Time to take University of Houston to Court…

[Guest]

20 hours ago, scine09 said:

The team would make so much money by changing them to at least a version of those uniforms.  And I think the fan base as a whole would be happy.  Hopefully it happens eventually.

 

Yes, and my fucking god the reason the debate even persists is because for the longest time these uniforms were on the shelf. The noise around teams like the Colts is mostly non-existent because over time the brand takes off with its new association. It's one thing for the name itself to be a sticking point, but if we had just kept using the colors this would not have this much noise around. 

 

I've said it before, I can separate people from Houston and the Texans team--it's okay for people to have a connection to that history in Houston, to *wish* the brand had stayed there, etc. Part of that history will always belong to both the *place* and our franchise. This is how history, community, etc. works. If there are people from Houston salty that the team left--I get that. If the Titans left Nashville I'd be salty too. 

 

I would hope that if I visited Houston I could have a conversation with some local oldhead in a bar about how dope the Oilers were--human common ground. 

 

That being said, our franchise owns the brand. The University of Houston grandstanding is one thing, but the Texans do not have a singular claim. 

 

The shit the McNairs are pulling is childish and goofy in my opinion. You had nothing to do with it. You want to thing AAS is being petty? What the fuck? Her family has more connection to the Oilers than literally anyone. It's incredibly gracious that she is letting them use H-Town blue and not petty at all. Would anyone in their right mind just will away rights to a brand to a division rival and a wealthy business competitor that has nothing to do with the original process? Of course not. It makes the Texans franchise come off as even more of little brother syndrome. Texans fans themselves actually, for the most part, agree with this--or at least understand it. There's a difference between wishing an outcome was different and living in reality. 

 

I think AAS is actually the one making amends for our lack of acknowledgement and involvement with the Oilers. At least in the 2000s-2010s, helmet thing aside, we didn't really acknowledge it. 

 

Now we are embracing that part of our history and that will do some of the work. Those classic Oiler kits are so good--let's just tweak them slightly with Titans iconography (I've said it once and will say it again--the Titans sword translates so well to the space the oil derrick occupies) and be fucking done with it. 

 

 

Edited May 2, 2024 by Guest

[Callidus]

18 hours ago, BudsOilers said:

Bowling Ball....

 

But the real issue is that the color and the Oil Derrick are what's iconic.  Now I did see someone who had the derrick inside the sword so maybe you could pull that off.....

 

It's not unlike the Chargers powder blues with the lightning bolt....They go together.

Or the broncos and their lightning bolts...

[cenj]

OIlers unis have to be a nostalgia thing. Outside of this message board and old Houston fans, I don't know anyone who looks at the Oilers uniforms and thinks, "damn that's slick looking."

 

The Oilers name and logo are also boring as hell. I said what I said. Titans > Oilers. Two-tone blue > classics. Titans logo...eh.

[XAEA12]

For the love of God if we can’t have the old unis back can we please do a complete redesign of the logo/uniform? It’s been a quarter century of mediocrity. 
 

And I’m a born and raised Tennessean

[Thrill]

22 hours ago, NashvilleNinja said:

 

Better or not it makes no sense for the team unless it were rebranding back to the Oiler name, which makes no sense for the team in Tennessee. 

 

And that's flaming thumbtack.

We have oil here. Just not as much as Texas 

[Thrill]

3 hours ago, Bink said:

 

Yes, and my fucking god the reason the debate even persists is because for the longest time these uniforms were on the shelf. The noise around teams like the Colts is mostly non-existent because over time the brand takes off with its new association. It's one thing for the name itself to be a sticking point, but if we had just kept using the colors this would not have this much noise around. 

 

I've said it before, I can separate people from Houston and the Texans team--it's okay for people to have a connection to that history in Houston, to *wish* the brand had stayed there, etc. Part of that history will always belong to both the *place* and our franchise. This is how history, community, etc. works. If there are people from Houston salty that the team left--I get that. If the Titans left Nashville I'd be salty too. 

 

I would hope that if I visited Houston I could have a conversation with some local oldhead in a bar about how dope the Oilers were--human common ground. 

 

That being said, our franchise owns the brand. The University of Houston grandstanding is one thing, but the Texans do not have a singular claim. 

 

The shit the McNairs are pulling is childish and goofy in my opinion. You had nothing to do with it. You want to thing AAS is being petty? What the fuck? Her family has more connection to the Oilers than literally anyone. It's incredibly gracious that she is letting them use H-Town blue and not petty at all. Would anyone in their right mind just will away rights to a brand to a division rival and a wealthy business competitor that has nothing to do with the original process? Of course not. It makes the Texans franchise come off as even more of little brother syndrome. Texans fans themselves actually, for the most part, agree with this--or at least understand it. There's a difference between wishing an outcome was different and living in reality. 

 

I think AAS is actually the one making amends for our lack of acknowledgement and involvement with the Oilers. At least in the 2000s-2010s, helmet thing aside, we didn't really acknowledge it. 

 

Now we are embracing that part of our history and that will do some of the work. Those classic Oiler kits are so good--let's just tweak them slightly with Titans iconography (I've said it once and will say it again--the Titans sword translates so well to the space the oil derrick occupies) and be fucking done with it. 

 

 

I don’t get the obsession with keeping the titans iconography. 
 

Full re-rebrand back to the oilers. The lakers, colts, jazz, dodgers, etc all kept their old unis. We just took a 20 year break. Caring what Houston says about it is irrelevant. 

Edited May 2, 2024 by Thrill

[Callidus]

38 minutes ago, Thrill said:

We have oil here. Just not as much as Texas 

And washington has sunny days, we gona call it the sunshine state?

[Tex in a Can]

On 5/1/2024 at 11:23 AM, nine said:

If the City of Houston loves the old uniforms so much….it seems to me they probably should have made a bit more of an effort to keep the Oilers 30 years ago. 

Exactly, we ran the Oilers and Bud out of town! I live here and can't understand it at all (of course I am a Titans fan..) You don't run something out of town and then 30 years later say hey I want my stuff back. It's long gone.

[No1TitansFan]

Let's rebrand to Oilers when the fossil fuel industry is in its death knells, there's a big report coming out that the oil companies have had knowledge of the dertimental effects of burning mass amounts of fossil fuels to the climate since the 80s, and Texas and other oil state are wanting to dump millions of gallons of contaminated fracking water into rivers;  that's a brand you want to associate with. Younger generation fans will be all into that, right.

Edited May 3, 2024 by No1TitansFan

[titanruss]

Essentially what the Houston douches are trying to do is make Ai porn of their ex girlfriend who left them because they refused to take her on dates.
 

In the meantime, they are using left over hair strands from around the house to try and clone her. The ex gf finds out and rightly sues them.

 

Somehow the national stage opinion is that what they are doing is OK without regard to their weird perversions while gaslighting the girlfriend for not letting them do it.
 

Just Texas on a Tuesday kind of thing. 

[OzTitan]

I never really understood why Bud would do the move partially out of spite and then not keep the branding active, which seems like more of a spiteful thing to do than rebrand.

 

Like imagine coming back to Houston every year as the Oilers for Bud. Maybe he didn't expect a Houston team to return so quickly? 

[Guest]

5 hours ago, Thrill said:

I don’t get the obsession with keeping the titans iconography. 
 

Full re-rebrand back to the oilers. The lakers, colts, jazz, dodgers, etc all kept their old unis. We just took a 20 year break. Caring what Houston says about it is irrelevant. 

 

We have been the Tennessee Titans for over 20 years. I don't think either perspective is really an obsession--just a preference. 

[OILERMAN]

7 hours ago, cenj said:

OIlers unis have to be a nostalgia thing. Outside of this message board and old Houston fans, I don't know anyone who looks at the Oilers uniforms and thinks, "damn that's slick looking."

 

The Oilers name and logo are also boring as hell. I said what I said. Titans > Oilers. Two-tone blue > classics. Titans logo...eh.

 

When they wore the Oiler unis this past year there was a lot of national love for them. It was way more than old Houston fans

[Starkiller]

On 5/1/2024 at 12:10 PM, Titans279 said:

People are calling AAS petty, but it's Houston who can't let go of a team who left nearly 30 years ago. Move on!

 

 

It’s not petty. Legally speaking, if you don’t defend your patented/trademarked/copyrighted material then you will lose your legal protection. Choosing to just ignore it here would potentially allow other people to encroach on your protected materials by arguing you chose not to protect it previously. 

[Thrill]

2 hours ago, Bink said:

 

We have been the Tennessee Titans for over 20 years. I don't think either perspective is really an obsession--just a preference. 

I guess I just realized how mediocre our logo, team name, fan buy in was after going to the oilers throwback game and seeing how awesome it was.