Ken “The Snake” Stabler was a party animal off the field and one of football history’s most clutch performers on it. A 6-foot-3 lefty with long, flowing hair, Stabler – who was born on Christmas of 1945 in Foley, Alabama – played 15 NFL seasons, most of them for the Raiders, making four Pro Bowls, winning the 1974 NFL MVP, and leading the Raiders to a Super Bowl title in January 1977. A second round draft pick in 1968 out of the University of Alabama who twice led the league in passing touchdowns, Stabler slept little (“How much sleep do you need to go play three hours?” he said.) and admitted, on the evenings before competition, to reading game plans “by the light of the jukebox.” Yet, Stabler would turn into magician late in big games; he was centrally involved in the famous plays known as the The Holy Roller, The Sea of Hands, and Ghost to the Post. Stabler, who died of colon cancer in 2015, was inducted into the Hall of Fame posthumously, the next year.