Before the silver and black, the Super Bowls and the Autumn Wind the Raiders were one of the worst teams in a new football league fighting for survival.

In Part 1 of the story of the Raiders we go back to 1960s Oakland: a city being transformed, a franchise that almost didn’t make it and the arrival of a young coach named Al Davis.

It’s the story of how a struggling expansion team found an identity and how a rebel football league helped change the NFL forever.

This is How They Became: the stories of how iconic sports franchises became what we know today.