The legendary Raiders owner Al Davis died in 2011, having moved his franchise from Oakland to Los Angeles and back, but he ...

During Al Davis' heyday, the NFL would've never allowed a team in Las Vegas due to the city's ties to gambling. It's a very ...

In the late 1960s and into the 1970s, a young Mark Davis and his family saw Jimmy Durante go through his paces on stage, ...

This article was originally published on www.si.com/nfl/raiders as Al Davis Would Be Proud of the Raiders' Progress.

“Mark [Davis] joked that was the Al Davis pick of this draft,” Raiders general manager John Spytek said after drafting Thornton, via the team’s official website.

The legendary Raiders owner Al Davis died in 2011, having moved his franchise from Oakland to Los Angeles and back, but he didn't live to see his team in Las Vegas.

Al Davis tried for years to get a new stadium, and his son was finally able to make it happen after he died in 2011. “He loved Las Vegas,” Mark Davis said of his father.

Not every Raiders fan was happy about the move to Las Vegas, but Mark Davis thinks his father would've been happy.