OAKLAND — Finally, a feel good story for the silver and black.
It was a gloomy off-season for the Raiders, one that went far beyond wins and losses. That feeling was at least temporarily lifted Saturday evening by the presence of Matt Millen in the broadcast booth less than eight months after a Christmas Eve heart transplant that saved his life..
Millen, who worked as an analyst with Rich Gannon along with play-by-play announcer Beth Mowins on the local Raiders television broadcast, was his typically buoyant, positive and self-deprecating self.
Walking back up the steps from the field to the elevator, Millen paused for a moment and said, “You know something?