Community pulse: Remembering the great teams

Super Bowl XV - Oakland Raiders v Philadelphia Eagles — Jim Plunkett in Super Bowl XV

Fans offer their favorite squads in team history

I love all of our weekly Tuesday Community Question topics.

They allow our community members to get to now each other and dig into many topics of their beloved Las Vegas Raiders. However, my favorite topics (as I have mentioned often) revolve around the great and rich history of the franchise.

I think the old-time Raiders are the most fascinating teams in all of sports history. So, this week allowed us to dig into the history of the Silver and Black as we asked which team is our favorite in team history.

We had many answers and there are no wrong answers here. For me it’s the 1976 team that won the franchise’s first Super Bowl title. That was coming for a long time and that group got it done.

But again, no wrong answers here.

Here are some of your responses:

RaiderG

The Cinderella Wild Card team 1980. 75 to 1 underdogs to start the season. Nose tackle Reggie Kinlaw and LB Rod Martin dominating.

Pre-Marcus. Post-Madden. Post-Stabler. No one saw that coming.

Raidwin

So Glad I was able to witness all 3 of our SB teams. The ’76 team finally got over the afc championship curse(Steelers). But The ’80 team was also memorable for me. Jim Plunkett lead us back from the ashes and we were the first wild card team to win the SB. Also the famous red right 88 Mike Davis int to seal the playoff win in Cleveland that season.

Raidwin

A special love for the ’83 Team. Marveled watching a 35 year old Cliff Branch smoke the then Redskins on 99 TD reception from Jim Plunkett. I believe we lost that game at RFK in a shootout. The Skins were an offensive juggernaut that season; , but we avenged the loss by destroying the Skins in the SB.

Nunchucks

1983 Raiders all the way baby!…One of the best teams in NFL history!!!!

SBPB4theCrash

I consider the team from late 60s to the third Super Bowl to be one team with an interchangeable roster. I have never been able to narrow it down. That’s my favorite team.

AlzadoXXXXXXX

1976 Raiders who won our first superbowl in January 1977 after we fans felt like we’d waited “forever” for the superbowl win (I had to wait until age 16). Shell & Upshaw, Stabler, Biletnikoff & Branch, Casper on offense are Hall of Famers and the Soul Patrol, Jack Tatum deserves to be hall of famer, Old Man Willie is one,, Ted Hendricks, Phil Villapiano, Otis Sistrunk, etc. The 1983 Raiders defense was stronger and offense was clutch when Plunkett was starting at QB over Wilson (only part of the year)

Recoil

Too early in the morning to narrow down the year, but early 2000s. Gannon, Brown, Wheatley, Rickey Dudley, james Jett, Biekert, Darrell Russell, Wisnewksi, Lincoln Kennedy, Charles Woodson, Eric Allen, Grady Jackson, Charlie Garner, Lechler, Seabass, Jerry Porter, Jerry Rice. SMH.

DutchBlackwell

Hard to choose between the ’76 team and the ’80 team. The ’76 team got over the hump for the 1st title and was stacked with Hall of Famer’s. The ’80 team was more like a construction crew. A whole bunch of hard workers, who in some ways overachieved.

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