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Its called being loyal to players and a team. You dont have to like the Owner, and i still dont.
he prolly cant name them, but i can (before using Google) name a couple.Quick question LuvYa... How many players on that team in Nashville played here with the Oilers??
he prolly cant name them, but i can (before using Google) name a couple.
bruce matthews
eddie george
steve mcnair
i think everybody knows i am a powderkeg when it come to this stuff. ask browns fan how many ravens they keep up with, or how many colts that baltimore fans keep up with. the answer is REAL easy.
I think he was reffering to current, otherwise pretty much everyone that played in the 99 Super-Bowl was drafted as a Houston Oiler.
Jeff Fisher would be current.
What I don't understand is how some can still call them there team. They no longer live in Houston, they no longer wear the colors, the name has changed. The Titans are nothing more than a division rival who has won just as many Super-Bowls as the Houston Texans.
So...........whats the easy answer?
What I don't understand is how some can still call them there team. They no longer live in Houston, they no longer wear the colors, the name has changed. The Titans are nothing more than a division rival who has won just as many Super-Bowls as the Houston Texans.
So...........whats the easy answer?
Sure, nothing wrong with that at all as long as you don't mind going over to your ex-wifes house and doing all the cooking and cleaning while she makes out with your best friend on the couch.So the answer is "are you loyal to your franchise or your city"? There's no right or wrong, it's a personal decision.
I grew up a Cowboys fan from San Antonio before moving to Houston, and never followed the Oilers, so I don't have the same perspective. Clearly there are plenty of folks in Houston that follow the franchise that they've followed all of their lives and poured their heart into...there's nothing wrong with that.
I heard it and here it is......
http://www.sportsradio610.com/pages/151267.php
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Ahh nothing like stumbling in on a group of young philosophers taking a stab at the paradox of Thesus's ship
http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/theseus.html
I like the call out. A nice semi-obscure reference... It doesn't really hold water, though. No pun intended.
When the Titans' ship returns to port, it resembles very little the one that set sail all those years ago. And if the Scavenger ship were to dock along side the Titans' ship, it would probably look more like the Ravens' ship than anything else, I'm guessing...
I heard it and here it is......
http://www.sportsradio610.com/pages/151267.php
click on Ian email....
Maybe I should be a Seahawks fan since Warren Moon works for them now. Anyone know where can I get a seaweed colored #1 jersey?
Yes, I do. I even got one. If you want it, I can drop it off next time I am in that neck of the woods.
I don't have a problem following players... never have realy.
I wonder if this makes me a team whore?
Look ... I was as loyal and dedicated to that franchise as anyone. But when they moved, as much as it hurt, they became someone else's team and I couldn't bring myself to root for them any more. I watched with one eye out of morbid curiosity for a year or two while we didn't have football - and breathed a sigh of relief when they lost to the Rams. When they awarded our new franchise in Houston, I cared even less. But I know why some people held on. The titans were good for a few years starting in '99, and a lot of people feel the need to latch on to teams while they are doing well, especially when they have nothing else. Now they are a Division rival and need to be crushed like the Colts and Jags.
If you've been in Houston for the duration, the 'following the franchise' thing doesn't hold up after 10 years. There's no players left, just a couple of coaches and a GM. Yeah, one of the coaches is a HOF o-lineman I rooted for when he played here. Big whoop. Maybe I should be a Seahawks fan since Warren Moon works for them now. Anyone know where can I get a seaweed colored #1 jersey?
As far as the people that jumped on the tacks bandwagon last year, their reason is no different from the band of Carr fans from Fresno that called themselves texans fans - until yesterday. Temporary, and fans of players more than fans of teams.
Speaking of the All Tarps, I'm feeling them looking up at three teams in the Division this year. Bye bye Del Rio.
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Along the same lines, how many fans in the Cleveland area are fans of the Ravens? Probably none, because unlike us, Browns fans fought for and won the right to retain their history, name, colors, etc.
How many in the Baltimore area are fans of the Colts? There were quite a few, actually. But it's mostly old folks and fading numbers ... They still had the Colts marching band in Balt a few years ago. I don't know if they ever performed anywhere
How many LA area fans are fans of the Rams? Better example
How many St. Louis area fans are fans of the Cardinals? Even better example
Finally, how many Dallas area fans are fans of the Chiefs? Only the ones who moved there from KC, I imagine. They didn't have enough success or longevity there to establish much of a fan base
I could go on, but I think you get the idea. Once a team leaves a city, there are generally very few that follow the old team for very long, especially when a new team comes in.
The irony is, there 'appears' to be more tack 'fans' in Houston now than there were when we were trying to save the Oilers. Don't underestimate the power of the bandwagon when things are going well.
Saints - Bum and Earl
The Titans absorbed a large portion of the UT fan base, even if the UT fans were indifferent about the Oilers. And UT fans are rampant.
what may be the greatest UT atheletic hero ever--at least this is so for many people of the last three generations.
they dont even have the GM anymore--not that that would be a reason to keep up with a team anyway.Look ... I was as loyal and dedicated to that franchise as anyone. But when they moved, as much as it hurt, they became someone else's team and I couldn't bring myself to root for them any more. I watched with one eye out of morbid curiosity for a year or two while we didn't have football - and breathed a sigh of relief when they lost to the Rams. When they awarded our new franchise in Houston, I cared even less. But I know why some people held on. The titans were good for a few years starting in '99, and a lot of people feel the need to latch on to teams while they are doing well, especially when they have nothing else. Now they are a Division rival and need to be crushed like the Colts and Jags.
If you've been in Houston for the duration, the 'following the franchise' thing doesn't hold up after 10 years. There's no players left, just a couple of coaches and a GM. Yeah, one of the coaches is a HOF o-lineman I rooted for when he played here. Big whoop. Maybe I should be a Seahawks fan since Warren Moon works for them now. Anyone know where can I get a seaweed colored #1 jersey?
As far as the people that jumped on the tacks bandwagon last year, their reason is no different from the band of Carr fans from Fresno that called themselves texans fans - until yesterday. Temporary, and fans of players more than fans of teams.
Speaking of the All Tarps, I'm feeling them looking up at three teams in the Division this year. Bye bye Del Rio.
they dont even have the GM anymore--not that that would be a reason to keep up with a team anyway.
my bad--forgot that Reinfeldt became the GM after Reese left.They got rid of the ex-linebackers coach GM, and replaced him with #37 LYB GM.
The Titans absorbed a large portion of the UT fan base, even if the UT fans were indifferent about the Oilers. And UT fans are rampant.
I heard it and here it is......
http://www.sportsradio610.com/pages/151267.php
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I hear ya TwinSisters. Earl is the greatest to me too. Not only for his football prowess; in fact, it is probably more due to who he has proven to be as a man. I will see how VY turns out over the next twenty to thirty years or so and see if I might call them equal, but, as for now, its definitely Earl.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842359,00.htmlTommy & the Deluge. The battleground was the annual college draft, and pro football's version of Pork Chop Hill was Tommy Nobis, a 230-lb. All-America linebacker from Texas whose collar size (19½) alone was enough to make both leagues reach for their checkbooks. Tommy was drafted No. 1 by both the N.F.L.'s newly franchised Atlanta Falcons and the A.F.L.'s Houston Oilers. With no coach, no schedule, no training camp and no plays, the Falcons apparently had nothing to offer Nobis except money: by last week they had already sold 40,000 of their 45,000 season tickets for 1966at $48 apiece. The Oilers' Owner Bud Adams offered Nobis a $250,000 contract that would make him the highest paid defensive player in the history of pro football. Tommy posed for photographs with Oilman Adams. Then he flew off and signed an Atlanta contractfor $225,000 (or so went the story). "There is something more to this, I'll bet," Adams muttered. Undoubtedly. But Nobis insisted that he was motivated purely by professional pride. "If I had signed with the A.F.L.," he explained, "I think I always would have wondered if I could have made it against the men of the N.F.L."