Raiders lose coin flip...

[Crossbones]

49ers beat Raiders ... in coin toss
By Matthew Barrows -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 7:05 am PST Friday, February 24, 2006

INDIANAPOLIS - The 49ers and Raiders finally met for their all-important coin toss Friday morning and ... drum roll, please ... the 49ers won.

That means they will pick sixth in the upcoming draft while the Raiders pick seventh. The two teams will alternate positions in rounds two through seven.

The draft will be held April 29-30.

Perfect ending to a perfect season.

 

[Angry Pope]

I never saw so much confusion over something as the coin flip. First they said we won over a month ago...then no go...then today in the evening...now they already had it. What a major screw job on us.

 

[JC]

I believe they kept flipping till the 49ers won...

 

[TommyGirl]

Yeah, but there are reports now that the coin flip won't happen until late this afternoon/early this evening. I swear.

Ooops! Dang you again, Pope. When can I share news first?

 

[Angry Pope]

Here are our draft picks...

Oakland Raiders

1-7
2-38
3-69
4-100
6-166
7-198

 

[Plunkett16]

on jan 2 their was coin toss and we won then nfl didn't like how the raiders won rigged it to say their wasn't coin toss their was no chance in hell the raiders was gonna win 6th pick

I bet the niners cried like baby so nfl decided to say we lost.

 

[Angry Pope]

Here is what our Raiders said about the first coin flip...

That Internet-perpetrated rumor about a league-disallowed coin flip the day after the season between the Raiders and 49ers? Never happened, according to the Raiders. I believe them, or we would have heard them complaining Friday.

 

[Angry Pope]

The other coin flip...

Indianapolis -- Early Friday, the Raiders and 49ers finally settled the issue of which team will pick sixth and which seventh in April's NFL Draft.

When their 4-12 finishes in 2005 and various other performance comparisons still left them in a deadlock for draft position, the NFL called the two sides together for a coin flip.

The 49ers emerged victors and will have the sixth pick on April 29, the first day of the two-day annual selection meeting, and the Raiders will draft seventh.

Friday morning's coin toss -- erroneously reported Thursday by the NFL as scheduled for the evening -- was pretty simple.

The NFL told the 49ers they had the right to call. Scot McCloughan, the team's vice president for player personnel, called tails.

Michael Lombardi, the Raiders' senior personnel executive, watched it land in the 49ers' favor.

End of suspense.

The process didn't have the significance of the 1970 coin flip between the Chicago Bears and Pittsburgh Steelers for the top overall draft pick. The Bears called heads. The coin landed tails-up.

And the Steelers drafted Terry Bradshaw.

NFL Films chronicled that famous coin toss, but did not have a crew on hand for this showdown.

 

[Angel]

I believe they kept flipping till the 49ers won...

There you have it!!