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The past is never dead. It is not even past. William FaulknerSome stories, no matter how much times passes, just never disappear. Over the past couple of weeks, a series of stories highlighted such history to the Houston sports fan. First, the former Houston NFL teamannounced plans to abandon their throwback uniforms, the Columbia Blue jerseys with the oil derrick helmet logos. Probably for the best, as they were only 1-2 in those, and both losses came to the Texans at home. Yet, they will incorporate their historic Columbia Blue colorinto the new design, for their home jerseys. Then https://www.texansfanapparel.com/collections/ladarius-henderson-jersey
, in Houston, a documentary about Bum Phillips premieredproved politically costly. By 1995, when Adams made new noises about a new stadium, he hadnt burned his bridges, he nuked them. The subsequent radioactivity made it such that no political figure in Houston would support him. Not discussed, but a significant factor, centered on the constant near-misses from the Oilers. Throw in the disastrous teardown/collapse of the squad in the 1994 season, and the fans were done. A motivated fanbase might have swayed Houston to consider making a deal with Adams, but the overwhelming apathy of the Oilers fans offered Bud Adams no support. Thus, when the Oilers agreed to move to Nashville, the response: dont let the door hit you in the on the way might have been.if Bud Adams worst enemy wasnt.Bud AdamsHouston Chronicle via Getty Images Yet, when Houston booted him out the door, Houston, so wanting to be rid of K.S. Adams, allowed Adams to keep the teams history and colors. At the time, it didnt seem like that big a deal. Houston didnt know if or when it might return to the NFL, and the colors, once so venerated https://www.texansfanapparel.com/collections/jimmie-ward-jersey
, just didnt resonate with the city any more. Even with Bob McNair brought the NFL back to Houstonholds to that tradition as stubbornly as her father. Likely shell never surrender that prerogative, and there is little to suggest that the NFL will step in to change that. At this point, with the big free agency moves mostly done and the draft still a month away, stories like this at least fill the dead space in the NFL calendar. Given that a vast majority of the players on both rosters werent even alive when the Oilers last played in Houston, this story is nothing more than background noise. As time moves forward, the memories of the Oilers will fade and fans will return to the on-field concerns. Yet, for many of us who grew up with the Oilers, this still brings up some old memories, good and bad. Ideally, we dont have these discussions of colors/etc. Likely a compromise could be in the offering, but sometimes, the potential of the present cant get beyond what transpired in the past.