The Packers don’t play the Raiders often. As a matter of fact, Sunday’s game at O.co Coliseum in Oakland will be just the 12th regular season meeting between these two franchises.
It is a series that began on January 14th, 1968 in the Orange Bowl in Miami at Super Bowl II. It was Vince Lombardi’s last game as Packers head coach, and it was the end of the most glorious dominant era in the storied history of Packers football.
The 33-14 victory for the NFL’s Packers over the AFL’s Raiders was the fifth world championship in seven seasons for the Lombardi Packers.
After that first meeting, the Raiders went on to become one of the most dominant organizations in the next three-plus decades, piling up 21 post season appearances, 15 division championships, four conference championships and three Super Bowl titles.
The Packers went on to a desolate thirty year journey of wandering through the desert of mediocrity until Bob Harlan, Ron Wolf, Mike Holmgren, Brett Favre and Reggie White brought them back to the “Promised Land” in Super Bowl XXXI in New Orleans following the 1996 season, where the Packers became world champions once again.
The regular season series stands 6-5 in favor of the Packers. They have won six in a row, and this will be only the third appearance in Oakland for the Green Bay franchise.
The last time these clubs played in Oakland was an emotional but memorable Monday night when Brett Favre lit up the Raiders 41-3 in honoring his dad who passed away just a few days before.
The Packers haven’t lost to the Raiders since September 13th, 1987 when the Raiders shut them out 20-0 in Green Bay.
