Why Did Art Bell Retire

The ALMOST All-Time Oakland Raiders Offense

Quarterback : Ken Stabler

Stabler was drafted by the Raiders in the second round of the 1968 draft. With Daryle Lamonica entrenched firmly as their starter, Stabler joined the Spokane Shockers of the Continental Football League.

When the league ceased operations after the 1969 season, Stabler joined the Raiders and appeared in three games. He started one game the next season and won. He lost his lone start the next year but played more than he had before.

Oakland started him 11 games in 1973 and led the NFL with a 62.7 completion percentage. He was also named to his first Pro Bowl.

The 1974 season was one of his best, where he went back to the Pro Bowl and earned his only First Team All-Pro nod. He led the NFL with 26 touchdown passes, a 8.4 touchdowns thrown percentage, a 7.9 yards adjusted per attempt average, a 7.1 net yards gained per attempt, and a 7.0 adjusted net yards gained per attempt.

He was also named the NFL MVP by the Associated Press, as well as the AP’s Offensive Player of the Year, and the NFL MVP of the Newspaper Enterprises Association.

After missing out on the Pro Bowl in 1975, he returned to it in 1976 with one of his better seasons. He led the NFL with career best marks of 27 touchdowns tossed, a 9.3 touchdowns thrown percentage, 228.1 yards thrown per game, 8.2 net yards gained per attempt, an 88-yard pass, and a quarterback rating of 103.4.

His stellar season led the Raiders to Super Bowl XV, as he lost just one game he started all year, where the franchise won their first world championship. He was named the winner of the Bert Bell Award for NFL Player of the Year.

After making the Pro Bowl for the final time of his career in 1977, Stabler continued to lead an aging Raiders team to winning records as it rebuilt. He left after the 1979 season for the Houston Oilers in a trade that brought Oakland quarterback Dan Pastorini.

After a solid 1980 season for Houston, Stabler experienced his first year as a starter with a losing record in 1981. He joined the New Orleans Saints in 1982 and led them to a .500 record in two years before spending 1984 as a reserve. He retired after the season ended.

There were few quarterbacks in Stabler’s era with as much grit, intelligence, and desire as him. Though a free spirit off the field, Oakland knew he would lead his team to victory on the field. He won 69 of his 96 regular season starts and 7-4 in the postseason.

Cheryl Meril's Candid Blog- Nob Hill Notary: Why I May Be A Time ...

First, allow me to say I've been interested in time travel ever since I did a lot of research for a website about the human brain I designed back in 1999 that was one of its topics.  I have a theory people who especially live by trial and error tend to delve into looking for ways to go back and correct their mistakes. Unfortunately, there's no "undo" button in real life, at least yet discovered, other than on a computer. The Somewhere in Time Show broadcasts are from the mid-1990s up to early 2000′s. Last night I was listening to a broadcast from May, 1997 which amounts to 14 years ago.  Art had been discussing his new book The Quickening that was just published and flying off the shelves.  One of the topics Bell delved into was the quickening towards a one world government that was in what he referred to as the "warm water stage".  Bell emphatically stated to a caller's inquiry that "no nation on earth would give up its sovereignty in any of our lifetimes or generation (to a one world government)."   To my utter amazement, the next caller called in and said “you don’t have any lines open for time travelers, you should let them call in”.  With that, I wanted to call Art Bell and tell him he was gravely mistaken as follows: Art Bell was clearly a time traveler into the future but am I really a time traveler?  Did Bell somehow create a framework in radio broadcasting for time travelers to converge on his Somewhere in Time program?  Was he that brilliant?  If I'm not a time traveler, I certainly I felt like one last night.  Art has since left the United States and retired from radio broadcasting.

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