Sublime

Al Davis at Oakland (and by default, the great Sid Gillman under whom Al had served in San Diego with the Chargers);

Bakke would often introduce AES’s management practices to the new group of colleagues by asking them what assumptions owners and managers of a typical factory hold about their workers.

By spending fifty to eighty hours each week studying the opponent, he knew more about the opposing team than anyone else on the Colts, including the other coaches. And, he had one more advantage: He was always a week ahead of the rest of the coaching crew. If the Colts were going to play the Jets on the coming Sunday and Miami the following Sunday,

Both exemplify the message of UCLA’s coach John Wooden: “I wanted players who had character, not players who were characters.