i'm kate longworth, nbc bay area. >> all right. thank you, kate.he raiders are alive for the post season. that is good news for the silver and black. playoff hopes still alive heading to week 17. good news for both bay area football teams this holiday weekend. >> absolutely. dave, thank you. a good weekend sports and weatherwise. we'll take it. see you back here at 11:00.

in miami, for xfinity sports sunday, i'm kate longworth. >> but then, when saturday came and we finally to the theater and sat down and the ceremony got going, my heart just took off. >> all right, here's a look at the last three heisman winning quarterbacks and their first year in the nfl. kam newton is having a rookie-type year. and tim teebow with a back up. he started three others with quarterback as the broncos. >> david shaw joining us here on xfinity sports sunday. david shaw also the pac-12 coach ocht year after an exciting year. coach, you have coached. andrew luck his entire college career. is how have you seen him mature off the field with his program? >> yeah, off the field, he came in, came in relatively mature, as it was. but had to figure out what this whole college experience was going to be like. what was he going to major in, what was he truly interested in. how to be a true student athlete. he picked it up kind of early, but there's still that little bit of assureness at the very beginning. he got comfortable. i think to be a pitcher helped a just to give him an examp

kate longworth, nbc bay area. >>> thank you, kate. over to hockey.an jose sharks are looking for answers after losing 7 of their last 9 games. they would love to get revenge against the colorado avalanche who they face tomorrow at the tank. the sharks still have the holiday spirit. brody brazil was hanging out with the guys when they worked on their annual video christmas card. >> welcome to the holiday shopping network. i'm joe thorp. >> i'm dan boyle. >> i'm patrick marlow. >> reporter: pitchmen for the holidays. as one of the key products being a joe thornton, willie mammoth chest toupee. >> i want you to rub this against your face. >> wow. yeah. >> you know what i mean? >> that's good stuff right there. >> he likes to be shirtless. and he shouldn't be. he should definitely cover himself up. >> that's a beautiful, beautiful piece. just wonderful. >> the guys are making fun of your chest hair. that's a little personal. >> yeah, it's not too hairy, i don't think. i'll let you judge that later, brody. >> with five goals in his last seven games, jamie

. >> yet alice roosevelt longworth said it was a grassroots of 1000 country clubs.ou are smiling. >> the grassroots campaign is part of the politics ofpoliticking. it truly was a grassroots in what it intended, but willkie was not a common man. he was a wealthy corporate lawyer and businessman. he had an agricultural interest, but he was not a farmer. he said he farmed by conversation, not by actually farming. he was far from the grass roots, but he tried to appeal to the grassroots. >> amity shlaes, let's talk about the 1940 convention. this had the governor of minnesota delivering the speech. longtime presidential candidate. herbert hoover, former president, who is hoping the party would turn to him one more time. tom dewey, and, of course, robert taft, who is hoping the party returned to him. >> we get in a little trouble when we draw analogies. dewey was the prosecutor from new york who overrated himself. we often have new yorkers come out and say they are going to win, especially when they have a legal background. taft was mr. republican. people had heard about

i went to longworth there on independence avenue, joined the picket line, left, and then was informed that four people had decided to engage in civil disobedience in order to leave the congress with a message that we will never go away quietly so long as you treat the residents of the district of columbia as second class citizens. these four joined 73 or is it 72 who were arrested the first time that the congress attempted this very rider. they have been successful in this sense. while there is one rider, the abortion rider, there are no more. and yet they were -- there were attempts to put more riders, more attachments, at odds with what the residents of the district of columbia themselves have enacted. and those were not added. there were riders that would have kept the district from using needle exchange programs, indispensable to eliminating the spread of hiv-aids. there were promise riders on the district's marriage equality law. and there was a promised rider to eliminate all of the district's gun safety laws. because district residents did not go silently the last time, we have