1976 Unsung Hero: David Humm

Throughout the 2026 season, Raiders.com is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the team's Super Bowl XI Championship by highlighting unsung heroes from the 1976 team along with thrilling moments and untold stories of a campaign that will go down in history as among the greatest in the annals of professional football.

When David Humm reported for duty with the Raiders as a fifth-round draft pick in 1975, the southpaw quarterback was gobsmacked by his surroundings.

"I mean, here I am, this kid from Las Vegas who went to play college football at Nebraska, the most conservative place in the world," the late Humm told me in 2014 for my book '100 Things Raiders Fans Should Know & Do Before They…