Jon Gruden on the Game that Started it All | Raiders vs. Chiefs (1999)
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Jon Gruden is in studio! We are coming to you from The Nuthouse San Francisco presented by Liquid I.V. Coach Gruden is with us to relive the game he credits with starting it all: the Week 17 game from 1999 between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Oakland Raiders.
(00:00) We kick things off. (0:52) Coach Gruden joins us. (37:01) We go back to January 2000. (41:31) We get into the teams. (48:56) We dive into the game. (1:03:46) We score the game.
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| 0:00.0 | On January 2nd, 2000, Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri. |
| 0:07.3 | After 11 long years, the Oakland Raiders are looking to play spoiler in Arrowhead. |
| 0:12.6 | But it's going to take overtime to break this streak. |
| 0:16.1 | This is the Broken Arrow game. |
| 0:20.4 | That's a close. Unbelievable! Oh, that's a catch. Games at Arrow game. That's a |
| 0:21.5 | unbelievable! |
| 0:23.2 | Oh, that's a catch. |
| 0:24.4 | Games with Names is a production of I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:27.8 | Welcome to Games with Names. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm Julian Edelman, and they're Jack and Kyler, |
| 0:31.6 | and we are on a search for the greatest game of all time, |
| 0:34.9 | and today we have John Gruden here in the Nut House in San |
| 0:40.1 | Francisco brought to you by Liquid Ivy. Episode is insane. Don't forget, let's drop a like |
| 0:47.4 | and a subscribe. Let's do it. Let's go. Welcome to Games with Names. Today we are looking at week 17 of the 1999 season between the |
| 1:00.6 | Chiefs and Raiders with Coach Gruden. Coach in one sentence, why did you pick this game? |
| 1:09.7 | I think it got my career going. |
| 1:13.3 | I think it got our team going. |
| 1:16.2 | It revived the Raiders. |
| 1:17.7 | It was the Raiders' wake-up day. |
| 1:20.3 | That's what it was. |
| 1:21.2 | Is this the greatest game of all time? |
| 1:24.8 | Well, to me, it's the greatest game I ever coached in, and it was very meaningful. And like I said, |
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