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.
I can understand why people in Houston would have a problem, but there’s exactly zero reason for JJ Watt or almost any other Texan to feel robbed.
Dude is from Wisconsin. He just rolled into the city long after the Oilers left and suddenly cares about the history of the city?
Do you see T-Wolves players who were born in Croatia crying about the Lakers? No, because that’s ridiculous.