The Pittsburgh Steelers and Oakland Raiders have played out some of the NFL's best and most historic games. In the 1970s they had league-wide implications. Less so lately, but ahead of Pittsburgh ...

AP Photo. It was the Oakland Raiders first game in December of 1970 and the race towards the first post-merger postseason was in full swing. While the Jets were out of the hunt, the Raiders were ...

But the league was different then, not full of "parity" as it is now, and some teams were dominant year in, year out. So it was with the Raiders ... Oakland went to six AFC Championship games ...

It was the morning of some long-ago, forgotten, preseason road game in the late 1970s, and the Oakland Raiders were gathered ... a giggle that turned into a full-throated chortle.

In 1970, Hubbard had two of his breakout games against the Chiefs, gaining 98 yards on 18 carries in a 17-17 tie and then gaining 93 yards on 16 carries in the second game, won by the Raiders 20-6.

This team would capture Super Bowls VII and XVIII while winning 18 consecutive games during the 1970s. However, the Oakland Raiders would make the Dolphins wait another year to reach the Super ...

12, 2004: Pittsburgh 24, Oakland 21 There haven't been many particularly competitive and meaningful games between the Steelers and the Raiders in the past decade or so. Usually at least one team ...

It was the morning of some long-ago, forgotten, preseason road game in the late 1970s, and the Oakland Raiders were gathered ... a giggle that turned into a full-throated chortle.