Al Davis, the longtime general manager and owner of the Oakland Raiders, was a brilliant football mind and an important figure in the development of the modern NFL. As a person, though, he was highly controversial and polarizing: to his fans, he was a hero and champion of the underdog and the forgotten, while to his critics he was a villain and a cheat. Raised in Brooklyn, Davis – who wore a 1950s-era slicked-back hairdo, steel-rimmed glasses, and a white or black track suit – was suspected to have bugged a visiting locker room and was called “a lying creep” by a rival owner. The architect of the Raiders’ maverick, bad boy image, Davis selected their silver and black colors and their pirate logo. With the slogan "Just Win Baby", Davis brought in rebellious-type players who’d been overlooked or gotten into trouble elsewhere, and put together high-octane, passing-style offenses and physical, borderline dirty defenses. A fighter who famously sued the NFL, Davis also hired the NFL's first-ever Latino and black head coaches in modern times, hired the league's first-ever female CEO, and in 1968, drafted the first black quarterback to be selected in the first round.