Thanks to my good, longtime friend Mike Sando, we have an excuse to remember the great Seabass.
It was 20 years ago Wednesday that the Raiders, well, Al Davis, stunned the NFL by taking Florida State kicker Sebastian Janikowski with the No. 17 overall draft ick.
It was unexpected, it was bold, it was shocking It was all Al Davis.
I’ll never forget it. I was covering the Green Bay Packers at a daily newspaper in Wisconsin at the time. I was at Lambeau Stadium, doing some interviews when the pick went down.