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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 ...
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.
Todd Marvin Marinovich (born Marvin Scott Marinovich; July 4, 1969) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) (Los Angeles Raiders), Canadian Football League (CFL) (Winnipeg Blue Bombers, BC Lions), and Arena Football League (AFL) (Los Angeles Avengers).
Flores was the NFL's first minority head coach to win a Super Bowl, winning twice – Super Bowl XV with the Oakland Raiders and Super Bowl XVIII with the Los Angeles Raiders. After a 5–10 finish to the 1987 season, Flores moved to the Raiders' front office but left after just one year.
Smith has been married three times. His second wife was former singer–actress Denise Matthews, better known as Vanity. The marriage lasted for a year, from 1995 to 1996. [8] In 1997, Smith was arrested for domestic violence involving another woman and sentenced to anger-management classes. In 1997, he met his current wife Teresa Obello White. [9]
The former No. 1 overall pick by the then-Oakland Raiders in 2007 lasted just three seasons in the NFL before he was released in 2010 and never played another NFL snap. ... specifically head coach ...
His replacement was former Raiders quarterback Tom Flores, the first Hispanic head coach in NFL history. [22] Flores led the Raiders to another 9–7 season, but not the playoffs. The following off-season, the popular gun-slinging quarterback Ken Stabler was traded to the Houston Oilers , a move which was unpopular and criticized at the time.
Biletnikoff signed with the Raiders, where he played for fourteen seasons. With Oakland, he was nicknamed "Coyote", and "Doctor Zhivago" because of his Russian heritage. [16] In 1966, he caught his first touchdown pass, thrown by quarterback Tom Flores, who later became the Raiders' head coach the season after Biletnikoff was released by the ...