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186.DUCE (WWR) "AL DAVIS SUNDAY "Even when he started 2 need a walker or a motorized cart 2 move around @ Raiders practices, Al Davis seemed indestructible. When he arrived at a news conference early this year with two bandages, several ominous growths and what was apparently dried blood on his octogenarian forehead, the end still did not appear imminent. Only his absence from most of training camp this summer, an obvious signal of mortality for the most micromanaging owner in the NFL, finally suggested the inevitable.Yet Saturday's news of his death @ age 82 defied a persistent core belief: that somehow, Al Davis would outlive us all. He was too irascible, stubborn and confounding to yield his place on Earth.One might even say that he was too mean to die, if we weren't forbidden 2 malign the recently departed, or if the statement were entirely true.The taboo doesn't matter here. Davis stomped on convention and decorum in every way possible, including some that made the NFL and this country an infinitely better place. But the truth about his mean streak is that it coexisted with a devotion 2 Raiders loyalists that went far beyond the bonds formed in the typical professional sports franchise."If your parents get sick, he'll know about it and get on the phone right away and ask if he can do anything 2 help,