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* Hall of Famers who spent only a minor portion of their career with the Raiders are listed in normal font.
Steven Spielberg initially refused to release a pan-and-scan version of Raiders of the Lost Ark but eventually gave in ( although he successfully ordered the letterboxed format for the home video releases of The Color Purple and Always ); Woody Allen refused altogether to release one of Manhattan, the letterbox version is therefore the only version available on VHS and DVD.
From that point on, however, the Chargers began a six game skid with losses to the Jets, Chiefs, Packers, Raiders, Bears and Broncos with the first four by only a score and against Denver in overtime.
With the Oakland Raiders wearing their white jerseys at home for the first time ever in a game against the San Diego Chargers on September 28, 2008, the Seahawks have become the only NFL team to have never worn their white jerseys at home.
The Raiders could only score two touchdown passes from quarterback Daryle Lamonica.
The Raiders, led by head coach John Rauch, had stormed to the top of the AFL with a 13 1 regular season record ( their only defeat was an October 7 loss to the New York Jets, 27 14 ), and went on to crush the Houston Oilers, 40 7, in the AFL Championship game.
Raiders returner Rodger Bird gave them great field position with a 12-yard return to Green Bay's 40-yard line, but Oakland could only gain 1 yard with their next 3 plays and came up empty when George Blanda's 47-yard field goal attempt fell short of the goal posts.
The Chiefs managed to finish in second place behind the Oakland Raiders in the AFL's Western Division, but only after suffering a tough 10-6 loss to Oakland in the final game of the regular season.
Meanwhile, the Steelers only gave up a combined total of 20 points in their playoff victories over the Baltimore Colts, 28 10, and the Oakland Raiders, 16 10.
Then with less than 4 minutes left in the period, the Raiders reached the Eagles 27-yard line, only to have kicker Chris Bahr miss a 45-yard field goal.
Since the only legal way to keep the Raiders out of the Coliseum was to get an NHL team to play there, William Shea, who had helped bring the New York Mets to the area a decade earlier, was pressed into service once again.
They also earned the prestigious title of Reserve Grand Champion of the 2011 McCheseny Band Festival, losing only to the John I. Burton Raiders by less than a tenth of one point.
* Tom Benson, standout linebacker for the LA Raiders, once intercepted a pass by Mark Rypien only to be hit so hard by T Jim Lachey that he fumbled and gave the ball back to Washington Redskins in a 1989 game.
* David Dunn, an NFL wide receiver who played for such teams as the Oakland Raiders and Minnesota Vikings played his senior year only at Wakita High School.
Instead of the multiple lives that were a common video-game convention, the Star Raiders ship has only one life, but is completely destroyed only if hit while its energy shields are lowered or destroyed ; otherwise it will sustain varying types of damage, which causes shields, engines, weapons or information displays to be destroyed or damaged.
And a few plays later as the Raiders were now playing for pride, Dwight Smith intercepted a tipped pass and returned it 50 yards for a touchdown with only two seconds remaining.
Romanowski played in Super Bowls XXIII, XXIV, XXXII, and XXXIII ; the Raiders ' loss prevented Romanowski from joining Charles Haley as the only NFL player to earn 5 Super Bowl rings ( Haley was also with the 49ers for Super Bowls XXIII and XXIV, and later earned rings when the Dallas Cowboys won Super Bowls XXVII, XXVIII, and XXX ).
The Raiders joined the Minnesota Vikings and Washington Redskins as the only teams that never gained an extra point after scoring a touchdown.
It would be a year before new episodes aired on YTV due to Mainframe's involvement in Transformers: Beast Wars ( known as Beasties in Canada ) and Shadow Raiders, and the third season aired only on YTV at the time.
Also in 1999, Elway was ranked number 16 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, the only player to have spent the majority of his career with the Broncos to make the list ( Willie Brown, who began his career with the Broncos but spent more of it with the Oakland Raiders, also made the list ).
The Raiders made one World Championship Game appearance with Lamonica as quarterback, losing to the Green Bay Packers, 33-14, in Super Bowl II, when Lamonica threw for two touchdowns, though completing only 15 out of 34 passes.
It is the only remaining multi-purpose stadium left to serve as a full-time home to both a Major League Baseball team ( the Oakland Athletics ) and a National Football League team ( the Oakland Raiders ).

Raiders and allowed
The Raiders ' weakness was primarily on their defense, which ranked 25th in the league in passing yards allowed ( 3, 787 ) and 12th in total yards ( 5, 240 ).
" Huizenga left the Raiders in the early 1990s, disgusted at the way the medical advice was kept from players and Rosenfield being allowed to continue treating them after several mishaps, one of which is closely mirrored in the film — Shark's neck injury and risk of sudden death, based on the real-life Mike Harden case.
In the Xbox Original game Star Wars: Battlefront II players are allowed to play as Tusken Raiders in a special game mode called " hunt ".
) The success of " Let Me " allowed Paul Revere and the Raiders to tour Europe with the Beach Boys in the spring of 1969 ( they also recorded two songs for the long running German music program Beat-Club at this time ).
Seymour said there were " personal issues " concerning his family and that an NFLPA grievance filed on his behalf, which claimed the Raiders were not allowed to send him a five-day letter, was a " procedural thing.
The Raiders led the NFL in interceptions and they ranked 2nd in the NFL in sacks, 7th in fewest points allowed, and were 3rd in total defense ( which is fewest yards allowed ).
The Raiders defense was 6th in the NFL in sacks but did not finish in the top ten in points allowed or total defense.
Another short punt by the Broncos allowed the Raiders to take over at the Denver 48-yard line, and Hostetler's 33-yard pass to tight end Ethan Horton enabled McCallum to record a 2-yard touchdown.
Griese led the Bears to a 2 3 record, but sustained an injury in a game against the Oakland Raiders, which allowed Grossman to become the team's starting quarterback again.
In week 3 of the 2008 season, Lindell had a game winning field goal on the final play of the game vs. the Oakland Raiders, which allowed Buffalo to move to 3-0.

Raiders and combined
In the backfield, the Raiders had 3 running backs, Clem Daniels, Hewritt Dixon, and Pete Banaszak, who carried the ball equally and combined for 1, 510 yards and 10 touchdowns.
A second group of Scouts and Raiders, code-named Special Service Unit No. 1, was established on 7 July 1943, as a joint and combined operations force.
Hosmer was home to the Hosmer Tigers until the end of the 1990-1991 school year, when they combined with the Roscoe Hornets of Roscoe, South Dakota, to make Edmunds Central, home of the Raiders.
However, most combat operations saw the Raiders employed as regular infantry, and combined with the resentment within the rest of the Marines that the Raiders were an " elite force within an elite force ", led to the eventual abandonment of the experiment.
Fans were especially satisfied with a victory in the NFC Championship game against the Philadelphia Eagles, the team that had defeated Tampa Bay in the Wild Card round two years running by the combined score of 52-12, and Gruden was especially satisfied with a dominant win over his old team, the Raiders, in Super Bowl XXXVII.
After defeating a band of Tusken Raiders and the combined Confederate and mercenary forces, Echuu discovers some supply crates destined for the distant world of Krant.
The government warehouse in Raiders of the Lost Ark ( 1981 ) was painted on glass by Michael Pangrazio at Industrial Light & Magic, and combined with live-action footage of a government worker, pushing his Ark of the Covenant | cargo up the center aisle.
In 2009, the Red Raiders were led by North Carolina State recruit Dontae Johnson to a 6 3 record and Independence League Championship, outscoring opponents a combined 205 168.
The Trojans have also benefited from LA's lack of NFL teams ( with the LA Rams and Raiders having left in the early 1990s ), combined with the Trojans 21st century success, leading them to sometimes be called LA's " de facto NFL team.
In 2003, Wheatley reclaimed his role as the Raiders ' leading rusher although Garner, the second leading rusher, continued to be the target of more passes and Crockett made it to the end zone as a rusher as often as Wheatley and Garner combined.

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