NFL Preview: Kansas City Chiefs @ Oakland Raiders: Battle For the West

November 5, 2010   ·   Mike Settle   ·   Jump to comments

It started on Sept. 16, 1960. A rivalry was born.
The silver and black led by the young, rebellious Al Davis took on the high-octane Dallas Texans.
The Texans won the AFL meeting 34-16, but the blood, sweat and tears had just begun.
The actual rivalry began in 1967 when the baseball team, the Kansas City Athletics were moved to Oakland to become the A's, while Kansas City was left to start an expansion team known as the Kansas City Royals.
With the distaste of the Kansas City fans, the fresh Kansas City Chiefs were looked at as the hammer to pound the city that took their baseball club.
A couple years later, the Chiefs and Raiders held their inaugural NFL debut together, and with the Chiefs leading late in the fourth quarter by a score of 17-14, quarterback Len Dawson looking to chew the clock ran up field just enough to achieve the first down.
After the play was over, Raiders defensive end Ben Davidson drove his helmet into Dawson as he was down on the fi...

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