“Don’t think I’m needed here anymore:” Former NFL QB Randall Cunningham resigned as Raiders chaplain feeling ‘unwanted’
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Former Minnesota Vikings quarterback Randall Cunningham resigned from his post as the Las Vegas Raiders chaplain last month and did not provide a reason at the time. For many of you, who are wondering what a chaplain does in an NFL franchise let me make it absolutely clear.
Randall Cunningham or any chaplain for that matter is employed to provide spiritual guidance and religious services to the players and their immediate families. Therefore, when Cunningham left the job abruptly many raised questions as to what prompted such a decision from the 59-year-old.
In an interview with Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press explained his reasons for leaving the Las Vegas Raiders, after spending 2 years with the franchise. Randall Cunningham was blunt in his answers and claimed that he felt unwanted when new head coach Josh McDaniels took over the coaching duties this summer, from Joe Gruden who had initially brought in Cunningham into the franchise.
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Randall Cunningham spent two years at the Las Vegas Raiders as the franchise chaplain
“I kept calling and calling and calling, trying to contact the right officials to get the OK on what the direction was with Coach McDaniels, but it just went by, and finally I said, ‘I don’t think I’m needed here anymore,’” Randall Cunningham told Tomasson.
“He texted me one time and he said, ‘I’m looking forward to you and your involvement here. And I said, ‘Feel free to call anytime.’ And I never received a callback. And I just figured that was kind of like a sign for me it is time for me to move on.”
The former NFL quarterback also went on to explain what role a chaplain had during his playing days with the Minnesota Vikings as he felt that the players needed someone to listen to them.
“The players really need someone who is going to be like a brother, a father figure. Someone they can lean on and talk to outside of the organization, and that’s what we had in Minnesota,” Cunningham finished off his interaction with Tomasson.
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