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	The Dream Season: "Week 6: The Oilers Deliver"
		The Oilers' season was in danger of crashing down around them, and the last thing they needed as the traveled to face the New England Patriots in week 6 was a distraction.
		Despite attempts by the Oilers to coax the lineman to join his teammates in Foxboro, the new dad opted to stay with his wife and newborn son, missing the game and drawing the Oilers' ire.
		Houston's win was only its 12th victory in their last 36 attempts on a grass field since 1984.
	www.houstonprofootball.com /dream/week6.html (843 words)

	Tennessee Titans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Previously known as the Houston Oilers, the team was founded in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL Merger.
		The Oilers won the AFL Eastern Division title again in 1967, then became the first professional football team to play in a domed stadium, when they moved into Houston's Astrodome for the 1968 season.
		In 1978, the Oilers' fortunes changed when they drafted University of Texas football star Earl Campbell, who was both Rookie of the Year and MVP that year and led the Oilers to their first NFL playoff appearance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Houston_Oilers (1181 words)

	Hosuton Oilers (1960-1996)
		The Oilers whose record under Peterson was a humiliating 1-18, would be the led the rest of the season by Hall of Fame Coach Sid Gilman.
		Houston fans would get a tease as RB Eddie George won the Offensive Rookie of the Year with 1,368 yards rushing for the lame duck Oilers.
		Following the Oilers make a deal with the city of Houston to break their lease a year early, meaning the season would be the last in Houston.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nfl/tenhou/houoilers.html (3847 words)

	Harris County - Houston Sports Authority - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Houston’s airport employees would also benefit from the Oilers staying, because the airlines would fly in football teams and their fans from out of town and would fly the Oilers out of town for their games away from home.
		The price to build a stadium the Oilers proposed to Houston would have cost approximately $260 million to build in 1997, whereas the football stadium that Houston is currently having to build in 2000, is going to cost the City of Houston somewhere between $350 to $400 million.
		The Houston Oilers made a good topic of conversation for those who were shy or had nothing else in common.
	www.hchsa.org /news/jenny_rose2.html (1405 words)

	The Thresher Online: Oilers take 2nd place and find new turf with a .500 record (November 12, 1993)
		The Houston Oilers find themselves in unfamiliar territory going into the 11th week of the NFL season.
		It is certain that the Houston Oilers have turned a pivotal corner, but the verdict will still be out on their status as a playoff contenders until they play and beat some tougher opponents.
		The Oilers have a chance to capture their division because they have won some "must-win" games against a couple of lesser opponents.
	www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/81/931112/Sports/Story15.html (1001 words)

	JS Online: Long ago, Oilers ruled Houston
		Or when the Houston Oilers, as the Titans were known for most of their existence, were viewed as something other than perpetual also-rans.
		The Oilers, one of eight charter members in the AFL, won their only two championships when the league was at war with the established National Football League.
		The Oilers pulled a major coup before their first season by outbidding the Los Angeles Rams for halfback Billy Cannon, the Heisman Trophy winner and the No. 1 choice in the NFL draft.
	www.jsonline.com /packer/Prev/jan00/super29012800.asp?format=print (1638 words)

	The Thresher Online: COLUMN: Football gods create mayhem for Houston Oilers offense (September 24, 1993)
		Houston has a lead going into the waning moments of the contest only to allow the opposing team's quarterback the opportunity to drive the length of the field.
		Houston provides an important service to the NFL as the Oilers' schedule accounts for at least 50 percent of the league's come-from-behind victories every year.
		Houston Oiler etiquette demands that the defense allow an opposing offense the opportunity to be immortalized on national television with fourth-quarter heroics.
	www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/81/930924/Sports/Story12.html (1003 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: HOUSTON OILERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Houston Oilers, a professional football team, are now known as the Tennessee Titans and belong to the Central Division of the American Conference of the National Football League.
		Adams selected the name Oilers for his Houston franchise for "sentimental and social reasons." In the first AFL draft before that 1960 season, the Oilers made Billy Cannon their first pick and were able to sign him to a contract.
		That same year, 1962, the Oilers became the first AFL team to sign a player to a contract who was still on an NFL roster, Willard Dewveall of the Chicago Bears.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/HH/xoh2.html (971 words)

	The Dream Season: "Week 3: The Silver Lining"
		In 1972, the Oilers were knee deep in the franchise's first dark age, having lost 21 of their previous 30 games.
		For the Oilers' young and inexperienced defense (anchored by the likes of Ken Houston and Elvin Bethea), Namath was the last guy they wanted to see step onto the Astrodome floor.
		The Oilers' sputtering offense turned the corner on the first drive of the second quarter, however, moving 80 yards in 12 plays, culminating in a 1-yard plunge by Willie Rodgers.
	www.houstonprofootball.com /dream/week3.html (817 words)

	Houston Texans in new division with former Houston Oilers - 5/23/01
		Houston Texans in new division with former Houston Oilers - 5/23/01
		Houston Texans in new division with former Houston Oilers
		HOUSTON -- The Houston Texans didn't get their wish with NFL realignment but at least they'll start with one intense rivalry.
	www.detnews.com /2001/lions/0105/23/lions-227457.htm (525 words)

	NFL.com - Houston Texans Team News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Now, as the Houston Texans prepare for the 2002 Expansion Draft and their inaugural NFL season, the city is abuzz once again.
		Houston made a run to the 1967 AFL title game but got clobbered 40-7 by the Oakland Raiders.
		Houston built a 28-3 margin at halftime and then increased the lead to a seemingly insurmountable 35-3 in the second half.
	www.nfl.com /teams/story/HOU/4993773 (1194 words)

	ESPN Classic - Burk signed Houston Oilers' first player
		HOUSTON -- Adrian Burk, a former NFL quarterback, who signed the Houston Oilers' first player -- Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon -- died Monday at Henderson Memorial Hospital in East Texas.
		Burk was remembered by Oilers founder Bud Adams for helping the team secure Cannon and bring him to what was then a charter team of the American Football League instead of the established National Football League.
		His football experience also intermingled with his law career when during a lawsuit, in which he was representing the Houston Oilers, Burk entered an official NFL football as an exhibit.
	espn.go.com /classic/obit/s/2003/0728/1586652.html (682 words)

	Pocono Record Online: Houston Oilers' first head coach dies at 78 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HOUSTON (AP) — Lou Rymkus, the first head coach of the Houston Oilers who still holds the 39-year-old franchise's best career record, has died.
		He was fired five games into the 1961 season, a year after the Oilers debuted with a 10-4 record and won the AFL Championship.
		Rymkus returned to the Oilers as offensive line coach in 1965 at the request of Sammy Baugh, who led the team for a year before stepping aside.
	www.poconorecord.com /1998/sports/national/tjd90701.htm (372 words)

	Life in Houston goes on without the Oilers
		HOUSTON -- Many Houston Oilers fans stopped paying attention last year when the team struck a deal to move to Nashville.
		Now, as the Oilers finish their first season as Tennessee's team, they have few followers remaining in the city they called home for 37 years.
		On television, Oilers ratings in Houston hit as low as a 6.4 rating (103,955 homes) and an 11 share (11 percent of households using TVs were watching the Oilers) on Nov. 2 against Jacksonville.
	www.texnews.com /texsports97/blue121897.html (812 words)

	Sporting News, The: Say no, don't go - Houston Oilers, Seattle Seahawks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Oilers of those days were a wild and informal team playing in a wild and crazy city.
		Now the Oilers find themselves in another form of football never-never land, one that keeps their alienation from their NFL brethren as noticeable as ever.
		The Oilers and Seahawks have the potential to be exciting and, yes, contending teams this season.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n34_v220/ai_18596109 (1052 words)

	The Sporting News: Oil change. (Houston Oilers' new offense; inclu... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Oilers seem to understand that, but they are running the risk of overreacting to seven years of playoff disappointments that couldn't be blamed solely -- or even at all -- on the offense.
		What the Oilers are saying is that especially because of the way the league is evolving in the mid-'90s, they can't rely exclusively on the run-and-shoot.
		In the Oilers' offense, specifically, these are the numbers that make some flinch: The Oilers' 45 turnovers were the most in the NFL, three more than the run-and-shoot Falcons and nine more than any other AFC team.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:14887932&refid=ip_almanac_hf (3416 words)

	Reliant Astrodome
		The Oilers are not the first NFL team to move in recent years and they probably will not be the last.
		The Oilers are expected to play the 1998 season in Memphis while the Nashville stadium is being completed.
		Febraury 21, 1997 - The Oilers and Houston city and Harris Country officials are close to signing off on a deal that would let the team out of the final year of its lease and play this season (and next) in Memphis, before moving to a new stadium being built in Nashville.
	football.ballparks.com /NFL/HoustonOilers (942 words)

	USATODAY.com - Texans in new division with former Houston Oilers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans didn't get their wish with NFL realignment but at least they'll start with one intense rivalry.
		McNair wanted to be in the same division as the Oilers, who had a rich history in the former AFC Central, competing against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals.
		There was acrimony between Oilers management and fans in the final year before owner Bud Adams completed the deal that sent the Oilers, an original AFL team, to Tennessee.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/nfl/texans/2001-05-22-realign.htm (539 words)

	Houston Oilers
		The Houston Oilers were the first champions of the American Football League, playing in tiny but fabled Jeppesen Stadium.
		The Oilers won their AFL Eastern Division titles with offense, in 1961 scoring a professional football record 513 points with Blanda throwing for 3,330 yards and a record 36 touchdowns.
		He was a draft choice of the American Football League's Houston Oilers in 1960, the league's first year, and was selected as a defensive end on the American Football League All-Star team in 1961, 1962 and 1963.
	www.conigliofamily.com /Oilers.htm (1994 words)

	Beuerlein, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HOUSTON (AP) - The Carolina Panthers found a cure for their slow starts: the Houston Oilers.
		But the Panthers' defense shut down the fading Houston Oilers early and late, while Steve Beuerlein threw three touchdown passes, two to Willie Green, for a 31-6 victory Sunday.
		But after the Oilers cut the margin to 17-6 with Al Del Greco's 45-yard field goal on the second play of the fourth quarter, Houston completely wilted against the aggressive Panthers.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/112596/beuerlei.htm (439 words)

	Tennessee Titans News
		NASHVILLE, TN, Aug. 5, 2002 (AP) -- The Houston Oilers' franchise is alive and well in the halls of the Tennessee Titans' headquarters.
		Just 18 remain from their Super Bowl in 2000, so memories are dimming of two lame-duck seasons in Houston, 400-mile round trips for home games in Memphis in 1997 and a year at Vanderbilt University in 1998 as nomads before finally settling into their new stadium in 1999 with the new nickname.
		Team officials erased the last vestiges of the Oilers before the 1999 season by changing nicknames and unveiling a new uniform and logo.
	www.titansonline.com /news/titans_news_detail.php?PRKey=807 (570 words)

	AFC Wild Card Playoff - Buffalo Bills
		Houston jumped out to a 28-3 halftime lead on four QB Warren Moon TD passes.
		Houston made it 35-3 on the Bills' opening drive of the second half when SS Bubba McDowell intercepted a QB Frank Reich pass and raced 58 yards for the score.
		The 79 points scored by Buffalo and Houston tied an NFL playoff record with San Diego (41) and Miami (38) in a 1981 Divisional playoff encounter.
	www.buffalobills.com /history/AFCWildCardPlayoff.jsp (541 words)

	NFL throwbacks tribute of the Houston Oilers jerseys helmet and uniform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It's too bad that the Houston Oilers and it's rich tradition were not kept like the Cleveland Browns after they left town...
		Originally located in Houston, the team was known as the Oilers.
		After playing two seasons as the Tennessee Oilers, team owner Bud Adams formed an advisory committee to research names and a “Guess the Name” contest to gain additional feedback was also held.
	www.nflthrowbacks.com /team_jerseys/houston/houston-oilers-throwback.html (340 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Oilers crept into Houston with little fanfare
		When the name of Houston's new pro football team was announced, a huge block party was held downtown, with a band, cheerleaders, local celebrities and every politician who could crowd onto the stage.
		When a similar announcement was made in 1959 concerning the Houston Oilers of the American Football League, the news was reported in a one-column story on an inside page of the sports section.
		The Oilers, Boston Patriots, New York Titans and Buffalo Bills would be in an Eastern Division, and the Los Angeles Chargers, Dallas Texans, Oakland Raiders and Denver Broncos would form a Western Division.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/first100/947497 (1222 words)

	HoustonTexans.com Message Boards - Houston Oilers Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I was fan of the Oilers growing up in the mid-70s and I was very disappointed that they moved to Tennessee.
		The HOUSTON OILERS will never die in the hearts and minds of those of us who followed them from the beginning.
		The Titans will always be remembered as the old houston oilers for the people who watched them play ball in H-town.
	www.houstontexans.com /fan_zone/messageboards/printthread.php?t=6664 (715 words)

	Houston Oiler Scrapheap
		When a die-hard Houston Oiler fan dies hard, this is the mess thats left.
		I started to call this the Houston Oiler Scrapbook, but this useless pile of junk is more of a scrapheap.
		Houston Oilers number one." I used to play this 15 to 20 times a day.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/bluenote/706/scrap/scrapheap.html (236 words)

	Dec. 8, 1996 - Press Release: JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS (6-7) vs. HOUSTON OILERS (7-6)
		Houston won the first two AFL championships behind the passing of George Blanda to Charlie Hennigan.
		Houston coach Jeff Fisher is in his second full season as the Oilers' head coach after taking over as interim coach on November 14, 1994 from Buddy Ryan.
		The Houston Oilers limited five opponents to fewer than 200 yards in a game; no other team did it more than twice (and 14 teams never accomplished this feat).
	www.jaguars.com /Story/172.asp (4828 words)

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