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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.
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.
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.
1981 Super Bowl (15): Oakland Raiders 27, Philadelphia Eagles 10. 1982 Super Bowl (16): San Francisco 49ers 26, Cincinnati Bengals 21. ... Los Angeles Chargers (one appearance)
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 Raiders had plenty of big moments to choose in this one, later scoring on an interception return to make it 63-7. Essentially every Raiders player on offense turned in an excellent game.