Past and Future National Football League Players
Some former National Football League players and some who would play for the NFL later on were on this team. Among them were Ray Pinney of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, Cedrick Hardman of the 1970s San Francisco 49ers and early 1980s Oakland Raiders, Anthony Carter (Minnesota Vikings, Detroit Lions), Arthur Whittington (Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills), Bobby Hebert (New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons), Gary Plummer (San Diego Chargers, San Francisco 49ers), Raymond Chester (Oakland Raiders, Baltimore Colts), Albert Bentley ( Indianapolis Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers), Dave Browning (Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Raiders, New England Patriots), Ray Bentley (Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals), Dale Markham (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Green Bay Packers) and Derek Holloway (Washington Redskins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
Invaders executive William Hambrecht later emerged as a founder of the United Football League.
Read more about this topic: Oakland Invaders
Famous quotes containing the words future, national, football, league and/or players:
“For a parent, it’s hard to recognize the significance of your work when you’re immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, “I’m making my contribution to the future of the planet.” But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.”
—Joyce Maynard (20th century)
“I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be “the Union as it was.””
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)
“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward the Light Brigade!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them
be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)