As an Angeleno I was shocked listening on radio, it wasn't on local TV because of the blackout rule. We had season tickets from 86 to 94

...he would have lost. The Patriots clobbered Miami in the AFC Championship game.

@@davidlafleche1142 Raiders had a better overall team, they were lacking at QB. Miami didn't have the defense or running game the Raiders had. If Marino was on that Raiders team, they would've won this game

@@leogetz3570 The Patriots won with a simple game plan: ground and pound. Eason was only 5 of 7 passing. The rest of the time Tony Collins and Craig James rammed it down their throats.

@@davidlafleche1142 that and the Raiders had like 5 turnovers

@@leogetz3570 The Patriots had a good defense that year. If I remember correctly, it was ranked fifth.

And the worst GM in NFL history.

​@Embur12 agreed. Singlehandedly put the Lions 10 plus years backwards.

The Raiders used him very wisely. He was simply a "base down" player used to stuff the run. Extremely effective. On passing downs he came out. During that era, I'm surprised that NFL clubs did not try other smaller NTs at linebacker.

the two teams played the year before in Chicago and that's exactly what happened. All of the Raider QB's were brutally knocked out of the game and Jim McMahon had a lacerated kidney that almost ended his career. The doctor wanted to remove the kidney and McMahon told him not to and lucky for him it healed on its own and he kept playing another 5 years.

@@johnmongani5223 I seem to remember some editorial vid on this game called "The Game the NFL wants you to forget' kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aayaq9pjvr67gJs.html Would've been a much better Sb tho, that's for certain.

@@johnmongani5223 McMahon retired after 1996 actually.

@@akbarlebowitz8151 yep I was guessing and didn't know exactly when he hung up his cleats. Thanks for the correction. Just amazing he played for that long after the Raiders damaged his kidney in 1984. The rule was at the time according to McMahon that players weren't allowed to play in the NFL with only one kidney, that's why he told the doctor not to take it out because there were no gauranteed contracts then and it was his livelihood. The guy was crazy but knew his body and gave the fans some great football.

Outstanding comment! Very much so it would have been a bone breaking battle!

Plunkett was not available to play. He was knocked out for the season with a shoulder injury in the game vs. the 49ers about a month before this game. Rusty Hilger was the backup for this game.

RAIDER TILL MY CASKET DROPS IN THE BLCK HOLE BABY 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾

Irrelevant franchise. Haven't won a championship in 40 years.

I always throw that out to Raider old timers when the complain about….the tuck. Haaaaaaa

@@dudermcdude9245 At Super Bowl XXXVI, Geno Cappelletti was going to the radio booth at the Superdome. A Raiders fan saw him and said, "You guys don't deserve to be here.". Cappelletti replied, "Oh, yeah? Well, I remember 1976, and you guys didn't deserve to be THERE! Payback's a b**** ain't it?"

Patriot fans still whining nearly 50 years about the ‘76 playoff loss is almost as sweet as MAGA tears. What’s telling about the defeat was the manner the Patriots folded after the Hamilton call. Hardly characteristic of a championship team.

And for Daryl Stingley.

And the Tuck Rule. But the Sin City Stiff-Arm tho 😮😅👍🏼

hey Strohs will be and forever spoken here. lol. needed a 12 pack after this game. ugh.

LOL...he really does suck. So many passes off the mark. Those poor receivers.

AL Davis was stubborn on that one. He wanted to show he didn't make a mistake with Wilson and passing on Marino but he did bigtime.

@@johnmongani5223 This was when the USFL was in existence and Wilson was offered a huge deal. So Davis did a pre-emptive strike and signed him. Marc Wilson was highly touted coming out of BYU, everyone wanted him. With that said, he was never a real *Raider*, not in those days. He just got paid

Plunkett had a season ending injury in week 3 of the 1985 season After Wilson, the next available QB that year was Rusty Hilger

@@chrisuncleahmad yep the 49ers Jim Stuckey picked up Plunkett like a WWF wrestler and piledrove him and his right should into the turf and then landed on him with all of his weight. That was the end of the season for Plunk. Legal play in those days....

And who would you have started in his place?

I couldnt stand the patriots in 85 rooted for the raiders

Agreed

It's a place where once great players go to die.

wow that's amazing you saw him in that short clip. Very tragic what happened to him and so many that played in the 70's and 80'swhen there were no rules to protect players.

I miss Ricky's 😢, a great raider fan watering hole.

Yes I used to go to Ricky's all the time to catch the Raider game. I have the San Francisco Chronicle front page with this picture on it saying Raiders rocked Bears roll. Suppose I could frame that pic

I agree

wasn't Scully but Dick Enberg with Olsen, the voice of the Angels at the time. True Scully was great at all sports.

@@johnmongani5223 I guess I can't be too sure of anything. I thought I heard something in his voice that was vintage Scully. Enberg was a great one, too. I think he did the Rams broadcasts for a long time. LA had some of network television's best sports broadcasters. Though he traveled a lot, Keith Jackson lived in the San Fernando Valley. All those guys were the best and always did their homework when it came to covering sports outside their beat.

@@JohnHoulgate yep that was a long time ago and we are gettin old so no worries. Lots of great announcers back then. The one's I grew up with were all hall of famers, Bill King and Lon Simmons and some other good one's. Those guys had passion, creativity and personality that they added to the broadcast. Don't hear much of that in today's broadcasts.

This was NBC'S number one NFL team of announcers Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen.

yep NBC's #1 team, Summerall and Madden were just becoming CBS's #1 broadcast team.@@georgeblake4281

I know, it's so wild. I was only 16, but I remember the local media talking about it for maybe a week. And then no one cared about it after that.

Wilson could chuck the ball in college at BYU he started ahead Of 2 future super bowl winners McMahon and Young. Unfortunately for Wilson he flourished in Lavell Edwards pass happy system. People forget how McMahon rewrote the NCAA record book while playing at BYU, hell if that Defensive End from Green Bay wouldn't have thrown McMahon on his shoulder after the whistle Who knows if the Bears would have won more because when McMahon was healthy the Bears were a force to recogne with

classic Patrick Sullivan the gentleman

Sullivans- King of the white trailer trash - but 30 years of pure entertainment.

@bennygarcia7786............had it not been for Marc Wilson, the Raiders had an excellent chance of doing so. Marc Wilson was a disaster as a Raiders QB. But with that said, Patriots got it done.

@@DeepH2Ov1 i think if alzado and plunket were playing that day, things would have went different

@@DeepH2Ov1 Well, Raiders fumbles didn't help either, especially on special teams, which proved to be the difference

Bill B was also the first to regularly elect to defend when the Patriots win the opening coin toss. Many teams now do the same.

@@bcpme8637 It doesn’t seem that novel since getting the ball in the 2nd half if you build a 1st half lead seems a big advantage.. and long thought of

@@shaheedharun445 - It was virtually unheard of in the 1960s through the 90's. Teams wanted the ball and the the lead.

You can't compare NFL player introductions to basketball and hockey, way too many players in football, that's why Belichick chose they all go out as a team meaning every player is equal, there's no I in team chump!

I totally agree with you. Sometimes the talking heads are right and it really is a "copycat league." Introducing an offense or defense player by player has no bearing on if you believe in the team concept through and through. It's just a way to get your players a bit more recognition and acknowledgment. Get the fans pumped up. Hell even Madden on PS2 did it. Bring it back!

The RAIDERS could of have a lot more then 6. That IDIOT CHUCKY TRADE cost the raiders at least one if not two and AL DAVIS could rode off into the SUNSET with a couple of trophies , what could have been.

So true! About 5yrs later Marino was in a contract dispute with the Dolphins and Al Davis made a call ..the Nation was drooling for Marino That would have been something beautiful for the Raiders and for Dan!

The Raiders drafted a Center before Marino was selected by the Dolphins with the very next pick.

The Pats could easily had 3 more championships as well

Hindsight is 20/20! I totally agree .. with Al imbedded in deep legal battles with Rozelle -the NFL was always the main nemesis along with battling 31 other teams

I was 12 ! What a special time !!!

good call. the rest of the league learned well after "the catch".

Love Howie too but hate his woke sons.

Shit, this whole game would be penalites, fines and suspensions by today's rules!!!

That’s Pete Townshend, of The Who, 1985 solo album White City

AL Davis was calling the shots and had given Wilson a huge contract a year earlier so he was going to live or die with Wilson. Plunkett would of been playing but he got knocked out for the season by the 49ers a month before this game.

@@johnmongani5223 ok I didn't know that he was on a new contract your right Al Davis was definitely sink or swim with him thanks

@@mikemoxley2989 yeah either did I until someone mentioned it on one of my videos about the big contract. The guy said that Wilson was offered a lot of money from the USFL which was going at that time and trying to compete with the NFL so sounded right to me. Also Rusty Hilger was the backup since Plunkett was out so probably wouldn't have made much difference in the game if Wilson had been benched.

@@johnmongani5223 ya no doubt it probably wouldn't made any difference if they did bench him

Steve Young along with Jim McMahon were two BYU guys that got the job done. Marc Wilson, not so much.

yep totally agree. Patriots did the Raiders a favor and probably spared them a loss in the Super Bowl. Raiders and Bears did play the year before and it was a close game, with 3 QB's getting hurt.

You mean the Patriots were routed by 36 points.

thanks man. I try to make these with a little entertainment in mind, keep the action flowing and throw in a freaky commercial here and there and the news of the time.

Plunkett was knocked out for the season in the 49er game late in 1985 so had to play Wilson.

100%

yep Wilson had great mechanics but was not a leader and folded when he was under pressure. Plunkett and Stabler got better when they were under pressure that's why they won and Wilson didn't. AL Davis was obsessed with the guy for some unknown reason and kept him around for 7 years and the more he played the worse the team got.

I saw Marcus Allen give the ball away, too, though. The blame is not all on him. Look at all the special teams mistakes too.

Additionally , some of those pics were off the hands of relievers. You gotta catch the ball.

And dropped passes

@@minnesotavaughn6930 those are good points. the two special teams fumbles led to 14 points so one could say those were worse than anything Wilson did. Raiders didn't score any points in the second half and only lost by 7 so seems like with a good QB they could have overcame those special teams mistakes and still won the game.

They have been stuck with that mentality for 40 years. It’s time they caught up to the rest of the league.