his Hall of Fame introduction speech on behalf of Otto, Davis said, “He loved the Oakland Raiders and he loved the game of football, but the important thing was he established all of them to a degree never surpassed.” John Madden, who joined the Raiders as an assistant in 1967 and was head coach from 1968 through 1978, said of Otto, “If someone came from another planet and you wanted to know what a football player looked like, you’d show him a photo of Jim Otto.”In bid to keep Roots soccer in town, Oakland to buy county’s shares of former Raiders practice site, Coliseum lotBorn on Jan. 5, 1938 in Wausau, Wisconsin, Otto didn’t play his first year of organized football until the ninth grade.
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