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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American football executive, owner (1923–2013)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American football player</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Bud_Adams_1964.JPG/220px-Bud_Adams_1964.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Bud_Adams_1964.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="252" data-file-height="243" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Adams in 1964</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Personal information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">Born:</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1923-01-03</span>)</span>January 3, 1923<br /><a href="/wiki/Bartlesville,_Oklahoma" title="Bartlesville, Oklahoma">Bartlesville, Oklahoma</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">Died:</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="dday deathdate">2013-10-21</span>)</span>October 21, 2013 (aged 90)<br /><a href="/wiki/Houston,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Houston, Texas">Houston, Texas</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">College:</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kansas_Jayhawks_football" title="Kansas Jayhawks football">Kansas</a> (1942)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career history <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0;">As an executive:</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Titans" title="Tennessee Titans">Houston/Tennessee Oilers/Titans</a> (<a href="/wiki/1960_American_Football_League_season" title="1960 American Football League season">1960</a>–<a href="/wiki/2013_NFL_season" title="2013 NFL season">2013</a>)<br />Founder/Owner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houston_Mavericks" title="Houston Mavericks">Houston Mavericks</a> (1967–1969)<br />Founder/Owner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashville_Kats" title="Nashville Kats">Nashville Kats</a> (2005–2007) <br />Founder/Owner</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career highlights and awards <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"> <ul><li>2× <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League_playoffs" title="American Football League playoffs">AFL champion</a> (1960, 1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Titans#Titans_Ring_of_Honor" title="Tennessee Titans">Titans/Oilers Ring of Honor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Sports_Hall_of_Fame" title="Texas Sports Hall of Fame">Texas Sports Hall of Fame</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vcard" style="width:25.5em;border-spacing:2px;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%; background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div style="display:inline-block" class="fn">Bud Adams</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span>United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Service <wbr />/ branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Infantry_battalion_flag_of_the_United_States_Navy.svg/23px-Infantry_battalion_flag_of_the_United_States_Navy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Infantry_battalion_flag_of_the_United_States_Navy.svg/35px-Infantry_battalion_flag_of_the_United_States_Navy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Infantry_battalion_flag_of_the_United_States_Navy.svg/46px-Infantry_battalion_flag_of_the_United_States_Navy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="780" data-file-height="615" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_Navy_O2_infobox.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/US_Navy_O2_infobox.svg/25px-US_Navy_O2_infobox.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/US_Navy_O2_infobox.svg/38px-US_Navy_O2_infobox.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/US_Navy_O2_infobox.svg/50px-US_Navy_O2_infobox.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="252" data-file-height="102" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant,_junior_grade" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant, junior grade">Lieutenant, junior grade</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Battles / wars</th><td class="infobox-data">World War II: <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean_theater_of_World_War_II" title="Pacific Ocean theater of World War II">Pacific Theater</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Kenneth Stanley </b>"<b>Bud</b>"<b> Adams Jr.</b> (January 3, 1923 – October 21, 2013) was an American businessman who was the founder and owner of the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Oilers" title="Houston Oilers">Houston Oilers</a> of the <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League" title="American Football League">American Football League</a> (AFL), of which he was also a co-founder. The franchise eventually was moved to <a href="/wiki/Nashville" class="mw-redirect" title="Nashville">Nashville</a>, where it was renamed the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Titans" title="Tennessee Titans">Tennessee Titans</a>, a <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a> (NFL) franchise. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> who originally made his fortune in the petroleum business, Adams was chairman and CEO of <a href="/wiki/Adams_Resources_%26_Energy_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Adams Resources & Energy Inc.">Adams Resources & Energy Inc.</a>, a wholesale supplier of oil and <a href="/wiki/Natural_gas" title="Natural gas">natural gas</a>. He was instrumental in the founding and establishment of the former <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League" title="American Football League">American Football League</a> (AFL).<sup id="cite_ref-shakynl_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shakynl-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adams became a charter AFL owner with the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Oilers" title="Houston Oilers">Oilers</a> (now the "Titans"). He was the senior owner (by duration) with his team, now in the National Football League, a few months ahead of <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Buffalo Bills</a>' owner <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Wilson" title="Ralph Wilson">Ralph Wilson</a>. Adams also was one of the owners of the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Mavericks" title="Houston Mavericks">Houston Mavericks</a> of the <a href="/wiki/American_Basketball_Association" title="American Basketball Association">American Basketball Association</a> (ABA) and the owner of the second <a href="/wiki/Nashville_Kats" title="Nashville Kats">Nashville Kats</a> franchise of the <a href="/wiki/Arena_Football_League" title="Arena Football League">Arena Football League</a> (AFL). He was elected to the American Football League Hall of Fame, an online site, but as of 2024 is not a member of the <a href="/wiki/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame" title="Pro Football Hall of Fame">Pro Football Hall of Fame</a>, despite several nominations and an ongoing effort to make him such. </p><p>Adams had many other business interests in the Houston area, including owning several <a href="/wiki/Lincoln-Mercury" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincoln-Mercury">Lincoln-Mercury</a> automobile franchises. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bud_Adams&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Bartlesville,_Oklahoma" title="Bartlesville, Oklahoma">Bartlesville, Oklahoma</a> on January 3, 1923, Adams was the son of <a href="/wiki/Boots_Adams" title="Boots Adams">K. S. "Boots" Adams</a> and Blanch Keeler Adams. He was an enrolled member of the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> by virtue of his maternal line. Two of his great-grandmothers were Cherokee women who married European-American men: Nelson Carr and <a href="/w/index.php?title=George_B._Keeler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George B. Keeler (page does not exist)">George B. Keeler</a>, who played roles in trade and oil in early Oklahoma. Keeler drilled the first commercial oil well, near the <a href="/wiki/Caney_River" title="Caney River">Caney River</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-examiner-enterprise.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-examiner-enterprise.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adams's father succeeded the founder <a href="/wiki/Frank_Phillips_(oil_industrialist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Frank Phillips (oil industrialist)">Frank Phillips</a> as president of <a href="/wiki/Phillips_Petroleum_Company" title="Phillips Petroleum Company">Phillips Petroleum Company</a> in 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams's uncle <a href="/wiki/W._W._Keeler" title="W. W. Keeler">William Wayne Keeler</a>, CEO of Phillips Petroleum Company for years, was appointed <a href="/wiki/Principal_Chief_of_the_Cherokee_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation">Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation</a> by U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Harry S. Truman</a> in 1949 and served through 1971, when the Cherokee were allowed to hold their own elections. Keeler was then democratically elected and served until 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-Demand249_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Demand249-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams's ancestors include other prominent Cherokee leaders.<sup id="cite_ref-examiner-enterprise.com_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-examiner-enterprise.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adams graduated from <a href="/wiki/Culver_Military_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Culver Military Academy">Culver Military Academy</a> in 1940 after <a href="/wiki/Varsity_letter" title="Varsity letter">lettering</a> in three sports. After a brief stint at <a href="/wiki/Menlo_College" title="Menlo College">Menlo College</a>, he transferred to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Kansas" title="University of Kansas">University of Kansas</a> (KU), where he played briefly on the varsity football team as he completed an engineering degree. In his lone season on the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_Jayhawks_football" title="Kansas Jayhawks football">Jayhawk football team</a>, he was a teammate of politician <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole">Bob Dole</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports_career_in_Houston">Sports career in Houston</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bud_Adams&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sports career in Houston"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_career_in_the_American_Football_League">Early career in the American Football League</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bud_Adams&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early career in the American Football League"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams soon became interested in owning an NFL team. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Houston_Oilers_and_the_Astrodome">The Houston Oilers and the Astrodome</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bud_Adams&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Houston Oilers and the Astrodome"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams and the other AFL owners received a tremendous boost in credibility and net worth in 1966 with the merger of the AFL with and into the NFL. It was effective with the 1970 season. In 1968 Adams moved his team into the <a href="/wiki/Astrodome" title="Astrodome">Astrodome</a>, which since 1965 had been the home of the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a> of baseball's <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> (incidentally, Adams was one of the original part-owners of the team for the 1962 season). <sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Houston_vs._Adams">Houston vs. Adams</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bud_Adams&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Houston vs. Adams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the mid-1990s, several NFL teams had new stadiums built largely or entirely with public funding, and several more deals had been agreed to. These new venues featured amenities such as "club seating" and other potential revenue streams that were not part of the NFL's default revenue-sharing arrangements. Due to this, Adams began to lobby <a href="/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Houston" title="List of mayors of Houston">Mayor</a> <a href="/wiki/Bob_Lanier_(politician)" title="Bob Lanier (politician)">Bob Lanier</a> for a new stadium. However, Lanier turned down the request almost out of hand. Lanier knew that Houstonians were not willing to spend money for a brand-new stadium less than a decade after helping pay for heavily renovating the Astrodome.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following this, Adams began negotiations with the city of <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>, and after the city approved plans to build what eventually became <a href="/wiki/Nissan_Stadium" title="Nissan Stadium">Nissan Stadium</a>, he announced the Oilers would move to Nashville by 1998. The backlash was swift and immediate in Houston, as fan interest quickly dried up, to the point radio broadcasts would fall from being broadcast statewide to only flagship station <a href="/wiki/KTRH" title="KTRH">KTRH</a> and some stations in Tennessee (and even then, KTRH would drop games midway through in favor of pregame shows for <a href="/wiki/Houston_Rockets" title="Houston Rockets">Houston Rockets</a> <i>preseason</i> games), and attendance would completely implode to the point on-field discussions between coaches and players could be heard from the stands, with the nadir coming in the final home game on December 15, 1996, a 21–13 loss to the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Bengals" title="Cincinnati Bengals">Cincinnati Bengals</a> that saw a disastrous attendance of just 15,131, a total that wouldn't even sell out a Rockets game at <a href="/wiki/Lakewood_Church_Central_Campus" title="Lakewood Church Central Campus">The Summit</a>. Following this ordeal, the city, unwilling to endure this quagmire for another year, agreed to let Adams out of his lease a season early, and the team was officially gone from Houston. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports_career_in_Tennessee">Sports career in Tennessee</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bud_Adams&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Sports career in Tennessee"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tennessee_Oilers">Tennessee Oilers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bud_Adams&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Tennessee Oilers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The move up of the relocation would prove a blessing and a curse for the vagabond Oilers, as the team now needed a temporary home until the Nashville stadium was completed in 1999. With little options in Tennessee proper to temporarily hold the team (an idea to use <a href="/wiki/Neyland_Stadium" title="Neyland Stadium">Neyland Stadium</a> was quickly mooted as the colossal 104,000 seats would make sellouts near-impossible, and Adams refused to use <a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Vanderbilt Stadium">Vanderbilt Stadium</a> because it lacked both skyboxes and alcohol licenses and seated just over 41,000, not enough to meet NFL stadium standards), Adams thus decided to use <a href="/wiki/Liberty_Bowl_Memorial_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium">Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis</a> for the following 2 seasons. Despite his intentions, the Memphis stay was an utter disaster for the team, as Memphis fans, spurned by previous failed efforts to gain a football team, refused a temporary option, especially for a team that would then leave to their biggest rival city, and Nashville fans balked at having to travel over 200 miles to see "their" team. As such, the team never came close to selling out any home games, barely able to crack 30,000 in the best of times. </p><p>Despite the problems, Adams initially intended to stick it out. However, only one game, the finale against the Pittsburgh Steelers, attracted a larger crowd than could have been accommodated at Vanderbilt. Although 50,677 people showed up, the crowd appeared to be composed of at least half, and as many as three-fourths, Steeler fans, leading Adams to begrudingly move the franchise to Vanderbilt Stadium for 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Oilers had had a proud history in Houston, winning the first two AFL Championships, which were the city's first major league titles, and featuring <a href="/w/index.php?title=American_Football_League_Hall_of_Fame&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Football League Hall of Fame (page does not exist)">American Football League Hall of Fame</a> enshrinees and all-stars such as <a href="/wiki/George_Blanda" title="George Blanda">George Blanda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Hennigan" title="Charlie Hennigan">Charlie Hennigan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Billy_Cannon" title="Billy Cannon">Billy Cannon</a>. Whatever the reasons, his wrenching of the storied franchise from Houston cost him the disdain not only of Houston supporters, but of AFL fans across the U. S. </p><p>Adams fell further from their favor by taking legal action that prevents any Major League Professional Football team from ever using the nickname "Oilers". The NFL was an accessory to that action, which it interestingly supported, while it allowed the city of Cleveland to keep the nickname of the Cleveland Browns after that franchise was moved to Baltimore. Although Adams was already a member of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=American_Football_League_Hall_of_Fame&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Football League Hall of Fame (page does not exist)">American Football League Hall of Fame</a>, his moving of the Oilers and invalidating their nickname caused AFL historian <a href="/wiki/Angelo_F._Coniglio" title="Angelo F. Coniglio">Angelo F. Coniglio</a> to also place him in the "AFL Hall of Infamy". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tennessee_Titans">Tennessee Titans</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bud_Adams&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Tennessee Titans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Budbird.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/14/Budbird.jpg/220px-Budbird.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/14/Budbird.jpg/330px-Budbird.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/Budbird.jpg 2x" data-file-width="421" data-file-height="237" /></a><figcaption>Adams was fined $250,000 by the NFL for this act of displaying an obscene gesture at the Titans/<a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Bills</a> game on November 15, 2009.</figcaption></figure> <p>On November 15, 2009, Adams was caught on video displaying an <a href="/wiki/The_Finger" class="mw-redirect" title="The Finger">obscene gesture</a> towards the Buffalo bench after the Titans routed the Bills 41–14. Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Roger_Goodell" title="Roger Goodell">Roger Goodell</a>, who happened to be attending the game, fined him $250,000. Afterwards, Adams remarked "Oh, I knew I was going to get in trouble for that. I was just so happy we won."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bud_Adams&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams was an enrolled member of the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a>. He had served on the executive committee of the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_National_Historical_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherokee National Historical Society">Cherokee National Historical Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-examiner-enterprise.com_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-examiner-enterprise.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He attended River Oaks Baptist Church in Houston. He and his wife Nancy Neville Adams were married for 62 years, until her death in February 2009 at the age of 84.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had two daughters, Susan and <a href="/wiki/Amy_Adams_Strunk" title="Amy Adams Strunk">Amy</a>, and a son, Kenneth S. Adams III, each of whom (and their children) are registered Cherokee. Kenneth III, who was married and had two children, died in June 1987 at the age of 29 from apparent suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bud_Adams&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams died of natural causes at his home in <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a> at age 90 in 2013. His body was found in his River Oaks home after police were called for a welfare check.<sup id="cite_ref-death_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-death-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the time of his death, Adams's 409 wins were the most of any current <a href="/wiki/NFL" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL">NFL</a> owner. He gained his 400th career victory in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Tennessee_Titans_season" title="2011 Tennessee Titans season">2011</a> season finale when his Titans defeated the team which replaced his Oilers in Houston, the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Texans" title="Houston Texans">Texans</a>. His franchise made 21 playoff appearances in 53 seasons, eighth among NFL teams since 1960. 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style="background-color: #4B92DB !important; color: #002244 !important; ;"><div> <ul><li>Founded in 1960</li> <li>Formerly the <b>Houston Oilers</b> (1960–1996) and the <b>Tennessee Oilers</b> (1997–1998)</li> <li>Based and headquartered in <b><a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee"><span style="color: #002244">Nashville, Tennessee</span></a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #4B92DB !important; color: #002244 !important; ;;width:1%">Franchise</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Tennessee_Titans" title="History of the Tennessee Titans">History</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Houston_Oilers" title="Houston Oilers">in Houston</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Tennessee_Titans_head_coaches" title="List of Tennessee Titans head coaches">Coaches</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Ravens%E2%80%93Titans_rivalry" title="Ravens–Titans rivalry">Baltimore Ravens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bills%E2%80%93Titans_rivalry" title="Bills–Titans rivalry">Buffalo Bills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governor%27s_Cup_(Texas)" title="Governor's Cup (Texas)">Dallas Cowboys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texans%E2%80%93Titans_rivalry" title="Texans–Titans rivalry">Houston Texans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colts%E2%80%93Titans_rivalry" title="Colts–Titans rivalry">Indianapolis Colts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaguars%E2%80%93Titans_rivalry" title="Jaguars–Titans rivalry">Jacksonville Jaguars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steelers%E2%80%93Titans_rivalry" title="Steelers–Titans rivalry">Pittsburgh Steelers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #4B92DB !important; color: #002244 !important; ;;width:1%">Division championships (11)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1960_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1960 Houston Oilers season">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1961 Houston Oilers season">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1962 Houston Oilers season">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1967 Houston Oilers season">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1991 Houston Oilers season">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1993 Houston Oilers season">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Tennessee_Titans_season" title="2000 Tennessee Titans season">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_Tennessee_Titans_season" title="2002 Tennessee Titans season">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Tennessee_Titans_season" title="2008 Tennessee Titans season">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Tennessee_Titans_season" title="2020 Tennessee Titans season">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Tennessee_Titans_season" title="2021 Tennessee Titans season">2021</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #4B92DB !important; color: #002244 !important; ;;width:1%">Conference championships (1)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1999_NFL_season" title="1999 NFL season">1999</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #4B92DB !important; color: #002244 !important; ;;width:1%">League championships (2)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1960_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1960 American Football League Championship Game">1960</a></li> <li><a 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