re: Oilers uniforms are back

I like them.

Why are people mad? I don't recall the back story on the team's departure from Houston.

Love the uniform, hate that Tennessee is wearing it. Like someone previously mentioned regarding Utah and the Jazz, it just doesn't work.

Bud Adams had long wanted a new domed stadium that could house the Oilers and the Rockets in downtown Houston. He offered up 25% of the cost to make it happen and Houston’s mayor initially agreed to it and then backtracked when the public wasn’t crazy about it. The Astrodome had been renovated in the 80’s but was still pretty dumpy compared to other NFL stadiums at the time and Bud felt that he had been misled after years of lobbying for it.

Bud started shopping the franchise to other cities, and everyone thought he was bluffing. He wasn’t.

It’s not a much different reason than why other NFL franchises have moved in the past. But the Houston Oilers became the Tennessee Oilers so this insistence from Texas people that the Oilers belong exclusively to Houston is just wrong. The Titans are the Oilers so it makes sense to wear the throwbacks.

There’s a blame on all sides for them moving. Keeping the name though was him being a spiteful a-hole (because that’s what he is). The Oilers name and identity has zero symbolism with Tennessee or their fans. You still regularly see people here wearing Oilers gear and it’s a part of the city’s culture. If he had left the name alone when he moved like Art Modell I don’t think people would care anymore. But he didn’t, and him and his entire family can get fricked

It makes no sense that a team called the Lakers are in Los Angeles but you don’t see people from Minneapolis bitching about it.

I literally don’t know anyone from Minneapolis so don’t know about that but that move also happened so long ago that there aren’t a ton of fans that were alive then. The oilers move happened much more recently in comparison. My first sports memories in person were going to an oilers game in the astrodome, good luck finding many people in Minneapolis that remember watching the lakers play there.

Also the Adam’s family purposefully do this with the oilers branding just to spite Houston and you can’t convince me otherwise. The exit from Houston was ugly because luv ya blue was such a part of the culture for so long.

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The exit from Houston was ugly because luv ya blue was such a part of the culture for so long.

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Bud tried to keep the franchise in Houston. Houston said no.

Johnny Unitas was such a figure of pride for the city of Baltimore but you don’t see anyone demanding his legacy be tied to the Ravens.

Also while it makes more sense to call a team in Minnesota Lakers than LA, it’s still kind of generic. Jazz as an art form was born in New Orleans, the colors purple green and gold are the Mardi Gras colors. If they moved to New York or Montreal at least Jazz would make some sense frick it could pass in LA even. But Utah is just stupid far worse than Lakers or (trolley) Dodgers or Colts in Indy

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Bud tried to keep the franchise in Houston. Houston said no.

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That’s horseshite. He wanted a new stadium that he controlled since he was paying a lease to the Drayton McLane the Astros owner who owned the lease and naturally opposed it. Adams proposed a multi use stadium like the Alamodome (would have outdated in less than a decade) in East downtown for the Oilers and Rockets though he didn’t bother to check with the Rockets, who emphatically opposed it. Not coincidentally the site he wanted is where MMP stands today. It was pure politics, Adams was unpopular because he’s an arse so it was easy to make him call the bluff. The city screwed the pooch on that and once the Oilers were gone the Astros suddenly needed a new park The current setup makes way more sense, if only someone had the vision and at the time