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13 Nov 1960 – At Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum – Fair – Att. 22895
Houston Oilers———–3—–7—–0—–7———-17
Los Angeles Chargers 0—–7—10—–7———-24
q1 05:20 – HO – George Blanda QBA5/PK – 45 kick
q2 07:00 – LA – Charlie Flowers HB3(1) – 3 run (Ben Agajanian kick)
q2 02:10 – HO – Ken Hall HB4/P – 1 run (George Blanda kick)
q3 13:20 – LA – Charlie Flowers HB3(1) – 1 run (Ben Agajanian kick)
q3 02:15 – LA – Ben Agajanian PK – 10 kick
q4 12:00 – HO – Dave Smith FB1 – 5 run (George Bland kick)
q4 05:50 – LA – Ralph Anderson LE0 – 5 pass (Ben Agajanian kick)
HOUSTON’S CHAMPIONSHIP ASPIRATIONS BEGIN TO FADE
Houston’s championship bid took another body blow today with their 2nd successive defeat against in form LA Chargers. The Oilers matched the Chargers for most of the game and were leading for much of it but in the end they couldn’t contain their opponents. Playing with the limited offensive passing game enforced on them through injury to Groman and Carson they had to rely on the defense who inevitably began to tire after holding LA to just 7 point in the first half. George Blanda also had a poor day kicking with just 1 of 4 FG attempts converted. The key play came in the 3rd quarter when Charlie Flowers taking on the running baton for the injured Paul Lowe scored his second td of the game to give LA a slender 14-10 lead. From the kick off George Blanda threw his only interception that despite heroic efforts to stymie a TD did allow Agajanian to register an easy 10 yard FG goal stretching the lead to 17-10. Although Houston responded early in the 4th, the Chargers were the stronger team and eventually broke Houston’s determined defense for the winning td. LA are now the out and out favourites. Houston finally return home for their next game in what may define the direction of the season. The only crumb of comfort being that the Titans of New York have also had a dip in form and are still within reach.
| Player PASSING | Att. | Comp. | Yds. | Pct. | TD | Int. | Sck |
| George Blanda QBA5 | 22 | 9 | 79 | 40.9% | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Player RECEIVING | No. | Yds | Ave | Lg | TD |
| Charley Hennigan HB4(3) | 2 | 32 | 16.0 | 19 | 0 |
| Jack Atchason SE4 | 3 | 30 | 10.0 | 12 | 0 |
| Billy Cannon HB1 | 3 | 15 | 5.0 | 7 | 0 |
| Dave Smith FB1 | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
| Player RUSHING | No. | Yds | Ave | Lg | TD |
| Dave Smith FB1 | 19 | 106 | 5.6 | 13 | 1 |
| Billy Cannon HB1 | 13 | 41 | 3.2 | 11 | 0 |
| Ken Hall HB4/P | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 1 |
| Eastern Conference | W | L | T |
| NEW YORK TITANS | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| HOUSTON OILERS | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| BOSTON PATRIOTS | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| BUFFALO BILLS | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| Western Conference | W | L | T |
| LOS ANGELES CHARGERS | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| DALLAS TEXANS | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| DENVER BRONCOS | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| OAKLAND RAIDERS | 4 | 5 | 1 |
Houston’s defense struggled all day to contain the Chargers 
As new seasons were being produced I began to want to play a wider range of consecutive seasons, if nothing else but to allow me to get through some of those bad Houston years……..Then unexpectedly in October 2020 the 1966 season was produced. At this point my focus had always been to try to replay only play-off games from the first Superbowl. With the advent of the ’66 season I could do just that and go back to the start. It also meant I could try out another idea that I had been mulling over of a knockout tournament that would allow me to use all the teams in the set in a relatively short amount of games. All of this to satisfy my obsession with record keeping. At time of writing the 1966-68 seasons are all available but may stall post 1968 unless follow on seasons become available. But that was it, ambitious enough for anyone. Then one day going over my old record books it dawned on me that the Oilers had only begun with the formation of the AFL in 1960. Just 6 years earlier than my current “start” point. I’ll admit that did set off some rather interesting ideas (well interesting to me at least) and had me thinking that it would be nice to go back to the very start of their history. As these seasons didn’t exist in Statis Pro nor I thought were they ever likely to, I shelved the idea, NOT before posting a message on a forum asking if one of the current makers of seasons would be prepared to do it. The expected tumbleweed response pretty much kaiboshed that idea and I decided to concentrate back on my original campaigns. 
Then, just a few weeks later another splendid fan of the game out of the blue announced he had produced the 1960 season. I had a Das Boot “ALARM” moment and from that point on it’s been pretty much going over and over in my head whether it just might be possible. In the end I couldn’t fight the “Stat Devil” on my shoulder telling me over and over how much joy there was to be had logging and recording every single game for what would no doubt be a lifetime………….. So there we are. I have decided that I’ll replay every game the Oilers (Houston and reluctantly Tennessee for completism) played. I don’t regard the Titans as their successors, they have no rights to Oilers stats, history or records so it will end when they Oilers name was retired in 1998. At least that gives me an end point.
However, if these Lone Star State locals reaction from beyond the grave when they got the news is anything to go by, I really feel obliged to give it a go. As they say “I may be all hat and no cattle, but I’m ready and rarin’ to go”. If you fancy hanging around for the long haul, stay tooned. I intend to start this project in April which is likely to be the earliest I can get the cards printed.
