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style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Luv_Ya_Blue" title="Luv Ya Blue">Luv Ya Blue</a>/Houston Oilers #1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_NFL_mascots" title="List of NFL mascots">Mascot</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">The Roughneck</td></tr><tr style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #4B92DB, inset -2px -2px 0 #4B92DB;; text-align:center; padding:5px;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Personnel</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner(s)</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Bud_Adams" title="Bud Adams">Bud Adams</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">General manager</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Don_Suman" title="Don Suman">Don Suman</a> (1960–1961)<br /><a href="/wiki/Pop_Ivy" title="Pop Ivy">Pop Ivy</a> (1962–1963)<br /><a href="/wiki/Carroll_Martin" title="Carroll Martin">Carroll Martin</a> (1964–1965)<br /><a href="/wiki/Don_Klosterman_(American_football)" title="Don Klosterman (American football)">Don Klosterman</a> (1966–1969)<br /><a href="/wiki/Bob_Brodhead" title="Bob Brodhead">Bob Brodhead</a> (1970)<br /><a href="/wiki/John_W._Breen" title="John W. Breen">John W. Breen</a> (1971–1972)<br /><a href="/wiki/Sid_Gillman" title="Sid Gillman">Sid Gillman</a> (1973–1974)<br /><a href="/wiki/Bum_Phillips" title="Bum Phillips">Bum Phillips</a> (1975–1980)<br /><a href="/wiki/Ladd_Herzeg" title="Ladd Herzeg">Ladd Herzeg</a> (1981–1989)<br /><a href="/wiki/Mike_Holovak" title="Mike Holovak">Mike Holovak</a> (1990–1993)<br /><a href="/wiki/Floyd_Reese" title="Floyd Reese">Floyd Reese</a> (1994–1996)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Head coach</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Lou_Rymkus" title="Lou Rymkus">Lou Rymkus</a> (1960–1961)<br /><a href="/wiki/Wally_Lemm" title="Wally Lemm">Wally Lemm</a> (1961)<br /><a href="/wiki/Pop_Ivy" title="Pop Ivy">Pop Ivy</a> (1962–1963)<br /><a href="/wiki/Sammy_Baugh" title="Sammy Baugh">Sammy Baugh</a> (1964)<br /><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Taylor_(American_football)" title="Hugh Taylor (American football)">Hugh Taylor</a> (1965)<br /><a href="/wiki/Wally_Lemm" title="Wally Lemm">Wally Lemm</a> (1966–1970)<br /><a href="/wiki/Ed_Hughes" title="Ed Hughes">Ed Hughes</a> (1971)<br /><a href="/wiki/Bill_Peterson" title="Bill Peterson">Bill Peterson</a> (1972–1973)<br /><a href="/wiki/Sid_Gillman" title="Sid Gillman">Sid Gillman</a> (1973–1974)<br /><a href="/wiki/Bum_Phillips" title="Bum Phillips">Bum Phillips</a> (1975–1980)<br /><a href="/wiki/Ed_Biles" title="Ed Biles">Ed Biles</a> (1981–1983)<br /><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Studley" title="Chuck Studley">Chuck Studley</a> (1983)<br /><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Campbell" title="Hugh Campbell">Hugh Campbell</a> (1984–1985)<br /><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Glanville" title="Jerry Glanville">Jerry Glanville</a> (1985–1989)<br /><a href="/wiki/Jack_Pardee" title="Jack Pardee">Jack Pardee</a> (1990–1994)<br /><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Fisher" title="Jeff Fisher">Jeff Fisher</a> (1994–1996)</td></tr><tr style="background-color: #4B92DB !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #C60C30, inset -2px -2px 0 #C60C30;; 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title="American Football League">AFL championships</a> (pre-1970 <a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93NFL_merger" title="AFL–NFL merger">AFL–NFL merger</a>) (2)</b><br /><a href="/wiki/1960_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1960 Houston Oilers season">1960</a>, <a href="/wiki/1961_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1961 Houston Oilers season">1961</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align:left;"><b>Conference championships (0)</b></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align:left;"><b>Division championships (6)</b> <ul><li><b>AFL East:</b> <a href="/wiki/1960_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1960 Houston Oilers season">1960</a>, <a href="/wiki/1961_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1961 Houston Oilers season">1961</a>, <a href="/wiki/1962_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1962 Houston Oilers season">1962</a>, <a href="/wiki/1967_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1967 Houston Oilers season">1967</a></li> <li><b>AFC Central</b> <a 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The Houston Oilers began play as a charter member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League" title="American Football League">American Football League</a> (AFL) and won two AFL championships before joining the NFL in the <a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93NFL_merger" title="AFL–NFL merger">AFL–NFL merger</a> of the late 1960s. </p><p>The Houston Oilers competed in the AFL's <a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">East division</a>—along with the <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Buffalo Bills</a>, the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Jets" title="New York Jets">New York Jets</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Patriots" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Patriots">Boston Patriots</a>—until the merger, when they joined the newly formed <a href="/wiki/AFC_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="AFC Central">AFC Central</a>. The team played home games at <a href="/wiki/Jeppesen_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeppesen Stadium">Jeppesen Stadium</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rice_Stadium_(Rice_University)" title="Rice Stadium (Rice University)">Rice Stadium</a> during its first eight seasons, and thereafter at the <a href="/wiki/Astrodome" title="Astrodome">Astrodome</a>. </p><p>The Houston Oilers were the first champions of the American Football League, winning the <a href="/wiki/1960_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1960 American Football League Championship Game">1960</a> and <a href="/wiki/1961_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1961 American Football League Championship Game">1961</a> championships, but never won another. The Houston Oilers appeared in the <a href="/wiki/1962_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1962 American Football League Championship Game">1962 AFL Championship</a>, losing in double overtime to their in-state rivals, the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Texans_(AFL)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dallas Texans (AFL)">Dallas Texans</a> (now the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Chiefs" title="Kansas City Chiefs">Kansas City Chiefs</a>); they also won the AFL East Division title in <a href="/wiki/1967_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1967 Houston Oilers season">1967</a> and qualified for the <a href="/wiki/1969_American_Football_League_playoffs" class="mw-redirect" title="1969 American Football League playoffs">AFL Playoffs in 1969</a>, both times losing to the <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Raiders" title="Oakland Raiders">Oakland Raiders</a> (which are now the Las Vegas Raiders). From <a href="/wiki/1978_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1978 Houston Oilers season">1978</a> to <a href="/wiki/1980_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1980 Houston Oilers season">1980</a>, the Houston Oilers, led by <a href="/wiki/Bum_Phillips" title="Bum Phillips">Bum Phillips</a> and in the midst of the <a href="/wiki/Luv_Ya_Blue" title="Luv Ya Blue">Luv Ya Blue</a> campaign, appeared in and lost the <a href="/wiki/1978_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1978 Houston Oilers season">1978</a> and <a href="/wiki/1979_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1979 Houston Oilers season">1979</a> <a href="/wiki/AFC_Championship_Game" title="AFC Championship Game">AFC Championship Games</a>. The Oilers were a consistent playoff team from <a href="/wiki/1987_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1987 Houston Oilers season">1987</a> to <a href="/wiki/1993_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1993 Houston Oilers season">1993</a>, an era that included both of the team's only division titles (<a href="/wiki/1991_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1991 Houston Oilers season">1991</a> and <a href="/wiki/1993_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1993 Houston Oilers season">1993</a>), as well as the dubious distinction of being on the losing end of <a href="/wiki/The_Comeback_(American_football)" title="The Comeback (American football)">the second largest comeback in NFL history</a>. For the rest of the Oilers' time in Houston, they compiled losing seasons in almost every other year. </p><p>The Houston Oilers' main colors were <a href="/wiki/Columbia_blue" title="Columbia blue">Columbia blue</a> and white, with scarlet trim, while their logo was a simple <a href="/wiki/Derrick" title="Derrick">derrick</a>. Oilers jerseys were always Columbia blue for home and white for away. The helmet color was Columbia blue with a white derrick from <a href="/wiki/1960_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1960 Houston Oilers season">1960</a> through <a href="/wiki/1965_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1965 Houston Oilers season">1965</a>, silver with a Columbia blue derrick from <a href="/wiki/1966_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1966 Houston Oilers season">1966</a> through <a href="/wiki/1971_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1971 Houston Oilers season">1971</a>, and Columbia blue with a white-and-scarlet derrick from <a href="/wiki/1972_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1972 Houston Oilers season">1972</a> through <a href="/wiki/1974_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1974 Houston Oilers season">1974</a>, before changing to a white helmet with a Columbia blue derrick beginning in <a href="/wiki/1975_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1975 Houston Oilers season">1975</a> and lasting the remainder of the team's time in Houston. </p><p>The team was owned by <a href="/wiki/Bud_Adams" title="Bud Adams">Bud Adams</a>, who began threatening to move the team in the late 1980s, and finally did so after the 1996 season. He moved the team to <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>, where they played as the Tennessee Oilers in <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis</a> for the <a href="/wiki/1997_Tennessee_Oilers_season" title="1997 Tennessee Oilers season">1997</a> season, then in <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville</a> for the <a href="/wiki/1998_Tennessee_Oilers_season" title="1998 Tennessee Oilers season">1998</a> season. In 1999, to coincide with the opening of their <a href="/wiki/Nissan_Stadium" title="Nissan Stadium">new stadium</a>, Adams changed the team name to the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Titans" title="Tennessee Titans">Tennessee Titans</a> and the color scheme from Columbia Blue, Scarlet, and White to Titans Blue, Navy, White, and Silver with scarlet accents. The franchise retained the Houston Oilers' team history and records, while the team name was retired by then-<a href="/wiki/NFL_Commissioner" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL Commissioner">NFL Commissioner</a> <a href="/wiki/Paul_Tagliabue" title="Paul Tagliabue">Paul Tagliabue</a>, thus preventing a future Houston <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">NFL</a> team from using the Houston Oilers' name.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later Houston-based football teams have paid homage to the Oilers. The <a href="/wiki/Houston_Roughnecks_(2020)" title="Houston Roughnecks (2020)">Houston Roughnecks</a>, an <a href="/wiki/XFL_(2020)" class="mw-redirect" title="XFL (2020)">XFL</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Houston_Cougars_football" title="Houston Cougars football">University of Houston</a> football team wore Oilers-style throwback uniforms during the Cougars' <a href="/wiki/2023_Houston_Cougars_football_team" title="2023 Houston Cougars football team">2023</a> season opener against <a href="/wiki/UTSA_Roadrunners_football" title="UTSA Roadrunners football">UTSA</a>.<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> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1960s">1960s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houston_Oilers&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: 1960s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Houston Oilers began in <a href="/wiki/1960_American_Football_League_season" title="1960 American Football League season">1960</a> as a charter member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League" title="American Football League">American Football League</a>. They were owned by <a href="/wiki/Bud_Adams" title="Bud Adams">Bud Adams</a>, a Houston oilman who had made several previous unsuccessful bids for an NFL expansion team in Houston. Adams was an influential member of the eight original AFL owners, since he, <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Chiefs" title="Kansas City Chiefs">Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs</a> founder <a href="/wiki/Lamar_Hunt" title="Lamar Hunt">Lamar Hunt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Buffalo Bills</a> founder <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Wilson" title="Ralph Wilson">Ralph Wilson</a> were more financially stable than the other five. (All three would go on to own their franchises for over forty years, whereas the others pulled out by the 1980s.) </p><p>The Oilers appeared in the first three AFL championships. They scored an important victory over the NFL when they signed LSU's <a href="/wiki/Heisman_Trophy" title="Heisman Trophy">Heisman Trophy</a> winner, All-America running back <a href="/wiki/Billy_Cannon" title="Billy Cannon">Billy Cannon</a>. Cannon joined other Oiler offensive stars such as quarterback <a href="/wiki/George_Blanda" title="George Blanda">George Blanda</a>, flanker <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Hennigan" title="Charlie Hennigan">Charlie Hennigan</a>, running back <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Tolar" title="Charlie Tolar">Charlie Tolar</a>, and guard <a href="/wiki/Bob_Talamini" title="Bob Talamini">Bob Talamini</a>. After winning the first-ever AFL championship over the <a href="/wiki/1960_Los_Angeles_Chargers_season" title="1960 Los Angeles Chargers season">Los Angeles Chargers</a> in <a href="/wiki/1960_AFL_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1960 AFL season">1960</a>, they repeated over the same team (then in San Diego) in <a href="/wiki/1961_American_Football_League_season" title="1961 American Football League season">1961</a>. (In 2012, the retail outlet <a href="/wiki/Old_Navy" title="Old Navy">Old Navy</a> earned infamy for selling a shirt that misidentified the 1961 AFL champions as the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Texans" title="Houston Texans">Houston Texans</a>, which did not exist until 2002.)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Oilers lost to the <a href="/wiki/1962_Dallas_Texans_season" title="1962 Dallas Texans season">Dallas Texans</a> in the classic <a href="/wiki/1962_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1962 American Football League Championship Game">1962 double-overtime AFL championship game</a>, at the time the longest <a href="/wiki/Professional_American_football_championship_games" title="Professional American football championship games">professional football championship game</a> ever played. In <a href="/wiki/1962_American_Football_League_season" title="1962 American Football League season">1962</a>, the Oilers were the first AFL team to sign an active NFL player away from the other league, when wide receiver <a href="/wiki/Willard_Dewveall" title="Willard Dewveall">Willard Dewveall</a> left the Bears to join the champion Oilers. Dewveall that year caught the longest pass reception for a touchdown in professional American football history, 99 yards, from <a href="/wiki/Jacky_Lee_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacky Lee (American football)">Jacky Lee</a>, against the <a href="/wiki/1962_San_Diego_Chargers_season" title="1962 San Diego Chargers season">San Diego Chargers</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/1967_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1967 Houston Oilers season">Oilers</a> won the AFL Eastern Division title again in <a href="/wiki/1967_American_Football_League_season" title="1967 American Football League season">1967</a>, then became the first professional football team to play in a domed stadium, when they moved into Houston's <a href="/wiki/Astrodome" title="Astrodome">Astrodome</a>, then home of <a href="/wiki/MLB" class="mw-redirect" title="MLB">MLB</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a> for the <a href="/wiki/1968_American_Football_League_season" title="1968 American Football League season">1968 season</a>. Previously, the Oilers had played at <a href="/wiki/Jeppesen_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeppesen Stadium">Jeppesen Stadium</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Houston" title="University of Houston">University of Houston</a> (later called Robertson Stadium) from 1960 to 1964, and <a href="/wiki/Rice_Stadium_(Rice_University)" title="Rice Stadium (Rice University)">Rice University's stadium</a> from 1965 to 1967. Adams had intended the team play at Rice from the first, but Rice's board of regents initially rejected the move. After the Astrodome opened for business, Adams attempted to move there, but could not negotiate an acceptable lease with the Houston Sports Association (owners of the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a>) from whom he would sublease the Dome. The <a href="/wiki/1969_AFL_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1969 AFL season">1969 season</a>, the last as an AFL team, saw <a href="/wiki/1969_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1969 Houston Oilers season">Houston</a> begin 3–1, but tumble afterwards. They qualified for the <a href="/wiki/AFL_playoffs,_1969" class="mw-redirect" title="AFL playoffs, 1969">playoffs</a>, but were defeated by the <a href="/wiki/1969_Oakland_Raiders_season" title="1969 Oakland Raiders season">Raiders</a> 56–7, to finish the year with a record of 6–7–2. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1970s">1970s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houston_Oilers&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 1970s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Luv_Ya_Blue" title="Luv Ya Blue">Luv Ya Blue</a></div> <p>The years immediately after the <a href="/wiki/AFL-NFL_Merger" class="mw-redirect" title="AFL-NFL Merger">AFL-NFL Merger</a> were not as kind to the Oilers, who sank to the bottom of the <a href="/wiki/AFC_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="AFC Central">AFC Central</a> division. After going 3–10–1 in <a href="/wiki/1970_NFL_season" title="1970 NFL season">1970</a>, they went 4–9–1 in <a href="/wiki/1971_NFL_season" title="1971 NFL season">1971</a>, and then suffered back-to-back 1–13 seasons in <a href="/wiki/1972_NFL_season" title="1972 NFL season">1972</a>–<a href="/wiki/1973_NFL_season" title="1973 NFL season">73</a>. But by <a href="/wiki/1974_NFL_season" title="1974 NFL season">1974</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1974_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1974 Houston Oilers season">Oilers</a> led by Hall of Fame coach <a href="/wiki/Sid_Gillman" title="Sid Gillman">Sid Gillman</a> brought the team back to respectability by reaching .500 at season's end. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tleft"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:409px;max-width:409px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:203px;max-width:203px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1986_Jeno%27s_Pizza_-_43_-_Dan_Pastorini_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/1986_Jeno%27s_Pizza_-_43_-_Dan_Pastorini_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="201" height="143" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="189" data-file-height="134" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1986_Jeno%27s_Pizza_-_44_-_Elvin_Bethea_and_Carter_Hartwig_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/1986_Jeno%27s_Pizza_-_44_-_Elvin_Bethea_and_Carter_Hartwig_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="143" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="186" data-file-height="133" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flow-root"><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align:left">The Oilers made consecutive playoff runs in <a href="/wiki/1978%E2%80%9379_NFL_playoffs" title="1978–79 NFL playoffs">1978</a> (<i>left</i>), <a href="/wiki/1979%E2%80%9380_NFL_playoffs" title="1979–80 NFL playoffs">1979</a> (<i>right</i>) and <a href="/wiki/1980%E2%80%9381_NFL_playoffs" title="1980–81 NFL playoffs">1980</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/Dan_Pastorini" title="Dan Pastorini">Dan Pastorini</a> (<i>left</i>), Elvin Bethea (<i>right</i>) and Earl Campbell.</div></div></div></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/1975_NFL_season" title="1975 NFL season">next year</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bum_Phillips" title="Bum Phillips">Bum Phillips</a> arrived and with talented stars like <a href="/wiki/Elvin_Bethea" title="Elvin Bethea">Elvin Bethea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Billy_Johnson_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Billy Johnson (American football)">Billy "White Shoes" Johnson</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1975_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1975 Houston Oilers season">Oilers</a> had their first winning season of the decade going 10–4 but did not make the playoffs. Injuries and inadequate offense doomed them to a 5–9 season in <a href="/wiki/1976_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1976 Houston Oilers season">1976</a>, but the <a href="/wiki/1977_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1977 Houston Oilers season">team</a> improved to 8–6 the following year, and in <a href="/wiki/1978_NFL_season" title="1978 NFL season">1978</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1978_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1978 Houston Oilers season">Oilers</a>' fortunes improved when they <a href="/wiki/1978_NFL_Draft" class="mw-redirect" title="1978 NFL Draft">drafted</a> <a href="/wiki/Texas_Longhorns_football" title="Texas Longhorns football">University of Texas</a> football star <a href="/wiki/Earl_Campbell" title="Earl Campbell">Earl Campbell</a>, known as the "Tyler Rose", who was Rookie of the Year that year and led the Oilers to their first playoff appearance since the merger. </p><p>Defeating <a href="/wiki/1978_Miami_Dolphins_season" title="1978 Miami Dolphins season">Miami</a> in the wild-card round, they then trumped <a href="/wiki/1978_New_England_Patriots_season" title="1978 New England Patriots season">New England</a>, leading to immediately rebuilding of the Patriots. But in the AFC Championship, the <a href="/wiki/1978_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="1978 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Steelers</a> routed them 34–5. In spite of the lopsided defeat, the Oilers returned home to a packed Astrodome for a pep-rally uncommon in professional sports.<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><p>The <a href="/wiki/1979_NFL_season" title="1979 NFL season">1979 season</a> was a near rerun of 1978 as the <a href="/wiki/1979_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1979 Houston Oilers season">Oilers</a> finished 11–5 with Campbell gaining 1,600 yards in the regular season, and again earned a wild card spot. Beating the <a href="/wiki/1979_Denver_Broncos_season" title="1979 Denver Broncos season">Broncos</a> in the first home playoff game in Houston in over a decade, the Oilers' performance suffered with injuries to Campbell, <a href="/wiki/Quarterback" title="Quarterback">quarterback</a> <a href="/wiki/Dan_Pastorini" title="Dan Pastorini">Dan Pastorini</a> and top receiver <a href="/wiki/Ken_Burrough" title="Ken Burrough">Ken Burrough</a>. They did manage to edge past the high-flying <a href="/wiki/1979_San_Diego_Chargers_season" title="1979 San Diego Chargers season">San Diego</a> of <a href="/wiki/Dan_Fouts" title="Dan Fouts">Dan Fouts</a> in the divisional round, partly thanks to the play of <a href="/wiki/Vernon_Perry" title="Vernon Perry">Vernon Perry</a> (4 INTs and a blocked FG) as well as the outstanding line coached by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Bugel" title="Joe Bugel">Joe Bugel</a>. The Oilers returned to the AFC Championship game for the second year in a row, only to get knocked down by the Pittsburgh Steelers again, in spite of a terrific effort by Dan Pastorini—the Steelers had shut the ailing Campbell down, yet Pastorini nearly succeeded with the modest receiving corps of Mike Renfro, Rich Caster, and Ronnie Coleman venturing into the Steelers excellent defense. A controversial out-of-bounds call nullified a touchdown by wide receiver <a href="/wiki/Mike_Renfro" title="Mike Renfro">Mike Renfro</a> resulting in a 27–13 victory for Pittsburgh. Once again, after a tough loss, the Oilers returned to their then-adoring fans who packed the Astrodome for an impromptu pep-rally for the second year in a row. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1980s">1980s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houston_Oilers&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1980s"><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:Houston_Oilers_at_Pittsburgh_Steelers_1981-10-26_(ticket)_(crop).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Houston_Oilers_at_Pittsburgh_Steelers_1981-10-26_%28ticket%29_%28crop%29.jpg/220px-Houston_Oilers_at_Pittsburgh_Steelers_1981-10-26_%28ticket%29_%28crop%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Houston_Oilers_at_Pittsburgh_Steelers_1981-10-26_%28ticket%29_%28crop%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="314" data-file-height="358" /></a><figcaption>Pro Football Hall of Famer running back Earl Campbell was the centerpiece of the Oilers' offense in the late 1970s and early 1980s, earning several NFL awards, AFC rushing titles and five Pro Bowls.</figcaption></figure> <p>Before the <a href="/wiki/1980_NFL_season" title="1980 NFL season">1980</a> season Pastorini was traded to the <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Raiders" title="Oakland Raiders">Oakland Raiders</a> in exchange for Hall of Fame quarterback <a href="/wiki/Ken_Stabler" title="Ken Stabler">Ken Stabler</a>. 1980 saw the <a href="/wiki/1980_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1980 Houston Oilers season">Oilers</a> go 11–5 and achieve a wild card spot for the third year in a row, but they were quickly vanquished by <a href="/wiki/1980_Oakland_Raiders_season" title="1980 Oakland Raiders season">Oakland</a>, 27–7. Bud Adams fired <a href="/wiki/Bum_Phillips" title="Bum Phillips">Bum Phillips</a>, who was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Ed_Biles" title="Ed Biles">Ed Biles</a>. Afterwards began a long playoff drought as the Oilers fell to 7–9 in <a href="/wiki/1981_NFL_season" title="1981 NFL season">1981</a>, and 1–8 in the <a href="/wiki/1982_NFL_strike" class="mw-redirect" title="1982 NFL strike">strike-shortened</a> <a href="/wiki/1982_NFL_season" title="1982 NFL season">1982 season</a>. In <a href="/wiki/1983_NFL_season" title="1983 NFL season">1983</a>, <a href="/wiki/1983_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1983 Houston Oilers season">Houston</a> went 2–14. Biles resigned in Week 6 and was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Studley" title="Chuck Studley">Chuck Studley</a>, who served merely as an interim coach until <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Campbell" title="Hugh Campbell">Hugh Campbell</a> was hired in the off-season. In <a href="/wiki/1984_NFL_season" title="1984 NFL season">1984</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1984_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1984 Houston Oilers season">Oilers</a> won a bidding war for free-agent former <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Football_League" title="Canadian Football League">CFL</a> quarterback <a href="/wiki/Warren_Moon" title="Warren Moon">Warren Moon</a> (who played for Campbell with the <a href="/wiki/Edmonton_Elks" title="Edmonton Elks">Edmonton Eskimos</a>), but didn't return to the playoffs that year either, with two wins and fourteen losses. The aging Earl Campbell was traded to <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Saints" title="New Orleans Saints">New Orleans</a> during the off-season and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Mike_Rozier" title="Mike Rozier">Mike Rozier</a>, a refugee from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Football_League" title="United States Football League">USFL</a>. In week 14 of the <a href="/wiki/1985_NFL_season" title="1985 NFL season">1985 season</a>, Campbell was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Glanville" title="Jerry Glanville">Jerry Glanville</a>, who saw the team through the last two games to finish 5–11. A 31–3 rout of <a href="/wiki/1986_Green_Bay_Packers_season" title="1986 Green Bay Packers season">Green Bay</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1986_NFL_season" title="1986 NFL season">1986</a> season opener looked promising, but in the end <a href="/wiki/1986_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1986 Houston Oilers season">Houston</a> only managed another 5–11 record. Another <a href="/wiki/1987_NFL_strike" class="mw-redirect" title="1987 NFL strike">strike</a> in <a href="/wiki/1987_NFL_season" title="1987 NFL season">1987</a> reduced the season to 15 games, three by substitute players. After ending 9–6, the team achieved its first winning record and playoff berth in seven years. After beating the <a href="/wiki/1987_Seattle_Seahawks_season" title="1987 Seattle Seahawks season">Seahawks</a> in overtime, they fell to <a href="/wiki/1987_Denver_Broncos_season" title="1987 Denver Broncos season">Denver</a> in the divisional round. Going 10–6 in <a href="/wiki/1988_NFL_season" title="1988 NFL season">1988</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1988_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1988 Houston Oilers season">Oilers</a> again got into the <a href="/wiki/1988%E2%80%9389_NFL_playoffs" title="1988–89 NFL playoffs">playoffs</a> as a wild card, beat <a href="/wiki/1988_Cleveland_Browns_season" title="1988 Cleveland Browns season">Cleveland</a> in a snowy 24–23 match, and then lost to <a href="/wiki/1988_Buffalo_Bills_season" title="1988 Buffalo Bills season">Buffalo</a> a week later. <a href="/wiki/1989_NFL_season" title="1989 NFL season">1989</a> saw a 9–7 regular season, but the team gained a wild card berth. In a messy, penalty-ridden game, they were beaten by <a href="/wiki/1989_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="1989 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Pittsburgh</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Renovation_to_the_Astrodome">Renovation to the Astrodome</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houston_Oilers&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Renovation to the Astrodome"><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:Warren_Moon_and_Mike_Rozier_1987.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Warren_Moon_and_Mike_Rozier_1987.jpg/220px-Warren_Moon_and_Mike_Rozier_1987.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Warren_Moon_and_Mike_Rozier_1987.jpg/330px-Warren_Moon_and_Mike_Rozier_1987.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Warren_Moon_and_Mike_Rozier_1987.jpg/440px-Warren_Moon_and_Mike_Rozier_1987.jpg 2x" data-file-width="610" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>AFC Pro Bowlers Warren Moon (<i>left</i>) and Mike Rozier (<i>right</i>) made major contributions to the Oilers' offense in the late 1980s while leading the team to several playoff appearances.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Oilers' resurgence came in the midst of a battle for the franchise's survival. In 1987, Adams threatened to move the team to <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville, Florida</a> (later the home of <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville_Jaguars" title="Jacksonville Jaguars">Jacksonville Jaguars</a>), unless the Astrodome was "brought up to date". At the time the Astrodome seated about 50,000 fans, the smallest capacity in the NFL. Not willing to lose the Oilers, <a href="/wiki/Harris_County,_Texas" title="Harris County, Texas">Harris County</a> responded with $67 million in improvements to the Astrodome that included new AstroTurf, 10,000 additional seats and 65 luxury boxes. These improvements were funded by increases in property taxes and the doubling of the hotel tax, as well as bonds to be paid over 30 years. However, Adams' increasing demands for greater and more expensive accommodations to be funded at taxpayer expense sowed seeds of tension that assisted the team's departure from Houston.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1990s">1990s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houston_Oilers&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Oilers briefly rose to become a league power once again in the first half of the 1990s. In <a href="/wiki/1991_NFL_season" title="1991 NFL season">1991</a>, the Oilers won their first division title in 25 years, and their first as an NFL team. However, only two minutes away from their first conference title game in 13 years, they were the victims of an 80-yard march by <a href="/wiki/John_Elway" title="John Elway">John Elway</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Denver_Broncos" title="Denver Broncos">Denver Broncos</a> before <a href="/wiki/David_Treadwell" title="David Treadwell">David Treadwell</a> kicked a 28-yard field goal to win the game 26–24. In <a href="/wiki/1992_NFL_season" title="1992 NFL season">1992</a>, the Oilers compiled a 10–6 regular season record, but made history against the <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Buffalo Bills</a> in the AFC Wild Card playoffs by blowing an NFL record 35–3 lead and eventually losing 41–38 in overtime, a game now known simply as "<a href="/wiki/The_Comeback_(American_football)" title="The Comeback (American football)">The Comeback</a>". </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/1993_NFL_season" title="1993 NFL season">1993 season</a>, the Oilers finished with a 12–4 record, their best record ever in Texas, and another AFC Central title, but lost in the second round to the Chiefs. However, the 1993 season is best remembered as being a turbulent season for the team, as internal conflict plagued the team with a 1–4 start before they eventually won their final 11 games of the season. One notable part of the turbulence was a brawl between offensive coordinator <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Gilbride" title="Kevin Gilbride">Kevin Gilbride</a> and defensive coordinator <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Ryan" title="Buddy Ryan">Buddy Ryan</a> (who did not get along very well at all) on the final game of the regular season (nationally broadcast on <a href="/wiki/ESPN_Sunday_Night_Football" title="ESPN Sunday Night Football">ESPN</a>) against the New York Jets. After the season ended, Moon was traded to the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Vikings" title="Minnesota Vikings">Minnesota Vikings</a>. Without Moon, the Oilers finished the next season 2–14, the third-worst record for a full season in franchise history. The Oilers would never make the playoffs again in Texas. However, they did draft <a href="/wiki/Steve_McNair" title="Steve McNair">Steve McNair</a> in <a href="/wiki/1995_NFL_Draft" class="mw-redirect" title="1995 NFL Draft">1995</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Final_years_in_Houston">Final years in Houston</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houston_Oilers&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Final years in Houston"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Astrodome_interior_2004.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Astrodome_interior_2004.jpg/220px-Astrodome_interior_2004.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="312" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Astrodome_interior_2004.jpg/330px-Astrodome_interior_2004.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Astrodome_interior_2004.jpg/440px-Astrodome_interior_2004.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3321" data-file-height="4710" /></a><figcaption>The now-abandoned <a href="/wiki/Astrodome" title="Astrodome">Astrodome</a>, which was the home of the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a>, had football turf still intact after the Oilers' departure.</figcaption></figure> <p>At the same time, Adams again lobbied the city for a new stadium, one with club seating and other revenue generators present in recently built NFL stadiums, and he committed to pay for 25% of the cost of a new stadium. His idea called for a downtown domed stadium that could also be reconfigured to accommodate the <a href="/wiki/NBA" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA">NBA</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Houston_Rockets" title="Houston Rockets">Houston Rockets</a>–similar to <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Alamodome" title="Alamodome">Alamodome</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-longgoodbye_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-longgoodbye-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Houston" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of Houston">Mayor</a> <a href="/wiki/Bob_Lanier_(politician)" title="Bob Lanier (politician)">Bob Lanier</a> initially supported Adams' bid for a new stadium privately, but refused to publicly support the project. Although Houstonians wanted to keep the Oilers, they were wary of investing more money on a stadium so soon after the Astrodome improvements.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The city was also still struggling to recover from the <a href="/wiki/1980s_oil_glut" title="1980s oil glut">oil collapse of the 1980s</a>. Adams, sensing that he was not going to get the stadium he wanted, began shopping the Oilers to other cities. He was particularly intrigued by Nashville, and opened secret talks with mayor <a href="/wiki/Phil_Bredesen" title="Phil Bredesen">Phil Bredesen</a>. On November 16, <a href="/wiki/1995_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1995 Houston Oilers season">1995</a>, Adams announced that the Oilers would be moving to Nashville for the <a href="/wiki/1998_NFL_season" title="1998 NFL season">1998 season</a>.<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> City officials there promised to contribute $144 million toward a new stadium, as well as $70 million in ticket sales. </p><p>After the move was announced, support for the Oilers in the Houston area dried up almost overnight. As a result, the <a href="/wiki/1996_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1996 Houston Oilers season">1996 season</a> was an unmitigated disaster. Only three games attracted crowds of more than 30,000 people. Games were so quiet that it was possible to hear conversations on the field from the grandstand.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Meanwhile, the team's radio network, which once stretched across the state of Texas, was reduced to flagship <a href="/wiki/KTRH" title="KTRH">KTRH</a> in Houston and a few affiliates in Tennessee. By October 1996, KTRH was cutting off games prior to their finish in favor of <a href="/wiki/Houston_Rockets" title="Houston Rockets">Houston Rockets</a> preseason games.<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> The Oilers got off to a 5–2 start, but a stretch of four losses in five games took them out of playoff contention. The team went 8–8, finishing 6–2 in road games and only 2–6 in home games. The team's final game in Houston, against the Bengals on December 15, attracted just over 15,000 people—by at least one estimate, the smallest crowd in franchise history. Adams, the city and the league were unwilling to see this continue for another season, so a deal was reached on May 8, 1997 to let the Oilers out of their lease a year early and move to Tennessee.<sup id="cite_ref-longgoodbye_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-longgoodbye-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Oilers lost their final game in Houston 21–13. </p><p>In 1999, <a href="/wiki/Bob_McNair" title="Bob McNair">Robert McNair</a> was awarded, at a cost of $1 billion, an expansion team which replaced the Oilers in Houston. The franchise became the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Texans" title="Houston Texans">Houston Texans</a>, which adopted a similar red, white and blue team color tandem, albeit in darker shades and inherited the sports complex the Oilers had played in, but not the Oilers' former home; what is now called <a href="/wiki/NRG_Stadium" title="NRG Stadium">NRG Stadium</a> (formerly Reliant Stadium) would be built next door to the Astrodome in 2002. <a href="/wiki/Brad_Hopkins" title="Brad Hopkins">Brad Hopkins</a> was the last player on the Titans who played for the Oilers when he retired in 2005. <a href="/wiki/Jon_Runyan" title="Jon Runyan">Jon Runyan</a> was the last active NFL player to have played for the Oilers when he retired in 2009.<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="Notable_players">Notable players</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houston_Oilers&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notable players"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Retired_numbers">Retired numbers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houston_Oilers&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Retired numbers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="5" style="background-color: #4B92DB !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Houston Oilers retired numbers </th></tr> <tr> <th width="40px" style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">No. </th> <th width="130px" style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Player </th> <th width="40px" style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Position </th> <th width="100px" style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Years played </th> <th width="130px" style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Retired </th></tr> <tr> <td><b>1</b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Warren_Moon" title="Warren Moon">Warren Moon</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Quarterback" title="Quarterback">QB</a></td> <td>1984–1993</td> <td>October 1, 2006 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>9</b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Steve_McNair" title="Steve McNair">Steve McNair</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Quarterback" title="Quarterback">QB</a></td> <td>1995–1996</td> <td>September 15, 2019 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>27</b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eddie_George" title="Eddie George">Eddie George</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Running_back" title="Running back">RB</a></td> <td>1996</td> <td>September 15, 2019 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>34</b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Earl_Campbell" title="Earl Campbell">Earl Campbell</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Running_back" title="Running back">RB</a></td> <td>1978–1984</td> <td>August 13, 1987 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>43</b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jim_Norton_(safety)" title="Jim Norton (safety)">Jim Norton</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Safety_(American_and_Canadian_football_position)" class="mw-redirect" title="Safety (American and Canadian football position)">S</a>/<a href="/wiki/Punter_(football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Punter (football)">P</a></td> <td>1960–1968</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>63</b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Munchak" title="Mike Munchak">Mike Munchak</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Offensive_guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Offensive guard">OG</a></td> <td>1982–1993</td> <td>November 6, 1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>65</b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Elvin_Bethea" title="Elvin Bethea">Elvin Bethea</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Defensive_end" title="Defensive end">DE</a></td> <td>1968–1983</td> <td>August 4, 1983 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>74</b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Matthews_(American_football)" title="Bruce Matthews (American football)">Bruce Matthews</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Offensive_tackle" class="mw-redirect" title="Offensive tackle">OT</a></td> <td>1983–1996</td> <td>December 8, 2002 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame_members">Pro Football Hall of Fame members</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houston_Oilers&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Pro Football Hall of Fame members"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="5" style="background-color: #4B92DB !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Houston Oilers Hall of Famers </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="5" style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Players </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="col">No. </th> <th scope="col">Inductee </th> <th scope="col">Class </th> <th scope="col">Position </th> <th scope="col">Seasons </th></tr> <tr> <td>65</td> <td><span data-sort-value="Bethea, Elvin"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Elvin_Bethea" title="Elvin Bethea">Elvin Bethea</a></span></span></span></td> <td>2003</td> <td>DE</td> <td>1968–83 </td></tr> <tr> <td>16</td> <td><span data-sort-value="Blanda, George"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Blanda" title="George Blanda">George Blanda</a></span></span></span></td> <td>1981</td> <td>QB/<a href="/wiki/Placekicker" title="Placekicker">K</a></td> <td>1960–66 </td></tr> <tr> <td>52</td> <td><span data-sort-value="Brazile, Robert"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Brazile" title="Robert Brazile">Robert Brazile</a></span></span></span></td> <td>2018</td> <td>LB</td> <td>1975-84 </td></tr> <tr> <td>34</td> <td><span data-sort-value="Campbell, Earl"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Earl_Campbell" title="Earl Campbell">Earl Campbell</a></span></span></span></td> <td>1991</td> <td>RB</td> <td>1978–84 </td></tr> <tr> <td>87</td> <td><span data-sort-value="Casper, Dave"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Dave_Casper" title="Dave Casper">Dave Casper</a></span></span></span></td> <td>2002</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tight_end" title="Tight end">TE</a></td> <td>1980–83 </td></tr> <tr> <td>78</td> <td><span data-sort-value="Culp, Curley"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Curley_Culp" title="Curley Culp">Curley Culp</a></span></span></span></td> <td>2013</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Defensive_tackle" title="Defensive tackle">DT</a></td> <td>1974–80 </td></tr> <tr> <td>29</td> <td><span data-sort-value="Houston, Ken"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Ken_Houston" title="Ken Houston">Ken Houston</a></span></span></span></td> <td>1986</td> <td>S</td> <td>1967–72 </td></tr> <tr> <td>35</td> <td><span data-sort-value="Johnson, John Henry"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Johnson" title="John Henry Johnson">John Henry Johnson</a></span></span></span></td> <td>1987</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fullback_(gridiron_football)" title="Fullback (gridiron football)">FB</a></td> <td>1966 </td></tr> <tr> <td>18/40</td> <td><span data-sort-value="Joiner, Charlie"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Joiner" title="Charlie Joiner">Charlie Joiner</a></span></span></span></td> <td>1996</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wide_receiver" title="Wide receiver">WR</a></td> <td>1969–72 </td></tr> <tr> <td>74</td> <td><span style="display:none">Matthews, Bruce</span><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Matthews_(American_football)" title="Bruce Matthews (American football)">Bruce Matthews</a></td> <td>2007</td> <td>OT</td> <td>1983–96 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td><span data-sort-value="Moon, Warren"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Warren_Moon" title="Warren Moon">Warren Moon</a></span></span></span></td> <td>2006</td> <td>QB</td> <td>1984–93 </td></tr> <tr> <td>63</td> <td><span data-sort-value="Munchak, Mike"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Munchak" title="Mike Munchak">Mike Munchak</a></span></span></span></td> <td>2001</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Offensive_guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Offensive guard">OG</a></td> <td>1982–93 </td></tr> <tr> <td>12</td> <td><span data-sort-value="Stabler, Ken"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Ken_Stabler" title="Ken Stabler">Ken Stabler</a></span></span></span></td> <td>2016</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Quarterback" title="Quarterback">QB</a></td> <td>1980–81 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="5" style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Coaches and Executives </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2">Inductee </th> <th scope="col">Class </th> <th scope="col">Position </th> <th scope="col">Seasons </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span data-sort-value="Baugh, Sammy"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Sammy_Baugh" title="Sammy Baugh">Sammy Baugh</a></span></span></span></td> <td>1963</td> <td>Coach</td> <td>1964 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span data-sort-value="Gillman, Sid"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Sid_Gillman" title="Sid Gillman">Sid Gillman</a></span></span></span></td> <td>1983</td> <td>Coach</td> <td>1973–74 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Houston_Oilers_Hall_of_Fame">Houston Oilers Hall of Fame</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houston_Oilers&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Houston Oilers Hall of Fame"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Bud_Adams" title="Bud Adams">Bud Adams</a> established the Titans/Oilers Hall of Fame after the 40th season of the franchise to honor past players and management.<sup id="cite_ref-TitansMediaGuide_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TitansMediaGuide-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <td style="background:#ffb">Elected to the <a href="/wiki/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame" title="Pro Football Hall of Fame">Pro Football Hall of Fame</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="5" style="background-color: #4B92DB !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Houston Oilers Hall of Fame </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">No. </th> <th style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Name </th> <th style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Position </th> <th style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Years </th> <th style="background-color: #C60C30 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;">Inducted </th></tr> <tr> <td>65 </td> <td style="background:#ffb"><a href="/wiki/Elvin_Bethea" title="Elvin Bethea">Elvin Bethea</a> </td> <td>DE </td> <td>1968–83 </td> <td rowspan="7">December 9, 1999 </td></tr> <tr> <td>16 </td> <td style="background:#ffb"><a href="/wiki/George_Blanda" title="George Blanda">George Blanda</a> </td> <td>QB/K </td> <td>1960–66 </td></tr> <tr> <td>34 </td> <td style="background:#ffb"><a href="/wiki/Earl_Campbell" title="Earl Campbell">Earl Campbell</a> </td> <td>RB </td> <td>1978–84 </td></tr> <tr> <td>— </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Holovak" title="Mike Holovak">Mike Holovak</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/General_Manager" class="mw-redirect" title="General Manager">GM</a> </td> <td>1989–93 </td></tr> <tr> <td>29 </td> <td style="background:#ffb"><a href="/wiki/Ken_Houston" title="Ken Houston">Ken Houston</a> </td> <td>S </td> <td>1967–72 </td></tr> <tr> <td>63 </td> <td style="background:#ffb"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Munchak" title="Mike Munchak">Mike Munchak</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guard_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Guard (American football)">G</a> </td> <td>1982–93 </td></tr> <tr> <td>43 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jim_Norton_(safety)" title="Jim Norton (safety)">Jim Norton</a> </td> <td>P </td> <td>1960–68 </td></tr> <tr> <td>74 </td> <td style="background:#ffb"><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Matthews_(American_football)" title="Bruce Matthews (American football)">Bruce Matthews</a> </td> <td>OL </td> <td>1983–96 </td> <td>December 8, 2002 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td style="background:#ffb"><a href="/wiki/Warren_Moon" title="Warren Moon">Warren Moon</a> </td> <td>QB </td> <td>1984–93 </td> <td>October 1, 2007 </td></tr> <tr> <td>— </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bud_Adams" title="Bud Adams">Bud Adams</a> </td> 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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 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title="Earl Campbell">34</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Norton_(safety)" title="Jim Norton (safety)">43</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Munchak" title="Mike Munchak">63</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elvin_Bethea" title="Elvin Bethea">65</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Matthews_(American_football)" title="Bruce Matthews (American football)">74</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #4B92DB !important; color: #002244 !important; ;;width:1%">Media</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/List_of_Tennessee_Titans_broadcasters" title="List of Tennessee Titans broadcasters">Broadcasters</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Titans_All_Access" title="Titans All Access">Titans All Access</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Titans_Preseason_Football" class="mw-redirect" title="Titans Preseason Football">Titans Preseason Football</a></i></li> 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