My father and myself went from laredo Tx to houston Tx to that Save the Oilers rally. We counted 27 people ... 27.
That’s incredible to me.
That's what get me the town turned there back on the franchise and now they want the history back.
I didn’t know a whole lot of the story back then. Glad NFL is smart enough to field the throwbacks against Houston. Makes perfect sense to me- takes the kind of balls to understand what fans want. Most definitely the game im most interested in, and its late with real consequences! Hopefully!
That's terrible support...they now have the Texans, support them
If you're not going to support the team, you deserve to lose it
Well, to be fair, if my memory is correct, it was kinda set up to fail. They held it at like, 2pm on a Tuesday afternoon, maybe a Thursday. Most people were probably working. I was in high school at the time so I have no clue how well organized it was, but I'm guessing not well at all.
But even still, c'mon, we're talking about Houston Texas, with as many country music fans as there are, you'd think they'd be better at handling losing something they loved...
Again to be fair, this article from the Tennessean says 65 people. But yeah, the point is in a city of 3+million people, very few showed up. A lot fewer than I'm seeing today whine about Houston not having the rights to the Oilers name...
How the NFL Draft came to Nashville: It started with the Oilers move
Then they cried like babies until they got another team
Well I wouldn’t call it a team…
Since we're actually talking about the Oilers in this thread, and because I don't know where else to put it, this beauty was delivered in today's mail.
Commemorative Houston Oilers 1961 AFL championship ring! It's beautiful.
Commemorative Houston Oilers 1961 AFL championship ring! It's beautiful.
