why was I cursed to be an Oiler/Titans fan?

I feel for you. The Bears lost another close one today. GOD

Just seems like they have lost the magic to win the close games lately. Hopefully when they get a few of their defensive starters (4 key players out) back they will get back on track. Green Bay Monday Night.

 

I hope they lose so i can go to eat in Nashville tonight and laugh at people in titans jerseys like i did last week! They got really mad.. but all I could say was hey.. at least my team beat the cowboys

 

I was a die hard Oilers fan, then Titans...but slowly my fan ship has left the Titans as the players I rooted for are no longer there, with the exception of a few.

I even find myself interested in the Texans, though I live in Austin and don't live in Houston anymore.

What a quandry...to have Sunday's to my family and not the NFL...it is refreshing.

DaDakota

 

don't feel too bad, The Raiders just enjoy signing those old players who used to be great. Rod Woodson is going back to the Pro Bowl this year, and Phillip Buchanon is for real. Nothing personal, just get out of the way because the Bandwagon is rolling to the Super Bowl

 

drapg, do you live in Houston? If you do, why dont you root for the Texans? Why root for a team that bolted on you? And why root for a team that will constantly let fans down.

Piss on the Titans! I hate them more than any other team in the NFL. Let the fine folks of Tennessee go through the franchise-long heartbreaks the Oilers provided us Houston fans.

One of the Best feelings I have as an NFL follower, was seeing the Baltimore Ravens beat up the titans in their own backyard 24-10 in the divisional round in 2000. It felt so great because the people of Tennessee had their heart ripped out of them instead of Houstonians.

drapg, I'd get on the Texans bandwagon because they will win a Super Bowl before the Titans do.

 

Just kick the habit. I did.

 

The Texans = no history. The Titans = much history. Maybe that's why some of us still root for the Titans. As for the blanket statement, "Why root for a team that bolted on you," I'll say this: that bolt or no nothing can replace the memory of Ol' Bum amid a rabid Astrodome crowd when he bellowed "this year we knocked on the door; next year we're gonna kick that son-of-a-***** in. That statement to me was better than winning the superbowl. It summed up everything I felt at the time even to this day. That statement is etched in my memory deeper than even Rudy's "never underestimate the heart of a champion."

Like it or not, the Oilers slash Titans are linked to houston for years to come. It will take years for the Texans to develop enough history for the people of houston to forget that the titans aren't the oilers in sheep's clothing.

 

i completely, completely disagree with that. the name of the team is the tennessee titans. they play in Tennessee. when you have a favorite hometown team, and a player gets traded. do you keep on rooting for that player over your home town team or do you keep on rooting for your favorite player. yeah maybe you like the guy but he doesnt represent your city. he doesnt represent you.

when jeff fischer was interviewed after that game against buffalo "the music city miracle" i remember him saying one thing that made me so damn mad. he said "the city of nashville has been waiting a long time for this moment." and that sums it all up. youre a houston oilers fan all those years. you go through all the painful losses waiting for the team to be good. and when it happens, the freaking city of nashville has been waiting a long time for this? its nice that you have nice memories of the oilers in the astrodome, but the tennessee titans are not the houston oilers. the history of the Tennessee titans is the "music city miracle" and missing a chance to tie at the end of a super bowl, which was pretty over dramatized in my opinion.

are there two cleveland browns teams in the nfl now? are there browns/ravens fans and browns fans. the tennessee titans changed there name to remove their houston identity. its a shame that they still wear the baby blue on their jerseys because it gets fans like you sentimental. hey why dont you think about it this way. the city of houston has a great football tradition. all that history and all those bum philips memories took place in the building right next to where the texans play in the city of houston. if you can still love the titans after they changed their identity, why cant you just think of the texans as the houston oilers with their identity changed. i mean its the same damn thing. but i guess memories of jeff fischer with his mulllett and mustache and steve mcnair on the front of the sport section of the houston chronicle is too much to leave behind.
seriously if you want to root for the titans. than root for the tennessee titans, and root for nashville. but dont bring houston in with it. they are NOT the houston oilers. THE TENNESSEE TITANS HAVE NO HISTORY. the houston oilers have history. they are not the same team. and really thinking otherwise is blasphemy and cancels you out as ever being an oilers fan at all.

you should forget about the TENNESSEE TITANS. because they sure have forgotten about you.

 

wow...i was an oilers season ticket holder and i've already forgotten! i LOVED the Oilers...I HATE the Titans. like a cheating girlfriend, it's a love/hate thing when she leaves you. i endured all kinds of pain as an oilers fan...all to see them rebuild in their final years here so they could finally make it to the super bowl...FOR NASHVILLE! no, thanks.

can't wait until the texans kick their ass...it will happen some day. maybe sooner than you think.

 

the oilers were dead to me the day they left.

Go TEXANS & COWBOYS.

 

Well, I now know of at least two posters who like to bend over...and enjoy it apparently.

 

I root for both teams. I never thought I'd say that I have two teams, but it's true. I'm not going to deny it. Go Titans. The last two weeks have sucked royally. Not only have the Texans lost, but the titans too.

 

I can't get into the Texans. I left Houston at around noon on Sunday to come back to Austin, missing the whole game. Didn't bother to turn on the radio to listen. I just didn't care. If the Rockets had been playing the freaking Memphis Grizzlies, I'd've damn sure got up and left by 9AM to make it back in time. Heck, even if it were a Rocket pre-season game, I'd've made sure I didn't miss it. I've got no history with the Texans. Don't live in Houston. I did tune into the Titans/Raiders game with legitimate interest, however. I know more players on the Titans than I do the Texans.

What's irritating, but I guess typical for Houston, is all the attention being given to the Texans. I remember like a 3-hr pre-game show for one of the pre-season games! That's ridiculous. If people cared that much about the Oilers they would no doubt still be in Houston.

I just can't get onto the bandwagon. I could walk around with Texans gear on but I'd just be lying to myself.

 

Freak....Ditto !

DD

 

Well, I don't live in Houston anymore, but it's the place where I spent the first 18 years of my life (give or take a few months). That's why I can feel a certain affinity for that team. Hell, I feel it for Chicago/Wisconsin teams and Bay Area teams because of my time spent there.

Also, it's not a bandwagon when you're on it from the beginning. It's a bandwagon when TheFreak, drapg, and DaDakota become fans in a couple of years when they're Super Bowl contenders.

 

The team I rooted for wore columbia blue and had an oil derrick on their helmets.

The team died the day Bud changed the logo. I rooted for the Oilers in Memphis and Nashville.

F the Titans