houston oilers?

Question

houston oilers?

Answer 1

Same with the Colts if you have a better offer out there and you can get a new stadium out of it and they're in a good football city then I don't see why moving it's okay they got the Texans a few years later

Answer 2

yeah, the Oilers were the bomb.....

Answer 3

it is owner politics....someone offered a new stadium and some cash upfront to move the team

Answer 4

i was there when all that ugly stuff was going down between bud adams and the city.



bud was one of the first owners to go to their city and "demand" a new stadium be built for his team. the astrodome had a ton of repairs, bud still wasn't happy. he asked for a new stadium "or else". the new stadium was to be dedicated use to the oilers only. the city had every bit the common sense to say "thanks, but no thanks (jackhole)". adams was a massive jerk about it. in the one hand he says "gimme a new stadium" and in the other hand he was already shopping the team around. now...me being a tennessee boy (memphis exact), i know nashville (and memphis) have been dying for a pro team. nashville didn't care what "pro sport" it was, just as long as they had one (or more). memphis wanted a pro team. memphis had just come off of being burned by the nfl (smaller markets of jacksonville and carolina just got teams) for the umpteenth time. nashville's stadium wasn't ready. so the genius bud adams (sarcasm intended), thought it would be great to move the team into tennessee a year before the nashville stadium was ready. the only place to play was liberty bowl memorial stadium in memphis. memphis and nashville are like nasty little rivals as cities. here is this team coming in which is going to be in nashville...attendance in memphis sucked bad...there was no way in hell that memphians were going to support a piece of crap nashville team...especially when their owner was a jackhole.



as for the fanbase in houston, to this day there are very loyal fans of "luv ya blue" (oilers). when i can pick up the sports talk radio, there are STILL people that call in to talk about "the oilers" are doing ... of course they know the oilers are now the titans...but they discuss the progress of that team. the fans kinda sorta follow the texans, but the bandwagon nature is to follow it when it starts to win.

Answer 5

alot of it has to do with polatics and i think from what i heard the owner wanted to move so he took the whole team with him

Answer 6

Yeah, that Bills vs. Oilers game was a classic. It was the greatest comeback in NFL history. Anyways, the Oilers were always a decent team.

Answer 7

where have YOU been the past 15 years?



they DID NOT have a good fan base...the owner found a market in which he could make more money



the Houston Texans were developed to meet a growing need for an AFC team in Texas.

Answer 8

I'm watching an NFL network replay show about them losing a game they clearly had.

Answer 9

Oh you watched that nfl replay tonight? with the Oilers and Bills? That was classic. It is sad that the NFL moved the Oilers to Tennessee. They had a good run.



Whats REALLY sad is, they moved them and 15 years later brought in an expansion team.

Answer 10

its all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Answer 11

Final years in Houston

At the same time, Adams again lobbied the city for a new stadium—one with club seats and other revenue generators present in recently–built NFL stadiums. However, Mayor Bob Lanier turned him down almost out of hand. Houston residents were wary of investing more money on a stadium so soon after the Astrodome improvements and that the city was still struggling to recover from the oil collapse of the 1980s. Adams, sensing that he was not going to get the stadium he wanted, began shopping the Oilers to other cities. He was particularly intrigued by Nashville, and opened secret talks with then-mayor Phil Bredesen. At the end of the 1995 season, Adams announced that the Oilers would be moving to Nashville for the 1998 season. City officials there promised to contribute $144 million toward a new stadium, as well as $70 million in ticket sales. At that point, support for the Oilers all but disappeared. Houstonians wanted to keep the team but did not want to give Bud Adams any more money for what he did. The 1996 season was a disaster for the Oilers. They played before crowds of less than 20,000 and games were so quiet that it was possible to hear conversations on the field from the grandstand. It was especially notable that the team went 8–8, finishing 6–2 in road games and finishing only 2–6 in home games. After the season, the city agreed to let Adams out of his lease a year early, allowing Adams to move the Oilers to Tennessee.

Answer 12

they changed to the texans. there a new team. there so new that there best record in one season if 8-8.