Oakland Raiders at Pittsburgh Steelers: An Old School Reunion

November 19, 2010   ·   BW Black   ·   Jump to comments

This weekend’s match-up in Pittsburgh between the Oakland Raiders and the Steelers turns back the years. It is old school. It is in your face, smash-mouth football and it has us all drooling again after years of starvation.
The AFC may have been dominated in recent years by high-powered passing offenses run by Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, but looking back on the history of the AFC Championship, two teams stand tall – the Raiders and the Steelers.
In the early years of the AFC, these two teams were utterly dominant. In the first 11 years of the Lamar Hunt Trophy, the Raiders or the Steelers featured in 10 of the Championship games, on three occasions 1975-1977 pitting their wits against each other.
Indeed, despite Oakland’s recent fall from grace, the Raiders or the Steelers have still appeared in six of the last 10 Championship games.
Overall, 22 of the 40 AFC Championship games have involved these two old-school rivals, with Pittsburgh leading th...

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