In a moment of quiet realization, Kevin Lynch discovered that he has spent 19 years covering the 49ers and the NFL in the hopes of recapturing the golden moments of watching Monday Night Football with his older brother and Scottish immigrant father, Martin Lynch, a former rugby and squash player from the border town of Hawik, where the long-running joke is, "If a cat in Hawik has a tail, he's a tourist." Martin was long ago promoted to that celestial tennis club beyond the clouds.

Kevin Lynch's byline has appeared in the Oakland Tribune, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, San Francisco Examiner and, for the last seven years, the Chronicle. His voice has been heard on KNBR (as a guest co-host with Ralph Barbieri) on KCBS and most recently as a fill-in host for the Progressive News Hour on Green 960-AM. The 40-something enjoys pick-up basketball, fast-pitch softball, tennis, golf, lively political discourse, hikes with Henry the Dog, yucks in the press box, weekend poker games with old high school buddies and a good blitz pickup.

Lynch hopes to lend insight, opinion and fun to the daily doings of the Bay Area's most prominent sports team.

David White has been covering the Raiders since 2006. He's active in church ministry, more active chasing his three kids ages 4-and-under and roots hard for the San Francisco Giants, Fresno State baseball and Selma High wrestling.