I Said Brad, Not Britney.

Jerry and David White both say that after the conference call with Dick Jauron and Trent Edwards, Raiders PR people provided the writers in attendance with a printout of Mark Kreidler's latest ESPN.com column ripping Kiffin. This is by far the weirdest, stupidest thing I've ever heard.

On the one hand, we've got a sassy-mouth, petulant coach who won't just shut up and coach. It's the Raiders you work for. We know you don't have any power over personnel or your coaching staff. We especially know it now, because you say it every time you get in front of a microphone. Maybe it's time to give it a rest.

On the other hand, when is the last time you saw an organization pass out a copy of a column that was critical of its head coach to the media that cover the organization? Has that ever happened in the history of any organization? Did the chairman of the board of Lehman Bros. pass out an article from Forbes saying that the CEO was doing a bad job?

For fuck's sake, just fire him.

Jason Jones has the quote of the day, though, courtesy of Kiffin:

On waking up Wednesday and not knowing if he's going to be the coach:

"How about when you go for a jog yesterday and you fell like it's paparazzi because the TV cameras are following you and they're asking you if you're still the coach of the Raiders. I felt like Brad Pitt. "

Ever think you'd be treated like Britney Spears:

"I said Brad, not Britney."

The problem is, this whole thing is starting to look just as ridiculous as Britney Spears.

Sllaacs is a Hater

Wow. 50 posts. A milestone greater than Joe Dimaggio's 52 game hitting streak, Cal Ripken's 2,632 straight games, and Britney Spears' weekly beaver shot.

To commemorate this acheivement, I'm adding a new feature where my friend Sllaacs picks three games each week and Dan and I try to beat him. I haven't discussed this with Dan yet, but hopefully he'll read the blog and add his picks. The rules are that Sllaacs always picks the Raiders and 49ers games, plus another game.

You may know Sllaacs from his insightful comments on previous blog posts.

So here's his email, in its entirety:

Let's do football picks. Post this, biiiiiyyyyyyyiiiiiitttttchhhh!

3 picks for the week.

49ers beat New Orleans 21 - 13.

Raiders get wiped off the football field after being smeared on it by the Titans and Vince Young - 28 - 10.

Colts over the Patriots - 35 - 31.

Let's see if you can come up with a better record, than me. Start this week-three games a week. I will always pick the niners and raiders games.

Dude your squad is going to get rolled. I'm like a football picking genius.

Sllaacs is a 49ers fan, and a huge Raider Hater. He's also a jackass, because as everyone knows, the Patriots don't play the Colts until November 4.

I'll publish my picks on those games another time. For now, I'll let Sllaacs enjoy himself as the focus of this historic, 50th CLOAK OF IMMORTALITY blog post, while he thinks up a different third game for us to pick.