Are you a Bum Phillips fan?

This post just shows your ignorance. For over a decade prior to Bum, the Oilers were a pathetic franchise. Not even a sniff of a good team. Bum got the players he inherited to believe in themselves, added some key players and completely turned the team around. The Steelers were the best team, in my opinion, that I have ever seen, which includes the undefeated Miami team. The idiot miscreant, Bud Adams fired Bum for losing to the Steelers in some of the best fought football games ever. If Bum had another 2 seasons, they might have been able to get to the super bowl. At the very least, they would have been damn competitive.

By the way, wtf does some sportswriter have to do with it anyway?

 

And the 70's Steelers were the pioneers of heavy steroid use in the NFL.

I demand asterisks.

 

You know, I’ve only recently heard the “he ran Earl into the ground” criticism from folks who were adults during the Luv Ya Blue era (like my Dad). This is all news to me since I was 8 years old at the time and all I knew was that Earl Campbell was GOD. I still think so, by the way.

I don’t think it’s as far fetched for some old Oiler fans to dislike him for that reason. I don’t agree with it, but it does have some merit.

I loved him. I think he came around at exactly the right time in Houston. That team, and their coach, stood for everything our city did at that time. To this day, no other team has captured the hearts of this city like those teams did. Not even the Rockets Championship teams.

“Yup….”
-O.A. “Bum” Phillips

 

Hahahaha

 

How can you not like Bum? He is the greatest coach in Houston football history. It's no shame to lose to one of the greatest teams (if not the greatest) in football history in the AFC title game.

Bum is a Texas legend and if you dislike him, you're anti-Texan, anti-American, and probably just plain mean.

 

I demand a Congressional investigation. Get that Mitchell on the phone.

 

I heard a radio interview with Bum within the last 7 months and he was asked about contributing to Earl's current conditions, and he said that it had nothing to do with football...

I doubt that's true, but he said Earl didn't blame him.

I'm too young (30) to remember the Luv Ya Blue days, but my dad LOVED Bum, so he gets my support

 

Look at recent interviews with Earl. He says the same thing. He doesn't blame football, Fred Akers, or Bum Phillips.

 

One more

On Don Shula: "He can take his'n and beat your'n and take your'n and beat his'n."

 

I believe a was listening to the same interview on 610 and Bum said if the medical community had the same technology today that Earl would never had played. Something to do with a nerve or artery wrapped around his tailbone, which is what is causing his back problems today.

 

I echo those sentiments!!!

 

I prefer a Bum Phillips and Rudy T approach to a JVG/Larry Brown one.

GO BUM !!

DD

 

Bum was the proto coach of the good ol' days when coaches could grab you by your facemask and just whomp you upside the head. And we didn't have any foam in there back then; it was just nylon straps.

Monkey rolls, Bull-in-the-ring and Hamburger drills ...water break? you want a water break ? p***y! everybody line up for wind sprints!

 

What is megaupload? I'm at work; I want to make sure it doesn't get me busted if I were to attempt to download whatever clip you've got there.

 

Reminds me of high school.

 

Ditto. I don't know any Houston native who doesn't have a place in their heart for Bum. I was a huge Oilers fan and Bum helped create some of the most wonderful moments in their long and not forgotten history.

 

Bum was the man!