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.
Makes sense. Drayton capitalized on the potential threat/fear of Houston losing its baseball team too after the Oilers left in 1996….Minute Maid opened just 4 years later in 2000.
Although I do believe there was a little game of chicken going on with Houston politicians/fans. I just don’t think that fans and politicians alike actually believed Adam’s would leave and he called their bluff. Once it became official, Houston politicians went into spin mode.
As for this oiler colors and logo ****, Adam’s-strunk is being petty and all it is is her trying to keep a lock on the few Houston Oiler fans that became Titans that still reside in Houston…although I have my reservations if those fans even give a crap about this nonsense.
The Texans just need to start winning so that that whole Oiler stuff can become irrelevant to this city. And because the bar is so low, All it’s going to take is for the Texans to just make or win 1 SB…or perhaps Just make 2-3 AFCCCG’s in like 4-5 years.
You do that, we’ve all but equaled that Oilers history lol…without the stench of 35-3 that is.