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The Oakland Raiders have officially hired Jon Gruden as their head coach.

The team announced the move Saturday as soon as Gruden finished his final broadcast as an announcer for ESPN. Gruden will be formally introduced at a news conference Tuesday.

Gruden is returning for a second stint as coach of the Raiders after being traded to Tampa Bay following the 2001 season. He led the Buccaneers to the Super Bowl title over Oakland the following season. He has been out of coaching since being fired by Tampa Bay after the 2008 season.

The Raiders fired Jack Del Rio following the end of a disappointing six-win season. Oakland won 12 games in 2016 to earn Del Rio a four-year extension, but the team fell flat this season.

Gruden reportedly will get a 10-year contract worth an estimated $100 million.

Gruden spent four seasons as coach in Oakland from 1998-2001. After leading the Raiders to 8-8 records his first two years, Gruden helped the team reach the AFC title game following the 2000 season and got Oakland back into the playoffs the following season.

Pity party in Cleveland

Chanting through chattering teeth, Browns fans finally felt victorious. Maybe the winless season wasn’t a total loss.

Thousands of disgruntled Cleveland fans, some of them calling for owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam to sell the franchise or jump in Lake Erie, paraded once around the team’s stadium in frigid conditions Saturday following a historic 0-16 season.

It was a protest and it was a party as fans showed their outrage and creativity following a season many would gladly forget.

Despite wind chills below zero, fans lined the street around FirstEnergy Stadium, which has been dubbed the ‘‘Factory of Sadness’’ in recent years, to cheer as 80 vehicles, a rock band on a flatbed truck, and a group carrying 28 tombstones to represent the team’s 28 starting quarterbacks since 1999, took a ‘‘no victory’’ lap.

Cleveland police conservatively estimated the crowd at 3,200, and reported no major incidents or arrests.

Rivera extended

Panthers coach Ron Rivera signed a two-year extension, keeping him under contract through the 2020 season. Financial terms were not released. Rivera is 64-47-1 in seven seasons with the Panthers. He has guided Carolina to a Super Bowl appearance, three NFC South titles, and four playoff appearances. He has twice been named NFL Coach of the Year by the AP. The Panthers (11-5) visit the New Orleans Saints (11-5) on Sunday in a wild-card game . . . The Giants interviewed Vikings offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur for their vacant head coaching job . . . The Bears interviewed Eagles quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo for their head coaching job . . . Former players Donovan McNabb and Eric Davis were dismissed from their analyst jobs at ESPN following an investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct while employed at NFL Network. McNabb and Davis were among seven men named in a lawsuit against NFL Enterprises filed in December by former NFL Network wardrobe stylist Jami Cantor.

McNabb and Davis worked for ESPN Radio and were taken off the air Dec. 12, pending an internal investigation.

PITY PARTY — A few thousand Browns fans paraded outside FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland, braving windchills below zero, to protest the team’s 0-16 season.