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The Houston Roughnecks, an XFL team founded in 2020, shares their name with the Oilers' old mascot and used a logo that resembled the Houston Oilers' until they changed it under pressure from the NFL. [2] The University of Houston football team wore Oilers-style throwback uniforms during the Cougars' 2023 season opener against UTSA. [3]
[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 ...
Previously known as the Houston Oilers, the then Houston, Texas, team began play in 1960 as a charter member of the AFL American Football League. The Houston Oilers won two AFL championships before joining the NFL as part of the AFL–NFL merger.
The Houston Texans are a new NFL expansion team created in 2002, initially owned by the late Bob McNair. The Oilers' franchise records and history continue to belong to the Titans, with Adams ...
Oail Andrew "Bum" Phillips Jr. (September 29, 1923 – October 18, 2013) was an American football coach at the high school, college and professional levels. He served as head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for the Houston Oilers from 1975 to 1980 and the New Orleans Saints from 1981 to 1985.
Former Houston Oilers offensive lineman David Carter passed away yesterday, according to John McClain of the Houston Chronicle.He was 67. Carter was a sixth-round pick out of Western Kentucky in 1977.
With 1.2 million high school kids playing football and only 0.08 percent making it to the pros, Eason's tenacity was so inspiring that four of the 27 kids on his scrappy California high school ...
The 1993 Houston Oilers season was the team's 34th, and their 24th in the National Football League (NFL).. The 1993 Oilers season is widely regarded as one of the most notorious and turbulent seasons in NFL history, both on and off the field.