H-Town Man Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/sports/football/bud-adams-titans-owner-and-an-afl-founder-dies-at-90.html?hpw&_r=0 Seems to embody an era in Texas culture, when wealthy oil family scions started football teams and physically attacked pesky newspaper reporters who said things they didn't like. Ultimately he ran into someone with more money and power than he had, and his incredible ego led him to an outcome he never would have wanted - moving his team away from the city he called home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I wonder if Adams has been forgiven for uprooting the Oilers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west20th Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I wonder if Adams has been forgiven for uprooting the Oilers. Nope. He was petty as well as a pr*@k when he moved the Oilers. He should have let the Texans use the name and colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumber2 Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 ADA Oil was located on Fannin St. just south of Holcombe. It is where the Metro transit center is now. The building was only a couple of stories tall but was designed and structured to be a high rise tower. I think about Bud Adams, and the Oilers every time I walk by the transit center. Also the Oilers had a practice field on the corner of Braeswood and Fannin. It's just an overgrown parking lot now.So Long Bud! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potsey99 Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 I wished truly awful things to happen to Bud when he move the team, but now he is dead.... I could care less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Same here what done is done. At least the Titans went to the Superbowl. Our wonderful Texans are awful. The Cowgirls are playing better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Bud was instrumental in getting the NFL to where it is today. He was (and probably still is) loathed here in Houston, but the team was his business and he decided to move it. Odd, we let the Oilers go because they wanted to get either a new stadium or spend the money needed to make the Astrodome more modern. Funny that we did just that and spent way more money for the floundering Texans - who have been the epitome of mediocrity throughout their history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Bud was instrumental in getting the NFL to where it is today. He was (and probably still is) loathed here in Houston, but the team was his business and he decided to move it. Odd, we let the Oilers go because they wanted to get either a new stadium or spend the money needed to make the Astrodome more modern. Funny that we did just that and spent way more money for the floundering Texans - who have been the epitome of mediocrity throughout their history. The loathing for Bud isn't that simple. It's partly about the stadium, but that's because he sold us on updates to the dome, these updates were supposed to be good for years to come. he threatened to move the team if we didn't do it, so it was done. Then, it felt like the paint wasn't dry before he was threatening to leave again if he didn't get a whole new stadium. So leave. Not to mention he didn't seem to care about the team actually winning. I was happy to see the Titans go to the Superbowl, I was even happier to see them get within one yard of actually winning the Superbowl, and then lose. When the tv cut to bud Adams face at the moment the rb (eddie george?) was stopped at the 1 yard line, the look on his face at that moment was worth the loss of the oilers to another city. Overall, I think Houston is in a better place, football wise. Edit, it was a pass to Kevin dyson that got stopped on the 1 yard line. I can't find any video showing his reaction though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted November 8, 2013 Author Share Posted November 8, 2013 Bud was instrumental in getting the NFL to where it is today. He was (and probably still is) loathed here in Houston, but the team was his business and he decided to move it. Odd, we let the Oilers go because they wanted to get either a new stadium or spend the money needed to make the Astrodome more modern. Funny that we did just that and spent way more money for the floundering Texans - who have been the epitome of mediocrity throughout their history. The Oilers were also pretty much the epitome of mediocrity throughout their history, at least since the 1962 AFL championship. Didn't they make the playoffs like 7 times in a row from 88-94, only to lose the first game? And of course they lost every time they came up against Pittsburgh in the late 70's. Football mediocrity seems to be a Houston problem, not with any one franchise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MirrersTrucking Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I personally always felt like the Oiler fans that became Titan fans were just as much traitors as was Bud Adams. But Bud Adams never changed, it was just a few years ago that he was fined for publicly hanging out of a suite during a game while flipping of the Bills...apparently old habits die hard lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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