This will begin a multi-part series on the founding of the Houston Oilers. If readers will indulge me, the series will be digested excerpts from my current book project titled “America’s Team and ...

There’s still no ceasefire over the physical remains of the Houston Oilers, now the Titans, and the ongoing feud is defined by petty antagonism and proxy wars. In each of the last two seasons ...

One of the most iconic uniforms in football history will not see the field in 2025. The Tennessee Titans announced on Thursday that starting with the upcoming NFL season, the team plans to ...

On Dec. 16, 1996, the Houston Oilers era came to an end after they were knocked out of the playoffs the day before by the Cincinnati Bengals in the Astrodome. Unbeknownst to fans, it would be the ...

When we left off last Friday, Houston Oilers owner Bud Adams had moved his football team to Nashville after failing to get the city to build a new stadium. John McClain, who covered professional ...

With the Houston Oilers, he revolutionized the role of nose ... hand to assure that any Jet victory will come the hard way, the black-and-blue variety. Consider that Houston is coming off a ...

This is the first part of our series answering the question, "Why did the Oilers leave Houston?" Part 2 can be found here. This question often arises these days because it happened over a quarter ...

Former Houston Oilers defensive tackle Doug Smith died Thursday afternoon from a heart attack, Mark Berman, formerly sports director at KRIV, reports. Smith was 64. “It was unexpected,” Smith’s wife, ...

Things were already tense between the two teams because of the competition in the AFC South as well as the original Houston Oilers leaving the city for Nashville, Tennessee. Now, former Oilers and ...

saying the uniforms are "blatant" copies of the Houston Oilers uniforms, for which the NFL has a trademark. "We literally have a story we can show the city uses it," athletic director Chris Pezman ...

The school informed the NFL in mid-April of its plans to bring back the Houston Oilers-inspired uniforms, which the Cougars football team debuted for their season opener against UTSA in September ...

2, 2023, are essentially a copy of the iconic Houston Oilers uniforms from the late 1970s. The NFL sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Cougars in October, saying “the Houston Cougars ...