{"id":16726,"date":"2021-08-09T14:29:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/?p=16726"},"modified":"2021-08-09T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:37:50","slug":"tom-flores-inducted-into-the-pro-football-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/tom-flores-inducted-into-the-pro-football-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Flores inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FRaiders%2Fvideos%2F235896075067765%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">LOS ANGELES TIMES [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2021-08-08\/mexican-american-trailblazer-tom-flores-hall-of-fame\">Story Link<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">CANTON, Ohio \u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It required more than two silver trophies for Tom Flores to\u00a0<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2021-02-06\/super-bowl-tom-flores-raiders-nfl-hall-of-fame\">get a gold jacket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It took a (pirate) shipload of patience too.<\/p>\n<p>Just wait, baby.<\/p>\n<p>Flores, the soft-spoken Raiders coach who was at the helm for two of the club\u2019s three Super Bowl victories, was inducted Sunday into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, a fitting capstone for a\u00a0<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-11-05\/tom-flores-raiders-hall-of-fame\">trailblazing career<\/a>\u00a0that began more than 60 years ago. He was a quarterback and one of 20 men to play all 10 years in the American Football League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>His pro career began as one of 11 quarterbacks at training camp in Santa Cruz for the inaugural season of the Oakland Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were just a bunch of guys who didn\u2019t have a home stadium,\u201d he said. \u201cMost of the guys in training camp had no idea where Oakland was. I had to tell them. We were playing in San Francisco. That new league gave us all an opportunity to play football and continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2021-08-08\/mexican-american-trailblazer-tom-flores-hall-of-fame\">FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">(Photo Credit: David Richard \/ Associated Press)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES TIMES [Story Link] CANTON, Ohio \u2014\u00a0 It required more than two silver trophies for Tom Flores to\u00a0get a gold jacket. It took a (pirate) shipload of patience too. Just wait, baby. Flores, the soft-spoken Raiders coach who was at the helm for two of the club\u2019s three Super Bowl victories, was inducted Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}