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- PEOPLE, Page 94Shell's Game
- By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- I don't want to lose sight of what's important here -- the
- team, not the head coach." That's the Los Angeles Raiders' ART
- SHELL, 42, self-effacing as ever, speaking after his appointment
- as the first black head coach in the National Football League in
- 63 years. Now there's business to attend to -- mainly a sagging
- team that needs a lift. The old man got a lift as well. His son Art
- III, 15, told him, "Dad, I'm proud to be named after you." That,
- said the coach, "made me really happy."