Throwback Thursday: The Holy Roller

[Jimi18]

LINK: Throwback Thursday: The Holy Roller

Hall of Fame TE Dave Casper (87) caught five passes for 100 yards and 1 TD, and also scored the last-second, game-tying touchdown on a fumble recovery in the Raiders 1978 win at San Diego.

When the Raiders open the 2012 Regular Season against the San Diego Chargers on ESPN's Monday Night Football, September 10, 2012, it will be 34 years to the day since the Silver and Black stunned the Chargers in San Diego on a play that has become known as The Holy Roller.

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Famous announcing: 'Holy Roller'

[HBD]

We ALLways hear about Stabler and Casper on this play .... but WHO was #10 ??

[paul0660]

That is why the tuck rule put the world back on an even keel.

[Jimi18]

We ALLways hear about Stabler and Casper on this play .... but WHO was #10 ??

I think that was #40, if your referring to the first guy who touched it?

and i can pull up the roster, but it don't show the players numbers

1978 Oakland Raiders Stats - The Football Database

[Jimi18]

I think that was #40, if your referring to the first guy who touched it?

and i can pull up the roster, but it don't show the players numbers

1978 Oakland Raiders Stats - The Football Database

Found it.. I should had known DUH lol
Pete Banaszak

1978 Oakland Raiders Statistics & Players - Pro-Football-Reference.com

[huggeebear]

"The Raiders have scored on the most Zany, unbelievable, absolutely, impossible dream of a play..." My favourite radio call of all time.

[Raider_Len]

That is why the tuck rule put the world back on an even keel.

No, this is the play that put the world back on an even keel after the immaculate deception. The world is still off kilter, that is until be humiliate the Cheatriots in the playoffs, and win another Super Bowl... But don't hold your breath.

[RavenRaider]

That is why the tuck rule put the world back on an even keel.

Actually if you look back into the 70s the Officials jobbed the Patriots in a playoff game against us with a no call on an obvious PI. I cant remember the year, and as much as it pains me to say, they got jobbed on the call. If you want to believe in the conspiracy against the Raiders(as I do), you have to be able to accept when the refs make bad calls that go in our favor as well. It may have even been the year we won our first SB, Id have to look it up though. Ill see what I can find.

Edit:Here it is, it was a phantom roughing call on the Pats, I remember watching it and saying, ugh thats where our Karma came from

Raiders-Patriots rivalry spiked in 1976 | Old School

[AOchoa95]

I remember this game, was 10 at the time. This was the game that made me into a Raider Fan. Still, remember the SD chicken fainting at the end when it was called a TD. Now going to the Sept.10th game with my three boys. Man are my boys'going to hear this story that day. LOL!!!

[Raider_Len]

That is why the tuck rule put the world back on an even keel.

Actually if you look back into the 70s the Officials jobbed the Patriots in a playoff game against us with a no call on an obvious PI. I cant remember the year, and as much as it pains me to say, they got jobbed on the call. If you want to believe in the conspiracy against the Raiders(as I do), you have to be able to accept when the refs make bad calls that go in our favor as well. It may have even been the year we won our first SB, Id have to look it up though. Ill see what I can find.

Edit:Here it is, it was a phantom roughing call on the Pats, I remember watching it and saying, ugh thats where our Karma came from

Raiders-Patriots rivalry spiked in 1976 | Old School

Wrong, have a look at that play again. The guy puts his hand in the face of Stabler. That's hands to the face, illegal then and now. Stablers eyes were messed up for a time from that, I remember him saying in an interview. And you can bet the Raiders sure as Hell would have had that call made against them in a heartbeat, had they done it.

[RavenRaider]

Wrong, have a look at that play again. The guy puts his hand in the face of Stabler. That's hands to the face, illegal then and now. Stablers eyes were messed up for a time from that, I remember him saying in an interview. And you can bet the Raiders sure as Hell would have had that call made against them in a heartbeat, had they done it.

You know what I believe you, I actually thought it was a PI call(maybe even a non-call) not a roughing so maybe i am thinking of another play in this game, all i know is it was a bad call, and I was unable to find video of it before I made the post.