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The Raiders were making their third Super Bowl appearance after posting an 11–5 regular season record, but losing a tiebreaker to the AFC West division winner San Diego Chargers. Oakland then advanced to the Super Bowl with playoff victories over the Houston Oilers, Cleveland Browns, and San Diego.
The 1982 San Diego Chargers season was the team's 23rd year, and 13th in the National Football League. The team had a 10–6 record in 1981 . 1982 was a strike-shortened season so the league was divided up into two conferences instead of its normal divisional alignment — the Chargers finished 6–3, qualifying for the playoffs as the #5 seed.
There are four NFL teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans, though both the Browns (1950, 1954, 1955, 1964) and Lions (1935, 1952, 1953, 1957) had won NFL Championship Games prior to the creation of the Super Bowl in the 1966 season.
Raiders go on to win Super Bowl XV. 1981: Chargers 2–0: Chargers 23–10: Chargers 55–21: Raiders 26–17–2 In Oakland, the Chargers scored their most points in a game against the Raiders, and Chargers' TE Kellen Winslow caught five touchdown receptions, tying an NFL record. Chargers' first season series sweep against the Raiders since ...
The postseason tournament concluded with the Washington Redskins defeating the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XVII, 27–17, on January 30, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. A players' strike reduced the regular season to nine games. Thus, the league used a special 16-team playoff format (dubbed the "Super Bowl Tournament"), just for this ...
The Redskins playing against the Dolphins in Super Bowl XVII. The 1982 NFL season was the 63rd regular season of the National Football League. A 57-day-long players' strike reduced the 1982 season from a 16-game schedule per team to an abbreviated nine game schedule. Because of the shortened season, the NFL adopted a special 16-team playoff ...
The teams' most notable meetings were during the 1980s where they clashed for division and conference titles to reach the Super Bowl. Between 1982–91 they combined for 8 division titles and 5 Super Bowl titles, two by the Giants (1986, 1990) and three by the Redskins (1982, 1987, 1991). [94]
The Chargers never went to the Super Bowl under Fouts; he frequently appears on lists of the best quarterbacks not to win a Super Bowl or play in one. [331] The San Diego defense was often blamed for their failure to win a title during Fouts career; [ 332 ] a strong unit before the trade of Fred Dean early in the 1981 season, [ 333 ] the ...