The Titans are rockin the vintage Oilers Love Ya Blue unis versus the Falcons. Not sure whether to love that or despise it for the hypocrisy that it is.

Despise it…

Irrationally angers me that they are wearing throwbacks of the Houston Oilers after moving to Tennessee. That makes zero sense. Would be like the Baltimore Ravens wearing Cleveland Browns throwbacks.

Part of why it pisses me off so much is that they are fantastic uniforms and I wish we were the Oilers still instead of the Texans.

The field also has a giant Derrick logo at mid field and helmet / logos on the wall surrounding the field. I'm going with despising it.

If I had one wish, I would wish Bud Adams back to life so I could kill him.

I mean the oilers fans didn't care when they left so why care now?

They have that amazing team name now

Apparently the NFL is blocking UH from wearing their Oiler's knock off jerseys and the Titans are planning on wearing them against the Texans December 17th.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38780023/sources-nfl-told-houston-stop-using-oilers-inspired-uniform

RogerFurlong said:

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Apparently the NFL is blocking UH from wearing their Oiler's knock off jerseys and the Titans are planning on wearing them against the Texans December 17th.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38780023/sources-nfl-told-houston-stop-using-oilers-inspired-uniform

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The NFL can tell UH whatever they would like, but they would have to make it stand up in court, and I can guarantee that UH had their lawyers vet the uniforms for anything resembling copyright infringement prior to ordering them. There is no derrick, nothing says "Oilers", so they are pinning their claim on a color scheme. You can't claim a certain shade of blue on anything related to the city of Houston is owned by the Titans in perpetuity. I really hope UH calls their bluff.

One day the odious offspring of the despicable bud adams will die and the next generation will go back to their biologically determined white trash legacy and start burning through money and will be willing to sell the right to the oilers name in order to obtain one more meth high and Houston will get its legacy back.

MookieBlaylock said:

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I mean the oilers fans didn't care when they left so why care now?

They have that amazing team name now

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Revisionist history….

MookieBlaylock said:

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I mean the oilers fans didn't care when they left so why care now?

They have that amazing team name now

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Simply not true. Learn history

Woods Ag said:

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Care to explain the history?

I was a bit too young to be fully aware of what happened. My dad loved the Oilers and said good riddance when they left.

I know there was a dispute about a stadium, but I don't know the details.

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Bud Adams had been wanting to move the team for a while, largely because the Astrodome wasn't built for luxury boxes and club-level seating, which newer stadiums were incorporating in the 80s and early 90s. He threatened to move the team to Jacksonville in 1987, and got those idiots to build a stadium for it, but the city acquiesed him by gutting the Astrodome of its best feature, the scoreboard, to make room for more seating that he could sell at a premium, and upping the capacity to 60,000.

Since he was on the NFL finance committee, he saw what kind of deal the Rams got when they moved from LA to St. Louis and wanted something similar. Adams told the City of Houston he'd pay $85 million for a new stadium, but they'd have to pay the other $195 million.

In 1993, the Oilers had the epic playoff collapse to Buffalo, and right at the beginning of the 1994 calendar year, they choked against Kansas City in the playoffs.

In the 1994 preseason, he found his get out of jail free card, when a preseason game between the Oilers and Chargers at the Dome was cancelled because the turf was found to be "unsafe". That announcement was made barely an hour before the game started and was the catalyst for Adams to escape his lease and start considering a move.

The Oilers went 2-14 in the 1994 season. Adam asked for a new stadium downtown and Bob Lanier said no flat out, because he knew the voters would never approve of it. Nashville had tried to lure the New Jersey Devils unsuccessfully, but its mayor knew football would be a much bigger hit than hockey, so he approached Adams about the move.

In 1995, the Oilers were better, but most fans were still pissed at Adams for a million reasons, still reeling from those playoff losses, and pissed that we had drafted Steve McNair but didn't play him until the last 2 games of the year, and then realized he was awesome.

Nashville's county approved $80 million to build a $292 million downtown stadium, practice facility and the cost of relocating by a 59%-41% rate.

Even though Houston was the 11th largest TV market and Nashville 33rd, the good old boy owners voted 23-6-1 to approve the move.

Adams bought out the last year of the lease to move to Nashville for the '97 season. The Oilers last year, they went 8-8. I went to two of their home games, including the final one, which I think had an attendance of like 21,000 or so.

The only silver lining is that had they not left, the Astros probably would have. They were being courted to move to Washington D.C. and the voters approved a tax on hotels and rent-a-cars to pay the money to get Uncle Drayton a downtown park.

Adams made countless threats to leave unless the city renovated and expanded the Dome. Which was done per his wishes. No less than 2 years later he started campaigning and threatening to leave if a new tax payer funded stadium wasnt built all while we were just TWO years into the recently approved bond to pay for his renovations.... paid for by the tax payers. Bud was a narcissistic piece of **** and I am glad hes gone but the name and history absolutely should have stayed in the city it was created in. Plain and simple

MookieBlaylock said:

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4 fans showed up at the Save the Oilers rally

Meanwhile in Cleveland the fans were pissed and rallied and kept their name and history in tact

That is simply true Oilers fans didn't care

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Please stop writing bull*****

They didn't advertise the rally to save the Oilers and very few people knew about it. Thousands upon thousands of Oiler fans cared, but most of us weren't going to give money to Bud Adams and get down on our knees to beg hi to stay.

MookieBlaylock said:

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4 fans showed up at the Save the Oilers rally

Meanwhile in Cleveland the fans were pissed and rallied and kept their name and history in tact

That is simply true Oilers fans didn't care

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Again, revisionist history.

It was poorly promoted by fans, and only a handful showed up. The media used it as an example of how few still cared about the Oilers.

https://www.chron.com/local/history/sports/article/How-the-Oilers-left-Houston-and-set-the-stage-for-9171976.php

The "rally to save the Oilers" was held after Bud Adams had already entered exclusive bidding rights with Nashville. It was held 3 days before Nashville held its referendum to build the stadium, the practice facility, and a new downtown area that cost $292 million ($573 million in today's dollars).

The fans that organized it wanted to collect 5,000 signatures to send to Bud Adams asking him to stay in Houston. Do you really think that was going to work? That Ebeneezer Adams would see the 5,000 names and say, hell, screw Nashville, 5,000 want me to stay!

Not sure why you keep banging this drum, ignorant or just being an a-hole? Both? IDK, but it's really pathetic.

MookieBlaylock said:

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My point has always been they could have kept the history and uniforms of the team but no one cared
And most were happy Bud Adams left with the team

Cleveland set the precedent of jeep ng your name and history And Houston didn't care

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Again just factually incorrect. Like talking to a fence post

MookieBlaylock said:

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My point has always been they could have kept the history and uniforms of the team but no one cared
And most were happy Bud Adams left with the team

Cleveland set the precedent of jeep ng your name and history And Houston didn't care

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Prove what you're saying with verifiable facts or statistics.

Modell tried to move the Browns to Ravens and that failed.

The City of Cleveland sued Modell for breach of contract for trying to move the team. The city of Cleveland was able to keep the rights to the Browns' name / records because the NFL intervened, deactivated the franchise for 3 years based oh the contingency that the Browns build a new stadium in downtown within 3 years. Modell was then awarded an expansion franchise - the Baltimore Ravens.

Art Modell never moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore. The team was deactivated on contingency of building a new stadium in 3 years.

Bud Adams' deal with Harris County ended at the end of 1997. He opted not to renew, then bought out the last year of the lease to get the Oilers to Tennessee faster. What he did was unfortunately legal, and the NFL didn't have to interfere because he wasn't trying to break a contract. Thus there was no opportunity for the team to keep the naming rights, records, uniforms, or anything else.

In 1998 when the Oilers officially became the TItans, Bud Adams got on his knees and sucked off Tagliabue to convince him to retire the Oiler name forever, specifically to keep a future Houston franchise from using it.

Looking forward to your next post full of untrue bull*****

I was only 9 the Oilers last season in Houston, so I had no say in whether or not we supported the team by going to games or "Save the Oilers" rallies. I just knew it sucked that my team was going to some other city. I hate that Tennessee gets to use the name even though it was a hold over that they have no connection with.

Maybe when the Adams family is done with the Titans or are desperate for some money they can reach a deal like Charlotte and New Orleans did in the NBA.

The Porkchop Express said:

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MookieBlaylock said:

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My point has always been they could have kept the history and uniforms of the team but no one cared
And most were happy Bud Adams left with the team

Cleveland set the precedent of jeep ng your name and history And Houston didn't care

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Prove what you're saying with verifiable facts or statistics.

Modell tried to move the Browns to Ravens and that failed.

The City of Cleveland sued Modell for breach of contract for trying to move the team. The city of Cleveland was able to keep the rights to the Browns' name / records because the NFL intervened, deactivated the franchise for 3 years based oh the contingency that the Browns build a new stadium in downtown within 3 years. Modell was then awarded an expansion franchise - the Baltimore Ravens.

Art Modell never moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore. The team was deactivated on contingency of building a new stadium in 3 years.

Bud Adams' deal with Harris County ended at the end of 1997. He opted not to renew, then bought out the last year of the lease to get the Oilers to Tennessee faster. What he did was unfortunately legal, and the NFL didn't have to interfere because he wasn't trying to break a contract. Thus there was no opportunity for the team to keep the naming rights, records, uniforms, or anything else.

In 1998 when the Oilers officially became the TItans, Bud Adams got on his knees and sucked off Tagliabue to convince him to retire the Oiler name forever, specifically to keep a future Houston franchise from using it.

Looking forward to your next post full of untrue bull*****

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That should put that argument to rest.

**** Bud Adams.

That sentiment is precisely why Houston couldn't bring themselves to care . Adams was a ******.

Looks like the apple didn't fall far from the tree.