HOUSTON Oilers fans... how soon did you disown them after the relocation?

You have to remember that Houston had to play two division games and the conference championships against one of the greatest teams of all time, who themselves publicly considered the Oilers the second best team in the league. Also note that Simpson was already done as a pro and that Earl Campbell was considered the most dynamic running back since. Also just admit that football is the biggest thing in Texas, and that watching the Oilers finally getting good again since the early AFL days was great; especially after having to watch Schramm and Landry build the best run franchise in professional sports over that same time frame.

 

man, those were some fun poo-slinging threads!

 

as much as i hated watching them almost win a Super Bowl, i have to admit i felt a little redemption when the music city miracle happened. it was like a big FU to buffalo via proxy. things turned out well in the end. no super bowl ring for that old fart.

and i would never take the old name back. the oilers are associated with nothing but choking. i don't want anything to do with that franchise.

 

Luv Ya Blue was about a city's love affair with a team. Nothing overrated about it at all.

They freaking packed the Dome to welcome the team back after a playoff LOSS!!! Can't recall that sort of thing happening anywhere else for any other team.

 

I have rooted for some of the players such as Air McNair (seeing him develop into an MVP quarterback was a bittersweet treat), Eddie, Blaine Bishop, Marcus Robertson, and especially Bruce Matthews, after they had left.

To be honest, it's still a bit weird that the Oilers are gone.

 

If I remember right, this was a time when the NFL was actually turning pretty boring. Offenses were ultra-conservative, not many elite QB's in the league, and there were LOTS of 9-6 type games. Very few 38-35 type games like nowadays.

We as Texan fans are pretty lucky that our team has become good in the most exciting NFL era I can remember. The NFL is head and shoulders above every other pro sports league right now and conveniently, the Texans are in their prime as a franchise.

It doesn't suck being a Texans fan.

 

I make no secret of my NFL addiction, but I did not watch one game until we got a new team. My boycott was complete and total. My entire family simply stopped caring, and I knew other people who were the same way.

 

I didn't like THE TITANS right away. I still liked the Tennessee Oilers for a couple seasons.

List of teams I like since 1999:
1. Texans
... 2 - 30....
31. Titans
32. Cowboys

 

the minute that Adams announced they were leaving I stopped being a DIEHARD Oilers fan.

I became a fan at 6yrs old back in '68. Suffered through those 1-13 seasons, but I was a DIEHARD and stuck by them through the good times and the bad times. When Adams said he was taking the team to Tenn I was major league PISSED OFF!!!! However if he didn't want to be here than DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOUR FAT ASS ON THE WAY OUT OF TOWN!!!

Why in the world would anyone IN Houston continue to be a fan of the Titans is beyond me. Now if you were a Oilers fan living in another city I could understand why. But living in Houston? NO FREAKIN' WAY!!!!!!!

 

Exactly. If it doesn't say HOUSTON on it.....I'm not a fan.

Plus...to keep all the history and still change the name.....screw that franchise and Adams....

 

The Vikings were always my NFC team even when I was a huge Oiler fan. So when they left, I just followed the Vikings exclusively. When I was a kid, I was a huge Herschel Walker, and Chris Doleman fan.

 

Only cut the cord? I would run it over, bomb it, shred it, and send it to Pluto if possible.

 

http://youtu.be/NsjXko9N6B0

Over-rated?! Hardly.

70,000 inside the 'Dome and twice that many turned away. HPD boarded the buses in the parking lot and said that if the fans stormed the field that they were on their own because there were too many of them and they'd been screaming and cheering for hours. It was an incredible atmosphere in Houston at the time. The team was accesible and a real part of the community. You'd see them out everywhere. The city loved them and, as corny as it sounds, they loved us right back.

 

Clutch this is THE only way it could ever be!!!
How could anyone still be a fan of the team that just left town? Again as I said in my previous post, if you were a fan of the team and lived in another city (NOT Houston) than I could understand following the team.

Did people from Brooklyn still follow (stay loyal to) the Dodgers when they left for LA? HELL NO!!!!

Did people from Baltimore stay loyal to the Colts when they left? HELL NO!!!!

Did the fans of Cleveland (Browns) stay loyal and follow them when they left to Baltimore? Again HELL NO!!!!

How can you stay loyal and follow a team that just ripped your heart out? Just CAN'T be done.

So I agree with you when they left it was IMMEDIATE!!!!!

 

I would love to keep The Oilers franchise history, the records and players. Give a place for old oilers to be appreciated cause I don't think Titan fan appreciates luv ya blue and other oiler history like that

 

THAT'S RIGHT!!!

And when the going gets tough????.............

Spoiler

 

I would also like this.

Thinking of Moon, Munchak, Matthews, and Campbell hanging from the rafters in freaking Neckville still pisses me off.

 

I should have also added "was it over when the German's bombed Pearl Harbor"?

 

I mostly agree...however I do know several Brooklyn and Baltimore natives who are still Dodgers and Colts fans today. It was a different time back then...less alternative options to choose from may have kept thir loyalty strong.