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What's YOUR Greatest Oilers Memory?

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Bob McNair said:
In countdown order:
4. Dan Pastorini beating up Dale Robertson.

3. Everything "Luv Ya Blue" - topped off by the pep rallies.

2. Anything Earl - especially MNF against the Dolphins.

1. The door whacking Bud Adams in his baby blue pastel backside as he scurried out of town only a few years after the taxpayers spend almost $100 million redoing the Astrodome (increasing the number of seats, removing the scoreboard, and ruining it for baseball so we also had to build a baseball park sooner). This cleared the way for the Texans!
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Couldn't say it better. So, I'll just borrow your quotes..Well said.
 
Great memories guys/gals!! I've read all these posts a couple of times since this thread started, and it's hard to explain the emotion that started in my gut and headed right straight to my heart. All the post about the great Earl Campbell just made my heart sing LOVE YA BLUE!!!!

My memories go all the way back to 1960 and going to see the new Oiler team at Jeppesen stadium. George Blanda! Yea, I still think about those days. I remember the move to the Astrodome in 1965 and was priviledged to go to the very first game the Oilers played there. "Eighth Wonder of the World" certainly fit back in those days. I remember my mom, who loved football more than ANYTHING in the world, refused to go to the dome. She was petrified of the place. I never convienced her to attend a game there, but she never missed watching them on TV. I had three brothers and numerous male relatives who loved football, but, NONE of them knew more or loved the game more than my MOM!!

I have fun memories also. One of them is the time a Brown's fan got drunk and decided he was going to whip up on an over zealous Oiler fan. Decked out in all his DAWG pound glory he decided he was going to climb the railing to supposedly beat the dog poo out of the Oiler fan. Instead, he ended up losing his balance, fell about 15 ft, landed with his bone sticking out of his mouth! NO JOKING EITHER!! He got carried off on a stretcher! The entire section went crazy!! Fun for Oiler fans, not so much fun for the doggie fan!!

I could fill this board up with memories, but, I won't bore you all to death. Just wanted to say THANKS for the memories!!!!!
 
Sundays gathered around the old tube.

Growing up in Houston, we didn't have much. One thing we did have though was TV. The Indy 500, Howard Cossell, Billy Graham, the Nixon resignation, the vision of the dude skiing into my memory as the "Agony of Defeat" on ABC's Wide World of Sports...lots of memories around that "Old Box". During football season there was the Oilers. Good or bad, they were part of our Sunday routine. In the day of 3 channel TV, it sure was a thrill to watch your heros in action. Not many memories survived that era of my life, but the Oilers and the times around that TV made it out with me.

Here's to a new set of Houston football memories being made with the Texans. In the future, I hope my kids look back on the times we spend around our "Old Box" watching the Texans, and remember the flavor of the moments we had together as a team.
 
OK Houston football arrived the Monday Night Miami came here and the NFL learned of a man name Earl. I was there, it was an unbelievable night.

After that night that man keep giving us highlight after highlight. He was the 2nd best RB ever. Only Jim Brown.

Other big memories. Heck Buddy Ryan trying to kill Kevin Gilbride, I wish I could have landed that punch. Gilbride sure could not call a game.

As a real young kid watching George Webster a mountain of a man dislocate a finger, running to the sideline in pain while the trainer put it back in place, he goes right back out and stops a touchdown on the next play. Did I say he was big.

Hanging out with Lamar Lathon a few years ago and talking about the good times. He is one hell of a great guy. Would make an excellent TV color guy. Really knows the game.

Also meet Alonzo Highsmith on an airplane. He is a scout with GB. A really nice man. We had a great conversation. I was really hoping we could bring him here to be part of our scouting department. He is an asset to the game.

The last game here for Jerry Glanville, he had been on TV that week talking to Atlanta about going there. I lead a group of people singing "Goodbye Jerry where glad to see you go." Moon later told me they heard us on the field while walking to the locker room, he thought we where really cold.

I could go on.
 
The one I remember was when our hometown hero, Bo Orlando, blocked Mike Horan's punt in the Bronco end zone and Bubba McDowell covered the loose football for the game's first score in 1991.
 
SheTexan said:
I remember my mom, who loved football more than ANYTHING in the world, refused to go to the dome. She was petrified of the place. I never convienced her to attend a game there, but she never missed watching them on TV.
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Why on earth was your Mom afraid to go to the Dome?
 
One of my favorite moments was when the Oilers beat the 49ers on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve. At the end of the on-the-field postgame interview, Warren Moon looked into the camera and said, "Merry Christmas Houston." It felt like he was wishing me a merry Christmas. That was awesome.
 
Most of you are not going to like my post on this one. I was not an Oilers fan. When they were around in Houston I watched the Cowboys :hides: . Anyway I have only one real memory of the Oilers, and its watching them being dismantled by the Bills in the playoffs after having like a 32 point lead. Back then thats pretty much all they were known for.


Hey but I was right there when the Texans were announced as the Houston team so cut me some slack here.


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Best: My mother worked at Century 21 next to a Kolache shop and the owner said he was Billy "White Shoe's" agent. The next week Johnson came to dinner at our house. Touchdown Bar-B-Q was in the same complex and all the players used to hang out there. I jogged with Earl and rode on Robert Brazil's shoulders.

Worst: The day Bud took the team to Buggtussel.....
 
the wonger need food said:
Pep rally in the Dome after the loss to Pittsburgh in '79. People sitting on the ledges under the old scoreboard. Pom poms flying and the Luv Ya Blue song blaring. Earl riding in on the back of a police motorcycle. Bum's quote about kicking the door in. It was a very special time that will never be duplicated.
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That's what sets the Oilers apart from the Cowboys..the atmosfer.
It was like cheering for a high school team for so many years. :texan:
 
I remember (well can't place the date). One regular season game stuck out as a kid. I want to say the oilers were playing the Bengals on monday night. All i remember was thinking it was one of the best games i had watched..first half was a defensive battle and in the second half the offenses opened up. What stuck in my mind was a pass that Warren Moon three to Drew Hill..all i could think of is Warren threw one of the prettiest spirals that i have ever seen
 
I have a spectacularly bad memory. The few things I do remember are regrets, and the Oilers are no different when it comes to my recollections. My most vivid memories are as a young kid pacing a line in the carpet muttering 'how do you lose 35-3?'. The other is repeating 'He wants to go left!, don't let him go left!' ... and then Elway rolls left on 4th down and then throws the dagger down the left sideline.

I do remember how much of a monster I thought Ray Childress was, and I swear there was a fumble that we had #99 (a Jones or Smith) that was the biggest man ever pick it up and try to return it for the slowest and most exciting run I'll ever see (he didn't make it, but damned if I didn't try to push him through the tv lol).
 
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I have a few:

1. The 78 and 79 playoff runs. The city was just crazy think of the Rockets championship runs x 10. Now I can look back on it and know that those teams just weren't good enough to beat the Steelers no matter how disappointing it was to me as a 9-10yr old.

2. 1987 Oilers had been bad for pretty much 6 yrs running and during a strike season aided by the scabs 3-1 record they made the playoffs and beat the Seahawks in the Wild Card round at the Dome. It would be the first in a line of heartbreaking post seasons for the fans.

3. 1991 season it was the first AFC Central title and that was a fun team to watch.

4. 1993 If you saw the Football Life special you saw how much dysfunction was on that team but that was the best defense I have seen on any Houston team Oilers or Texans. They were just wrecking offenses by the end of the regular season. Then Joe Montana broke our playoff hearts for the 7th straight year the Oilers would never recover the faith of the fan base in Houston.
 
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