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It’s more than a sideline, featuring Raiderette Sarah

Sarah during a September Raiders-Jacksonville game

Today, photos of Sarah of the Oakland Raiderettes, plus some fun facts:

1) Sarah is in her fourth season as a Raiderette
2) No further review is needed, NFL rules and obviousness of fact clearly indicate that Sarah is Fabulous
3) Sarah has been a flight attendant for about five years
4) Heinrich Kubis was Germany’s (and the world’s) first flight attendant, in 1912
5) Sarah loves to travel, to meet new people, see new places, and try new foods, and Sarah would like to visit other continents outside of North America
6) The first female flight attendant was a 25-year-old registered nurse named Ellen Church. The requirement to be a registered nurse on an US airlines disappeared almost entirely during World War II as many nurses enlisted in the armed forces
7) According to Sarah’s Raiderette bio, her first CD/Tape was Brenton Wood’s Greatest Hits (she paid her brother for it after, gulp, “borrowing” it)
8 ) Brenton Wood (born Alfred Jesse Smith, July 26, 1941, Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American singer and songwriter known for his two 1967 hit singles, “The Oogum Boogum Song” and “Gimme Little Sign”
9) “Gimme Little Sign” was later covered by Danielle Brisebois, who had a hit with it in 1994, and it was also recorded by Ricky Nelson

Click on the Continue link below for more photos from the Raiders-Jaguars game in September and there are more photos being uploaded to this link


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Dave, Midwest Correspondent