Remembering Tim Brown’s Hall of Fame Career

August 7, 2015   ·   Gary Davenport   ·   Jump to comments

If you ask fans of the Oakland Raiders who best personifies the team's stay in Los Angeles from 1982-1994, odds are one of three names is coming up.
The first is tailback Marcus Allen, who spent his entire 11-year Raiders tenure in Los Angeles. The second is defensive end Howie Long, who spent all but one of his 13 seasons in the NFL in L.A. (the outlier was in Oakland). Both of those Raiders greats have been enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
On Saturday, the third name in that conversation gets his turn.
Sure, wide receiver Tim Brown wasn't in La-La Land as long or Allen or Long, spending over half his 17 NFL seasons playing in the Bay Area. But there's no question as to Brown's place in the pantheon of the Silver and Black.
Not after you open the team's record books. Brown holds Raiders records in games played (240), seasons played (16), touchdowns (104), receptions (1,070), receiving yards (14,734), receiving touchdowns (99), punt return yards (3,2...

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