Would you change the Texans back to Oilers?

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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...

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Sorry about digging up this thread but was just thinking about this in comparison to the Browns.

How the heck/Why the F did the city of Houston not hold out to keep the Oilers name and history? Cleveland did it. Seattle did it. Houston just let Bud and Paul Tagliabue go their way with the Oilers name?

I wasn't/am not an Oilers fan so I didn't care back then but I find this puzzling as to why much of an effort wasn't made (if that was the case).

 

For the same reason we didn't get a shuttle.

And Bud & the Oilers are both burning in Hell - where they belong. I'd sooner wear a Utah Jazz jersey than an Oilers' jersey. They legacy was ruined by an old rich a-hole who died alone, and no true Houston fan could stomach supporting a name that TN Hillbillies got to use.

 

The Texans are who we are, and I have come to be at peace with it, but does anyone else think that the name was chosen for (partially) marketing reasons? I mean, any potential owner must've known that they would always be second fiddle to the Cowboys, so I think maybe they named the team "Texans" to appeal to a wider Texas audience and potentially supplant the Cowboys as Texas' go-to team.

At least we can seek solace in having one of the best logos in all of sports. I hope they never change it. It's a modern classic, IMO.

 

I am still pissed about this and want the oilers name back.

My care and concern for the 'texans' would go up by about a million points if we were the oilers. Right now I cant stand them just because I cant get past the texans name. Its like a girl with ugly feet. I cant get past it. I have never been able to.

So here I am stuck in this weird world where I hate the texans because of the name.

its really that simple. If they were the oilers I would be wearing a luv ya blue shirt right now and my son would be named bum. But since this is houston and tradition doesnt exist it's about just shi**tting on these concepts.

Bulls on parade? yawn. Seems fake and fabricated just like katy/pearland. or a houston strip center. I cant get into it. I guess its the real houston though just like the carpet baggers that call a place 'upper kirby.'

Get real.

 

no....

 

Change the name back to the Oilers. Bud Adams is where he belongs.

 

Yep, in a heartbeat...I miss the Oilers....I remember when they only lost to two teams and went 10-4 - and missed the playoffs.

Man, I grew up with those teams.

DD

 

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