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After an Oilers punt, running back Charlie Smith scored on a 60-yard touchdown reception from Lamonica to give the Raiders a 35-0 lead going into halftime. Early in the third quarter, Houston managed a drive deep into Raiders territory, but lost the ball again when Beathard was sacked for a 9-yard loss on 4th and 10 from the Raiders 16-yard line.
1969 Oakland Raiders season; Owner: F. Wayne Valley: General manager: Al Davis: Head coach: John Madden: Home field: Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum: Results; Record: 12–1–1: Division place: 1st AFL Western: Playoff finish: Won Divisional Playoffs (vs. Oilers) 56–7 Lost AFL Championship (vs. Chiefs) 7–17
The Chiefs topped the Raiders in the 1969 AFL championship game.. The 1969 AFL season was the tenth and final regular season of the American Football League.To honor the AFL's tenth season, a special anniversary logo was designed and each Kansas City Chiefs player wore a patch on his jersey with the logo during Super Bowl IV, the final AFL-NFL World Championship Game prior to the AFL–NFL merger.
A tie in the Western Division standings necessitated a tiebreaker playoff game, the second in the AFL's nine-year history. The Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders both finished the regular season at 12–2. The New York Jets (11–3), winners of the Eastern Division, were idle, waiting to host the AFL Championship Game the following week.
The 1969 AFL playoffs were only the second time a U.S. major professional football league allowed teams other than the first place teams (including ties) to compete in post-season playoffs (the first was the seven-team All-America Football Conference's 1949 four-team playoff).
The 1969 Houston Oilers season was the tenth and final season for the Houston Oilers as a professional AFL franchise before moving to the National Football League when the two merged. The team equaled their 1968 record of 7–7 (.500), finishing 6–6–2. [1] They qualified for the playoffs but lost in the divisional round to the Oakland Raiders.
The Super Bowl turns 59 this season, and for the first time since 2005 a team will have the opportunity to become the first to win it for a third straight year.
The two teams had the best records in the AFL regular season and both had won divisional playoff games two weeks earlier to advance to the championship. Oakland had swept the two hard-fought regular season games between the two teams, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] were favored by 4 to 5½ points, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and had taken seven of the last eight ...