Boston vs. Los Angeles: The World Series of Football! (Patriots vs. Raiders, 1985 AFC DIV) 

Would love if New England went back to these uniforms. Was so disappointed with their new uniforms this past year.

I wish we still had those Pat Patriot uniforms.

R.I.P. Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen.

What a crazy run the '85 Pats had, especially when they upset the dolphins in the AFC title game. Then they were brought back down to earth by the great '85 bears. Even made "the super bowl shuffle" a few months prior to actually winning the super bowl lol

0:59 New England version of the catch

1986 is the year that 3 Boston teams made it to the championship games patriots, celtics and red sox. Celtics are the only Boston team that won while the pats and red sox got beat

And then a Week Later we ended up putting a Stop To Dan Marinos 2nd Superbowl Appearance with a 31-14 Victory In The AFC Championship Game

Fun fact. At 5:15, you see a patriots running back named Mosi Tatupu make a big run. Tatupu is the father of Lofa Tatupu who was a star linebacker for the Seahawks from 2005 to 2010.

How’d the Raiders ever lose this game? Oh yeah: Marc Wilson and fumbles.

My mom and her family are from Southern Massachusetts. They're all diehard Boston/NE fans (Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, Celtics, Boston College). I remember my uncle telling me how great this 85 season was for fans of a team that had floundered for most of it's history. This win was cathartic for them, the win in the AFC Championship was even more so because it was against the Dolphins. He also told me how crushing the clobbering in the Super Bowl they got from the Bears was.

This was a huge win for the Patriots, the Raiders had tortured them in the years before this, including stealing Jim Plunkett from NE and winning a Super Bowl with him in LA. The black hole was at the time the most intimidating road game in the league at the time (think of raiders fans now, except that the team is really good and has won a bunch of Super Bowls and moved to LA). And then the Pats had maybe an even bigger upset the next week as they beat Dan Marino and Miami (the only team to beat the 85 Bears) to deny America a potential classic Super Bowl matchup. Instead the Pats got a token super bowl appearance and the bears got to drag them around (literally - see the vid of Craig James’ fumble) the field for 3 hours and make everyone immediately declare them the greatest defense ever.

Big upset ... the 85 Raiders team was the last great Raider team until 2000-2002.

Tom Flores' last postseason game as Raiders' head coach. He won two of the team's three Super Bowls, one in Oakland (1980) and one in LA (1983).

Raiders really pissed away a great season here. So careless in this game. Would have set up a great game with Miami and either of those teams playing Chicago would have been epic. Patriots were weak.

6:20 i forgot barefoot kicking was a thing

Craig James, who actually had 104 yards on 23 carries this day, was the only running back to have 100 yards against that Raiders defense.

NBC had all the best themes

Love the Pats unis….

The thing was the Patriots capitalized on turnovers as you saw in the playoff run. When the Patriots couldn't do that against the Bears which only led to 3 point by Payton's fumble, they were dead in the water.

Heh nice, If Milwaukee had won I suppose you guys would've put up the Packers/Patriots SB.

Nfl should let the Patriots wear these throwbacks for the 100th season. I know they have the helmet rule but will 1 or 2 games a year with a different helmet really make a difference?

The Raiders were great in the early ‘80’s, but I doubt they would have done much better against the 85 Bears.

00:57 Nice athletic throw on the move by Tony Eason.

Such a beautiful uniform matchup!

The amount of turnovers and fumbles in this game is tremendous.

These Pats uniforms with the red pants are fab, I prefer the Brady era ones overall but they should update these in a few years as they won't be able to do it now that they just released some new uniforms recently.

Marcus ran so beautifully!!

Nice..love the concept.

The Patriots kicker didn't have a shoe on that's classic

Nice game ! Thanks for sharing.

That 15 yard personal foul on Mickey Marvin on that 4 down completion to Marcus Allen on the Raiders final desprate game tying was a backbreaking momentum changing call. One thing I remembered what people were saying about the Raiders back in the day even though the results showed on the field with wins and SB titles, they were at times an "undiciplined" team.

Marcus Allen was smooth runner.

Craig James only had one huge year in the NFL, but he looked really smooth as a runner. Really knew how to cutback well. Feel like he'd be able to translate to today's NFL nicely.

Now THIS game was fun to watch. Looks like somebody dipped the football in French fry oil for most of the game. It's adorable! Also, nice to see a Patriots-Raiders playoff game that's not the Tuck Rule.

The New World Series of Football is now Patriots vs Rams in the Super Bowl. lol

This was sweet revenge for the playoff loss in the 70s

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You should upload more old pats games like this like the 85 wildcard game against the jets.

The Pats really ruined it for football fans. A Raiders or dolphins Super Bowl matchup versus the Bears would’ve been fun to watch. Pats knocked them both off.

1985 saw the magic Johnson led los Angeles Lakers avenge last year's NBA world Championship series verses the defeanding champion Boston Celtics with Larry Bird dealing with an injured elbow in the much anticipated rematch

Football is really same dope seeing the talent back than

Watching this because I wanted to see what got the '85 Patriots to Super Bowl 20. Like one of the Bears said that year, "whatever got the Patriots to the Superbowl we didn't see it that day." Hard to believe this was the same team that took a pounding by the Bears.

The game that ended the Raiders 22 year dynasty. For a franchise that prides itself on being historically great, their real run was from 1963 to 1985. This loss, my first playoff game watching my team, would come to symbolize what I as a 39 year old would actually see in the Raiders in my 33 years and counting as a fan...lots of missed opportunities, self inflicted wounds, and disappointment. And FUCK Marc Wilson.

Damm was the football dipped in oil before being used?

Love it!!!

My raiders never had any real chance thru those Marc Wilson years. I'm sure he's a good guy, not trying to defame him, but he just never looked like he wanted to be out there. Pats fans got a small taste of him a few years later. Edit: their 382 fumbles in this game didn't help either.

Patriots should bring back permanently these awesome uniforms and pat the patriot

I attended this game and the Rams game the day before I was in football heaven.

Holy crap did they slather the ball with shedds spread in between each play

A nice cold Michelob sounds good after watching this

Great upset. 1985 no team was going to beat Chicago.

At 2:20 is Marc Wilson throwing to someone running track ?

It's too bad they don't show the fight after the game between Patriots owner Patrick Sullivan and Matt Millen. Classic

Can you post the AFC championship of the same year?

Remember like yesterday about Marc Wilson…😂😂

We almost had a raiders vs dolphins AFC championship

Unfortunately they didn't show Matt Millen punching Patriots general manager

Shocked you didn’t do the tuck rule game And the pats and raiders have a bit of a history in the divisional round

I would have enjoyed a Raiders-Bears SB that year. Or Dolphins, anything other than the Patriots.

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Arguably the best Patriots team before the belicheck era...three straight road wins shut down Ken Obrien and Dan Marino offense and amazing how many turnovers the cause in those three wins and few points they allowed

Where’s the Matt Millen punch after the game??

Eason was so good, yet only the 4th best QB in his 4th best QB in his class ( Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, and John Elway )

6:23 Franklin the kicker had only one shoe on

1985 was the Patriots last playoff appearance until 1996 right?

Did everyone smear butter on their arms before the game? Holy shit

Tippett the Goat

LETS GO PATS!!

Damn that Recover at the end cost us the game. Smh #RaiderNation

That playoff game in Foxborough was rigged worse than the 2002 Western Conference Finals! It's called the Fuck Rule for a reason!

Only problem is in 1971 the Pats changed their name from Boston to New England Patriots. Get your facts straight.

This is where Matt Millen punched out Pats GM Pat Sullivan

I think the raiders might have made it to the super bowl had it not been the patriots they played. For some reason the Raiders had issues with the patriots, like the 76 patriots being the only team to beat them.

Why did they change unis?

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I wish they still call it the Boston Patriots

Kicking it without shoes?!

1984-‘86 Raiders - best possible result if your team has the league’s worst quarterback being forced to start. Nobody - that bad - accomplished more than the mid-‘80s Raiders. It’s not even close.

Is this game where Matt Millen punched patriots owner???

Why wasnt Plunkett in the game?

This might be the sloppiest playoff game I have ever seen. Both teams played like they had their hands on the stove all game.

1/6/85

Marc Wilson...

How come Jim Plunkett wasn't starting?

I'm a massive Pats fan. It's a shame we got humiliated by the bears in the 85 SB. That was supposed to be Marino's year to win. They would have beat the Bears that year. Marino never could win the big games.

Los Angeles Raiders was member AFC West Division 1970 through 1993 and New England Patriots was member AFC East Division 1970 through 1993 era

Hopefully we get Los Angeles vs. Boston/New England in the Super Bowl! (with a different result than their first meeting)

Walker & Wilson killed the Raiders that day

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The 85 pats did not CHEAT,they had a good team ,they were unlucky they met the bears in sb xx

Notice the barefoot kicker

😆, I get a big kick on these 'Southies' (NE fans) with their comments and comparisons. I guess they want another Patrick Sullivan son want another 'Bitch Slap' again. You guys overwatched 'The Departed' waaaaay to many times. R-A-I-D-E-R-S!❤ You guys are back to your Grogan era days again on this 2023 season.

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I think this is the last time the patriots played in los Angeles

What an embarrassing loss. Sloppy special teams cost them 14 points and the win. No doubt who was the better team that day. Can’t make those mistakes in the playoffs.

Raiders gifted that one. Yikes 😬

Go Sox!

The most ineffective combination of Raiders WRs (dokie Williams and Jessie Hester) in their history catching passes from one of the most inept QBs (Marc Wilson). Wilson had all the tools, but is confidence was shaken at some point in his career. Then again, Al Davis loved the deep ball, but was NEVER a good evaluator of quarterbacks. Lamonica, Blanda, Gannon, Plunkett, and Jason Campbell were all reclamation projects that thrived after being backups on the roster. Stabler, Al's only good draft pick at QB, was assigned to the Taxi-squad for three seasons before becoming third string and eventually the starter. Al's draft history at this position has been horrible: Larry Lawrence, David Humm, Mike Rae, Rusty Hilger, Bill Joe Hobert, Marques Tuiasosopo, JaMarcus, Andrew Walter, Marc Wilson.Terrelle Pryor, Steve Beurelien, Donald Hollas, Matt McGloin. And the free agent pick-ups... nothing but a constant quest for the next Darryl Lamonica: Duante Culpepper, Jay Schroeder, Jeff George, Kerry Collins, Rick Mirer, Aaron Brooks, Jeff Hostetler, Josh McCown, Bruce Gradkowski, Kyle Bowler, a broken Carson Palmer, Wade Wilson, Exemption given to Tom Flores, Todd Marinovich, Vince Evans. And Dan Pastorini, who if not for a broken leg in Game 4 and later a car accident the night before the AFC Wild Card game, would be the Raiders starting QB and Plunkett never leads this team to the Super Bowl in 1980, and perhaps 1983. Al didn't believe in Plunkett could lead the team until the 1980 SB. Marc Wilson's 3 INTs in this game were par for the course.

marc wilson was so frickin awful but it wouldnt have mattered if the raiders had john elway at qb. nobody was beating the bears that year.

Al Davis copied the 1960 original Los Angeles Chargers shield logo when Al Davis left the Los Angeles Chargers coaching staff in 1962 to become the Oakland Raiders owner he then added the original Los Angeles Chargers shield logo to the Oakland Raiders pirate logo on 1963 Coincidentally The Oakland Raiders pirate logo didn’t have the shield logo 1960-1962 until Al Davis joined the Raiders on 1963 then added the shield to the pirate logo Copy cat shield logo but the true original is the 1960 Los Angeles Chargers battle horse shield logo Da Da Da Da Charge!!! ⚡️🐴 🏈 The Los Angeles r the true original L.A. born team playing for the original birthplace and not too many teams can claim that fact! The Rams were born in Cleveland. The Raiders were born in Oakland. and that a fact those other teams can’t ever claim. And Chargers r also the true Southern California team have never left Southern California unlike Rams born Cleveland,played in St.Loius and Raiders born in Oakland and play in Las Vegas Nevada.