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The franchise retained the Houston Oilers' team history and records, while the team name was retired by then-NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, thus preventing a future Houston NFL team from using the Houston Oilers' name. [1] Later Houston-based football teams have paid homage to the Oilers. The Houston Roughnecks, an XFL team founded in 2020 ...
The Houston Oilers won two AFL championships before joining the NFL as part of the AFL–NFL merger. In 1999, the Tennessee Titans played their most memorable season since joining the NFL, when they made it all the way to Super Bowl XXXIV , but they fell, at the 1 yard line, to the Kurt Warner -led St. Louis Rams .
But the Titans were once the Houston Oilers, a member of the AFL and then the NFL from 1960 to 1996. ... In reality, Adams announced the decision to change the Oilers' name on July 29, 1998 ...
[12] [13] [14] The Houston Oilers failed to post a winning season in the next six seasons, but in 1967, a 9–4–1 record returned the team to the AFL championship game where it lost 40–7 to the Oakland Raiders. [15] The Houston Oilers moved into the Astrodome after the season, becoming the first professional football team to move into a ...
This category is all NFL players who played for the Houston Oilers, now known as the Tennessee Titans. There are separate categories for these eras of the franchise: Category:Houston Oilers players (AFL seasons 1960–1969, and 1970–1996) Category:Tennessee Oilers players (1997–1998) Category:Tennessee Titans players (1999–)
Despite all odds -- he was small, slow and overshadowed by his older brother Tony -- he made it to the Houston Oilers as a safety. He was traded to the San Francisco 49ers, and four games into the ...
And an even larger majority of men don’t change their names… The vast majority of women continue to take their husband’s surname when they get married: 79 percent, according to a recent Pew ...
Last matchup Colts faced the Oilers as a Houston-based team and under the Oilers name. 1999 playoffs Titans 19–16 RCA Dome Titans 8–7 1st postseason meeting. Oilers relocated to Tennessee in the 1997 season and moved to Nashville this season, rebranding themselves as the Tennessee Titans. Titans go on to lose Super Bowl XXXIV.