# DVD Transfer 215 (Super Bowl XI; VHS Rip of Original Broadcast)

(c)1977 NBC Sports-NBCUniversal/Comcast; National Football League and KGW-Tegna (original broadcast) DVD Transfer 215 consists of the broadcast of Super Bowl XI - originally played on January 9, 1977 between the Oakland Raiders and Minnesota Vikings at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA (its first of 5 Super Bowls) and was recorded off Portland, OR NBC affiliate KGW-TV 8. I got this via an eBay VHS purchase some years back. The Oakland Raiders entered 1976 as the NFL’s most consistent winner over the previous decade as dating to the 1967 season which saw the Silver and Black appear in Super Bowl II as champions of the then-separate American Football League; they had not suffered a losing season in that span and made the post-season every year except for 1971. However, in between 1968 and 1975 the Raiders had appeared in 6 AFL or AFC (after the NFL-AFL merger was completed in 1970) Championship Games and lost each one (1968 to the Jets; after which head coach John Rauch left for Buffalo; 1969 {the first year under John Madden} to a Kansas City Chiefs team that Oakland had swept in the regular season; 1970 to the Baltimore Colts; 1973 to the Miami Dolphins and finally 1974 and 1975 saw the Raiders defeated by the other team in what may have been the biggest rivalry in not just the NFL but all pro sports in the 1970s - the Pittsburgh Steelers {the rivalry arguably began in the 1972 AFC Divisional Playoff Game with what became known as the “Immaculate Reception” when a desperation…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1977
- By: National Football League; NBC Sports-NBCUniversal/Comcast; KGW-Tegna
- Genres: Sports
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/dvd-transfer-215)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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