Remembering Ken Stabler: a toast to a true original

Kenny Stabler was the perfect quarterback at just the right time for the Raiders, who would become an NFL powerhouse. Photo: Dave Randolph, The Chronicle

It’s been said that Kenny Stabler wouldn’t fit into today’s NFL, that he’d be a victim of his limited size and movement, that there are just too many great athletes running around on defense and he’d be buried in the avalanche.

What nonsense. What an insult to the man who died Wednesday at the age of 69 and left thousands of Raiders fans in mourning. So there’s no room for a genius-level quarterback who performed with such accuracy and courage under pressure? Colin Kaepernick has maybe 10 percent of Stabler’s instincts, field presence and…