The two then met in the wild-card round where the Dolphins won 23 – 17 before being blown out by Oakland 27 – 0 ( the Colts themselves had suffered a bitter loss to the Raiders in Week Two of the season when the Raiders erased a 24-7 gap to win 38-31 ).

The Chargers then went on another second half run with four straight wins but this time instead of keeping the streak going the entire second half they had a big let down losing at home to the Raiders again, this time 28 – 13 ( ending their shared NFL record, with the Dolphins, of 18 straight wins in December ).

The Packers then started their second possession at their own 3-yard line, and in the opening minutes of the second quarter, they drove 84 yards to the Raiders 13-yard line.

They posted a 12-2 record during the regular season, then defeated the Cincinnati Bengals and the Oakland Raiders in the playoffs.

The Steelers defeated the Buffalo Bills 32-14 at home in the divisional round, then won the AFC Championship Game over the host Raiders, 24-13.

The Raiders then marched 90 yards to the Vikings 7-yard line ( the key play being a 35-yard run by Clarence Davis ), but had to settle for a field goal from Mann, giving them a 3 – 0 lead 48 seconds into the second quarter.

The Raiders then took the opening kickoff of the second half and scored quickly.

Shell, who was then the head coach of the Los Angeles Raiders, became the first active head coach or player to join the coin toss ceremonies.

Buffalo then crushed the Los Angeles Raiders 51 – 3, the most lopsided score in AFC Championship Game history.

Brady then led his team to the Raiders 27-yard line, where kicker Adam Vinatieri made a 45-yard field goal which barely cleared the crossbar to send the game into overtime.

With the impending start of the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) in the fall of 1972, the upstart league had plans to place its New York team, the Raiders, in the then brand-new Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Nassau County.

When George Lucas first approached Steven Spielberg for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg recalled, " George said if I directed the first one then I would have to direct a trilogy.

Though Warshaw had spent over a year working on consecutive development schedules for games ( seven months working on Yars ' Revenge and then six months on Raiders of the Lost Ark ), he accepted the offer based on the challenge of completing a game in a short time frame and at Spielberg's request.

Gruden was the Raiders ' head coach from 1998 to 2001, and then became the Buccaneers coach in 2002.

According to Expanded Universe sources, Tusken Raiders are named after Fort Tusken, an early Old Republic mining settlement in which all of the settlers were overwhelmed and captured or killed by Tusken Raiders, then referred to as Sand People.

Ritter then moved to Universal Pictures and teamed with Johnny Mack Brown for films such as The Lone Star Trail ( 1943 ), Raiders of San Joaquin ( 1943 ), Cheyenne Roundup ( 1943 ) and The Old Chisholm Trail ( 1942 ).

Carlson's 3-man fire team and 10-man squad organizations were adopted, first by the Raiders and then by the entire Marine Corps.

* RKO's 1944 film Marine Raiders is a fictional account of the 1st Raider Battalion on Guadalcanal, on leave in Australia, then on Bougainville ( where the 2nd and 3rd Raiders actually participated ).

It is named in honor of Fred Biletnikoff, who starred at Tech Memorial High School in Erie, Pennsylvania, then Florida State University before going on to a Hall of Fame career with the Oakland Raiders.

The play is still disputed by those involved, particularly by living personnel from the Raiders and their fans, who insist the Raiders should have won ( in an NFL Films production about the play years later, Raider guard Gene Upshaw theorized that the real purpose of Swearingen's phone conversation was to see if there were enough police on hand to ensure the players ' safety if the play was ruled incomplete, and was then called in the Steelers ' favor out of fear ).

The Raiders then went on to play in England at Old Trafford in the first official World Club Challenge against 1988 – 89 RFL champions, Widnes.

The loss to Oakland ended their 13 game winning streak against the Raiders since their last loss on September 28, 2003.

The Dolphins ' winning streak ended in week two with a 12-7 loss to the Raiders in Berkeley, California.

The Buccaneers ended up giving two first-round picks, two second-round picks and $ 8 million to the Raiders to get Gruden.

But a distraction for the Raiders was that starting center Barret Robbins went missing for most of the week leading up to the game and ended up in the hospital.

He planned to complete a project that had been started several years earlier to lure the Raiders to Sacramento, but had ended up being mothballed.

However, use of the name has now ended ; Marine Corps officials have decided that Marines and units in the new Marine Corps Special Operations Command, which was stood up in February 2006, will not be called Raiders.

He ended up making the team and played four years with the Dallas Texans / Kansas City Chiefs before joining the Oakland Raiders in 1965.

For example, the NIFL was characterized by annual issues between teams and league owner Carolyn Shiver before it folded after its 2007 season, while the APFL ended its 2006 season with a forfeit of the championship game when the league offices refused to allow the championship game to be hosted at the home of the team who had won the right to host and refused to play the game, and the CIFL had its defending champion Rochester Raiders quit the league in the middle of the playoffs in 2008.

The Purple Raiders won 110 consecutive regular-season games between 1994 and 2005 ( which was ended by conference foe Ohio Northern University on Oct 22, 2005 ), posted 14 undefeated regular seasons, won 16 Ohio Athletic Conference Championships, and had the best overall record in the 1990s ( 120-7-1. 941 ).

His retirement ended an 18 year coaching career with the Raiders.

The Raiders ended the season 8-8, 4-5 under Palmer.

He also ended the season with his best career game, racking up 167 yards and 3 TDs against the Oakland Raiders.

With their first winning season in franchise history under their belt and with the AFC West title on the line, the Broncos season ended with a 21 – 17 loss to the Oakland Raiders.

The streak was ended in a poor 22 – 6 loss against the New Zealand Warriors at home, then they slumped to a 5-match losing streak which included a golden point loss to the Brisbane Broncos in Round 17 and a 56 – 10 loss at the hands of the Canberra Raiders in Round 18.

Blanda drove the Raiders twice deep into Baltimore territory, but both drives ended with interceptions.

Hill's career in film and TV started with the 1958 film The Bank Raiders and ended in 1994 with a guest appearance in A Touch of Frost.

By the time the first period ended, Oakland was up 21-7, with Plunkett recording a 65-yard touchdown on a pass to Raymond Chester that was tipped twice, once by the Raiders and once by the Chargers, a 21-yard touchdown to running back Kenny King, and a 5-yard scoring run.

On September 5, 1994, during a Monday Night Football contest and the Raiders ' opening game of the season at the San Francisco 49ers, McCallum's career ended prematurely when 49ers linebacker Ken Norton Jr. twisted him to the ground.

The Raiders move was not announced until after the schedule had been announced, which resulted in a problem in the third week of the season when both the Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers had games scheduled to air on NBC which ended up overlapping each other ( the Raiders game was scheduled for 1 PM in case they were to move and NBC was given the doubleheader so that both Bay Area teams had their games televised locally ).

The season ended with Super Bowl XVIII when the Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Washington Redskins.

After his playing career ended, Herock was a player personnel executive in the NFL with the Raiders, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Atlanta Falcons.

Meanwhile, the season ended with Super Bowl XV when the Raiders defeated the Philadelphia Eagles.