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The 1977 Oakland Raiders season was the team's 18th season overall, and 8th season since joining the NFL. The Raiders entered the season as the defending Super Bowl champions . The team could not match its 13-1 record from 1976 and finished 11-3, which was only good enough for second place in the AFC West next to the Denver Broncos , who won 12 ...
Super Bowl XI was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Oakland Raiders and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Minnesota Vikings to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for its 1976 season. The Raiders defeated the Vikings by the score of 32–14 to win their first Super Bowl.
Oakland Raiders: Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum: Raiders–Steelers rivalry [186] 15 Monday December 14 Atlanta Falcons: 16–21: Los Angeles Rams: Anaheim Stadium [187] 16 Monday December 21 Oakland Raiders: 10–23: San Diego Chargers: Jack Murphy Stadium: Chargers–Raiders rivalry 1980 AFC Championship Game rematch [188] 1982 Pro Bowl ...
The 1977 season is considered the last season of the "Dead Ball Era" of professional football (1970 to 1977). The 17.2 average points scored per team per game was the lowest since 1942, and it was the only post-merger NFL season where no player surpassed 1,000 receiving yards. For 1978, the league made significant changes to allow greater ...
Roderick Darryl Martin (born April 7, 1954) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders from 1977 to 1988. He is best known for his record three interceptions in Super Bowl XV, which put him on the cover of Sports Illustrated. [1]
He went unselected in the 1970 NFL Draft and landed with the Oakland Raiders, for whom he played eight games across two seasons. Carl Weather's professional life started with the Oakland Raiders.
The Raiders delivered the Chiefs a late wake-up call last season, which put them on the path to the Super Bowl. Kansas City hasn’t forgotten and would love to pay the Raiders back this time ...
This included four catches for 79 yards to set up three Oakland scores in the Raiders' 32–14 victory in Super Bowl XI, for which he was named Super Bowl MVP. [32] Biletnikoff was released by the Raiders prior to the 1979 season. [17] After a year off, he played one season in the Canadian Football League for the Montreal Alouettes in 1980. In ...