1980 Oakland Raiders AFC Championship game at San Diego Chargers

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John Mongani

Жыл бұрын

Raiders and Chargers meet for the third time to decide who goes to the Super Bowl

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@GeorgeFitness-yo8bl Жыл бұрын

This Raiders team was a team of destiny!

@clifforddriver9434 10 ай бұрын

Jim Plunkett, as high a character of a man to ever play the quarterback position, God bless you!

@sananto6896 Жыл бұрын

Jim Plunkett and Cliff Branch were a dynamic duo. Playing on grass and dirty uniforms is what real football is about.

@lonelybro77 Жыл бұрын

Warm weather helps too😉

@waynewalton8798 11 ай бұрын

@Janx79 yes its does but Jim and cliff could get it done in any weather.

@marcmadonna725 Жыл бұрын

I was 10 years old, and for Christmas a few weeks before this game I got a raiders coat and hat and helmet. I should also add I grew up in the philly suburbs, and wore it on the bus and could have never been more proud!!

@ricklindberg4228 Жыл бұрын

Nothing like football from this era. I would rather watch these classic games than most games from today's NFL. I am a Steelers fan for 45 years so obviously Bradshaw is my favorite quarterback but Fouts was spectacular. This game is the polar opposite of the Oakland-Cleveland game from the previous week. Brings back such great memories listening to Enberg and Olsen. Great stuff.

@mattosullivan9687 Жыл бұрын

dude 70s Steeler v Raider I am all in

@loydkline Жыл бұрын

Love / ❤️ 1970s/ 1980s/ 1960s NFL 🏈 & college football too golden era

@lonelybro77 Жыл бұрын

Pittsburgh, Cleveland. As a Raider fan, those were some of the greatest and toughest games. We knew we had good teams going in, but a lot of players were old and beat up, having to play in the cold. Never the attitude of, We can beat these guys. Oh no. No guarantees there. Seriously, all daps to the Steelers fans and organisation....first class!👍

@gregorymanson1015 Жыл бұрын

Jim Plunkett is one of the most underrated of all time , he was money in the postseason

@ECO473 11 ай бұрын

Plunkett was as clutch as anyone.

@davidmartin1051 Жыл бұрын

The Mark Van Egan was a treat.

@redmustangredmustang Жыл бұрын

This was the biggest chance that the Chargers had to getting to a Super Bowl. They had the Raiders at home and the Chargers laid an egg the first half. Going down 28-7 at halftime and then had 6:55 left to get the ball back to their offense to score and the Charger defense couldn't do it. That's why the Raiders won the Super Bowl that year because they got it done when they needed to. Defense with Mike Davis interception that ball on the last drive the infamous Red Right 88. When up by 7 the Raider offense in this game running the clock down and making key third down conversions to run the clock out. In the Super Bowl Jim Plunkett throwing and getting td's, Rod Martin getting 3 interceptions, and Chris Bahr making field goals. That's why the Raiders have the rings and the Chargers even with that great offense has nothing.

@tlava66 10 ай бұрын

Post game interviews love it. I was a freshman in high school and this is my favorite Raiders season

@enriquedeltoro227 Жыл бұрын

Back when Chargers games were actually filled their own teams fans !!

@JoeBurke304 Жыл бұрын

Yep and then two jackasses ripped them from their homes and alienated this rivalry forever.

@lonelybro77 Жыл бұрын

In their awful yellow hats!

@EastOaklandZay Жыл бұрын

We need both these teams to go back to San Diego and Oakland one day in the next 30 years

@jackkitchen737 8 ай бұрын

@4:00 WOW what a great, and lucky, play for the Raiders. This team just had it when it counted. I was 14 at the time, and gave this team zero chance heading into season. But somewhere along the line, especially getting HF vs Houston in the WC game, I really believed in this squad. This was a great performance to get them to the SB.

@user-fn6lt2cn3o Ай бұрын

Jim plunkett was great in the postseason wish Green Bay wouldve acquired him in 78 I know they tried

@clifforddriver9434 10 ай бұрын

The Raiders would go on to be the first wildcard team to not only go on to the Super Bowl, but win the game as well. Jim Plunkett should of been inducted into the Hall of Fame, decades ago.

@charleswoodhouse4754 Жыл бұрын

Best uniform game in history

@bryanburnap4537 6 ай бұрын

Ha ! Can't argue with that !! Though I love the Raiders Silver and white with the black numbers to be e my favorite uniform of all time ! And I'm a Pats fan

@acornsucks2111 11 ай бұрын

Chargers had a better team, but Chester's opening TD said it all.

@jameshannagan4256 4 ай бұрын

No they didn't the Raiders already beat the Chargers at SD in the regular season and finished 11-5 the same record SD had the teams were evenly matched. The Raiders vets made the difference.

@russelljohnson7067 Жыл бұрын

I thought that Jim Plunkett always had the talent to succeed in the NFL , he just needed a chance to play for the right team

@ricardoacosta5938 Жыл бұрын

I have a Jim Plunkett (#16)L.A.Raiders 1984 Throwback &A Lester Hayes(#37) Las Vegas Raiders Inaugural season (2020)&even a Carr jersey (#4) &no longer with the Raiders 🙄🤨🤓🤠🏈🎞️🎥📺📹📻🎫🎬🏟️🕋🏆🏆🏆

@buicklincoln Жыл бұрын

Imagine the numbers that Cliff Branch would've put up in the Air Coryell offense. In today's NFL, most teams play some form of Air Coryell. Don Coryell is way past due for the Hall of Fame.

@jameshannagan4256 4 ай бұрын

The godfather of the modern NFL offense he belongs in the HOF for sure. I thought their best chance to win a SB was when they had the Bengals for a trip to the SB and the lousy weather favored the Bengals dink and dunk offense on a neutral field, at home or on the road whithout the severe weather the Bolts probably win the SB they were the best team that year. Of course the Raiders flopped that year and had a rare draft where they drafted 10th overall and didn't waste the chance and drafted Marcus Allen.

@BAYAREA-kd1ig 20 күн бұрын

@@jameshannagan4256Didn't the Bengals beat the Chargers in San Diego? Everyone loves to wax nostalgia about the 1981 Chargers only because of The Epic in Miami.

@constpegasus 9 ай бұрын

Chuck Muncie getting hurt was a disaster.

@deanwille334 Жыл бұрын

Before the idiotic move to Los Angeles!

@lonelybro77 Жыл бұрын

Best thing to happen for fball fans in LA. All daps to 'big Al'

@deanwille334 Жыл бұрын

@@lonelybro77 haha ok I like Los Angeles as a city but it was unnecessary move. Raider identity was created in Oakland and should’ve never left

@lonelybro77 Жыл бұрын

@@deanwille334 Raider identity never left. In fact, we totally promoted it. Ex.: Dre, Cube, Body Count, EZ E. etc.. fans were definitely Raider fans. So many fights in the stands, they had to open family sections, and no alcohol sold in the 2nd half. But, yeah, it was a terrible business decision also. Coliseum seats about 96,000...very few sellouts. I was there for one of them...sideline. Great game, tough OT loss to Denver. Allen actually fumbled (never happens!) the winning TD. Spoke @ length with Plunkett (Wilson was in that day🙄)...cool guy for someone from Stanford 😉

@deanwille334 Жыл бұрын

@@lonelybro77 We will have to agree to disagree. The move changed it to something completely different than what it originally was. It made them turn Hollywood. Don’t get me wrong, I love Los Angeles but I don’t think it helped that much

@Kashmir84828 Жыл бұрын

Even though the team won a superbowl in LA, the move there was stupid by Al Davis.

@charlesrazo7246 Жыл бұрын

Way before there was such thing as raider nation

@johnmongani5223 Жыл бұрын

exactly. sorry current Raider fans but I'm old school and cannot stand the whole" Raider Nation" thing. It reminds me of the Dallas Cowboys being called "America's Team" in the 70's which most people got sick of quick. The original Raiders motto at this time was "Us against the World", not this America's Team/Raider Nation stuff. But that was AL Davis's vision when he moved the team to Los Angeles. He saw that he had a product that was popular not just in the city where the team played but all over the country and the world. That was sort of the beginning of pro sports owners getting greedy and not caring about the hometown fans which causes a lot of problems for those local communities when teams just pack up and leave for their own selfish interests.

@lonelybro77 Жыл бұрын

@@johnmongani5223 Raiders were their own nation from day 1.

@johnmongani5223 Жыл бұрын

True their following began with their style of play in the 70's and all of the historic games they played in that decade.

@charlesrazo7246 11 ай бұрын

@@lonelybro77 that raider nation stuff started in the 90s

@jameshannagan4256 4 ай бұрын

@@johnmongani5223 At the end of the day it's a business and the Raiders were at a big disadvantage when it came to revenu at a time when salaries were blowing up.

@tomfrankiewicz4030 14 күн бұрын

The following year the NFL banned stick um. I can't help but think that Lester Hayes was the reason behind that decision

@johnmongani5223 14 күн бұрын

100% The Raiders caused many rules changes during that time.

@user-ri3tg3is1v 11 ай бұрын

Exciting football. My Chiefs sucked back then.

@lonelybro77 Жыл бұрын

A warm weather champ game, 2 Cali teams..was a nice change. Was always the Raider D that got the wins. Set up the stellar offenses to score, score, and score some more! 🏈 Bummer how they only showed like 12 Raider fans celebrating the win. No matter, they got the rings that year.

@davidcarrasquillo5128 Жыл бұрын

I miss this in today's football is about hitting a man's game not this garbage of touch football and crybabies

@dennissaunders5247 Жыл бұрын

I wish I could have seen AIR CROYALL in person. I am a die hard RAIDERS FAN.

@mattosullivan9687 Жыл бұрын

Congrats on the Chargers winning the Division Title that year hole they hung a flag up LLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

@wingedbuffalo4670 Жыл бұрын

Just Goes to Show all the "little things" that drastically affect the fortunes and outcomes of sports in general and the game of football in particular. For the 1980 NFL season, the three AFC Divisional Champions (Buffalo in the East, Cleveland in the Central, and San Diego in the West) all finished with identical 11-5 regular season records -- as did, ironically, BOTH Wild Card teams Oakland and Houston. Moreover, even though the Bills had BEATEN the Chargers directly head-to-head IN San Diego earlier during the season when both teams were the last 4-0 teams facing off against each other, the various other tie-breaking formulas then in place dictated that Buffalo would have to play the Chargers on the road AGAIN even though the Bills had won head-to-head earlier. Moreover, the Bills DOMINATED the Chargers most of the game and held a 14-3 halftime lead. The problem is that the Bills starting QB Joe Ferguson was playing heroically on basically 1 leg (he had sustained a BAD ankle sprain the previous week, and probably shouldn't have even played the game because he was so badly hobbled). The maximum pain-killing shots and cast-like tight tape job got Ferguson through the first half, but the halftime inactivity after playing on the ankle made it stiffen up and the painkilling shot wore off in the second half such that Ferguson was basically a sitting duck in the pocket and had a useless immobile stump of an ankle-foot. That affected his (in)ability to plant and follow-through on his passes, and he lost his effectiveness in the 2nd half and the Bills' offense couldn't move the ball or score any more points. At the end of the 3rd quarter the Bills still clung to a 14-13 lead, but late in the game Dan Fouts through a deep slant "just" past the fingertips of Bills' safety Bill Simpson, and the Chargers snatched a TD-scoring victory (20-14) from the jaws of defeat. That same weekend, the Raiders squeaked by the Browns 14-12 in frozen and windy Cleveland when Browns' QB Brian Sipe threw a game-breaking interception in the endzone when the Browns were in point-blank range for a winning FG (or running it in for a TD because the icy windy conditions made it very difficult to kick FGs)). By the thinnest of razor margins, the 1980 AFC title game could have been Oakland at Buffalo (in the snowy, windy, icy cold), or Buffalo at Cleveland in weather conditions both the Bills and Browns would have been better suited to. "for want of a nail ... the kingdom was lost."

@wingedbuffalo4670 Жыл бұрын

Fouts THREW

@mattosullivan9687 Жыл бұрын

@@wingedbuffalo4670 In the Raider game at Cleveland, Mike Davis got the winning INT. To quote Gene Upshaw, "That man could not catch a cold in Alaska barefoot."

@wingedbuffalo4670 Жыл бұрын

@@mattosullivan9687 Hilarious ... great quote! And a really "cold" diss of his teammate !!!

@loydkline Жыл бұрын

@@wingedbuffalo4670 ❤️ don air Coryell & passing machine attack

@lonelybro77 Жыл бұрын

Lame announcers waxing eloquent about Branch's speed. He's runnin for his life, man! I've seen him in pads, like 5ft. nuthin, standing next to Alzado, towering over my 6'3" frame. But I'll never forget this: Lyle looked @ me, and said, Hey kid (I was 23), before running back on the field to kick some more Bronco ass! No disrespect intended for Enberg, the voice of the Angels for years, nor Olsen..he was a Ram