I’m not asking you to agree but hear me and and at least understand.
Yes, the Tennessee Titans were once the Houston Oilers under the same ownership. However, the Oilers did move to Tennessee and lost many Houston fans in doing so.
The city of Houston is what experienced and loved the Houston Oilers, not the City of Nashville. Houston experience decades rooting for their home team, the Oilers.
We as Titans fans, love the Tennessee Titans, that’s the team Tennessee has always had. Except for like 1 year where we were the TENNESSEE Oilers.
Tennessee never had Earl Campbell, Tennessee never had Warren Moon. The city of Houston did and that’s who showed those players love, not Tennessee.
Of course yes it’s all about money and the Titans would be stupid to not wear Oilers merch cus Oilers merch is better. However you’d be upset if the Titans moved to Virginia and called themselves the “Virginia Tigers” and occasionally wore Titans merch, meanwhile Tennessee has a new Team called the “Tennessee Blues” and the Tennessee Blues never get to wear Titans gear…
Y’all get upset over not converting a 3rd down in the 2nd Quarter of a damn September game… ya think you’d keep your shit together in this scenario?
I’m a fan of the Titans cus my dad who watched the Oilers followed the team from Houston to Tennessee. We’ve always lived in the Northeast never in Houston or Tennessee, so I come from an outside perspective of not having the emotional involvement of living in these cities.
Im not from Tennessee or Houston and Im just old enough to remember the oilers. They were actually my least favorite team, but when they rebranded I thought it was awesome and I loved the idea of being a day 1 fan.
The way I see it Oiler fans either continued to follow the team or they abandoned them and choose another team to root for. Either choice is fine, but you can’t have it both ways. My guess is the majority of people who complain about this are either too young to have even known the Oilers or fans of other teams that dont really understand the history. And for those who were Oilers fans and now are Texans fans and want to claim a history that doesn’t belong to them, they get the finger.