Apparently she does, she’s kicking up a stink b/c Houston sports teams are using color schemes similar to the Oilers and putting Houston on them.
So far, it's just team... singular.
Right. She couldn’t say anything about Rice because they didn’t put Houston on the uniform.
I've been saying the same thing for a while.
What’s the conspiracy? Serious question, I really want to know what you’re talking about. I consider myself somewhat of a conspiracy theorist.
Arm wrestle... mud wrestle... MMA Ring Match...
Well, as usual, I probably have no idea of what I am talking about. I'm just saying that all of the circumstances, when put together, doesn't fit a truly random pattern. Something is afoot.
Occam's razor =
(my guess)
If the Texans were really interested in representing true champions, they should have offered gold and red (Rockets) or orange and blue (Astros) as their color scheme this year.Occam's razor =
Just the rich getting richer off of our nostalgic and tribal tendencies.
This right here.If the Texans were really interested in representing true champions, they should have offered gold and red (Rockets) or orange and blue (Astros) as their color scheme their year.
Leave those loser oiler colors alone.
Nostalgia sells.If the Texans were really interested in representing true champions, they should have offered gold and red (Rockets) or orange and blue (Astros) as their color scheme this year.
Leave those loser oiler colors alone.
Or they could just start winning themselves?If the Texans were really interested in representing true champions, they should have offered gold and red (Rockets) or orange and blue (Astros) as their color scheme this year.
Leave those loser oiler colors alone.
Exactly
I can't find anywhere where an actual lawsuit has been filed. The NFL did send a cease and desist letter to the U of H, of which the U of H responded by saying they wouldn't wear the uniforms again without asking first. In any case, it's petty bullshit from the NFL. I think the NFL has larger problems it should be attending to than some school or university copying a uniform.
Funny….there’s NFL teams using the same color combinations as well as CFB teams using the same color combinations of other schools and NFL teams. I don’t see any other teams or schools losing their shite. The Adams Family need to get over their own self importance. If I’m UH, I’d take their arses to court.
Likely dropped any case seeing UoH said they were going to ask to wear them. Allowing the NFL to basically get its way
You genuinely think a moderately sized public university has the money (or will to wager said money) to fund a legal battle against an nfl team backed by the nfl itself at the risk of continuously escalating legal fees.. over an alternate uniform, that they aren't even marketing?
Hayden Fry asked permission in 1979 to model the Hawkeye's uniforms after the Steelers. Steelers ok'd it.
Yet she gave a million dollars during Harvey.
When extremely rich people donate large sums of money to relief funds after disasters it’s nice. I don’t think it solely means they’re great people necessarily or love the people or place they donated to.
Wonder what the answer from the Titans would have been if UH had asked permission? Might have even gotten it if they had made it about honoring old Bud. We’ll never know now and who really cares. It’s long past time the Texans got busy making their own legacy. Columbia Blue can suck it. It’s time to start pushing Steel Blue. UH should ask if they can wear a Texans Battle Red variant next
Wait Houston ran Bud Adams out of town? Apparently you don’t remember what happened?
It's a pure tax write-off
That's fine but they nearly looked identical in the 50's as well.
Whatever her reasons were doesn't matter to me. I'm just glad she donated the money.
I remember quite well.
In reality there was never a bond election for the tax payers to weigh in on the matter of a new stadium. Although Bob Lanier had a pretty good idea of the taxpayers would not be crazy about the idea.
Oh of course. I am too. I just don’t see any connection whatsoever between that act and whatever asshattery the latest “Adams” is up to. I do think “Hannah” should jump at the opportunity for the Texans to be the good guys in this play. Hell if I was Cal I’d invite them to wear the Texans colors. Help pay for them even!
How do I like this post eight to ten more times?
The Bud/Drayton “dynamic” factored a lot more into it than most people understand. Being Drayton’s tenant was unbearable to Bud. He got squat for parking or concessions and both of them wanted a new taxpayer funded venue. One had to make the push first and the one who did was bound to be told no. That’s why Drayton was all about how great the Astrodome was until Bud was standing on the landmine. Then once he was gone and the city knew what would happen suddenly the Astros couldn’t stay in that old stadium any longer. Not without and NFL team helping to foot the bill. Drayton made money off of Bud. Bud didn’t make a thing off of Drayton. That’s why Bud’s “Downtown Bud Dome” was designed to host the Rockets too. So he could do to Les Alexander what Drayton Mclane had been doing to him for years.
I can never remember the guys name but there was also an Oilers executive who was involved in the negotiations who had ties to Nashville and was supposedly pushing that as the best choice from the start. He was a big part of the Oilers and Nashville working out that exclusive negotiating deal that basically made it impossible for Houston to counter anything while the team and Nashville were making the deal.
Bud had previously threatened to relocate the team to Jacksonville in order to get the renovations you mentioned.
Lanier told him they weren't going to build him a new stadium that he wanted so badly. After Buffalo and Kansas City most fans like myself were dont let the door hit you where the sun dont shine.
All those various stenches linger. They performed so badly the fans grew ashamed of them. This town is not a particularly forgiving bunch but if you leave it all on the field we’ll still love you. See the post AFCCG rallies in the dome in 78-79 for all the proof anyone needs. We loved those overmatched Oiler teams. Pardee’s Oilers were soft underachievers who set us up for getting the football pulled away again and again. After a while you felt like a fool for believing in them at all.
That's where OB and Easterby were leading the Texans. Thank heaven and Hannah they're gone!
type in “Houston 35-3” and the 1st hit after the ads is the wiki page titled “the comeback”. No such thing for 51-7..it’s not even on the map…& probably won’t ever be mentioned again unless Houston & KC match up in the playoffs again. IOW’s, 51-7 is your run-of-the-mill local football fan’s playoff disappointment & every team has those.
Houston got to the playoffs again after35-3 the next yr. The Texans have sucked from the time 51-7. But nationally I agree with you.
I felt like this after 51-7 too. It was like bad old memories coming back again. I wanted them to leave BOB and Derrick in Kansas City. It was time to clean house, not give BOB more power and Derrick an extension. I said so at the time.
