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Las Vegas Raiders All-Time Top Five: Quarterbacks
The Oakland, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas Raiders have an outstanding legacy of great players and today we look at the all-time great quarterbacks
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1. Kenny “Snake” Stabler, 1968-1979
Kenny Stabler was an All-American who helped Alabama win the 1965 National Championship and was selected by the Raiders in the second round (No. 52 overall) of the 1968 National Football League Draft. However, the Raiders also drafted quarterback Eldridge Dickey, who eventually was moved to wide receiver, but it still took Snake until the fourth game of the 1973 season to finally take over as the starting quarterback for the Silver and Black. It wasn’t eye-popping, but Stabler completed 19-of-31 passes without a touchdown and threw an interception in a 17-10 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in that game, and it was the first of many. And as a sign of things to come, Stabler drove the Raiders to a game-winning one-yard touchdown run by
Back in the Day: Looking back at Raiders’ Super Bowl win 40 years later
Their championship season was remarkable for a number of reasons.
First, Raiders owner Al Davis announced in 1979 that he was moving the team to Los Angeles, which started a flurry of lawsuits and counter-lawsuits and resulted in a backlash from some of the team’s fans.
Then quarterback Dan Pastorini, who the Raiders had acquired in a trade with Houston for beloved Oakland QB Kenny “The Snake” Stabler, broke his leg in a game against the Chiefs.
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Jim Plunkett, who many saw as an NFL bust after a stellar collegiate career at Stanford, stepped in and helped Oakland to become not only the first Wild Card team to make it to the Super Bowl, but to win it all. He was named Super Bowl MVP as an exclamation point for his remarkable comeback.