@@UrinatingTree See I'm a Fouts era Chargers fan so to me it's dark blue unis. Say the Dolphins/Chargers in January of 82 would be a great video for you to do. Winner gets to play Cincy in one of the coldest games ever !!
After the move, support for the Oilers dried up overnight, so fast that Houston let them out of of the Astrodome lease one year early. But Bud Adams thought that Vanderbilt's stadium was too small, so they spent 1997 in Memphis, but Memphis didn't support them knowing they were bound for Nashville once Adelphia Coliseum opened.
@@AEMoreira81 then Adelphia would go broke after a scandal, then bought by Time Warner (after THAT AOL merger) and Nissan would take over, how is this stadium bad now?
Fun fact about that 1997 game against the Steelers- that game helped determine the AFC Central winner (Pittsburgh) on the 5th tiebreaker. Longest tiebreaker of all-time. All the Steelers had to do in that game was not lose by 60 points and they had the division won, since the Steelers and Jaguars were tied on the first four tiebreakers, and Pittsburgh had the fifth (point differential within the division) if they kept the margin to anywhere that wasn't historically embarrassing
I am a native Memphian and I went to that game. The only thing that kept that game from being a sellout was the fact that it was cold and rainy. Even to this day, we probably have more Steeler fans in Memphis than we do Titan fans.
@Harry Engel At the time, it was: 1) Head-to-head (Jacksonville and Pittsburgh split) 2) Division winning percentage (Jacksonville and Pittsburgh were 6-2 in the AFC Central) 3) Winning percentage against common opponents (Jacksonville and Pittsburgh were 7-5) 4) Winning percentage within the conference (Jacksonville and Pittsburgh were 9-3) 5) Net point differential within the division (Jacksonville was at +23, Pittsburgh was at +88)
Theoretically it's possible. The Burgundy and Gold lost the 1940 NFL title to the Bears 73-0. (As you might guess, team owner George Preston Marshall said something stupid to rile up the Bears and make them run up the score. Otherwise, I'm sure even Papa Bear Halas would have pulled a George Gibbs in the fourth quarter.) But most NFL games---even routs---don't have margins of victory THAT huge.
As a native Memphian here, I remember the Oilers in Memphis disaster quite well. ESPN and other sports outlets wanted to shame the city for not supporting what we called the Nashville Oilers at that time. Tree hit the nail on the head as to the real reason why people stayed away unless their favorite team happened to play the Oilers in Memphis. The people of Memphis was angry with the NFL for spurning the city for not granting the city a team after 30 years of trying. I went to the final home game in 1996 when the Steelers came to town. It was a meaningless final week game. The Steelers had already sown up a playoff spot by then. The Oilers were already eliminated. Out of the 50,600 people who showed up for that game, 50,000 were rooting for the Steelers. If it weren't for the fact that it was cold and rainy that game, we would have sold out the Liberty Bowl just to spite Bud Adams. The Oilers came to Memphis at the wrong time. Fresh off of getting spurned by the league for one of the expansion teams that eventually became the Panthers and Jags. Plus they were expecting the people to support a team that they didn't feel like was ever going to be theirs. I am willing to bet money there are more Steeler fans in the Memphis area/West TN than there are Titan fans.
Yeah not only were they angry at the NFL for not awarding them a team, but they awarded them one in basically the worst way possible by just giving them a rental team that’ll just head to Nashville in two years. And biggest problem to that is Nashville and Memphis loathe each other. Memphis sees Nashville as a pretentious, hopelessly conventional suburban enclave and Nashville seeing Memphis as a trying-too-hard, affected-cool backwater river town. Those two cities have spent a century trash-talking each other for everything from music (country vs. blues), food (hot chicken vs. barbecue), to on-brand nicknames (Smashville vs. Grind City). Assuming Memphis fans would support a Nashville team is like assuming Giants fans would go to Jets games.
Its funny because Memphis has rivalries with Nash due to the reasons stated, which is also laughable considering, and Knoxville with the UT UM rivalry. So 2/3 of the state dislikes Memphis.
Dang, I was born in Memphis 18 years ago(we moved when I was like 10), my parents told me the Titans were once in Memphis but and didn't realize it was a bad thing.
According to my dad, Bud Adams held a rally to keep the Oilers in Houston and to convince the city to build a new stadium and apparently no one showed up
I was here. That rally came too little too late. Man tried to strong arm while giving us wild card teams. The worst part of it all was it wasnt like he was wrong, but doing it while the teams kept bowing out early in the playoffs wasnt a good look. I went to a home game that last season. It was weird seeing NO advertisement anywhere.
I could see the McNairs doing this when NRG Stadium is considered antiquated. They have no pull in this city and that probably won’t change unless they can advance past the divisional round.
The city loved the Oilers, but hated Bud Adams and rightfully so. He took the "Luv Ya Blue" era and pissed it all away after 1980. Then started complaining about a new stadium in 87, then again in 95 after their 93' choke job against the Bills. Of course taxpayers won't pay for a new stadium, unless "Bud Adams" sold the team to somebody else.
Really the premier team of Tennessee. Even in cities in the Sunbelt that have 2 teams you don't really see hockey be the number one team. Like LA has the Lakers, Dallas has the cowboys, Miami has the heat, Raleigh doesn't even have a professional sports team, but even roots for NCSU.
@@qwertyuiop123453993 i mean walk around Nashville and i see a lot more predators merch. I mean hell even go to small towns in the region like Paris or Columbia and you still find more people walking around with predators gear.
@@nicholasgleason3763 while I live about 30 minutes outside of nashville I do go there often but I would still say there are probably more Titans fans but I feel like preds fans are more passionate about the team where they will wear merch or if you wear preds gear you are more likely to get some reactions from other people whereas I feel I never get any reactions when I wear Titans stuff
@@williamhargrove3773 im from out of state, but just from the couple times i've been to nashville and listening to radio/media from nashville theres more coverage on the titans
10:09 "Memphanites." He picks a city that has been burned by pro football three times over as the temporary home for a team destined to play in the one place that city hates the most, tries to strong-arm Memphis for everything from season-ticket campaigns to travel expenses, does nothing to try to connect the team with it's new temporary home, and on top of all that, can't even be bothered to look up the right demonym. There's executive indifference, and then there's *this.*
@@UrinatingTree If this is indeed part 2 of 2 you did a damn good job dude. Personally I would love if you did a mini-series on 2001 sports. So much crazy stuff happened that year. Bonds hit 73 homers, the Mariners win the most games in history, the D-Backs won the world series, the Patriots upset the Rams in the Super Bowl, The Lakers dynasty and the emergence of Allen Iverson, and even 9/11 affecting every sport. It would be just such a rich and exciting topic that I think you would cover perfectly In this documentary-style format. Anyways great video as always Tree.
@@UrinatingTree I know you're not much of a basketball guy, but it'd be cool to see you do a video on the Seattle Sonics during the sportsball down period next year (after all, you're going to be pretty busy with another expansion draft Hater's Guide in a couple months, I assume).
@@alexcastellini2672 and don't forget the Greatest Loss in Auto Racing since Ayrton Senna's death at Imola: the Fatal Crash at the Daytona 500 that took Dale "The Intimidator" Earnhardt's life.
@@UrinatingTree Potential Houston professional football Legacy of Failure? Highlighting both the Oilers and the Texans? That's a vid that has to be done this year.
I’d really like to see more videos like these. It’s similar to the legacy of failure videos, but it opens up the possibility for a ton of topics in sports history.
Love to see him do Olympic themed videos like How Denver declined the 1976 Olympics, How Atlanta, the city with a long history of choking won 1996 Olympics rights, LOLCOW on the IOC discussing their issues and a legacy of failures on failed bids, sports and teams and Olympians themselves.
@@jesfel14 Colorado was certainly a different place in 1972 that it is now A statewide referendum in 1972 to pay for the games with a $5 million ($31.9 million in 2021) bond was rejected by the voters 60-40. This was the same year that Nixon won the state’s 7 EVs (will be 10 in 2024) 63-35 over McGovern and won all but 2 counties. The two counties were not in the Denver metro area. Colorado population in 1972 was 2.41 million compared to 5.7 million today. The Eisenhower Tunnel, west of Denver on I-70, was under construction at the time and would not be completed until 1973. One problem: it was two-lanes and use exceeded initial predictions. So a second tunnel was built: the Johnson tunnel, named for the governor and later senator who advocated for I-70 to be built in his state. Pro sport teams in Colorado at the time: Broncos had yet to post a winning season. The Nuggets were still in the ABA as the Denver Rockets. The Kansas City Scouts would move to Denver in 1976 and rename themselves the Rockies. Speaking of the Rockies, the MLB wouldn’t put a team there until the 1990s. Major airport: Stapleton Airport that was later replaced by Denver International located east of where it once was. Today the neighborhood is now known as Central Park in part due to the namesake had connections to the KKK I imagine a lot of the skiing & bobsled events would’ve been held up in the mountains while things like hockey, ice skating, and other skating events would’ve been held in Denver, Boulder, and Colorado Springs. Mile High Stadium 1.0 would’ve been used for the opening & closing ceremonies. So after that referendum, Denver pulled the bid. Salt Lake City, who got the games in 2002, and Lake Placid, 1980 winter host, put in bids but the IOC likely felt rejected by the US and chose Austria as the site of the 1976 winter games. Vancouver, 2010 host, put in a bid but probably was rejected because Montreal was hosting the 1976 summer games as well as the NDP winning the provincial elections in 1972
@@ninersdd21 Not necessarily. I mean, it’s possible, but there’s no guarantee that all the personnel would have gelled that way or even came to one of those areas.
I always strap in tightly when UTree makes a video about a team I'm a fan of, but this was more pleasant (especially for the ending). Thanks for teaching the sports world about Tennessee history as well.
Houstonian here. You hit the nail on the head about Bud Adams. Mention his name to any native over the age of 30 and you’ll hear those choice words about him, plus more. When he died, Houstonians were still pissed at him because he croaked a week after Bum Phillips did, he didn’t even have the decency to die before the most beloved head coach in Oilers history.
I wonder if any people under the age of 10 years are saying that they hate Bud Adams in Houston. I have heard about things like it in Cleveland with Art Modell. It would be interesting to hear about it.
Fellow Houstonian reporting. My late father worked as a courier for a while and routinely delivered to the office building where Bud Adams kept his own offices. He'd promised himself years before if he ever met Adams, he'd tell him what he thought of him. One day, after years of pickups, he encountered Adams in one of the elevators. He hesitated, weighing his job against his word, and decided that his soul was more important than his paycheck. He turned to Adams, looked him straight in the eye, and said, "I promised myself I'd do this if I ever got the chance: Mr. Adams, fuck you." To his (infinitesimal) credit, Adams merely looked at him and replied, "fair enough." When the doors opened, they both exited the elevator, and thankfully never ran into one another again, despite my father keeping his job.
@@terra__incognitaHe was at least the third or fourth person that day to tell Adams to fuck himself. He's been dead nearly 12 years now, and he's still the most hated man in Houston sports history, despite Bill O'Brien's best efforts.
Titans fans really didn't suffer at that time, and losing the Super Bowl in the first real year of the team didn't feel too terrible. There was even a parade after the game. What has really hurt is that the Titans haven't been back in the last 21 years, when the expectation was set so high. Year 1 (1999) was supposed to be the starting point for greatness, not the peak of the team (though they have had a few great years since).
One of the best wrestlemanias ever definitely I guess it took them months to set it up to get that Dome ready. I remember hearing something right at the center where they would set their ring up wasn't even they had to almost consider an alternate setup putting the ring away from the 50-yard line. But they pulled it off I'm almost positive that was the last major event ever held inside the Astrodome
Bud Adams did some good things for the AFL, helping Al Davis fight the NFL, but no one remembers that. Firing Bum Phillips was such a major blow to his rep. Phillips was an icon, (rivaled only by Rudy Tomjanovich). The loss to Buffalo was almost the final straw. The Buddy Ryan/Kevin Gilbride collapse against Joe Montana and Marcus Allen was the final nail. I remember people saying “I’ll never watch this team again”, and obviously we meant it. That ‘93 team had so much talent they could have won the Super Bowl, but in typical Oiler fashion they screwed the pooch in a way only the Oilers could. That’s really what led to the “Choke City” name after the Rockets near collapse before they turned it into “Clutch City.”
@@crosstatt7441 I agree. Mostly those were related to the AFL. He may have pushed for the Astrodome, but I think Roy Hofheinz made that happen. I guess you could credit Bud for allowing the late 80s early 90s team to be built. It was built to win. I can’t think of much else.
@@TheSteveSteele Are you originally from Houston? I’m from the Cleveland area. Not to bring up the bad, but, which was worse for Bud Adams, moving the Oilers or firing Bum Phillips? I know that Art Modell has a similar reputation. The Steelers fans supported the Browns fans and the next year, Oilers ones.
This was an incredibly interesting story of what happened to this franchise after 1993. I didn't even know they played in Memphis for 2 years. In the end, everyone got in one way or another what they wanted
As a Titans fan, I didn't think I would see the day Tree made an entire video about the franchise. This was well researched and a great watch! That you for all the work you put into this video. I may be a bit biased....but my favorite one so far!
Lots of very interesting relocation stories from the NHL. The Jets moving to Phoenix is such a great story filled with incompetence, and stupid management/ownership who didn't react when they first started seeing warning lights. People outside who don't know the story just take the easy answer of "well your city didn't support the team. low sales, then makes no financial sense." which is just the dumbest response to why the Original Winnipeg Jets relocated to Arizona.
Still, it could work as its own video. If not just for one of the most pettiest reasons why an owner would refus occupying a new stadium- Norm Green apparently refused to share the Target Center because they had Coca-Cola as the official soft drink, while the Met Center had Pepsi. The way he defended that, either he had stock in PepsiCo or they gave him one *hell* of a deal. That was fucking NUTS to read about.
@@UrinatingTree You could go with the Tennessee Blues. It resembles the Oilers’ baby blue uniforms and the impact that music, most notably country, has had on the state.
@@UrinatingTree As someone from Memphis I'd recommend going to Tops bbq if you want a pulled pork sandwich. If you want bbq nachos I'd recommend going to Centrals bbq. To me Corkys is overrated and not that good. Plenty of great places for bbq overall tho in Memphis.
Adding Mike Keith from the University of Tennessee as radio guy helped the move to Tennessee, but the name change was the biggest help. You can still silence Texans fans by bringing up the Oilers.
I'm really glad you spent time acknowledging why Memphians were so apathetic towards the Oilers when we had them. I feel like we get written off as a dispassionate fan base because of it and it's absolutely not the case. Hell most of us still actively root against the Titans
Imagine rooting for out of state teams because Nashville got the titans and not Memphis. That’s some traitor shit not the energy I’m looking for in my volunteer state go to bama or FLA with that shit
I remember watching NFL Primetime when they did the highlights for Ravens/Oilers and Chris Berman was mad at the attendance and called it "a disgrace."
Whenever Tree decides one day to do "Oil Crisis 3" about the Texans' years as a franchise, please include the game when Sage Rosenfels got turned into a helicopter.
I say do a 2013 season vid though is it is still the biggest one season collapse in NFL history. Not due to losing a core, but losing so much despite having that core. Matt Schaub regressed, the D was a trash fire, we constantly choked. As well as Gary Kubiak's health issues and Bum Phillips dying, so much happened in this season. Almost as worse as the turmoil of the '93 Oilers
This is a tough one. I was born and raised in Houston in the 60's and 70's and loved the Houston Oilers. I was there during the 1970-1973 drought and there during Luv Ya Blue as well, in attendance for most every home game. It would be hard to underestimate the effect the Oilers had on the city (and vice versa) when Bum was the head coach. You would have to be there. The floods and hurricanes are nothing in comparison, losing the Oilers was the worst thing that ever happened to the City of Houston. I'm glad I was gone by then. Sundays haven't been the same since, though. I never adopted another team. The Oilers were simply irreplaceable.
My uncle moved to the Lake Charles area of Louisiana in the early 60’s before the Saints existed. He’d drive over to Houston on Sundays to watch them. At first, it was just pro-football, not the NFL, but the second rate AFL. But then he went to the 1962 AFL Championship Game and even though they lost to Dallas, he became an Oilers fan. He became a season ticket holder until the end of the 1995 season. He went to the final game at the Astrodome in 1996. It was the last regular season NFL game he ever watched. He tuned in to the Rams-Titans Super Bowl just to root against the Titans. Other than that, he quit watching the NFL, didn’t even watch the Super Bowls after that. When the Saints threatened to leave New Orleans after the Hurricane in 2005, he told everyone who listened to him that they were gone and not coming back, just like the Oilers. He never watched the Texans, he was pissed off that Houston got sloppy seconds on the Texans name. Felt it was a slap in the face, first lose to the Texans in the AFL Championship game 40 years earlier and then have to use that name. He was able to enjoy the Rockets winning back to back championships and the Astros winning a World Series before dying in 2018 from cancer. He came back to visit us one last time two months before he died and I asked if he had any regrets and he said “None. Well, just one. All those years and all that time watching the fucking Oilers.”
@Elijah Boyd I think the thing with Cleveland being able to keep the Browns name and history while the NFL basically told fans in Houston “tough shit” pissed him off the most. He thought it was also bullshit that the Oilers ditched the name and refused to give it back to Houston.
@@mongoslade277 I guess I worded it badly, my uncle thought in the early years of the AFL that it was second rate, 1960-62. By 1964 he was a full on AFL fan and he told me more than a few times that the 1963 AFL Champion Chargers would have beaten the 1963 NFL Champion Bears in a head to head match up.
I am one of the original PSL holders for the Titans, so I am pretty familiar with the story. UrinatingTree did a good job presenting the difficulty of this move. I didn't go to a single game in Memphis, and only went to a couple of games at Vandy. I am a big Vandy fan too, but I hate that stadium so much (glorified high school stadium). My seats were in the middle, but one row from the top, and it took me 30 minutes to leave my seat, go to the bathroom, get a drink, and get back. But in the end, it's been worth it, and the 1999 season is still the most special in Titans history. And for the all the hate Bud Adams received from both Houston and Nashville, his daughter Amy Adams Strunk is doing a heck of a job as the main owner of the team.
I didn't know the Devils nearly moved to Houston. I know they were awful in the early 80s after they moved from Kansas City and Colorado but I didn't think it escalated that far. Everyone talks about the Penguins like "oh the Kansas City Penguins almost happened" as if nobody remembers, why don't we make fun of the Devils? I feel like it'd be funner for Devils and Flyers fans anyway.
No, they nearly moved to Nashville, not Houston. Although Houston has been linked with a few hockey teams in the past (The Oilers [ironcially] and Penguins in the late 90's), they weren't linked to the Devils.
If you ever feel like doing this level of documentary on the Preds, I'd be down. There's so much fascinating stuff to discuss between how the team came into the league, the Balsillie situation, the postseason ups and downs, and how the fanbase rose to where it is today.
Madden 99 was the first game that had a franchise mode. The Tennessee Oilers were the darlings of that game, with young studs McNair and George at the most important positions. Frank Wycheck could be your fb or tight end. Newly signed Yancey Thigpen was a highly rated wide receiver, with rookie Kevin Dyson (unnamed NFLPA issue with rookies) and young Chris Sanders forming a great core. The O line was solid. Once you beefed up your defense you were going for a super bowl run, as obviously the Titans did the next year. Except the early Maddens wouldnt let you switch to those SWEET Oilers jerseys. Plus Madden didnt really know what to do with the stadium, so they made this wide open, sectioned BEAUTY that I think they just labeled Tennessee stadium. Madden og's know the Tennessee Oilers were absolutely the shit
You mean 4 years during the Titans' rebuild? Tennessee owns the series 21-17 and dominated the Texans for some time after their very rough expansion team start. There was no ten year period of Houston success.
In 1995, the Carolina Panthers played their games in Clemson, over 2 hours away. And even though that distance was shorter than the distance between Nashville and Memphis, the Panthers barely averaged 50,000 a game. The only game that got over 55,000 fans was against the 49ers, who were the most popular team in the league at that point not named the Cowboys. So you would think that Bud would realize that playing in a city that is not going to have a team in a few years and is not going to be your own, and is even further away, and hates the NFL and wants nothing to do with it after how badly the NFL treated Memphis in the wake of the collapse of the WFL was going to be a recipe for disaster from a fan perspective. And yet, the 1997 Oilers happened
In 1995 Death Valley had around 65000 seats, as opposed to the 81000+ now. So averaging 50k was pretty damn good. Clemson made out like a bandit on the agreement, with Jerry Richardson’s company agreeing to provide funding for renovations to the library, Jersey Gym (where women’s volleyball play) and other projects Clemson had going on. Along with an extra couple million in profit from ticket sales and amenities.
That's actually not bad attendance. Plus, the Panthers were able to endear themselves more to the South Carolinians by calling themselves the "Carolina Panthers", not the "Charlotte Panthers." The owners really made sure to show that the team belonged to both states, and they did that by having the team play their home games in SC while their stadium in Charlotte was being completed.
As someone who worked and volunteered for the Autozone Liberty Bowl and proud Memphian myself. I am proud to say Liberty Bowl is very much the same. But we now have LTE coverage!!! 💯
Never would've guessed the Grizzlies were having issues staying in Memphis currently. As someone who lives outside the STL area, a couple of people wanted an NBA franchise over an MLS franchise. But that made me wonder how small market teams like the Grizzlies, Pelicans and others were doing.
@@Todzilla98 that's why it surprises me. Granted, I have family who live outside of Memphis. Never seen them go to a Grizzlies game. But then again, they're not really sports fans and I figured the rest of the surrounding area does everything they can to support the Grizzlies. And especially now that they're in the playoffs and won Game 1 against a really good Utah Jazz team. Sure, Grizzlies haven't been the same since Marc Gasol left, but I figured they'd build around Ja Morant and Morant would be the superstar the Grizzlies need
As someone who grew up in Houston, I'm still pissed at Bud for "retiring" the Houston Oilers logo and name. I wouldn't be surprised to find out he was instrumental in putting the kibosh on the potential sale of the Edmonton Oilers to Les Alexander in the late 90s. That's the kind of petty asshole Bud Adams is.
@@splashnskillz37 The only way is if the Titans give up the name to Houston. They won't though. Adams' daughter knows how much the name means to Houston but also knows her Dad would never allow it. She even said that the Texans have nothing to do with the Oilers, which is a lie. The only reason Houston has the Texans now is because Bob McNair wanted to bring the NFL back to Houston after the Oilers left. The Titans can't claim Luv Ya Blue as their own. There's so much love even today for the Oilers in Houston. The Oilers name is also really important considering it helped make Houston such a big city. The whole SE Texas area went big with oil.
Thank you for reminding everyone that Bud Adams is the one responsible for the horrible unoriginal name "Houston Texans." At least Cleveland wrested the name "Browns" from Art Modell
Dud Adams should've chosen Vandy's stadium as a temporary home, regardless of loss alcohol sales and it having no skyboxes. No brainer. Also, he should've changed the Oilers name right away.
I know you're hard at work on these videos and I'm greatly appreciative. I can't stop watching these Oilers vids. So compelling. Any chance of something this in-depth on the Buttfumble?
I'm so glad someone dedicated videos to the bizzare history of the Oilers/Titans, and their ownership. Tree, will you cover the Titans history? Especially with how Bud Adams' daughter Amy Adams has basically become his polar opposite as an owner.
Here is what really gets my goat----Bud Adams screwed up the move to Nashville so badly that he was forced to pick a new name for his franchise. Yet a couple of years later when Houston was reluctantly awarded an expansion team by the NFL (they really wanted to give it to LA), Adams refused to let the team call themselves the Houston Oilers even though his franchise no longer uses that name. That is f'd up.
And his daughter won't give it up to appease his ego, even after his death. She even had the gall to say that the Texans have nothing to do with the Oilers.
@@samhouston9162 Yeah that’s screwed up at least Art Modell agrees to give the city of Cleveland the history of the Browns. For me personally I’ve never liked the idea of changing a team’s name after a move. If we did that there would be no Los Angeles Lakers or Utah Jazz.
12:42: Krabs: Do you smell that? A kind of smell, a very smelly smell. *eye twitches*. A smelly smell that is...smelly O_O Yinzers. Squidward: What? Krabs: YINZERS!!!!!! Yinzers: STILLERS! STILLERS! STILLERS! STILLERS! STILLERS! STILLERS! STILLERS! STILLERS! STILLERS! STILLERS! STILLERS! STILLERS!
2 decades of stagnation forced our fanbase to spread out and cause untold misery to rest of the country. Often we congreate at super-spreader sites that we call Steeler bars. If COVID-19 was a fanbase it would be Yinzers.
We forget the fact that Cleveland was awarded an expansion franchise named after an already existing franchise, the Browns which the previous incarnation is now the Baltimore ravens after their previous team went to Indianapolis
The Tennessee Oilers deal is over, an era that was pretty dry & depressing, but I think what's going on with the Chargers is worse, since it's ongoing & they played in a city which hosted multiple Super Bowls (I'm not a California guy, but I do think San Diego is wonderful; who'd want to leave THAT?).
As someone old enough to remember all of this step-by-step, this was an excellent showing of The mediocrity and pathetic attitude about Adams. Honestly, he was not the worst team owner. He hired decent coaches and talent evaluators. The Oilers were good more than bad. But he was a horrible business man that I have no idea how he made enough money to own an NFL franchise. That one year in Memphis was an absolute bomb. But that last year in Houston was the most painful any team will ever have to endure forever. I remember thinking to myself as Oakland was waiting for their new stadium in Las Vegas that it was going to be another Oiler situation. Bless the Oakland fans, they toughed it out with their team. What a GREAT video
Todd he was the Founding Oilers Owner going back to their founding in 1960 as an AFL club. Adams became rich similar to fellow AFL Founder and First Chiefs Owner Lamar Hunt in the Texas Oil Biz (the middle 20th Century version of how Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. became Billionaires in the computer/online industry at the start of the 21st Century) However outside of his oil empire, Adams was not the brightest guy as a Business Man either which is true. Plus Adams had some real deep pockets and thus why he was able to survive the losses as what happened in Memphis and later Nashville when the Oilers left Texas.
Came here after that JaguarGator9 video about how the '97 Oilers' coach-to-QB radio sucked for half of the season because they forgot to change the radio city from Houston to Memphis
I love your videos. They're hilarious. I was living in Houston at the time of the pending relocation. I was in attendance for 2 of those games in 96, Chiefs and Dolphins. The 96 season was quite an entertaining shit show in Houston.
Speaking of tornadoes, today officially marks 10 years since the Joplin tornado. I loved south of Joplin for 17 years and it hit close to him that day.
@@Hiei2k7 my dad was a police officer in Seneca, Missouri (where we lived) when that happened. I think before we took shelter in our basement a officer who worked with my dad stopped by to see him and I could remember the words he said to him, “hey, Joplin got hit hard” then next thing I see is my dad rushing into the bedroom to get his uniform on and then he left to help the people in Joplin. And also, he was there when that police officer was struck by lightning and died, he tried rescuing him.
Hey, can you do Congrats videos on the NHL's St. Louis Blues (who got swept by the Colorado Avalanche) and the Washington Capitals (who lost in 5 games to the Boston Bruins) since both teams have been eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs?
