Houstonist is giving you a fair warning. At least a year in advance. Don't roll over next year when you're tuning into some NFL football and you notice the Houston Oilers playing the New York Titans in Nashville. Why you ask? It's the 50th anniversary of the AFL and the NFL will honor the original AFL teams next year.
Tennessee Titans owner, K.S. "Bud" Adams Jr., said he will honor the Oilers teams when they play the New York Jets, originally the Titans, by breaking out the old Columbia blue uniforms.
The Oilers uniforms will make a second appearance when Adams' team squares off against the team formerly known as the Dallas Texans, now the Kansas City Chiefs. Talk about weird; the two original Texas teams playing a game in Missouri.
What do you think Houston? Will you be happy to see that oil derrick on the side of the helmet again?
Photo courtesy of titansonline.com
Notes:: The original AFL teams are the Houston Oilers (Tennessee Titans), Dallas Texans (K.C. Chiefs), L.A./San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins, Boston Patriots, New York Titans (Jets), Cincinnati Bengals and the Denver Broncos.
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This feels a little bit like the love of your life who mysteriously ran out on you one day and never returned...suddenly showing up at your wedding ten years later, completely uninvited. Uncomfortable and awkward and altogether unwelcome.
I buried the Oilers a long time ago. I don't want to see that oil derrick again any time soon.
Not thinking about all that other drama, I really enjoy those uniforms, that oil derrick on the side of the helmet is a classic look and what's you think about when you think Houston.
I have an Oilers helmet at my house people just love it when when they walk in. I always get offers, but I'd rather keep it.
FOOTBALL IS DRAMA, IGNACIO.
*runs off crying*
Jaja. The drama about moving to Nashville. You know!
I'm one of the few people in Houston who still likes the Oilertitans, so I'm glad they will be wearing the blue again.
I still hate Bud Adams, though. Oh the dichotomy.