Lester Hayes & Mike Haynes was one of the greatest corner back tandems of all time. They shut down the Redskins wide receivers in this super bowl game.
The NFL films version of this show was John facinda the voice of God's last work he did for NFL films and it's his best. It's called Black Sunday. I recommend watching it. It'll give you a goosebumps when it talks about in a long. Came Marcus Allen running with the night lol and the raiders began to play better as night fell and it also says at the heart of this darkness was the rate of defense. Nothing on earth that blocked nor tackled could stop these raiders on Black Sunday lol. It's awesome I'm a cowboys fan and if I had to pick another team I always said it would have been the raiders
My mother just passed away on Thursday morning, and she loved the Raiders (glad she at least had a chance to see their resurrection), so I wanted to check this out.
@@Smile4MyAC130 Raiders are the team of the decades yeah like all great teams they hit a bump and were mired in obscurity bad drafting,picking HC's and NFL agaisn't them but its a new day Raiders are coming !
49:00...Cliff Branch blowing past Darrell Green, who would reign as the league's fastest man for the better part of the next decade. Branch was one of the biggest big game receivers in NFL history. Named to the All 70's team. As many Super Bowl TD's as Swann and Stallworth and a 3x champion. How he's not in the Hall of Fame is absolutely beyond me.
Green is a rookie in 1983. You can't expect a rookie to come on to the scene & shut down the NFL down just like that. Even the great Deion Sanders got abused his rookie season!
RIP John & Pat. 2 of the best voices in football during my lifetime. I started watching football at the ripe ol' age of 7 with my uncle a die hard Raider fan. We lived in Northern California (San Jose) and I became a 49er fan in 1978. Watched Montana win 4 Superbowls and then ironically Mt parents transferred to Kansaas City in 1985 when I was 14yrs old. I was pissed how he was let go and I became a die hard Chiefs fan as Montana, Bono, and Girbach all consecutively came here. Oh Steve Deberg was the starting QB here and ironically Montana took his job for the 2nd time. Anyways I'm 50 years old and now watching Pat Mahones II tear up the league. Peace to both broadcasters in Heaven!!!
The one thing that stands out to me when watching these old NFL clips... when a player makes a great play, he doesn't run around like an idiot or pose for the camera like a high school moron. Nope, these were real professionals and they just went on to the next play. Watch Marcus Allen after the 74-yard TD run... pure PRO!
@ 2:22:10 it's actor and true Raider fan James Garner hell of a nice guy was always on the sidelines in LA and Oakland. Life long friend of many Oakland players and fans. RIP Mr Garner
Yes and to add to his remarkable day that run at 2.21:01...he cuts so fast and smooth... 24 tackled Marcus then got smashed by his own teamates.... MARCUS put in work that day.
Well, hold onto that satisfied victory Raider fan. Savor it forever. I don't blame you. I don't think we'll ever see them this amazing and indomitable ever again. Ever since I was young, they have sucked. When I still see people supporting the Raiders today, I think they must be remembering the good old days when they used to be good.
Definitely the most dominant performance against a defending Super Bowl champion. Not just Marcus, but Hayes and Haynes and Rod Martin had another great super bowl like he did in SB 15. Ironically the 38 pts scored by the Raiders is still the most for an AFC team. The NFC has eclipsed that number several times
@BinLyed2;you mean they AREN'T?!? That is a TRAVESTY!! I am the biggest "Air Coryell"Chargers fan ever,so Ibasically detested those two for keeping Fouts,Winslow and Jefferson from getting Superbowl rings,but I RESPECTED them nonetheless and have and wear with pride their(costly)Raider throwback jerseys!! There is NO way they shouldn't be in Canton!! I
Yet they still had more HOFers than the team they beat, who went on to win two Super Bowls after this. If you are not the Cowboys or Steelers you aren't getting more than a handfull of Hall of Famers.
The only receiver for the Redskins that was productive was Clint Didier and he is a tight end.You have to keep going to your hot man which was Didier.The run game wasn’t there.The skins defensive line and secondary couldn’t hold.The offensive line couldn’t open any holes for Riggins or protect Theisman.The Skins got beat in all three phases of the game.The Raiders was definitely the better team and deserve this win.
Yep I'll neaver forget this game I won over 300 on this game where I worked at the time in the Bay area everybody was saying the Redskins would beat the raiders easy lol
It was "Black Sunday" because this game defied all the 3-code. Redskins were 31-3 going into this game and probably SB favorites to win everywhere except Oakland and LA. Going into SB with 31-3 meant they were the problem solvers- but Redskins lost by 29 which is 92 backwards. 92/3 = 31 rounded which is their hot win record. Not to mention #32 M.A with that historic run. Yea, Redskins got hit hard here, it was Black Sunday for them.
Even if the bad breaks hadn’t occurred for the Skins, they still would’ve lost. That’s when you know that a team has truly been beaten. For such a one-sided game, it was pretty entertaining, though. You can’t say that about most blowout SBs, haha!
@@davidgoldsmith9031 The Skins in 1983... The Redskins' 541 points scored and +209 point differential was the best in the league, with the 541 points setting an NFL record at the time. The 1983 Redskins also had a turnover margin of +43, an NFL record. Washington was the first team since the merger to record more than 60 takeaways Team Defence: Redskins rk11 Raiders rk13 Pass Def Redskins rk 28 Raiders rk 13 Run Def Redskins rk 1 Raiders rk 4 Scoring Def Redskins rk 11 Raiders rk 13 Team Offence: Redskins rk 1 Raiders rk 3 Pass Off Redskins rk 7 Raiders rk 9 Run Off Redskins rk 3 Raiders rk 10 Scoring Off Redskins rk 11 Raiders rk 13 Both teams matched up well but basically it was between the number #1 Run offence v #4 Run defence
@dano He did hold the ball out like a loaf of bread at times which is why he had that fumble in the first qtr. But tough? Oh yeah he was tough as nails.
@dano I remember watching this SB. I was in 6th grade and went into the game thinking the Redskins were the favorite. All through the game, I kept thinking, "Washington still has a chance ..." And then Marcus Allen streaked like lightening for that spectacular touchdown and I was like, "Nope, it's all over!"
@@jjmanzano9 The burst of Speed and Acceleration is what did it, the entire Redskins Defense went left and once Marcus Allen reversed it they all had to stop, change direction while Marcus Allen being a step ahead of them already was accelerating forward...it was too late for the Redskins Defense
There are two reasons why this game was so unexpectedly lopsided -- Marcus Allen and Mike Haynes, *neither* of whom played in the regular-season match-up. Allen was sidelined with an injury, and Haynes hadn't even joined the team yet.
Thank You Tom Flores. We As Raiders Fans Appreciate all that you did for us and football as a whole breaking barriers for minority NFL players and coaches. Bringing The LA Raiders Home The Trophy. Just Win Baby.
The only other true dominant performance I've ever seen in a Super Bowl would be thirty years later in XLVIII. The Seahawks destroyed the mighty scoring machine Broncos 43-8 just like the Raiders overwhelmed the potent and powerful (fka) Redskins, 38-9.
@@SingleTax yes. Unlike New England (XX), Denver (XXII and XXIV), both Washington in XVIII and Denver 30 years later played dominant football through much of their seasons and were strong favorites to win it all. It's one thing to blow out an overmatched team in a super bowl but it's entirely different when a team that's accustomed to dominating their opponent gets dominated instead.
That 74 yard run was exactly why I was named after Marcus Allen. I always heard about him in #RaiderNation but never really saw him play that much because I m from the East Coast and I was too young, but seeing him in this game showed me exactly why everybody loved him so much and why so many people say he was one of the Greatest...Thx for posting this game
On the NFL Films highlights episode for Super Bowl XVIII, Tom Flores was shown giving the Raiders a pre-2nd half pep talk where he reminded them to not let up at all in the 2nd half. I can’t help but wonder if Dan Quinn ever tried to give the Falcons a similar reminder.
@#TEAM TRUMP Yeah, we lost a shootout in early that year @ RFK 37-35 ... the defining play of that game was a screen pass to Joe Washington, but this LA was ready for that same play and thus the rest is history.
Those were the glory years of football! I was 18 when my beloved Raiders won this game. My father, a Steeler fan, never gave them credit. But good memories and I would give anything to go back to those days. How quickly time flies. And how quickly times change!
Just rewatched this for the first time since 1984. I had always remembered this game as Marcus Allen's showcase. What I had forgotten was how dominant the Raider defense was. They were really the standouts of this game, even above Allen (who was my favorite player).
Been watching NFL in UK since 1982. Missed this SB live coz of local bad weather knocking out TV transmitter (pre satellite/ cable) so first time I've seen whole game. Up to 4th down stop pre the Marcus Allen wonder run, game was much closer than score suggested. Great job by the Raiders defense shutting down the Skins to set up the win.
We were in winter warfare bivouac, getting us ready to fight the Soviets in Europe then, and they rolled in this HUGE television to let us watch the Raiders vs Eagles SB15 It was about 10°F that night and with the wind...only God knows. I watched the first half and couldn't take it any longer and headed for my pup tent and I had to post guard in 3 hrs. This video SB18, I watched aboard a prison galley, also known as a USCG WHEC-378 in Port, tied up across from Jack London Square in Oakland.
Coming into that game, the '83 Redskins were being compared to the greatest teams of all time. They scored more points than any team in NFL history, they had the current MVP (Theismann), the previous year's MVP (Moseley), a Hall of Fame RB with the most TDs ever in a season (24), a Hall of Fame WR in Art Monk and an All-Pro WR in Charlie Brown, the greatest turnover differential in NFL history (+43) and were 16-2 heading into that Super Bowl, with both losses coming by just a single point. They looked unstopppable.
The Redskins entire team simply laid an egg in the biggest game of the season against the Raiders. Similar to the 2013 Broncos offense against the Seahawks.
@@webstedge1099 Yup, til this day I'm still pissed. Love Joe Gibbs of the greatest coaches ever but, his game plan I couldn't understand. The Raiders put the linebackers in the gaps so Riggins couldn't get going and every pass Theismann threw was to the outside and awful. So why not get the LB's to play honest and dump so passes to the tight ends over the middle. I can go on for hours. Tip my hat to the Raiders.
@@stevecvino ...i agree more of west coast style of offence would have made a difference while game was still close ...catch those aggressive LB's with a little play action and screens and maybe some lead draws on short running plays(but the skins didn't really have lead every down FB type )..and Theismann 's vertical passing was waaay off compared to how he actually/usually played ..yeah would've figure at half time Gibbs would adjust cause that "smash mouth" game they where trying to play was not working against the Raiders from the opening drive
@@janetwisper6312 the redskins were *LUCKY* to even be *IN* the super bowl that year. The referees handed them the NFC Championship game with the two of the worst calls in playoff history that kept the 49ers out. 49er players are STILL ASKED ABOUT IT TO THIS DAY . this super bowl should have been sf and the raiders and it would have been a whole better, obviously because washington was totally outclassed against the raiders
I had no idea the NFL had made this game available. We stumbled across it yesterday and watched it (completely unexpected). This is the game that made me a life-long Raiders fan.
Tom Flores should be in the Hall of Fame. He has 4 Super Bowl rings...1 as a player on the 1969 Chiefs, 1 as an assistant coach on the 1976 Raiders, and 2 as the Raiders head coach in 1980 and 83
That is still one of the dumbest TD's ever given up ever. Sure that exact same play worked way too well in the first matchup, but how did they think the same thing would work again? The situation was way too similar and the Raiders made them pay for their hubris. Such an EASY TD.
Loving this Praying Always GO Raiders and Thank you All GO Raiders I believe Raiders I remember when so many years and now 24yr and 11 in the PAYOFF I believe Praying Always GO Raiders
Been a RAIDERS fan since I have been 8 or 9 years old. Been bleeding SILVER and Black to this day. Now I'm 46 and still a RAIDERS fan. and will be forever. This was truly a great game long live the legends of the SILVER and BLACK. Long live the RAIDER NATION!!!
9:56 - Jeff Hayes punts, blocked by Derrick Jensen, recovered by Derrick Jensen, TOUCHDOWN 16:04 - Redskins Punt, Raiders FUMBLE and Redskins recover 22:59 - 44-yard Mark Mosley Field Goal Missed 27:15 - Marcus Allen Fumbles but the Raiders recover 48:25 - Jim Plunkett 50 yard pass to Cliff Branch 49:50 - Jim Plunkett Touchdown to Cliff Branch 1:05:45 - Mark Mosley Made 24-yard field goal 1:17:00 - Joe Theismann Throws an Interception to Jack Squirek who takes it to the end zone. 1:22:51 - Joe Theismann hits Charlie Brown for 23 yards 1:28:47 - John Riggins 1-Yard touchdown 1:37:34 - Marcus Allen 5-yard rushing touchdown 1:52:29 - Oakland Raiders fumble and the Redskins recover 1:58:29 - Marcus Allen’s incredible 74-yard TD run 2:09:37 - Joe Thiessmann Finds Charlie Brown for 60 yards. 2:13:22 - Joe Thiessmann gets lit up and fumbles. Rod Martin Recovers the fumble 2:19:58 - Joe Theismann gets intercepted by Mike Haynes
This was my favorite Super Bowl of All Time, I call it the 12 second game. The Raiders intercepted the ball with 12 seconds left before halftime and scored. And score again with 12 seconds left in the 3rd Quarter. Jewels for the Crown. Posted March 13, 2021]
Agreed. Back then football fans *already knew* what down it was, what the score was, etc., because they didn't spend half the time looking down at their smartphones.
Agree! Simple but that's all a fan wants/needs! Going further, back then the game was more about the game, not who's playing at half-time, fancy wire mounted cameras for confusing shots, too many close ups of the coach or starting TV coverage at some ridicules early hour
Go back a bit further to the Raiders first SB win with Coach Madden and its like watching a broadcasted high school game. Just game and the crowd on the screen, not even a timer. I didn't even know the quarter was over until I heard a loud 'pop' and the announcer literally says "Oh and there's the gun ending the quarter" lol
This one still hurts and Its been 34 years. Not only was the game lost but the opportunity for the 1983 Redskins to go down in history as one of the NFL's most dominate teams ever. In 1983 the Redskins set a scoring record with 541points they had a plus 43 turnover margin and collected 61 turnovers. They were the first NFC team to win 14 games in a season and first to go to back to back Super Bowls in four years. Both losses occurred on Monday night and were both by one point (Dallas 31-30 and at Green Bay 48-47). They would have been the first NFC team since the 1970 merger to win back to back titles. The Redskins trailed 21-3 at the half but had they taken a knee with :12 seconds to go it would have been 14-3 and then they come out and move down field for a touchdown and they look like the Redskins but then they miss the PAT. Its 21-9 could have been 14-10 and this game is totally different. However its a bunch of "ifs and's and maybe's. The fact is the Raiders won the game they were the better team on January 22,.1984. No excuses L.A. deserved to win but it still hurts when you think about those four sad words "what could have been."
SkinsFan 44-HTTR The Raiders had a fine season in 1983 and were stacked with veterans looking for post season revenge from their losses during the reg season. They got the division rivals Seahawks in the AFC championship who had demoralized them during 2 regular season games. The real prize was being an underdog in the Super Bowl against The Redskins, the defending champs, highest scoring team ever, best defense against the run and most importantly beat them by 2 points in a demoralizing 4th quarter comeback week 5 at RFK. Marcus Allen breaks John Riggins Super Bowl rushing record he set just one year prior. You couldn't ask for a better revenge story. The AFC didn't see another SB victory for quite some time
Clifford Iyadurai ,and they were stupid enough to try to play the same playbook tht they used earlier in the season wen they beat the raiders.the raiders are nor stupid.they studied the film& were prepared
And that's the way it was back then-- Summerall and Madden were experts of the game as a player and a coach respectively, so they certainly knew what they were talking about, especially Madden.
thats because many did not expect the unlucky/lucky plays like a blocked punt for a td, a rb reversing his field (where the DE doesnt contain) and runs for another td, and an ill conceived screenpass out of their own endzone right before halftime intercepted for a 3rd touchdown. take those lucky plays away and the redskins get to call a different game in the 2nd half and weardown LA exactly how the super bowl transpired 1 year before.
Marcus Allen's run was late in the third quarter. His earlier 5 yard run was in the third quarter, too. Don't blame the Raiders because your DE failed to contain and don't blame them for an idiotic call for a screen pass out of the end zone with only a few seconds left in the half and don't blame them because your special teams couldn't provide protection for the punter. Mental and physical lapses are part of the game and have nothing to do with luck. Besides, Haynes and Hayes were shutting down the Smurfs and the front four was generating a rush on Theismann so I'm not sure where your "wearing down LA" theory comes from.
The Redskins beat the Raiders earlier in the season, but the Raiders didn't have Mike Haynes and Marcus Allen in that match. They turned out to be the difference makers in this game.
Jeff Bostic, Pro Bowler in '83, was flat-out dominated by Reggie Kinlaw, was thoroughly overmatched. What was comical is when the Raiders would move around Howie Long and he happened to line up across Bostic ... and would literally and promptly run through or over Bostic.
2:25:56 Man did you hear that block?! And just look at the very next play 2:21:56. Now that's football, man there is something about these old NFL game that I just love. No loud music, no stupid half time show, no politics and real commentators that understood the game and could make it easy for others for others to understand as well. Man I just love it. I'd pay for the NFL to be like this again.
As a Redskins fan, I had a bad feeling coming into this game. The entire team, especially Joe Theismann seemed very cocky in interviews during game week and you could tell early in the game the Raiders were far more ready to play. Great job by them and Marcus Allen was phenomenal.
1983, the third and last Raider world championship won in franchise history, to date..but, it was one of the more dominating victory's in Super Bowl history..L.A. made the defending champion Redskins look like also-rans..
Cat Jordan And that was a team that was being discussed as one of the greatest of all time at that time. You can hear Madden talking up the Redskins hype early on. Same way he’d talk of the early 90s Cowboys. He was always about the bandwagon hype IMO. Crazy how one game can change things.
Special teams put the Skins in a hole early. 1: blocked punt TD; 2: Missed FG; Holding on PR. All in the 1st quarter. Should have cut Mark Mosley after the 82 season.
Love Marcus Allen but this game was won by the Raiders DEFENSE. Allen had two incredible runs when the game was already on the verge of being won. Take the TD's scored by the blocked punt and the interception when the game was still a toss up and that's already enough points to win the game. Raider D is the real MVP.
Anthony Wirth He was the best. The SB Highlights Films really suffered after his passing. The next Super Bowl Highlights Film with San Fran and Miami was bad...horribly dated...corny and very 80s…I can still watch the earlier ones he did and enjoy them.
Long and Allen did work this night. Man, it must've been nonstop partying in LA after this win. Proud to say I jumped on the station when Bo Jackson was one. #RaiderNation.
That was LA's only SB win to date and they're STILL the most popular team in the city almost 35 years later b/c of it, esp b/c of Allen. This was the biggest SB blowout till the Bears did their thing 2 years later. Still the 5th biggest blowout all-time, though Washington got a bigger one 4 years later.
The people in Oakland celebrated too. I was on the Alameda side of the estuary across from Jack London Square and they set off fireworks after the game.
It is so nice watching a football game being played like it's suppose to be. Quarterbacks being treated like they're a football player and not cinderella. Players not celebrating every single time a play is run. Now days it looks like the football players have to major in dance, it's ridiculous.
@@danzemacabre8899My Niners had a good deal to do with that ..for a decade......sadly, now I'm still waiting for another SB win Good luck to you and your Raiders......( Any time I see or hear about the Silver and Black...I think Oakland
Congratulations on the Hall of Fame and well deserved to one hell of a Head Coach and leader of men, and a tremendous and loyal friend! So happy for you and proud of you. Well done, Thomas!
Summerall and Madden had a good knack at allowing the play and the crowd tell the story to many of today's guys do way to much talking especially when the Antalyze!!!!!!
Fun facts: Marcus Allen's longest run during the 1983 regular season was 19 yards. Jim Plunkett only threw one TD pass in the 83/84 post season ( to Branch in this game) I watched the first half on my tv. During halftime the color went out. I ran up the street to watch the 2nd half with my girl friend ( high school classmate, not girlfriend) but she wasnt home. Fortunately her Dad welcomed me to stay and enjoy the victory.
@@michaelrobertson7397 Hell the Raiders kicked their Ass. Losers are the first to say they cheated. One field goal, one touchdown but no extra point. An Ass kicking to the highest scoring team in NFL history at the time.
Yeah worst game of Joe Gibbs' career. Still five NFC title appearances, four Super Bowl appearances, and three Super Bowl titles with four Hall of Fame players: Monk, Green, Grimm, and Riggins. One horrid day doesn't diminish that.
This was the beginning of the era of Super Bowl blow outs and the 14 year dominance of the NFC. People forget just how shocking the lopsided result in this game was. The teams played a classic earlier in the year which the Redskins won in a shootout.
As a 'Skins fan this still pisses me off all these years later. Love Joe Gibbs but, I thought this was his worse game plan. Thiesmann was horrible, Raiders stuffed the gaps so Riggins couldn't get going. So get the linebackers to play honest with tight ends over the middle perhaps to open up the running game. To watch was frustrating. I'll give the Raiders credit they did what they had to do.
This Raiders team was solid. They absolutely took it to a very good Redskins team. The scary thing is the score could have been much worse had the Raiders not pissed away several chances/turned the ball over. This could have easily been a massive clobbering. On a sidenote it is really ridiculous the Redskins no longer exist. What awesome uniforms/emblem they had.
This is the first Super Bowl that i remember watching. I was 8 years old. The Jack Squrik int is the play that probably sealed the game. The cool thing about that play is that the Redskins ran that play against the Raiders during the regular season and Joe Washington went like 80 yards. The defense and Charlie Sumnner (sp) were ready this time.
At the time of this game, Daryl Green was considered the fastest man in the NFL. Branch at 34 when this game was played, ran by Green like he wasn't even there!!!!! How is that man not in the hall of fame on 3 Superbowl winning teams and at the time of this game had more playoff yards than any receiver in playoff history???? Are you kidding me?
real talk.....Branch was a stud but not even the 2nd option . he was 3rd behind blitnikoff and casper. both of whom if im not mistaken are in the HoF. Branch should be as well.
Still tied for the most points an AFC team has ever scored in a Super Bowl Edit: the Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII tied the Raiders in this SB for the most points by an AFC team!
I keep telling people...LA RAIDERS r the only team to WIN a Super Bowl Championship 4 LA. After the Rams lost to Steelers in SB 14 (1980) I quit on them, like they quit in the 3rd qtr. Jack Youngblood confirmed this fact in LA Times 2-9-22. Go Bengals!
Same thing here, then comes monday morning and all of these Redskin "fans" said to me that "we knew that the Raiders would win." What a bunch of hypocrites.
@@generatorx MOST RECEIVERS RARELY PASSED GO AGAINST THOSE FOUR DEFENSE BACKS, WHEN FOOTBALL WAS PLAYED BY REAL TOUGH PLAYERS, NOT THE THE FLAG FOOTBALL THEY PLAY TODAY. WHAT A SHAME.
@@rcojrpc2085 That was definitely the finest backfield the Raiders ever had. Hayes and Haynes were great covers, McElroy was probowler with excellent closing speed -extremely underrated. Davis was like a linebacker in the secondary, no one wanted to be in his area after making a catch..unless you wanted your bell rung.
Joe Gibbs is a first ballot HoF coach, but that screen pass was one of the biggest coaching blunders in Super Bowl history (a cousin of the Pete Carroll play, though not as impactful on the outcome, obviously). They ran the same play on the Raiders earlier in the year for a 60+ gain - you should not expect to fool them twice. Also, there were only 12 seconds left in the half - short of a touchdown, there is nothing to gain from a big play - degree of difficulty in a swing pass gaining 50 yards in under 12 seconds is astronomically high. Art Monk and Charlie Brown were shut out in the first three quarters by Lester Hayes & Mike Haynes - that was the primary matchup where this game was won and lost.
And in the previous year's Super Bowl against the Dolphins, they almost got burned on a similar play. In fact, if Joe Theismann didn't knock the ball out of Kim Bokamper's hands on that play, it's likely that, despite a horrendous performance by the offense, the Dolphins take their third title, because that would have put the Dolphins up 24-13, which likely would have taken John Riggins out of the game and allowed the Killer Bees to tee off on Theismann as they had on Dan Fouts and Richard Todd the previous two weeks.
It's hard to even fathom the Redskins ever being 31-3 in their last 34 games these days. I mean it's IMPOSSIBLE to fathom. That was a different organization back then.
And the Patriots also went a combined 34-4 in 2003-'04, winning the Super Bowl both seasons, and discounting the first four games of the 2003 season, which they split, they had a stretch where they went 32-2 in a 34-game stretch from the fifth game of the 2003 season through Super Bowl XXXIX, the end of the 2004 season. The most comparable streak in the Super Bowl-era to that is the astounding record of the Miami Dolphins in 1972-'73, which was also 32-2 with two Super Bowl titles.
And both of those were due to some pretty embarrassing efforts by the defense in Monday Night games. In the season opener, they opened up a 23-0 lead on the Cowboys and then somehow let that get away in the second half, as the Cowboys edged them 31-30. Then not to be outdone, the Redskins somehow lost a Monday Night game to the Green Bay Packers in which they scored 47 points. And the defense also sprung up some pretty big leaks in games they won, including that game against the Raiders in which the defense gave up 28 points to a Raider team without Marcus Allen (I'm not counting the Greg Pruitt punt return TD), and had to rally against a defense that had not yet fortified their defense with the acquisition of Mike Haynes (that didn't come until shortly before their two games against the Chargers). And even in the NFC Championship Game, their defense almost gave away a game they seemingly had in the bag, permitting three unanswered 49er TDs in the fourth quarter. Given all that, what happened to the Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII, while shocking at the time, could actually have been foreseen, because their defense was springing leaks quite a bit that season, though they usually came through when it counted (like the rematch vs. DAL), and they were facing a much different Raider team that nearly beat them in Washington about a third of the way into the season.
8 Hall of Famers: 2 on offense (Allen, Branch), 3 on defense (one at every level: D-line Long, LB Hendricks, secondary Haynes), 1 on special teams (Guy), coach (Flores), and owner (Davis). The 9th Hall of Famer should be Lester Hayes. Plunkett does not deserve it. Todd Christensen is borderline but he only had 5-6 brilliant years.
This is how it should be. You win none of that Pop and circumstance they have now with the confetti dropping on the field you can actually hear the players say yay!! Very cool.
As a Bears fan, after seeing this game and thinking it through I have to agree with you, I was going to say Walter Payton. However Allen had the break Away speed, Sir Walter didn't so you would be right. Walter is a close 2nd 🙂
The Redskins were definately out coached in this game. Passing deep in their own territory with seconds to go before halftime? The interception for points sealed it.
They did that same play with Joe Washington earlier in the season and went for 60 yards or something. Charlie Sumner was told they were putting Joe in and sent in Squirek to cover him. You saw Matt Millen pick up Sumner. Millen was furious he'd been pulled and then that TD happened. Millen said, "I guess Charlie knew what he was doing, huh?"
The Redskins were doing that kind of thing all season and it kept working...which is why the Raiders were ready. Joe Gibbs became a much more conservative coach after that game.
![1983 AFC Championship Game - SEA @ LA [FULL GAME]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EBVCyfuLayM/mqdefault.jpg)
The quality of this video, from 1984, is HANDS DOWN the best I've ever seen for a football game from the "low definition" TV era.
Summerall and Madden at the top of their game. No better broadcast team. Miss them badly.
VanDiemensLair Scully and Garagiola
I miss them too...they were the absolute best ever from the 80s, to the 90s, and all the way to the early 2000s they were the best!
What? Buck and Aikman don't get ya going? LOL!!! Is that some of the deadest commentary you've ever heard or what?? Man they suck!
@@kllbll85 Ya they do!
Me too! I loved John Madden. I grew up to watching Sunday NFL games and MNF with Madden
Lester Hayes & Mike Haynes was one of the greatest corner back tandems of all time. They shut down the Redskins wide receivers in this super bowl game.
The ESPN network has them listed as the number one corner back duos of all time. This was done back in the early 2000s. Both could cover and tackle.
Hard not to give the MVP to Marcus, yet I think Hayes and Haynes deserved it more.
Absolutely, that Skin's team of '83 was incredible. They couldn't of picked a better day than to have a bad day.
Yes, and Mike Haynes played at Arizona State too.
The NFL films version of this show was John facinda the voice of God's last work he did for NFL films and it's his best. It's called Black Sunday. I recommend watching it. It'll give you a goosebumps when it talks about in a long. Came Marcus Allen running with the night lol and the raiders began to play better as night fell and it also says at the heart of this darkness was the rate of defense. Nothing on earth that blocked nor tackled could stop these raiders on Black Sunday lol. It's awesome I'm a cowboys fan and if I had to pick another team I always said it would have been the raiders
My mother just passed away on Thursday morning, and she loved the Raiders (glad she at least had a chance to see their resurrection), so I wanted to check this out.
RIP but she picked the wrong team to root for. Raiders all year werent goingnto go anywhere and next year they wont make the playoffs.
@@Smile4MyAC130 how bout now lol
@@Smile4MyAC130 Raiders are the team of the decades yeah like all great teams they hit a bump and were mired in obscurity bad drafting,picking HC's and NFL agaisn't them but its a new day Raiders are coming !
We will be there soon again ⚓💪👍go raiders
Best part of this game is listening to madden and summerall. Love listening to them... I guess that iconic long run by Marcus Allen was good too
49:00...Cliff Branch blowing past Darrell Green, who would reign as the league's fastest man for the better part of the next decade. Branch was one of the biggest big game receivers in NFL history. Named to the All 70's team. As many Super Bowl TD's as Swann and Stallworth and a 3x champion. How he's not in the Hall of Fame is absolutely beyond me.
Plunkett belongs in the HOF also.
Manu Ginobilis Bald Spot Darryl green sucks and I'm a skin's fan
35 year old cliff branch!
Plunkett doesnt
Green is a rookie in 1983. You can't expect a rookie to come on to the scene & shut down the NFL down just like that. Even the great Deion Sanders got abused his rookie season!
RIP Cliff Branch...He should be in the HOF
Wait, he passed??
RaidersACDC 489 RIP to one of the greats.
Absolutely!!
Yes sir he has been snubbed for years from HOF. It’ll be another sad story like stabler’s when he finally gets inducted.
RIP Marcus Allen
RIP John & Pat. 2 of the best voices in football during my lifetime. I started watching football at the ripe ol' age of 7 with my uncle a die hard Raider fan. We lived in Northern California (San Jose) and I became a 49er fan in 1978. Watched Montana win 4 Superbowls and then ironically Mt parents transferred to Kansaas City in 1985 when I was 14yrs old. I was pissed how he was let go and I became a die hard Chiefs fan as Montana, Bono, and Girbach all consecutively came here. Oh Steve Deberg was the starting QB here and ironically Montana took his job for the 2nd time. Anyways I'm 50 years old and now watching Pat Mahones II tear up the league. Peace to both broadcasters in Heaven!!!
The one thing that stands out to me when watching these old NFL clips... when a player makes a great play, he doesn't run around like an idiot or pose for the camera like a high school moron. Nope, these were real professionals and they just went on to the next play. Watch Marcus Allen after the 74-yard TD run... pure PRO!
Good for him. Times change.
@Montana Roots only if you're a raider fan.
@Montana Roots Who is your team?
I totally agree! It's embarrassing watching these guys running around celebrating everything they do. Makes it almost unwatchable.
@@cameleyez Times don't change, people have. The state of consciousness is juvenile these day's. Celebrating a first down is embarrassing.
@ 2:22:10 it's actor and true Raider fan James Garner hell of a nice guy was always on the sidelines in LA and Oakland. Life long friend of many Oakland players and fans. RIP Mr Garner
My favorite actor 🙌🏻 I was on vacation when he passed away 💔
Yeah, Marcus Allen definitely earned that MVP. He was incredible.
Best athlete on the field. Riggins could only look out in dismay seeing his record destroyed and the title going to the other guy.
Yes and to add to his remarkable day that run at 2.21:01...he cuts so fast and smooth... 24 tackled Marcus then got smashed by his own teamates.... MARCUS put in work that day.
Said there was such bad blood between Alan and Al Davis
he wrecked defenses that entire playoffs. He was amazing
@@russellpottenger8584Raiders haven't won a Super Bowl since
thanks for posting this. this was the year I started follow following football on channel 4. 1983. 34 years ago.
ME AND YOU BOTH
And me too as well. This was the first Super Bowl I remember. Go silver and black attack AKA Raiders!😁😳
As a Raiders fan, this was the most satisfying victory of all.
Nah. Super Bowl XV was more satisfying. That 1980 season was absolutely insane. But this team, and this win, was miles better than the 1980 squad.
More like the LAST victory of them all. When was this, like 40 years ago???
Well, hold onto that satisfied victory Raider fan. Savor it forever. I don't blame you. I don't think we'll ever see them this amazing and indomitable ever again. Ever since I was young, they have sucked. When I still see people supporting the Raiders today, I think they must be remembering the good old days when they used to be good.
It's 2024 and the Raiders last Superbowl win was 1983 Dayum😂 ! I was 8 yrs old when this game happened 40 yrs ago good lord 🤦🏽♀️
Howie Long was a beast. He'd line up all over the place and get pressure. I forgot just how explosive he was.
Andrew Morris his son was average in the NFL
@@johndavis6719 chris long i wouldnt say he was average but okay
Howie Long was just coming into his own in 1983 at 23 years old. He just turned 24 2 weeks before that Super Bowl game
@John Davis he had two sons in the NFL, one won a Super Bowl and one made 3 straight pro bowls.
@@MrRyan-wu4jx Howie's son won back to back Super Bowls (LI with NE, LII with Phil)
Definitely the most dominant performance against a defending Super Bowl champion. Not just Marcus, but Hayes and Haynes and Rod Martin had another great super bowl like he did in SB 15. Ironically the 38 pts scored by the Raiders is still the most for an AFC team. The NFC has eclipsed that number several times
Very good call!
Not any more.
And then the chiefs had to go and tie it
17 year old fan at the time..... Thanks for the memories!
Me too. I'm 53 now.too long in between championships
The Judge Lester Hayes and Cliff Branch not being in the HOF is a damn joke.
@BinLyed2;you mean they AREN'T?!? That is a TRAVESTY!! I am the biggest "Air Coryell"Chargers fan ever,so Ibasically detested those two for keeping Fouts,Winslow and Jefferson from getting Superbowl rings,but I RESPECTED them nonetheless and have and wear with pride their(costly)Raider throwback jerseys!! There is NO way they shouldn't be in Canton!!
I
Tatum as well
@@deacongowan117 damn right
big facts
Yet they still had more HOFers than the team they beat, who went on to win two Super Bowls after this. If you are not the Cowboys or Steelers you aren't getting more than a handfull of Hall of Famers.
Lester Hayes and Michael Haynes deserved to be the co-MVPs of this game in the way they completely shut down the Redskins passing attack.
The whole defence shut down the Redskins most productive offensive team in the NFL, that season!
Rod Martin could have had TWO superbowl MVP'S
The only receiver for the Redskins that was productive was Clint Didier and he is a tight end.You have to keep going to your hot man which was Didier.The run game wasn’t there.The skins defensive line and secondary couldn’t hold.The offensive line couldn’t open any holes for Riggins or protect Theisman.The Skins got beat in all three phases of the game.The Raiders was definitely the better team and deserve this win.
NFL Films called this "Black Sunday" for a reason. Los Angeles 38 Washington 9. No contest.
Yep I'll neaver forget this game I won over 300 on this game where I worked at the time in the Bay area everybody was saying the Redskins would beat the raiders easy lol
@@davidgoldsmith9031 it’s hard to think of people thinking of the redskins as a good team
It was "Black Sunday" because this game defied all the 3-code. Redskins were 31-3 going into this game and probably SB favorites to win everywhere except Oakland and LA.
Going into SB with 31-3 meant they were the problem solvers- but Redskins lost by 29 which is 92 backwards. 92/3 = 31 rounded which is their hot win record. Not to mention #32 M.A with that historic run.
Yea, Redskins got hit hard here, it was Black Sunday for them.
Even if the bad breaks hadn’t occurred for the Skins, they still would’ve lost. That’s when you know that a team has truly been beaten. For such a one-sided game, it was pretty entertaining, though. You can’t say that about most blowout SBs, haha!
@@davidgoldsmith9031
The Skins in 1983...
The Redskins' 541 points scored and +209 point differential was the best in the league, with the 541 points setting an NFL record at the time.
The 1983 Redskins also had a turnover margin of +43, an NFL record.
Washington was the first team since the merger to record more than 60 takeaways
Team Defence: Redskins rk11 Raiders rk13
Pass Def Redskins rk 28 Raiders rk 13
Run Def Redskins rk 1 Raiders rk 4
Scoring Def Redskins rk 11 Raiders rk 13
Team Offence: Redskins rk 1 Raiders rk 3
Pass Off Redskins rk 7 Raiders rk 9
Run Off Redskins rk 3 Raiders rk 10
Scoring Off Redskins rk 11 Raiders rk 13
Both teams matched up well but basically it was between the number #1 Run offence v #4 Run defence
On came Marcus Allen, running with the night ...
The last Super Bowl highlight film John Facenda narrated. NFL Films haven't been the same since.
Marcus Allen was one the best run and catch RBs ever
The great john facenda
@dano He did hold the ball out like a loaf of bread at times which is why he had that fumble in the first qtr. But tough? Oh yeah he was tough as nails.
@dano I remember watching this SB. I was in 6th grade and went into the game thinking the Redskins were the favorite. All through the game, I kept thinking, "Washington still has a chance ..." And then Marcus Allen streaked like lightening for that spectacular touchdown and I was like, "Nope, it's all over!"
This was my favorite football team and number one Raiders team. Littered with All Pros and future HOF players.
DAMN WAS SOMEROL THE VOICE THE TRUE PERFECT VOICE OF NFL! WHAT GREAT YEARS THANK YOU FOR THIS! GREAT FUN!
STEPHEN CHRISTIAN John and Pat were great together.
One of the best RB's to play the game
Incognito Guy i still don't know how Allen reversed field and didn't get caught on the 74 yd run
@@jjmanzano9 The burst of Speed and Acceleration is what did it, the entire Redskins Defense went left and once Marcus Allen reversed it they all had to stop, change direction while Marcus Allen being a step ahead of them already was accelerating forward...it was too late for the Redskins Defense
Both Allen and Riggins are! Both are hall of famers right???
@@bobbenbrown123
You got that right!
Both of them.
Roger Craig should be in too.
There are two reasons why this game was so unexpectedly lopsided -- Marcus Allen and Mike Haynes, *neither* of whom played in the regular-season match-up. Allen was sidelined with an injury, and Haynes hadn't even joined the team yet.
Thank You Tom Flores. We As Raiders Fans Appreciate all that you did for us and football as a whole breaking barriers for minority NFL players and coaches. Bringing The LA Raiders Home The Trophy. Just Win Baby.
The Raiders absolutely dominated the Redskins in this game. Offense, Defense and Special Teams.
The only other true dominant performance I've ever seen in a Super Bowl would be thirty years later in XLVIII. The Seahawks destroyed the mighty scoring machine Broncos 43-8 just like the Raiders overwhelmed the potent and powerful (fka) Redskins, 38-9.
The "only" other true dominate performance? Super Bowl 20? 22? 24?
@@SingleTax yes. Unlike New England (XX), Denver (XXII and XXIV), both Washington in XVIII and Denver 30 years later played dominant football through much of their seasons and were strong favorites to win it all. It's one thing to blow out an overmatched team in a super bowl but it's entirely different when a team that's accustomed to dominating their opponent gets dominated instead.
@@anthonybrooks5040 Well said.
@@anthonybrooks5040 the game is fixed
That 74 yard run was exactly why I was named after Marcus Allen. I always heard about him in #RaiderNation but never really saw him play that much because I m from the East Coast and I was too young, but seeing him in this game showed me exactly why everybody loved him so much and why so many people say he was one of the Greatest...Thx for posting this game
See Falcons, that's how you win a game up 21-3 at the half.
Ouch!
No doubt!!!!
On the NFL Films highlights episode for Super Bowl XVIII, Tom Flores was shown giving the Raiders a pre-2nd half pep talk where he reminded them to not let up at all in the 2nd half. I can’t help but wonder if Dan Quinn ever tried to give the Falcons a similar reminder.
@#TEAM TRUMP Yeah, we lost a shootout in early that year @ RFK 37-35 ... the defining play of that game was a screen pass to Joe Washington, but this LA was ready for that same play and thus the rest is history.
Lol BURN!!!
Love the sounds of the game. Actually sounds like a football game.
All game from corner to corner of my screen. Very limited graphics.
one of my all time favorite games. Black Sunday baby
Those were the glory years of football! I was 18 when my beloved Raiders won this game. My father, a Steeler fan, never gave them credit. But good memories and I would give anything to go back to those days. How quickly time flies. And how quickly times change!
You and I could be identical twin bros except for the Steeler fan father lol......
yeah, your raiders are now in nevada and the other team is .....I dunno even recognize them anymore (commanders)
Just rewatched this for the first time since 1984. I had always remembered this game as Marcus Allen's showcase. What I had forgotten was how dominant the Raider defense was. They were really the standouts of this game, even above Allen (who was my favorite player).
Been watching NFL in UK since 1982. Missed this SB live coz of local bad weather knocking out TV transmitter (pre satellite/ cable) so first time I've seen whole game. Up to 4th down stop pre the Marcus Allen wonder run, game was much closer than score suggested. Great job by the Raiders defense shutting down the Skins to set up the win.
I remember this game. I was in Boot Camp at MCRD San Diego, the D.I.'s let us watch the game. It was nice to have a few hours of down time.
@Charles Beck that's amazing I did basic in Fort Benning 😂👍
We were in winter warfare bivouac, getting us ready to fight the Soviets in Europe then, and they rolled in this HUGE television to let us watch the Raiders vs Eagles SB15
It was about 10°F that night and with the wind...only God knows.
I watched the first half and couldn't take it any longer and headed for my pup tent and I had to post guard in 3 hrs.
This video SB18, I watched aboard a prison galley, also known as a USCG WHEC-378 in Port, tied up across from Jack London Square in Oakland.
Where did u end up being stationed at ?
Marcus Allen graduated from Lincoln HS in San Diego.
That Redskins team was awesome. That goes to show just how great that Raiders team really was. Excellent defense.
Coming into that game, the '83 Redskins were being compared to the greatest teams of all time. They scored more points than any team in NFL history, they had the current MVP (Theismann), the previous year's MVP (Moseley), a Hall of Fame RB with the most TDs ever in a season (24), a Hall of Fame WR in Art Monk and an All-Pro WR in Charlie Brown, the greatest turnover differential in NFL history (+43) and were 16-2 heading into that Super Bowl, with both losses coming by just a single point. They looked unstopppable.
The Redskins entire team simply laid an egg in the biggest game of the season against the Raiders. Similar to the 2013 Broncos offense against the Seahawks.
@@webstedge1099 Yup, til this day I'm still pissed. Love Joe Gibbs of the greatest coaches ever but, his game plan I couldn't understand. The Raiders put the linebackers in the gaps so Riggins couldn't get going and every pass Theismann threw was to the outside and awful. So why not get the LB's to play honest and dump so passes to the tight ends over the middle. I can go on for hours. Tip my hat to the Raiders.
@@stevecvino ...i agree more of west coast style of offence would have made a difference while game was still close ...catch those aggressive LB's with a little play action and screens and maybe some lead draws on short running plays(but the skins didn't really have lead every down FB type )..and Theismann 's vertical passing was waaay off compared to how he actually/usually played ..yeah would've figure at half time Gibbs would adjust cause that "smash mouth" game they where trying to play was not working against the Raiders from the opening drive
@@janetwisper6312 the redskins were *LUCKY* to even be *IN* the super bowl that year. The referees handed them the NFC Championship game with the two of the worst calls in playoff history that kept the 49ers out. 49er players are STILL ASKED ABOUT IT TO THIS DAY . this super bowl should have been sf and the raiders and it would have been a whole better, obviously because washington was totally outclassed against the raiders
Summerall and Madden, there's never been a better duo, so happy I got to live thru their time. Broadcasters today have no chance lol
I had no idea the NFL had made this game available. We stumbled across it yesterday and watched it (completely unexpected). This is the game that made me a life-long Raiders fan.
1:17:30 I love the smile on Tom Flores; it was if to say "Not this time." Flores just out-coached Gibbs and he knew it.
Tom Flores was a very underrated coach.
Tom Flores should be in the Hall of Fame. He has 4 Super Bowl rings...1 as a player on the 1969 Chiefs, 1 as an assistant coach on the 1976 Raiders, and 2 as the Raiders head coach in 1980 and 83
That is still one of the dumbest TD's ever given up ever. Sure that exact same play worked way too well in the first matchup, but how did they think the same thing would work again? The situation was way too similar and the Raiders made them pay for their hubris. Such an EASY TD.
Flores had to steal the Redskin's play book before the Super Bowl game. The only way he could beat Joe Gibbs.
@@michaelrobertson7397 No matter how many times you say that, it doesn't make it true.
Loving this Praying Always GO Raiders and Thank you All GO Raiders I believe Raiders I remember when so many years and now 24yr and 11 in the PAYOFF I believe Praying Always GO Raiders
Been a RAIDERS fan since I have been 8 or 9 years old. Been bleeding SILVER and Black to this day. Now I'm 46 and still a RAIDERS fan. and will be forever. This was truly a great game long live the legends of the SILVER and BLACK. Long live the RAIDER NATION!!!
Same here
9:56 - Jeff Hayes punts, blocked by Derrick Jensen, recovered by Derrick Jensen, TOUCHDOWN
16:04 - Redskins Punt, Raiders FUMBLE and Redskins recover
22:59 - 44-yard Mark Mosley Field Goal Missed
27:15 - Marcus Allen Fumbles but the Raiders recover
48:25 - Jim Plunkett 50 yard pass to Cliff Branch
49:50 - Jim Plunkett Touchdown to Cliff Branch
1:05:45 - Mark Mosley Made 24-yard field goal
1:17:00 - Joe Theismann Throws an Interception to Jack Squirek who takes it to the end zone.
1:22:51 - Joe Theismann hits Charlie Brown for 23 yards
1:28:47 - John Riggins 1-Yard touchdown
1:37:34 - Marcus Allen 5-yard rushing touchdown
1:52:29 - Oakland Raiders fumble and the Redskins recover
1:58:29 - Marcus Allen’s incredible 74-yard TD run
2:09:37 - Joe Thiessmann Finds Charlie Brown for 60 yards.
2:13:22 - Joe Thiessmann gets lit up and fumbles. Rod Martin Recovers the fumble
2:19:58 - Joe Theismann gets intercepted by Mike Haynes
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if the 49's are in it, it will be!!!!!
NFL 1:52:29 the team is Los Angeles Raiders they weren't playing in Oakland at thus point
This was my favorite Super Bowl of All Time, I call it the 12 second game. The Raiders intercepted the ball with 12 seconds left before halftime and scored. And score again with 12 seconds left in the 3rd Quarter. Jewels for the Crown. Posted March 13, 2021]
Y am I getting choked up about this game? GO RAIDERS! What a great team these guys were.
Thanks for posting this game!! The Raiders really stepped it up and Marcus Allen turned it up.... ! I hope the Raiders stay in Oakland.
John Madden made a prophetic remark about Art Shell being a head coach in the future. Wow!
Oliver Medina madden is the best coach to ever live. Rn4l
because he coach him in the 70's
@@raidernationfullmoonrecord9516 BILL BELICHICK IS!😳😁
Robert Brown
At least Madden wasn’t caught cheating and fined by the NFL.
@@russellpottenger8584 and madden got a better winning percentage
One thing I immediately noticed while watching this is the lack of bullshit graphics that are all over the NFL broadcasts these days.
runawayuniverse True while the older graphics were not as flashy & overwhelming, they were simple yet effective
Agreed. Back then football fans *already knew* what down it was, what the score was, etc., because they didn't spend half the time looking down at their smartphones.
Agree! Simple but that's all a fan wants/needs! Going further, back then the game was more about the game, not who's playing at half-time, fancy wire mounted cameras for confusing shots, too many close ups of the coach or starting TV coverage at some ridicules early hour
Go back a bit further to the Raiders first SB win with Coach Madden and its like watching a broadcasted high school game. Just game and the crowd on the screen, not even a timer. I didn't even know the quarter was over until I heard a loud 'pop' and the announcer literally says "Oh and there's the gun ending the quarter" lol
This one still hurts and Its been 34 years. Not only was the game lost but the opportunity for the 1983 Redskins to go down in history as one of the NFL's most dominate teams ever. In 1983 the Redskins set a scoring record with 541points they had a plus 43 turnover margin and collected 61 turnovers. They were the first NFC team to win 14 games in a season and first to go to back to back Super Bowls in four years. Both losses occurred on Monday night and were both by one point (Dallas 31-30 and at Green Bay 48-47). They would have been the first NFC team since the 1970 merger to win back to back titles. The Redskins trailed 21-3 at the half but had they taken a knee with :12 seconds to go it would have been 14-3 and then they come out and move down field for a touchdown and they look like the Redskins but then they miss the PAT. Its 21-9 could have been 14-10 and this game is totally different. However its a bunch of "ifs and's and maybe's. The fact is the Raiders won the game they were the better team on January 22,.1984. No excuses L.A. deserved to win but it still hurts when you think about those four sad words "what could have been."
SkinsFan 44-HTTR Gibbs didn't prepare his team for thug like play that the raiders play
SkinsFan 44-HTTR The Raiders had a fine season in 1983 and were stacked with veterans looking for post season revenge from their losses during the reg season. They got the division rivals Seahawks in the AFC championship who had demoralized them during 2 regular season games. The real prize was being an underdog in the Super Bowl against The Redskins, the defending champs, highest scoring team ever, best defense against the run and most importantly beat them by 2 points in a demoralizing 4th quarter comeback week 5 at RFK. Marcus Allen breaks John Riggins Super Bowl rushing record he set just one year prior. You couldn't ask for a better revenge story. The AFC didn't see another SB victory for quite some time
The skins are a tough respectful team, thts cmmn from a diehard raiders fan
Clifford Iyadurai ,and they were stupid enough to try to play the same playbook tht they used earlier in the season wen they beat the raiders.the raiders are nor stupid.they studied the film& were prepared
I don't get how the Redskins, who had dominated the NFC all through 1983, we're blown away suddenly by the Raiders in this game.
Really enjoy the broadcast with expert commentary
And that's the way it was back then-- Summerall and Madden were experts of the game as a player and a coach respectively, so they certainly knew what they were talking about, especially Madden.
No doubt!
My favorite Raiders championship, many thought the high powered Redskins would easily win this game & the Raiders ended up winning by 30.
😂😂😂#RN4L
thats because many did not expect the unlucky/lucky plays like a blocked punt for a td, a rb reversing his field (where the DE doesnt contain) and runs for another td, and an ill conceived screenpass out of their own endzone right before halftime intercepted for a 3rd touchdown. take those lucky plays away and the redskins get to call a different game in the 2nd half and weardown LA exactly how the super bowl transpired 1 year before.
Yup, if not for the blocked punt and the easy INT return for TD, the score would be only 7-3 at halftime.
Marcus Allen's run was late in the third quarter. His earlier 5 yard run was in the third quarter, too. Don't blame the Raiders because your DE failed to contain and don't blame them for an idiotic call for a screen pass out of the end zone with only a few seconds left in the half and don't blame them because your special teams couldn't provide protection for the punter. Mental and physical lapses are part of the game and have nothing to do with luck. Besides, Haynes and Hayes were shutting down the Smurfs and the front four was generating a rush on Theismann so I'm not sure where your "wearing down LA" theory comes from.
Terance722, what do you expect from Willie Gantt? He's a Raiders fan! Math isn't their strong suit. #RaidersSuck
The Redskins beat the Raiders earlier in the season, but the Raiders didn't have Mike Haynes and Marcus Allen in that match. They turned out to be the difference makers in this game.
Outstanding picture and sound.
Underappreciated, Reggie Kinlaw Played his Guts Out in 'Two' Superbowls
Jeff Bostic, Pro Bowler in '83, was flat-out dominated by Reggie Kinlaw, was thoroughly overmatched. What was comical is when the Raiders would move around Howie Long and he happened to line up across Bostic ... and would literally and promptly run through or over Bostic.
My first heroes, Jim Plunkett and Tom Flores
Ken Stabler / John Madden, Mine....Love'em Both......
Orale!
2:25:56 Man did you hear that block?! And just look at the very next play 2:21:56. Now that's football, man there is something about these old NFL game that I just love. No loud music, no stupid half time show, no politics and real commentators that understood the game and could make it easy for others for others to understand as well. Man I just love it. I'd pay for the NFL to be like this again.
Gibbs' decision to call a pass play w/ :12 left in the half from his own 12 might be the 2nd dumbest call in a SB this side of Pete Carroll.
My first Super Bowl. Couldn’t stop watching football after that .. I was 8 yrs old
As a Redskins fan, I had a bad feeling coming into this game. The entire team, especially Joe Theismann seemed very cocky in interviews during game week and you could tell early in the game the Raiders were far more ready to play. Great job by them and Marcus Allen was phenomenal.
Makes sense. That tells me the team had deluded itself, not realizing they were already misfiring in that game against the 49ers.
Great quality for an old game - thanks!
1983, the third and last Raider world championship won in franchise history, to date..but, it was one of the more dominating victory's in Super Bowl history..L.A. made the defending champion Redskins look like also-rans..
Cat Jordan And that was a team that was being discussed as one of the greatest of all time at that time. You can hear Madden talking up the Redskins hype early on. Same way he’d talk of the early 90s Cowboys. He was always about the bandwagon hype IMO. Crazy how one game can change things.
Special teams put the Skins in a hole early. 1: blocked punt TD; 2: Missed FG; Holding on PR. All in the 1st quarter. Should have cut Mark Mosley after the 82 season.
but Madden is a Raiders
And dan fouts is always the charger.it is so obvious how biased against the raiders wen he broadcast raiders games
trust me-madden thought the raiders would win....they still had his boys:branch, guy, shell, upshaw, hendricks
Love Marcus Allen but this game was won by the Raiders DEFENSE. Allen had two incredible runs when the game was already on the verge of being won. Take the TD's scored by the blocked punt and the interception when the game was still a toss up and that's already enough points to win the game. Raider D is the real MVP.
The Ray Guy save and punt is the best play by punter in Super Bowl history.
Ray Finkle?
John Madden the best announcer in NFL history. I loved watching the games he called.
FORGIVE ME, JOHN MADDON WAS THE COLOR ANALYST WHILE PAT SOMMERAL WAS THE ANNOUNCER. GO SILVER AND BLACK. JUST WIN BABY.
Um, no he is not. He is a color analyst actually. Pat Summerall is hands down the best NFL announcer. Madden needs to shut up.
:12 seconds before Halftime and :12 seconds before the end of the 3rd quarter gave the Raiders 14 points. Incredible
1:58:29 on came Marcus Allen, running with the night. The swan song of the dying John Facenda
Anthony Wirth He was the best. The SB Highlights Films really suffered after his passing. The next Super Bowl Highlights Film with San Fran and Miami was bad...horribly dated...corny and very 80s…I can still watch the earlier ones he did and enjoy them.
John Facenda, the voice of NFL Films, and his last super bowl narrative. RIP🏈
The voice of god's last dance
John Facenda, The Voice of the NFL. Nobody else.
Beautiful narration by the Great Facenda
wow, I remember this game. I was in high school in my senior year. As a Raiders fan, this is a good memory
Marcus Allen's 72 yard run was one of the best moments in my life!
74 yards. I'm sorry, but the exact number matters! It was a defining moment in my life, as well.
@@nathaneast7923then that exact number should be 191
@@nathaneast7923Then the exact number should be 191 if that matters
That Raider secondary was God like
Mike Haynes and Lester Hayes are the best CB duo I've ever seen even to this day. Haynes is in the HOF and Hayes should be in there with him
Back in the day the secondary was called the no passing zone.
They knew every play being called by the Redskin's offense as they had the stolen Redskin play book to cheat from.
@@michaelrobertson7397 In fact they rewrote it and handed it back to them to call from.
@@michaelrobertson7397 evidence
Long and Allen did work this night. Man, it must've been nonstop partying in LA after this win. Proud to say I jumped on the station when Bo Jackson was one. #RaiderNation.
What does "I jumped on the station when Bo Jackson was one" mean? Just curious.
That was LA's only SB win to date and they're STILL the most popular team in the city almost 35 years later b/c of it, esp b/c of Allen. This was the biggest SB blowout till the Bears did their thing 2 years later. Still the 5th biggest blowout all-time, though Washington got a bigger one 4 years later.
The people in Oakland celebrated too.
I was on the Alameda side of the estuary across from Jack London Square and they set off fireworks after the game.
This was the only time the AFC won the Super Bowl between 1981-1996.
yeahh, I was in 3rd grade....it was a long wait
fritz stuber You're not going to put the 1992-1993 Cowboys?
+fritz stuber the 92, 93 back to back super bowl champion cowboys we're better than all those teams! stop hating on the boys fritz
They Raiders won because they played NFC style football and it was 1997 Denver Broncos
Nathaniel Levesque it was the 1998 Super Bowl (1997 season) that the Broncos broke the NFC streak
Jim Plunkett and Tom Flores 🇲🇽 Super RAIDERS that DOMINATED the redskins 38-9 in The Super Bowl! World Champions!
It is so nice watching a football game being played like it's suppose to be. Quarterbacks being treated like they're a football player and not cinderella. Players not celebrating every single time a play is run. Now days it looks like the football players have to major in dance, it's ridiculous.
Yeah. The good old days! It’s a different game - players are bigger, faster and stronger!
I keep looking for flags on each incomplete pass like there is today. Game was better in the 80s.
They look like high school kids now
And best of all, Raiders winning a Super Bowl,after the game it never crossed my mind I'd be waiting this long for another
@@danzemacabre8899My Niners had a good deal to do with that ..for a decade......sadly, now I'm still waiting for another SB win
Good luck to you and your Raiders......( Any time I see or hear about the Silver and Black...I think Oakland
Congratulations on the Hall of Fame and well deserved to one hell of a Head Coach and leader of men, and a tremendous and loyal friend!
So happy for you and proud of you. Well done, Thomas!
Hayes and Haynes two of the best cornerbacks ever. Lockdown defense.
Summerall and Madden had a good knack at allowing the play and the crowd tell the story to many of today's guys do way to much talking especially when the Antalyze!!!!!!
Fun facts: Marcus Allen's longest run during the 1983 regular season was 19 yards.
Jim Plunkett only threw one TD pass in the 83/84 post season ( to Branch in this game)
I watched the first half on my tv. During halftime the color went out. I ran up the street to watch the 2nd half with my girl friend ( high school classmate, not girlfriend) but she wasnt home. Fortunately her Dad welcomed me to stay and enjoy the victory.
Redskins were stacked that year, probably their best team. But Raiders stuck it to them that day.
Too bad that the Raiders had to cheat to win, breaking into the Redskin's club house and stealing their play book.
@@michaelrobertson7397 Hell the Raiders kicked their Ass. Losers are the first to say they cheated. One field goal, one touchdown but no extra point. An Ass kicking to the highest scoring team in NFL history at the time.
Yeah worst game of Joe Gibbs' career. Still five NFC title appearances, four Super Bowl appearances, and three Super Bowl titles with four Hall of Fame players: Monk, Green, Grimm, and Riggins. One horrid day doesn't diminish that.
This was the beginning of the era of Super Bowl blow outs and the 14 year dominance of the NFC. People forget just how shocking the lopsided result in this game was. The teams played a classic earlier in the year which the Redskins won in a shootout.
As a 'Skins fan this still pisses me off all these years later. Love Joe Gibbs but, I thought this was his worse game plan. Thiesmann was horrible, Raiders stuffed the gaps so Riggins couldn't get going. So get the linebackers to play honest with tight ends over the middle perhaps to open up the running game. To watch was frustrating. I'll give the Raiders credit they did what they had to do.
@@stevecvino that was one of the worst game planning that Joe Gibbs has ever done i
It looks to me as though the quarterback had a horrible game, plus the playcalling on passes was poor
Finally can watch the whole game!!
This Raiders team was solid. They absolutely took it to a very good Redskins team. The scary thing is the score could have been much worse had the Raiders not pissed away several chances/turned the ball over. This could have easily been a massive clobbering. On a sidenote it is really ridiculous the Redskins no longer exist. What awesome uniforms/emblem they had.
Yep, the woke "tolerant" culture swallowed up the once great Washington Redskins.
Cliff Branch had a heck of a game...love his intensity🏈🏆
This is the first Super Bowl that i remember watching. I was 8 years old. The Jack Squrik int is the play that probably sealed the game. The cool thing about that play is that the Redskins ran that play against the Raiders during the regular season and Joe Washington went like 80 yards. The defense and Charlie Sumnner (sp) were ready this time.
R.I.P. JOHN EARL MADDEN
At the time of this game, Daryl Green was considered the fastest man in the NFL. Branch at 34 when this game was played, ran by Green like he wasn't even there!!!!! How is that man not in the hall of fame on 3 Superbowl winning teams and at the time of this game had more playoff yards than any receiver in playoff history???? Are you kidding me?
real talk.....Branch was a stud but not even the 2nd option . he was 3rd behind blitnikoff and casper. both of whom if im not mistaken are in the HoF. Branch should be as well.
Thankfully, now Cliff Branch is rightfully in the Hall of Fame as of 2022.
Still tied for the most points an AFC team has ever scored in a Super Bowl
Edit: the Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII tied the Raiders in this SB for the most points by an AFC team!
Afc has yet to score 40 points in the sb, let alone 50
I keep telling people...LA RAIDERS r the only team to WIN a Super Bowl Championship 4 LA.
After the Rams lost to Steelers in SB 14 (1980) I quit on them, like they quit in the 3rd qtr. Jack Youngblood confirmed this fact in LA Times 2-9-22.
Go Bengals!
I love the single bar mask on Theisman
Hear for Madden his commutator skills were classic gold Rip John Madden
I remember this game well, I was the only Raiders fan in my school almost everyone else supported the Redskins.
Same thing here, then comes monday morning and all of these Redskin "fans" said to me that "we knew that the Raiders would win." What a bunch of hypocrites.
Haynes, Hayes, Davis and McElroy....the no passing zone!
Haynes was one of the best cover corners ever.
@@generatorx MOST RECEIVERS RARELY PASSED GO AGAINST THOSE FOUR DEFENSE BACKS, WHEN FOOTBALL WAS PLAYED BY REAL TOUGH PLAYERS, NOT THE THE FLAG FOOTBALL THEY PLAY TODAY. WHAT A SHAME.
@@rcojrpc2085 That was definitely the finest backfield the Raiders ever had. Hayes and Haynes were great covers, McElroy was probowler with excellent closing speed -extremely underrated. Davis was like a linebacker in the secondary, no one wanted to be in his area after making a catch..unless you wanted your bell rung.
Joe Gibbs is a first ballot HoF coach, but that screen pass was one of the biggest coaching blunders in Super Bowl history (a cousin of the Pete Carroll play, though not as impactful on the outcome, obviously). They ran the same play on the Raiders earlier in the year for a 60+ gain - you should not expect to fool them twice. Also, there were only 12 seconds left in the half - short of a touchdown, there is nothing to gain from a big play - degree of difficulty in a swing pass gaining 50 yards in under 12 seconds is astronomically high.
Art Monk and Charlie Brown were shut out in the first three quarters by Lester Hayes & Mike Haynes - that was the primary matchup where this game was won and lost.
And in the previous year's Super Bowl against the Dolphins, they almost got burned on a similar play. In fact, if Joe Theismann didn't knock the ball out of Kim Bokamper's hands on that play, it's likely that, despite a horrendous performance by the offense, the Dolphins take their third title, because that would have put the Dolphins up 24-13, which likely would have taken John Riggins out of the game and allowed the Killer Bees to tee off on Theismann as they had on Dan Fouts and Richard Todd the previous two weeks.
It's hard to even fathom the Redskins ever being 31-3 in their last 34 games these days. I mean it's IMPOSSIBLE to fathom. That was a different organization back then.
Patriots were 32-5 2006 and 2007 going in to Super Bowl XLII
And the Patriots also went a combined 34-4 in 2003-'04, winning the Super Bowl both seasons, and discounting the first four games of the 2003 season, which they split, they had a stretch where they went 32-2 in a 34-game stretch from the fifth game of the 2003 season through Super Bowl XXXIX, the end of the 2004 season. The most comparable streak in the Super Bowl-era to that is the astounding record of the Miami Dolphins in 1972-'73, which was also 32-2 with two Super Bowl titles.
Two of the Redskins' only 3 losses during that stretch, and both of their only losses in '83 before the SB, were by only a point.
And both of those were due to some pretty embarrassing efforts by the defense in Monday Night games. In the season opener, they opened up a 23-0 lead on the Cowboys and then somehow let that get away in the second half, as the Cowboys edged them 31-30. Then not to be outdone, the Redskins somehow lost a Monday Night game to the Green Bay Packers in which they scored 47 points.
And the defense also sprung up some pretty big leaks in games they won, including that game against the Raiders in which the defense gave up 28 points to a Raider team without Marcus Allen (I'm not counting the Greg Pruitt punt return TD), and had to rally against a defense that had not yet fortified their defense with the acquisition of Mike Haynes (that didn't come until shortly before their two games against the Chargers). And even in the NFC Championship Game, their defense almost gave away a game they seemingly had in the bag, permitting three unanswered 49er TDs in the fourth quarter.
Given all that, what happened to the Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII, while shocking at the time, could actually have been foreseen, because their defense was springing leaks quite a bit that season, though they usually came through when it counted (like the rematch vs. DAL), and they were facing a much different Raider team that nearly beat them in Washington about a third of the way into the season.
They haven`t had a QB for a long time and still don`t.
La escapada de Marcus Allen quedo como una de las mejores carreras y se convirtió en clásicas de todos los súper bowls
Raiders wont never have a team like this again. So much talent on this team.
This team and their 76 squad were both awesome.
8 Hall of Famers: 2 on offense (Allen, Branch), 3 on defense (one at every level: D-line Long, LB Hendricks, secondary Haynes), 1 on special teams (Guy), coach (Flores), and owner (Davis). The 9th Hall of Famer should be Lester Hayes. Plunkett does not deserve it. Todd Christensen is borderline but he only had 5-6 brilliant years.
This is how it should be. You win none of that Pop and circumstance they have now with the confetti dropping on the field you can actually hear the players say yay!! Very cool.
I've Watched This Super Bowl 10,000 times
Rira Gist wow lol
Marcus Allen Was Greatest All Around Back Ever. Raider Nation Forever!
As a Bears fan, after seeing this game and thinking it through I have to agree with you, I was going to say Walter Payton. However Allen had the break Away speed, Sir Walter didn't so you would be right. Walter is a close 2nd 🙂
I think Marcus won almost every award you can win.
Heisman
Super Bowl MVP
Comeback player of the year
Hall of fame
Rookie of the year
I'll take Roger Craig, any day for best all around back. Marcus never rushed or receiving yards at 1,000 in a season like Roger did.
Those are the Raiders I remembered
True legends!!
Marcus was ready to tear shet up! go raiders!
This game had the spectacle of a big time college football game with the competing bands to boot.
The Redskins were definately out coached in this game. Passing deep in their own territory with seconds to go before halftime? The interception for points sealed it.
That Play at 12 Seconds Left Was a Bad Choice!
They did that same play with Joe Washington earlier in the season and went for 60 yards or something. Charlie Sumner was told they were putting Joe in and sent in Squirek to cover him.
You saw Matt Millen pick up Sumner. Millen was furious he'd been pulled and then that TD happened. Millen said, "I guess Charlie knew what he was doing, huh?"
The Redskins were doing that kind of thing all season and it kept working...which is why the Raiders were ready. Joe Gibbs became a much more conservative coach after that game.
As great as Marcus Allen played, I think the Raiders’ defense should’ve gotten the MVP.
Unfortunately, the mvp is only an individual award. Marcus deserved it a million times more than any defense in super bowl history.
This raider team is probably the best ever in nfl history flat out