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Three weeks later, the Raiders met the Oilers again in the AFL Championship Game and won 40–7. The Raiders went on to compete in Super Bowl II, but lost the game to the Green Bay Packers. In 1970, Blanda was released during the exhibition season, but bounced back to establish his 21st professional season. During that season, Blanda, at age 43 ...
Oakland Raiders : Car crash 1970 Chuck Hughes: 28 WR: Detroit Lions: Cardiac arrest (in-game), compounded by spleen injury from a previous game 1971 Bruce McLenna: 26 FB: Kansas City Chiefs : Car crash 1968 Ralph Norwood: 23 OT: Atlanta Falcons: Car crash 1989 David Overstreet: 25 RB: Miami Dolphins: Car crash 1984 Brian Piccolo: 26 HB: Chicago ...
Sebastian Paweł Janikowski (Polish pronunciation: [sɛˈbastjan jaɲiˈkɔfskʲi]; born March 2, 1978) is a Polish former professional player of American football who was a placekicker for 18 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Oakland Raiders.
Guy was the first punter ever to be selected in the first round in the NFL draft, when the Oakland Raiders selected him with the 23rd overall pick of the 1973 draft. [15] In his career as a punter, Guy played his entire career with the Raiders and was selected to seven Pro Bowl teams, including six in a row from 1973 to 1978. [16]
The Week 2 game against the Kansas City Chiefs would be the final football game at the Oakland Coliseum to feature a baseball diamond in the field. The Raiders would play their final International Game as an Oakland based team on Week 5 where they defeated the Chicago Bears 24–21 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.
Guy was a legend in the sport. That's a rare level to achieve for a punter. Guy made history before he ever played an NFL game. He was the first punter ever taken in the first round of the draft.
This walk-off kick eclipsed both Dempsey's and Graham Gano's 63-yarder in 2018 as the longest field goal to win a game on its final play. [ 11 ] [ 14 ] Since Dempsey was the only kicker to make a field goal from more than sixty yards prior to the relocation of the goal posts, he remains the only player in NFL history to successfully kick a ...
First the Warriors bailed, followed by the Raiders and now the A’s, leaving Oakland without a major professional sports franchise for the first time since 1960. 'Today there is crying in ...