Raiders Vs. Packers Included Super Bowl II

The Las Vegas-Oakland-Los Angeles Raiders and the Green Bay Packers, who will meet on Monday Night Football next week, have played each other only 14 times in the last 63 seasons, and there are good reasons for that.

The Raiders are in the American Football Conference West, while the Packers are in the National Football Conference North.

Also, the Raiders were founded in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League, while the Packers were part of the established National Football League, and the only time they might meet was once the Super Bowl was first played in 1966.

And they did.

The Packers routed the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10, in Super Bowl I at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to cap the 1966 season, but the following year, the Raiders went 13-1 during the regular season behind Coach John Rauch and trounced the Houston Oilers, 40-7, in the AFL Championship game to reach Super Bowl II against the Packers at the Orange Bowl in Miami.

The Raiders were in the game with the Packers for a half but wound up losing 33-14.

Unfortunately, the Raiders’ chances to beat the Packers suffered a severe blow in Week 9, when All-AFL running back Clem Daniels sustained a season-ending knee injury.

Even the great Chiefs linebackers Bobby Bell, Willie Lanier and Jim Lynch could not stay with Daniels running down the field on pass plays, so linebackers Dave Robinson, Ray Nitschke, and Lee Roy Caffey of the Packers, as good as they were, would have had their problems with Daniels coming out of the backfield.

And having to commit more than one defender to Daniels would have opened things up for quarterback Daryle Lamonica to throw the ball to wide receivers Fred Biletnikoff and Bill Miller, who did catch two touchdown passes in the game, and speedy tight end Billy Cannon.

The Packers held a 13-7 lead late in the first half, but the Raiders had just scored their first touchdown on Lamonica’s 23-yard pass to wide receiver Miller when the Silver and Black held Green Bay to one yard on the following three plays.

However, safety Rodger Bird of the Raiders fumbled the ensuing punt inside the 50-yard line, and the Packers recovered on the Oakland 47 to set up Don Chandler’s 43-yard field goal with only seconds left in the half to make it 16-7 at the break.

At halftime, legendary Coach Vince Lombardi told the Packers that it was his last game as coach of the team, and if they needed any extra incentive in the second half against the Raiders, that was it.

“Some of us old heads got together,” said Jerry Kramer, the Packers’ future Pro Football Hall of Game guard. “We decided we’d play the last 30 minutes for the old man because all of us love him. We didn’t want to let him down.”.

Green Bay scored on Donny Anderson’s two-yard run on the first possession of the second half. It was 23-7 early in the third quarter, and the Packers added Chandler’s 31-yard field goal and a 60-yard interception return for a touchdown by cornerback Herb Adderly on a pass by Lamonica to make it 33-7 in the fourth quarter.

Lamonica, who passed for 208 yards in the game, later threw a 23-yard touchdown to Miller, but it was far too little and too late for the Silver and Black.

Typical for Lombardi, he said after his final game with the Packers: “It wasn’t our best effort. All year, it seems like when we get a couple of touchdowns ahead, we let up. Maybe that’s the sign of a veteran team. I don’t know.”

After that, the Raiders won five straight games against the Packers, who incredibly have won the last eight and lead the all-time series, 9-5, heading into Monday night.

The Silver and Black return home to Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas next week to play the Green Bay Packers on Monday, Oct. 9, at 8:15 p.m. EDT/5:15 p.m. PDT.

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