First up this preseason…the Tennessee Titans.
The Bolts had great success against the Titans (much to the chagrin of my cousins in Clarksville) during the short-lived Schottenheimer era, but before that it was ugly. The Chargers lost to the Houston Oilers in the 1960 and 1961 AFL championship games. Those great Oiler teams were led by George Blanda and Billy Cannon. In those days, it was pretty much the Chargers, Oilers, Bills, sometimes the Patriots, and a few years later the Raiders, Jets and Chiefs fighting it out in the old AFL. All the stadiums were like Balboa, and all the teams were wide open and offense ruled.