Would you change the Texans back to Oilers? - Page 6

htownbandit · 09-14-2012, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick

This thread grows more re-tarded by the page.

The bottom line is that Adams owns the rights to the name, and it was his decision to take it away from Houston... nobody elses. The only way you keep the Oilers is to not have them move in the first place... a deal the city was unwilling to make with Adams.

I still think this city should be overjoyed they have the NFL again... especially in this era where the NFL has never been bigger, where fantasy football is slowly becoming the nation's favorite past-time, where the NFL has never been more accessible in regards to technology, and where every city that DOESN'T have the NFL (save for LA) would give up their first borns to be a part of it. It was already pretty damn big when we "stole" that expansion franchise away from LA... but it was not to the magnitude it is now. Its exploded. Sure, there may be a "saturation" point (especially if they think about having more mid-week games), but for now this nation can't get enough of the NFL.

Then, when you add that the Texans are now a winning team with a real window of opportunity to win it all... there really is no point of all this senseless griping over a name that this team NEVER had a chance of having. I'm sure Baltimore probably never wanted to support a "raven" over a "colt" (hell, there are still some people there that support the colts)... but all of that is virtually forgotten now.

That's because you don't get the point of the thread. Bud Adams is a piece of ****, we all know that and we know the mother****er won't give us back the Oilers, but in this imaginary thread he does and I'm asking if you all would go back to the classic Columbia Blue and Rig or stay Red White and Blue.

VooDooPope · 09-15-2012, 09:23 AM

I would do a throw back game in the uniforms but that's it.

AXG · 09-15-2012, 09:40 AM

I like the Oilers nickname and jerseys better than the Texans. I was still young when they moved to Tennessee. Through the tough times, I've always supported the Texans so I guess I'd rather them stick with their current identity.

Pieman2005 · 09-15-2012, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Firebomb525

I think it'd be cool to have alternate jerseys, but I'm not sure that would work out. Would the Thunder wear Seattle alts?

They can't. Seattle kept the rights to the uniform and name.

Pieman2005 · 09-15-2012, 05:17 PM

Random fact!!

On rugrats Stu was wearing a HOUSTON OILERS jersey and his brother Drew was wearing Dallas Cowboys!

Never noticed when I was younger! They never said Oilers or Cowboys but they were saying "go Houston!" and "go Dallas!"

https://yfrog.com/a/img620/3186/q4rtw.jpg

Pieman2005 · 09-15-2012, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by josephnicks

art modell chose to leave the browns franchise history in cleveland, he basically started a new franchise in baltimore with clevelands players. baltimore previous franchise history was moved to indy.. the sonics franchise history belongs to oklahoma city now, that 1979 nba championship is now thunder history..

OKC has no franchise history. They don't have the championship banner in their rafters. The championship is credited to OKC until a new SuperSonics is formed

josephnicks · 09-15-2012, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Pieman2005

OKC has no franchise history. They don't have the championship banner in their rafters. The championship is credited to OKC until a new SuperSonics is formed

thats because they are sitting in a seattle museum on-loan from clay bennett. if he wanted to he could hang the banners and display the trophy in his arena. they belong to him and his franchise.. all seattle got was the rights to the sonics name and team colors.. they sell merchandise that states okc thunder established 1967 and display former sonics on their okc media guides.. obviously bennett has every intention to keep the franchise history...

htownbandit · 09-15-2012, 11:15 PM

Yeah... and technically that NBA Scoring title that Elvin Hayes won in San Diego is still claimed by Houston, as well as Calvin Murphy's 1970-71 All-Rookie selection, and of course that it started in '67 rather than '71-'72.

body slam · 09-16-2012, 10:12 AM

If we could have gotten to keep the Oilers colors and logo I would have been down with. The name Texans is a little generic, but the best of the choices. Plus we have one of the best logo in the NFL.

Still it would be cool if we could have a retro throw back game with Oiler's uniforms.

Pole · 09-16-2012, 01:59 PM

I don't know what I hate more: Bud Adams or the fact that crappy-ass Dallas had an NFL team named "Texans" before Houston did. Houston was built on oil--like it or not. The Texans should have been called Roughnecks or Wildcattters. Something tough sounding with a nod to the oil industry without calling them the "oilers" and without calling them the name of some former Dallas team.

Qball · 09-16-2012, 02:16 PM

Never liked the name Texans. Not defined at all. What do they mean by a Texan exactly? The only names worse than Texans is Dolphins and Browns. Cardinals is also a terrible name.

But I wouldn't want to go back to the name Oilers. Especially the colors Oilers had.

I wish the name was Houston Hurricanes.