Detailed Instructions: In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.
Q: the following two years , the raiders again won western division titles , only to lose the afl championship to the eventual super bowl winners the new york jets -lrb- 1968 -rrb- and kansas city chiefs -lrb- 1969 -rrb-.
A:
for two years , the raiders won western division titles but then lost the afl championship to the new york jets in 1968 and the kansas city chiefs in 1969.