(Used to) Love Ya Blue

First off I know that the few people that read this that I know don’t really follow sports as fanatically as I do. And I need you to know that football season is upon us, which means that I will be writing about football. For that I’m sorry. Please read this and educate yourselves about the wonderful sport that is football.

Today I would like to write about something that is close to my heart…The Houston Oilers, and their jerseys.

Take a good look there. That’s not a vintage shot of the Houston Oilers. That’s the Tennessee Titans Hall of Fame Game versus the Bills. Now these are some cool kick-booty jerseys and most people probably love the fact that these threads will be on the field this year. Except for people in Houston. Now it’s really been making me angry how national media has been critical of Houston fans frowning on these jerseys. The reason Houston fans isn’t because of the ridiculous reasons that people have been spouting off, (I’m not even going to list some of the ridiculousness that has been said) the real reason is simple. We Houston fans HATE the Titans. The Houston Oilers left here leaving us with a void. A Big Texas city with no football team. What were we supposed to do? Become Cowboy fans? Then the Titans become a really good dominant team and all Oilers fans could do was think that should be our team. Then when we get our team we are in the same division as the Titans. Texans fans have this hatred for the Titans because Bud Adams (The Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans Owner) took football away from us, scorned us and now, by wearing our old jerseys, he mocks us. Those are our jerseys and our rivals our wearing them. It’s as if the Yankees wore Mets throw back jerseys. It’s as if the Baltimore Ravens wore Browns jerseys. It’s as if I went through your old wedding pictures and pasted my face over yours. It’s just wrong.

But there’s nothing we can do. Bud Adams is crazy. All of my good memories of the Houston Oilers are being trampled on. The Oilers are dead and I don’t want anyone digging up that grave and parading it around. I’m not “hurt” by this, I just think it’s stupid.