I like to start by apologising by not having an article last week . I just had a ton on my plate, with work, personal issues and the holidays, but we are back this week! One of the weird trivia questions about the NFL is that there have only been three men named Napoleon that […]
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Raider Classics – Raiders Knock Chiefs out of Playoffs in KC in 1999 Season Finale
Much like the last decade since 2013 The 1990s were a tough decade for the Raiders against the Chiefs. So tough that they only won two games against them entering the 1999 season finale . The entire decade the raiders had a 2-18 record against KC (they played 20 games as they also played in […]
Harvey Williams – From Outcast with the Chiefs to Stardom with Raiders
As it is Chiefs’ week I will talk about one of my favourite players of all time, who was first a Chief then a Raider. Harvey Williams. I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was watching a Chiefs/Dolphins game in 1993 and Harvey Williams was knocked out and lost his second fumble of […]
Raiders Steam Roll Chargers 42-10 on Thursday Night in 1983 En Route to Winning Super Bowl 18
Few remember that Thursday night football is not a new thing. In the 1980s the NFL began to experiment with it. It was first run by ABC sports as a special edition to go along with Monday night, then in the late eighties TNT had Thursday night games. It was not a constant thing but […]
Raiders Classics – Raiders Beat Chargers 7-6 on a late Bomb from Wade Wilson to James Jett in in 1998 in One of the Ugliest Games Ever
This week rather than doing a player and game we are going to do two games on Raider Greats. The next game I will write about is a Thursday night game that happened in 1983 in December during the Raiders Super Bowl season. However, with the Raiders losing one of the ugliest games I have […]
Raiders Classics – Raiders Dominate Vikings 24-7 in 1993 In Hostetler’s First Start at QB
The 1993 Raiders were a restart for coach Art Shell. Gone were Todd Marinovich and Jay Schroader at QB, WRs Sam Graddy and Mervyn Fernandez had retired. RB Marcus Allen signed with the Chiefs. In were Jeff Hostetler at QB, WRs Rocket Ismail, Alexander Wright, James Jett, and Rookies RBs Greg Robinson and Ty Montgomery. […]
Raider Classics – Winless Raiders Beat Chiefs in 2014 to End a 16 Game Losing Streak and Get Derek Carr’s First Win as Starting QB
The 2014 Raiders were not exactly a classic raider team to say the least. They fired Dennis Allen as HC after an 0-4 start. They were starting rookie QB Derek Carr after he out played Matt Schaub in camp (some of the memes on Schaub from that season are some of the all time classics) […]
Raider Greats CB/FS Albert Lewis
As it is Chiefs week I thought I would go over a Raider who was also a Chief. In the 1990s the Raiders and Chiefs exchanged a lot of players. Players such as Albert Lewis, Rich Gannon, Andre Rison and Harvey Williams went from the Chiefs to the Raiders and players such as Marcus Allen […]
Raider Classics – 50 Years Ago The Raiders Beat The Dolphins to End Miami’s 18 Game Winning Streak
In the early 1970s the Miami Dolphins were world beaters. They made three straight Super Bowls from 1971 to 1973 winning two. In 1972 they famously went undefeated 17-0 including the playoffs, the only team in history to accomplish this feat. The next season the Fins opened the season 1-0 and if you went back […]
Raider Greats – The Need for Speed – The Raiders 1993 5 x 100 Team
In this update we just won’t focus on one player but rather the Raiders WR unit. 1993 was a bit of a changing of the guard for the Raiders WR. Tim Brown was about to set into the realm of upper echelon WRs and begin a run of 9 straight 1000 yard seasons . Mervyn […]