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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 ...
The list documents the season-by-season records of the Raiders' franchise from 1960 to present, including postseason records, and league awards for individual players or head coaches. The team originated in Oakland, California as the Oakland Raiders , where they first played 22 seasons from 1960 to 1981 .
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.
These quarterbacks have started at least one game for the Oakland/Los Angeles/Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League. They are listed in order of the date of each player's first start at quarterback for the team.
In his first level of significant playoff action against the New England Patriots in the 1976 playoff run, he was the leading rusher for Oakland with 11 carries for 39 yards. With the Raiders down 21–10 in the fourth quarter, he scored on a touchdown run to narrow the deficit in a game the Raiders later won 24–21 in the Divisional Round. [8]
Randy Gene Moss (born February 13, 1977) is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, Oakland Raiders, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, and San Francisco 49ers.
The National Football League playoffs for the 1977 season began on December 24, 1977. The postseason tournament concluded with the Dallas Cowboys defeating the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XII , 27–10, on January 15, 1978, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans , Louisiana .
Christmas fell on a Saturday in 1976. In order to avoid scheduling playoff games on the holiday, the regular season opened a week earlier than normal (September 12, the second Sunday of the month, rather than the customary third Sunday) so that the Divisional Playoffs could be held on December 18 and 19 instead of December 25 and 26, and thus no games would be needed on Christmas Day.