Texans or Oilers?

The Oilers name and logo is owned and being held hostage by the Budster. He collects royalties on merchandise sales and would not part with it. The people here in Houston would have been happy about getting the name, but we also did not want to deal with Bud in any negotiations for it either. In the long run, we would call them The Unicorns if they would just win ten games.

The comment above is dead on.  Houstonians would have loved to bring the Oilers name and logo back when we got the expansion franchise, but Bud Adams wasn't giving it up and we weren't going to pay a king's ransom to get it.  Despite the Oilers having left ten years ago, there's still A LOT of bad blood over their departure.

I know that the Texans name and logo has certainly grown on me.  I can't imagine having anything else on 92% of my wardrobe.

I signed up specifically for this question.

I spent last night watching old Oilers clips.  In fact, I still call them the Oilers and steadfastly refuse to use either "T" word.  As far as I am concerned, the Oilers vanished for a couple of years and resurrected as a D-III college team.  I hope that'll change.

Fact is, Adams is one of the biggest POSes in the history of pro sports.  Nobody liked him in the 70s, and it never changed.  When he fired Bum, the entire city quit on his stupid @ss.  That he did what he did was inevitable: he doesn't care about anything other than money, and he's willing to sacrifice literally anything to make a buck.

To make one last tired point, there is no logical reason why the team in TN should inherit the history of the Oilers.  Bud purposely broke the team down to make it suck before he left.  He insulted every Oiler to ever wear the uniform and every fan who cheered for the team with his selfish actions.  The Oilers still live, and they ain't in TN.

Five, eh?  Jeebus, I have underwear older than you...which means nothing complimentary to me.

To editors: it'd be nice if the SB Nation logins carried over from site to site.

He's only done 2 good things for Nashville:

1. Bring us an NFL franchise.
   
2. Revive our Arena Football League franchise.

Other than that, he's pretty much a dickhead.  And we're glad he still lives in Texas.

As for the whole "franchise history" thing: the Titans have the Oilers history, because it's the same franchise in a new city.  Cleveland keeping the name and history was an abberation that should never have been done.

• The Cardinals have been in 3 cities; neither Chicago nor St. Louis has any rights.
  
• Baltimore didn't get to keep the Colts, although they do still have their Super Bowl V trophy.
  
• Decatur, IL, doesn't have the rights to the Staleys (now the Chicago Bears).
  
• Los Angeles has had how many teams, lost them all, and has none of their history or names, and can't get the NFL to even contemplate giving them another one.

Teams move, they change names, their history goes with them, it's a fact of professional sports.  Not just the NFL, either; ask how New Orleans feels about the (NBA) Utah Jazz.

Likewise, Houston didn't have to ask anybody permission to use the name "Texans," even though they're the second NFL franchise to use the name (the original Dallas Texans are now the Kansas City Chiefs, I believe), nor did Bud have to get permission for the New York Jets, who were once also named the Titans.