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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 ...
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.
Davis played for the National Football League's Oakland Raiders between 1978 and 1985 and the San Diego Chargers for part of 1987. He was a starter on the Raiders Super Bowl XV and Super Bowl XVIII winning teams. Drafted in the second round of the 1977 draft, Davis started playing as the Raiders' third safety. [1]
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.
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 ...
That surpasses the 12 catches Mark Bavaro had on Oct. 13, 1985, during his rookie season for the New York Giants. Sunday's performance gave Bowers 57 catches (for 580 yards) in the Raiders' first ...
The change of venue, however, failed to attract larger crowds for the Raiders during their time at Candlestick Park, with announced attendance of 12,061 (vs. the Chargers in a 41–17 loss on December 4), 9,037 (vs. the New York Titans in a 31–28 loss on December 11) and 7,000 (estimated, vs. the Broncos in a 48–10 victory to close out the ...
But as they've been all season, they were good enough, as Kansas City secured a 27-20 win over the Raiders in Las Vegas. The Chiefs improved to 7-0 with the win to remain the NFL's only unbeaten team.