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Ken the Snake Stabler was the embodiment of the freewheeling, hard-hitting Oakland Raiders. From his college days playing for Bear Bryant at Alabama to his years with the Raiders under coach John Madden, his broadcasting career to his death in 2015 and the revelation that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE, Snake probes the myriad facets of Stabler's life on and off the field to tell his complete story, and explores how his legacy and the culture and times that pivotally shaped it, continues to impact football today.

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Mike Freeman is a football columnist for Bleacher Report. He has previously been a writer for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Dallas Morning News, CBSSports.com, and the Florida Times-Union. He is the author of eight books, including Two Minute Warning: How Concussions, Crime, and Controversy Could Kill the NFL (and What the League Can Do to Survive) and Clemente: The True Legacy of an Undying Hero. John Pruden is an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. His exposure to many people, places, and experiences throughout his life provides a deep creative well from which he draws his narrative and vocal characterizations. His narration of The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers was chosen by the Washington Post as a Best Audiobook of 2010.

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