NFL Game of the Week

1976 AFC Championship: Pittsburgh Steelers at Oakland Raiders (12x7)

: 01, 1977

Oakland had lost the previous three AFC Championship games, the last two to Pittsburgh. Memories of the Opening Day brawl were fresh in everyone's mind when the two teams met again Dec. 26, 1976 for the right to play in Super Bowl XI. But the Steelers had little ground power. Without Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier in the game, it was time for Oakland, finally, to shine. The Raiders, 20-7 winners over Pittsburgh, were finally returning to the Super Bowl after nine years.