The Oilers played their last game in Houston and I quit watching the NFL. I hope Bud Adams is lonely in Hell. (They lost to Cincinnati.)
I don't blame Bud, I blame Bud and the Mayor at the time. threats to move suck, but they had to move. we didn't like the threat.
We ended up winning in the end. We have a much better football team with a better ownership/management team. Yay! #piccardfacepalm
Can we trade the McNair to Tennessee for an owner to be named later? Will include cash as all of our draft picks and best players were traded away (or are ridding the bench until their legal problems drive their value down to nothing).
I was at their last game ever, a 24 - 21 win over the Ravens in Baltimore at old Memorial Stadium. Post game, I walked through an open gate onto the sideline to get Eddie George's autograph. Got blindsided by a security guard who told the cop he handed me off to that he caught me "running around on the field". Long story short, I took a "rough ride" in a police truck to central processing. Spent about 6 hours in jail and was the last person to see a magistrate; otherwise I would have had to stay overnight. Got out and made it to work the next morning. Two months later, a charge of "Trespassing on Conspicuously Posted Property" in the case of "Mayor of Baltimore and Baltimore City Council vs Colt45" was dismissed because nobody from either the mayor's office or the city council came to press charges. On that same Sunday afternoon, about 45 miles south, 50,000 people spent a good few hours trying to tear down and haul off anything they could get their hands on from RFK Stadium which hosted its last WFT game. Not a single arrest. Finally, a year after that afternoon, I was at the last game ever held at Memorial Stadium...Ravens vs TENNESSEE Oilers.
Lanier was an ass, and it should've gone to a vote, BUT in 1988 he threatened to leave to Jax if we didn't spend hundreds to redo the Astrodome and ruin all that made it special. You don't get to threaten again 5 years later. Bud was only famous for being a part of the lucky sperm club.
Loved the Oilers and the city ended up paying 3 times what it would have to get the Texans......what a great biz man Lanier wasn't. DD
Lanier told Bud to go to the County Judge since they played in a county owned facility and he didn't he just blamed them not getting a new building on the mayor. He thought maybe his plan had a chance if he could convince the Rockets to play in the building too. Les went to Spurs game at the Alamodome and saw what stupid idea and pulled out of the deal and it had no chance then to ever get done.
What are you talking about? Are you talking about Herzeg? It was Ladd, not Les EDIT: I forgot about the stupidity of Bud. My apologies. Still preferred Turbo over Clutch, though.
There is another book that came out around the time of the move that is good too. Its called Oiler Blues and it details a lot of the insanity that went with the team while it was here.
I forgot which poster had this had their sig but still agree with it. "If you were in a room with Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and Bud Adams and you had a gun with two bullets what would you do? Shoot Bud Adams twice.."
It’s funny as soon as the Oilers left, the Astrodome was no good for the Astros and the Rockets wanted a new building too. Mayor Bob was an idiot RIP. Houston is very lucky to have received another team - although you could say the Texans aren’t a team. We could have been like Seattle in the NBA.
The only reason we got a team is because LA didn't have their **** together for a stadium for the new team. McNair then bid twice what the going rate was for a franchise and the NFL had no choice but to give the team to Houston. I remember after it was announced Bud couldn't help himself and told one of the local guys interviewing him " It would have been a lot cheaper to keep us"
