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Houston's history with color that predates Oilers. By Matt Young , Staff writer Updated Oct 6, 2024 11:16 a.m. A Tennessee fan holds a Oilers pennant during an NFL football game at Nissan Stadium ...
Old-school Houston football fans won’t have to worry about the Tennessee Titans rubbing their Houston Oilers history in their faces by wearing the bygone team’s Columbia Blue jerseys as ...
The University of Houston is reclaiming the “Love Ya Blue” colors made famous by Earl Campbell and Warren Moon for the Cougars’ Big 12 debut.
The Oilers' finest season came during the 1993 campaign when Houston won a franchise-best 12 wins. Moon recorded his sixth consecutive Pro Bowl after throwing for 3,485 yards and 21 touchdowns.
The Tennessee Titans may own the Houston Oilers franchise records and uniform designs, but they can’t own a color — not unless their chief counsel is Howard Hamlin. According to “In the Loop ...
The Oilers were Houston's NFL team from 1970 until 1996. Their popularity boomed as interest in football grew, and figures like Earl Campbell and head coach Bum Philips helped the team first reach ...
Houston did not explicitly reference the Oilers and claim that that blue color has been used across Houston. "We literally have a story we can show the city uses it," Houston athletic director ...
The Houston Roughnecks, an XFL team who made its debut in 2020, sport a logo and color scheme notably similar to the Oilers. Rapper and Houston native Paul Wall paid homage to the team in his 2016 ...
When the Oilers left Houston to move to Tennessee following the 1996 season, a lot of people felt that the team's name and colors should have stayed in Texas, but they didn't. "Today we are all ...
That happened in 1960 when the Houston Oilers were an American Football League charter member. The team won two AFL titles in 1960 and 1961 and lost their bid for a third in 1962, falling to the ...