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@@boomerpo Really??? I don't remember the Bears having one. In fact, I can't think of another team that used it the way that they used theirs in Houston. Did you see this clip? It was like they were using it to drive the team to the airport, and pick up peoples dry cleaning. They used it alot, is my point.
The Houston WFL team was known as the Texans, and they wore green and yellow uniforms. The entire league was a dumpster fire. Two teams moved mid-season, two folded mid-season and the entire league suffered from financial difficulties. Some teams couldn't even afford basics like tape and uniform cleaning. The only WFL champion, the Birmingham Americans, had their uniforms impounded immediately after the game to help pay off team debts.
Csonka, Kiick and Warfield practiced along with the rest of the WFL Memphis team in the town I grew up in. My dad and granddad attended a practice but didn't take me along since I was only a year old at the time. They were going to get the trio's autographs but chickened out.
Senator Mitch- don't forget also the arrival of Joe Bugel in 1977 I think.....he built an offensive line that finally protected the quarterback. Pastorini responded with his best year ever in 1978.
@Funky Tunk Like a keyboard coward like you ever played sports? Dante is a real man - you're stuck at the mental level of a 12 year old. Must be frustrating being so ignorant.
When Bud Adams moved the Houston Oilers to Nashville, Tennesee he took EVERY Houston fan's HEART and SPIKED it into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play. DISGRACEFUL
Adams also screwed up big time signing new coach Bill Peterson to a long time contract. Peterson didn’t last long but left a long time impression on Oilers fans. On NFL Network they have a series called top ten where they count down things such as best teams,biggest comebacks or fastest receivers for example. My personal favourite episode is “Coaches Who Should’ve Stayed in College”. Bill Peterson is included and of the many notable sound bites occurs at the start of a game. He happens to blurt our “Okay...Where’s the scoreboard?” I don’t think that Adams should have fired Bum Phillips at the end of the 1980 season. They needed a better QB as Ken Stabler was a shade of his former self that season with the Oilers after a successful career with the Raiders.
All good points. I know Dante could have taken them to a Super Bowl ..and I was a Steelers fan! ( the Oilers SHOULD have won the 1979 AFCCG. Although I wish they'd won the 1978 AFCCG, that way they could have marched to the Super Bowl and beat the hated rival Dallas Cowboys- I guarantee every Steelers fan would have been an Oilers fan that game. ) Bud Peterson apparently was very successful at turning around college teams.....but as you and I know NFL players are different. I will send you a link in a few about the '10 worst teams of all time', which backs up what we're saying.
Pastorini wrote a fantastic account of his time in Houston in TAKING FLAK highlighting the ups and downs. Like Don Meredith Dante suffered mightily back then.
Another dumb move was moving to Memphis with the intention of only spending two seasons there before moving to Nashville. Memphis HATES Nashville. This would be like telling a woman you're only going to be with her until the woman she hates the most gets divorced and then you'll be marrying her. Can you guess how the attendance was for Oilers home games in '97? And then to top it off, Adams actually moved them to Nashville a year early because he got pissed that there were so many Steelers fans in the stadium for the final home game (I was there and yes, it's true). So they had to play in Vanderbilt's stadium because theirs hadn't been built yet, completely defeating the purpose of the temporary stay in Memphis!
Al Davis was a football man who happened to own a team. Generally, the owners who moved are/were successful business people, who bought a football team and either proceeded to destroy it from the start or ran it into the ground. Usually, the team becomes better after that owner passes away and their heirs take control of the team. Except for Mike Brown, spanos and Mark Davis. Three clowns.
I don’t think Mark Davis is totally inept. I just think he’s inexperienced. Sure, it looks like his dad didn’t spend a single minute talking football with his son. It doesn’t look like Al ever acknowledge his son at all! But if he can manage to hang on to the Raiders after financing his stadium loan through Bank of America (what the hell was he thinking!?), I think he’ll be ok, and be a respectable owner too. From all accounts he’s a pretty decent human being, and I guess that counts for something.
@@TheSteveSteele Fair enough. I’m just looking at the raiders record with him as owner. Terrible. His hirings haven’t worked out, for the most part. As for the stadium, even clueless clown owners can get a stadium built- see Mike Clown, I mean brown in Cincy!
@@Lawomenshoops You’re right, they haven’t. But he did accomplish a few things. He hired Reggie McKenzie to clear the awful cap situation his dad left him with and that went well, (plus got Mack, Carr and Gabe Jackson in 2014). Jack Del Rio at least got them to 12-4 until Carr broke his leg. And Gruden has improved his record every year. The jury is out on Mark Davis. He’s learning on the job and it was handed to him when Al died without much preparation apparently.
Well, he did somehow get the NFL to give him a Super Bowl _appearance_ (*cough*forward lateral*cough*) after he moved the team out of their original city...
I had no idea about any of this. What a comical story about a rich guy with highly questionable business sense and next to zero comprehension of human nature. Instead of writing that letter, Bud Adams would’ve been more successful just making himself the quarterback and spiking the ball on every single snap.
The unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will point out that OJG9 did a video or 100 about a quarterback having a worse rating than if he spiked the ball on the ground every play. He last did one about a game that was 44 Years Ago. Proves that the Steelers should have drafted Dan Marino, but didn’t because of their senile owner. Now do the Eli Herring story!
I love it when he says that! I want to see someone do that in a game at some point! Just so I can yell out "He's spiking the ball into the ground on every snap!"
And firing Bum would have made some sense IF he had a replacement lined up, but he had to go with Ed Biles, starting another pitiful stretch until Moon got there.
The dumbest thing Bud Adams did was firing Bum Phillips in 1980. Bum was a great coach that made the Oilers winners and there was no good reason to firing him. They went from being Superbowl contenders to being losers for years afterwards.
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 w the jets the bills the dolphins and patriots. and most people won't identify the afl east in 2021. they identify w the afc which was the afl. the point is the jets are still in the same division 45 years later and have the same amount of titles as the oilers. anything else sherlock?
@@donsmith5479 do you do not understand the point, AT ALLL? in 51 years, the jets have less titles in the division than the oilers did in 10? does that not sink in?
@@CIF-pm7tk i wasn't commenting on that, You said the Oilers hadn't been in the AFC East since 1973, that's wrong. They were put in the Central when the leagues merged.
Based on the quality of your videos, your football acumen, and your overall articulation, it's criminal that you don't have more than 8.76 thousand subscribers :(
The negative passing yards was probably on sacks.... although I don't think they do it any longer, but sacks counted against the passing yards, which is stupid... almost as stupid in college they count against the rushing yards
Where do you place Art Modell, Georgia Fontierre (I don’t know how to spell her name), and sure, why not Bob Irsay, while we’re at it? Bud Adams seemed very blunt!
These days you can profit big time even if you don't have winning seasons. They pass the nfl as a soap opera now. It's more hype than football. It just sux for real football fans. Even High School football is better to watch than pro ball.
Adams did a lot of dumb moves in his life, however he did some very good things. Adams was a genius compared to the McNair family and the biggest joke of an NFL team , the Texans.
Speaking of the early 70s Oilers, I almost thought the hire of Bill Peterson as coach would’ve been the topic here (he was pretty legendarily awful as a pro coach, and not just because of the W-L record)
"If you just think for one damn minute that I'm gonna take loss standing down, you just have another thought--thing coming." No, I can't imagine why this guy was in over his head as an NFL coach.
Sid Gillman was coach of the year in 1974. Pastorini might have been a great QB had he gotten decent protection. The O line improved, they started winning. Matuzak would have been a great addition to an already strong Oilers defense that included Elvin Bethea, Robert Brazille and Curly Culp. The defense would be the true strength of the team even after the Oilers got Earl Campbell. Btw. I hate Texans name and Logo. Loved the Oilers logo, especially the early 70s silver oil well logo and the blue logo they used in 1974. Was a huge Warren Moon fan growing up and I lived with the heartache of bitter playoff disappointment in the late 80s and early 90s
Yes! I remember all of that growing up. The Oilers were never on TV in the early - mid ‘70s. Games always blacked out. I remember the Cowboys on CBS at noon, and the Raiders on NBC at 3pm. Almost every week of the season it was those two teams until the Oilers drafted Earl Campbell. Loved those old silver helmets during the AFL years and the blue helmets in the ‘70s. I later became a Houston Gambler fan big time and went to a bunch of those games. Jim Kelly was lights out. The Warren Moon Oilers were awesome, but tragic. They should have won at least made it to a Super Bowl. Especially in ‘92.
The Oilers traded Matuzak to Kansas City Chiefs for Curly Culp in the mid-season in 1974 after an lost to the old St. Louis football Cardinals, that turned out to be an great trade because the Oilers would go on an four game winning street, when the Oilers got Culp everyone started playing, boy they we're hitting, hustling and thinking positive, that was an exciting time to be an Houston Oilers fan, Dan Pastorini became the man that year.
IDK about back then, but Houston is now actually the nation's 4th largest city so having a stadium that seated only around 50,000 was dumb in and of itself.
My most prominent memory of this man is he and his wife hiding behind security guards while giving opposing fans the finger. I thought it was one of the most cowardly things I ever seen this man hiding behind a bunch of security guards while trying to provoke fans.
Adams dumbest move was making Phillips general manager when he had no experience in that field. Phillips pissed away draft picks which set the team back years after he was fired. Had he not been fired when he was there is no doubt he would have pissed away first round picks in 82 and 83 which ended up being Munchak and Matthews.
Great video. Well done. Having grown up in Houston during the 70’s you cheered for Dallas (primary) Oilers (secondary) as the heyday had long since passed when they were 2 x AFL champions. Houston was saddled with Bud’s debts until 2015 we’ll documented in Ed Fowler’s book highlighting the multiple sports tragedies during this era.
Did they ever find the steeler d bag that stole h r bum phillips stetson hat after that playoff game at three rivers? And trading pastorini for a fading stabler was a bad move as well. That and bum's appetite to give earl campbell 40 carries per game/450 per season. The dude was sooo washed up by year five. He had nothing left and was a helpless shell of himself when he followed bum to saints for a year or two.
No it was not. I guess you have not bothered to read how much money he got from Tennessee. Houston did not want them and Nashville did. After all these years it looks like Houston lost again.
I always figured out the dumbest move of Adams' career was when he moved the team and called it the "Tennessee Oilers" for two years. The only Tennessee oilers I ever heard of were the Beverly Hillbillies.
Speaking of the Houston Oilers, here’s a video you’ll like about how the Oilers tried to cancel the 1985 draft: czcams.com/video/eQfgY_AD2OA/video.html
In '72 they actually knocked off Namath and the Jets and in '73 they blew a 21-10 lead to the Colts but won anyway. Otherwise they could've easily gone 0-28!
I always found it odd that most of the time the oilers had to start the season playing with the baseball infield instead of the turf inserts. Typically turf fields would remove the dirt for football games during baseball season
How do you feel about Art Modell or Georgia Frontierre going to the HOF? Where does Bob Irsay fit into that picture? I’m just wondering your take. In fact I’m not disagreeing about Bud Adams. I don’t know too much about Dan Pastourini, so I won’t comment.
The best example of What not to do as a team owner. The only reason they had anybody going to their games was because the astrodome was new and amazing back then.
@@bigbearkat2010 Even though I’m a Cowboys fan, I might have more respect for the Texans had they chosen a cooler, or even just more unique, name and logo for themselves. What they have now is worse than the generic team names in Madden relocation.
It must have taken quite a lot of work to decide what Bud Adams' dumbest move was. There are several videos on CZcams that mention how bad Bill Peterson was as head coach.
One would think it would be impossible for a team to go 1-13 in consecutive seasons; then along came Hue Jackson with a 1-15 campaign, followed by an 0-16 season.
the oilers around this time made a trade with the cowboys. the cowboys gave up a player in return for the oilers number 1 draft pick , which the cowboys used to get ed too tall jones
@@fredleeland2464 Ha Ha, when have the Texans ever been on top on anything? Win a lousy division and get clobbered after the wild card game. You must be one of the suckers that throw your money at Cal. They will be the worst team for at least the next 5 years. They were recently named as one of the five worst franchises in all of sports. No they are not the Lions or Jets, they're worse. You're always making stupid comments on here about the Texans. Now be a good little Fred and go buy several thousand dollars for Texans gear. You've got some real big games coming up next year. Loser.
I wish that the Adams family would let you buy back the Oilers name. I think that the logo for the Houston team is cool, but the name "Texans" is a little bland. A bit like "Philadelphia Phillies". I mean, really? It's almost like Boston Bostonians, Cleveland Clevelanders, or Milwaukee Wisconsinites.
Suggestion. 1980 lions got off to a good start and "another one bites the dust" was their song. I was 11 and excited. Then, they lost a bunch. From high to low.
Low point 17-3 lead in fourth qtr, sims fumble in Detroit end, Bears TD, another drive by Chicago ending in a final play fourth down TD run by Vince Evans, and then a loss on the opening kickoff of OT (Dave Williams) the shortest overtime game in NFL history. The Lions were dominating this game at home and found a way to lose. When Cleveland gave up the miracle catch to the Vikings in week 15 the Lions had lost the division on tie breakers.
Another interesting one, between 2007 and 2009, the St. Louis Rams went 6-42. And they somehow got worse each year. 3-13 in 2007, 2-14 in 2008, 1-15 in 2009.
Remember the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers were 0-14 and 2-12 in 1977. They were 0-26 before winning the last two. They actually started 1978 on a two-game winning streak. As bad as Bud Adams was, The Fords in Detroit have been far worse.
I miss the Oilers. Yeah Texans fine, Titans fine, whatever. There was just something about those Oilers. White helmets or Silver helmets or the Blue ones with those powder baby blue jerseys. Yes Bud Adams was a repulsive "human".
Not only that, but they moved to Nashville a year before they were supposed to and the stadium for them there hadn't even been built yet! I was there for the team's final game in Memphis and Bud Adams got so angry at all the Steelers fans there that he decided to move early.
He had to. He had the worst stadium deal in the NFL. The county and city were NOT going to build a new stadium for him. So 5 years later, they build Reliant stadium for even a worse owner, Bob McNair.
@@mcswain69 And he was at fault for it. If you look into the history of the Oilers, everything bad that happened to Bud Adams lies firmly at the feet of Bud Adams. By the time he left, he'd wasted every bit of good will he'd had. They'd have gladly bought a new football stadium if he hadn't squeezed them for every dime he could over the last thirteen years - and all over the threat of relocation. All during an economic crash (thanks to the faltering oil industry) that affected the entire state for years to come. Also, no way in hell that McNair is worse. I'm no Texans fan, but Bud Adams makes Bob McNair look like Robert Kraft.
@@z2ei at least Bud Adams wanted to win. Was he good at it? No. But McNair never wanted anything except to fill seats and sell merchandise. Winning was and still is secondary. What a pathetic franchise.
McNair is a clown. This organization is just as pathetic as the Oilers were. Bud wanted to win and he did some. McNair just wants to rip off the people. The day will come when Texan games will be half empty. Just watch.
Dumbest move he ever made was firing the most beloved figure in Houston sports history after three successful seasons, all of which were only ended by playoff losses to the eventual Super Bowl winners of each year. You should make a video on that, if you haven't already.
I'm surprised that you think that trumps moving the Oilers. Okay, you can think whatever you want. It's just that I would think that losing a team is worse. To each one's own, though.
Bud Adams who was also the guy who Funded the career of and paid Boxer Cleveland Williams hospital bills after being shot in a scuffle for the cops gun in a traffic stop. Williams lost a kidney, ten foot of his intestines and had a partially paralyzed leg and a bullet still in his hip. When Williams was managed by someone else, Ali gave him a title shot. Right before the fight, a process server from Adams informed Williams that they would garnish all but several thousand dollars from his purse. So WIilliams who did get himself in good shape but far from his best from the shooting, minus training expenses almost fought for nothing. Adams was not a very nice guy to have so much money and come back after Williams best payday.
Bud's worst move in my eyes was getting the extra seats in the dome in 86 or 87(I think, I'm working off memory) and ruining the scoreboard, it was just never the same, especially for Astros games. Then add to that 6 or so years later he wanted a new stadium and there was no shot that stubborn Bob Lanier was going to let that happen.
It’s amazing how times have changed. Bud Adams said a 1974 that if he sold out every game he would still lose money. Today NFL teams don’t have to sell one ticket and they make money because of TV and other sources of revenue that have been created since 1974. With the newest being sports betting. Former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle must be spinning in his grave.
you'd pretty much never see this in the modern NFL, it would be ownership suicide and would tank your team like nothing else would. Not even sure how Bud Adams even survived that gaff and was not forced to sell the team immediately. The worst part was, he got to stay as owner for another 40 years.
I’m not trying to say that owners of pro sports teams can’t be selfish. However, why do you think that Art Modell was a little sympathetic about moving his team from Cleveland, but Bud Adams wasn’t about moving his team from Houston?
"(Context) will help us understand why Bud Adams was an absolute idiot"... 😂😂😂 My, my OJG9, you keep me young LOL ironically, I just rewatched A Football Life's, HOUSTON 93'... he was an idiot God rest his soul lol
This video guy keeps making videos that are WAY TOO LONG. All of his videos are the same length regardless of content. All of the videos can be made within 5 minutes. The old saying "Less is better."
NOTE: If there seem to be two abrupt edits at the 1:50 mark and the 7:30 mark, that is because the NFL, despite being a multi-billion dollar organization with tons of lawyers and legal experts, has no concept of what fair use actually is. Because of this, two 10-second portions of this video, despite completely complying with the four fair use factors, had to be trimmed out due to copyright reasons. This transformative footage featured a clip of a Raiders touchdown, and a clip of the Astrodome roof, which in no way whatsoever impacts the potential market. Apologies for what might seem like an abrupt edit; it was normal at the time of the uploading until the NFL just decided they didn't want to believe in copyright law.
NFL is the most anal about copyright/protecting it's product.
I once said as a joke that if I said "Super Bowl" that I would get sued 😂
He flips the bird at exactly the 3:00 mark in the video. Total Legend dude from the Astrodome Stands! Total effing LEGEND!!...😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅😀👍
And Don Meridith saying the fan is just proclaiming the Oilers number 1.
Yeah, but they still had that kick ass Oilers helmet car! I would kill for a giant helmet car!
all the teams back then had a car
@@boomerpo Really??? I don't remember the Bears having one. In fact, I can't think of another team that used it the way that they used theirs in Houston. Did you see this clip? It was like they were using it to drive the team to the airport, and pick up peoples dry cleaning. They used it alot, is my point.
The Houston WFL team was known as the Texans, and they wore green and yellow uniforms. The entire league was a dumpster fire. Two teams moved mid-season, two folded mid-season and the entire league suffered from financial difficulties. Some teams couldn't even afford basics like tape and uniform cleaning. The only WFL champion, the Birmingham Americans, had their uniforms impounded immediately after the game to help pay off team debts.
Csonka, Kiick and Warfield practiced along with the rest of the WFL Memphis team in the town I grew up in. My dad and granddad attended a practice but didn't take me along since I was only a year old at the time. They were going to get the trio's autographs but chickened out.
Houston was one of the two WFL teams to move mid season.....they went to Shreveport
You failed to mention that the 1974 oilers had their best season in years going 7-7
That was a testament to the brilliance of head coach Sid Gillman
@@jeffreybanks0519 Agreed. It certainly helped Pastorini not to have a different, unprepared coach every year. Gilman was good.
Senator Mitch- don't forget also the arrival of Joe Bugel in 1977 I think.....he built an offensive line that finally protected the quarterback. Pastorini responded with his best year ever in 1978.
@Funky Tunk I see the problem- you're 12.
@Funky Tunk Like a keyboard coward like you ever played sports? Dante is a real man - you're stuck at the mental level of a 12 year old. Must be frustrating being so ignorant.
When Bud Adams moved the Houston Oilers to Nashville, Tennesee he took EVERY Houston fan's HEART and SPIKED it into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play. DISGRACEFUL
Adams also screwed up big time signing new coach Bill Peterson to a long time contract. Peterson didn’t last long but left a long time impression on Oilers fans. On NFL Network they have a series called top ten where they count down things such as best teams,biggest comebacks or fastest receivers for example. My personal favourite episode is “Coaches Who Should’ve Stayed in College”. Bill Peterson is included and of the many notable sound bites occurs at the start of a game. He happens to blurt our “Okay...Where’s the scoreboard?” I don’t think that Adams should have fired Bum Phillips at the end of the 1980 season. They needed a better QB as Ken Stabler was a shade of his former self that season with the Oilers after a successful career with the Raiders.
All good points. I know Dante could have taken them to a Super Bowl ..and I was a Steelers fan!
( the Oilers SHOULD have won the 1979 AFCCG. Although I wish they'd won the 1978 AFCCG, that way they could have marched to the Super Bowl and beat the hated rival Dallas Cowboys- I guarantee every Steelers fan would have been an Oilers fan that game. )
Bud Peterson apparently was very successful at turning around college teams.....but as you and I know NFL players are different.
I will send you a link in a few about the '10 worst teams of all time', which backs up what we're saying.
Pastorini wrote a fantastic account of his time in Houston in TAKING FLAK highlighting the ups and downs. Like Don Meredith Dante suffered mightily back then.
"if you think I'm going to take another loss standing down you've got another thing coming"..another classic Bill Peterson sound bite.
I was a Steelers fan as a kid, and feel bad for how the Houston fans were treated by Adams. He's the reason they lost the Oilers.
It's amazing how many Steelers fans miss the Oilers as much as Houston Houstonians shows the respect our two cities and towns had for each other
First it’s the Browns, next the Oilers.
Another dumb move was moving to Memphis with the intention of only spending two seasons there before moving to Nashville. Memphis HATES Nashville. This would be like telling a woman you're only going to be with her until the woman she hates the most gets divorced and then you'll be marrying her. Can you guess how the attendance was for Oilers home games in '97? And then to top it off, Adams actually moved them to Nashville a year early because he got pissed that there were so many Steelers fans in the stadium for the final home game (I was there and yes, it's true). So they had to play in Vanderbilt's stadium because theirs hadn't been built yet, completely defeating the purpose of the temporary stay in Memphis!
Mr. Bud Adams really fueled that with his own oil!
Al Davis was a football man who happened to own a team. Generally, the owners who moved are/were successful business people, who bought a football team and either proceeded to destroy it from the start or ran it into the ground. Usually, the team becomes better after that owner passes away and their heirs take control of the team. Except for Mike Brown, spanos and Mark Davis. Three clowns.
Cal McNair is well on his way to joining them
Unless their last name is McCaskey.
I don’t think Mark Davis is totally inept. I just think he’s inexperienced. Sure, it looks like his dad didn’t spend a single minute talking football with his son. It doesn’t look like Al ever acknowledge his son at all! But if he can manage to hang on to the Raiders after financing his stadium loan through Bank of America (what the hell was he thinking!?), I think he’ll be ok, and be a respectable owner too. From all accounts he’s a pretty decent human being, and I guess that counts for something.
@@TheSteveSteele Fair enough. I’m just looking at the raiders record with him as owner. Terrible. His hirings haven’t worked out, for the most part.
As for the stadium, even clueless clown owners can get a stadium built- see Mike Clown, I mean brown in Cincy!
@@Lawomenshoops You’re right, they haven’t. But he did accomplish a few things. He hired Reggie McKenzie to clear the awful cap situation his dad left him with and that went well, (plus got Mack, Carr and Gabe Jackson in 2014). Jack Del Rio at least got them to 12-4 until Carr broke his leg. And Gruden has improved his record every year. The jury is out on Mark Davis. He’s learning on the job and it was handed to him when Al died without much preparation apparently.
Bud Adams actually made a public statement dissuading players from doing charity work as it took time away from the practice field. True story
He was very business minded. Which was good and bad all at the same time.
Another great video really laying out the story in perfect context. And yes, that will go down as a very "bad letter", for sure.
It pleases me to no end that Bud Adams never saw his team win a superbowl during his lifetime.
Well, he did somehow get the NFL to give him a Super Bowl _appearance_ (*cough*forward lateral*cough*) after he moved the team out of their original city...
Well, I have good news for you. Bud Adams never won a Super Bowl.
I’m sure that you aren’t the Oilers fan that feels that way.
I had no idea about any of this. What a comical story about a rich guy with highly questionable business sense and next to zero comprehension of human nature. Instead of writing that letter, Bud Adams would’ve been more successful just making himself the quarterback and spiking the ball on every single snap.
Good one! 😂
But first we need some context.
Drop the mic!
The unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will point out that OJG9 did a video or 100 about a quarterback having a worse rating than if he spiked the ball on the ground every play. He last did one about a game that was 44 Years Ago. Proves that the Steelers should have drafted Dan Marino, but didn’t because of their senile owner. Now do the Eli Herring story!
I love it when he says that! I want to see someone do that in a game at some point! Just so I can yell out "He's spiking the ball into the ground on every snap!"
And I thought Bud Adams' worst move was firing Bum Phillips....
And firing Bum would have made some sense IF he had a replacement lined up, but he had to go with Ed Biles, starting another pitiful stretch until Moon got there.
I like how you shouted out Urinating Tree
The dumbest thing Bud Adams did was firing Bum Phillips in 1980. Bum was a great coach that made the Oilers winners and there was no good reason to firing him. They went from being Superbowl contenders to being losers for years afterwards.
Bum Phillips, Dan Pastorini & Earl Campbell had nice crowds there by 1978. 😀
fun fact : The Oilers have as many AFC East titles as the Jets and the Oilers haven't been in the AFC East since 1970!
The oilers were never in the afc east, they were in the afl east
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 w the jets the bills the dolphins and patriots. and most people won't identify the afl east in 2021. they identify w the afc which was the afl. the point is the jets are still in the same division 45 years later and have the same amount of titles as the oilers. anything else sherlock?
Oilers were in the AFL East until 1969, then moved to the AFC Central in 1970.
@@donsmith5479 do you do not understand the point, AT ALLL? in 51 years, the jets have less titles in the division than the oilers did in 10? does that not sink in?
@@CIF-pm7tk i wasn't commenting on that, You said the Oilers hadn't been in the AFC East since 1973, that's wrong. They were put in the Central when the leagues merged.
I miss the Helmet Carts
Based on the quality of your videos, your football acumen, and your overall articulation, it's criminal that you don't have more than 8.76 thousand subscribers :(
Waiting for a millennial to say how can the Oilers only play 7 home games when there is a 16 game schedule!!!
I'm dead 😂😂😂😂
14 game schedules until 1978
Funny
I'm sure you, old wise baby boomer, know exactly how many games the nfl played in 1941, EINSTEIN
He should've spiked that letter into the ground before he made it public. Just kidding, I love your videos. They're incredibly well-researched.
The negative passing yards was probably on sacks.... although I don't think they do it any longer, but sacks counted against the passing yards, which is stupid... almost as stupid in college they count against the rushing yards
I’ve believed in recent years Bud Adams belongs in the Hall of Fame. This doesn’t help my case.
How.......the HELL does Adams believe in ANY Hall of Fame.....? Based on what!?!?
Where do you place Art Modell, Georgia Fontierre (I don’t know how to spell her name), and sure, why not Bob Irsay, while we’re at it? Bud Adams seemed very blunt!
Bud Adams' DUMBEST move was ALLOWING The Houston Oilers of 1993 to be broken up.
Actually, that was a result of not being prepared for the salary cap, which took effect in 1994.
These days you can profit big time even if you don't have winning seasons. They pass the nfl as a soap opera now. It's more hype than football.
It just sux for real football fans. Even High School football is better to watch than pro ball.
Adams did a lot of dumb moves in his life, however he did some very good things. Adams was a genius compared to the McNair family and the biggest joke of an NFL team , the Texans.
I’m glad that you have at least one positive memory of him.
I was surprised that he continued to live in Houston. I mean, I would think that there was as much hatred on him as there was Modell in Cleveland.
Speaking of the early 70s Oilers, I almost thought the hire of Bill Peterson as coach would’ve been the topic here (he was pretty legendarily awful as a pro coach, and not just because of the W-L record)
"If you just think for one damn minute that I'm gonna take loss standing down, you just have another thought--thing coming." No, I can't imagine why this guy was in over his head as an NFL coach.
@@pronkb000 How about this gem?
Listen, men, I didn't bring you here in a three-plane motor to lose to a team like this.
Sid Gillman was coach of the year in 1974. Pastorini might have been a great QB had he gotten decent protection. The O line improved, they started winning. Matuzak would have been a great addition to an already strong Oilers defense that included Elvin Bethea, Robert Brazille and Curly Culp. The defense would be the true strength of the team even after the Oilers got Earl Campbell. Btw. I hate Texans name and Logo. Loved the Oilers logo, especially the early 70s silver oil well logo and the blue logo they used in 1974. Was a huge Warren Moon fan growing up and I lived with the heartache of bitter playoff disappointment in the late 80s and early 90s
Yes! I remember all of that growing up. The Oilers were never on TV in the early - mid ‘70s. Games always blacked out. I remember the Cowboys on CBS at noon, and the Raiders on NBC at 3pm. Almost every week of the season it was those two teams until the Oilers drafted Earl Campbell. Loved those old silver helmets during the AFL years and the blue helmets in the ‘70s. I later became a Houston Gambler fan big time and went to a bunch of those games. Jim Kelly was lights out. The Warren Moon Oilers were awesome, but tragic. They should have won at least made it to a Super Bowl. Especially in ‘92.
The Oilers traded Matuzak to Kansas
City Chiefs for Curly Culp in the mid-season in 1974 after an lost
to the old St. Louis football Cardinals, that turned out to be
an great trade because the Oilers
would go on an four game winning
street, when the Oilers got Culp everyone started playing, boy they
we're hitting, hustling and thinking
positive, that was an exciting time
to be an Houston Oilers fan, Dan
Pastorini became the man that
year.
IDK about back then, but Houston is now actually the nation's 4th largest city so having a stadium that seated only around 50,000 was dumb in and of itself.
When they played at Rice Stadium, the capacity was 70,000.
My most prominent memory of this man is he and his wife hiding behind security guards while giving opposing fans the finger. I thought it was one of the most cowardly things I ever seen this man hiding behind a bunch of security guards while trying to provoke fans.
Adams dumbest move was making Phillips general manager when he had no experience in that field. Phillips pissed away draft picks which set the team back years after he was fired. Had he not been fired when he was there is no doubt he would have pissed away first round picks in 82 and 83 which ended up being Munchak and Matthews.
Great video. Well done. Having grown up in Houston during the 70’s you cheered for Dallas (primary) Oilers (secondary) as the heyday had long since passed when they were 2 x AFL champions. Houston was saddled with Bud’s debts until 2015 we’ll documented in Ed Fowler’s book highlighting the multiple sports tragedies during this era.
I'm going to have to research this myself..🤔 I find it hard to believe that letter didn't work
Did they ever find the steeler d bag that stole h r bum phillips stetson hat after that playoff game at three rivers? And trading pastorini for a fading stabler was a bad move as well. That and bum's appetite to give earl campbell 40 carries per game/450 per season. The dude was sooo washed up by year five. He had nothing left and was a helpless shell of himself when he followed bum to saints for a year or two.
Nah, this wasn't the dumbest move. The dumbest move was leaving Houston.
No it was not. I guess you have not bothered to read how much money he got from Tennessee. Houston did not want them and Nashville did. After all these years it looks like Houston lost again.
I think that Bud Adams should’ve moved to Tennessee.
I always figured out the dumbest move of Adams' career was when he moved the team and called it the "Tennessee Oilers" for two years. The only Tennessee oilers I ever heard of were the Beverly Hillbillies.
Speaking of the Houston Oilers, here’s a video you’ll like about how the Oilers tried to cancel the 1985 draft: czcams.com/video/eQfgY_AD2OA/video.html
How did they not go 0-14 during that period? 😄
I’m imagining that in OJG9’s voice.
In '72 they actually knocked off Namath and the Jets and in '73 they blew a 21-10 lead to the Colts but won anyway. Otherwise they could've easily gone 0-28!
I’m not an Oilers fan, heck the Oilers are the Titans now. I don’t know how you can say the worst move wasn’t moving the Oilers to Tennessee.
Bud Adams firing Bum Phillips reminds me of Art Modell firing Paul Brown. Although, Phillips didn't start a new NFL franchise.
Bud Adams was Bob Irsay before Bob Irsay.
Change my mind.
Hard to compare any owner to Bob Irsay.
@@CTubeMan Bud had equal levels of arrogance and incompetence.
Where do Art Modell and Georgia Frontierre fit it to this conversation?
JaguarGator; On the topic of owners - consider John Mecom and the brawl after the Giants game at the Yale Bowl.
I always found it odd that most of the time the oilers had to start the season playing with the baseball infield instead of the turf inserts. Typically turf fields would remove the dirt for football games during baseball season
I’m surprised that Bud Adams even returned to Houston.
Bud Adams and DAN Pastourini should be in hall fame.
How do you feel about Art Modell or Georgia Frontierre going to the HOF? Where does Bob Irsay fit into that picture? I’m just wondering your take. In fact I’m not disagreeing about Bud Adams. I don’t know too much about Dan Pastourini, so I won’t comment.
@@crosstatt7441 Everyone should be in hall fame.
The best example of What not to do as a team owner. The only reason they had anybody going to their games was because the astrodome was new and amazing back then.
I grew up in Houston and was taught to love the Dallas Cowboys. This is why.
The Texans aren’t exactly an improvement.
Me too
My dad taught me the opposite. The Texans winning their very first game against the Cowboys was just about one of the happiest days of his life.
@@bigbearkat2010 You must not have many happy moments in your life.
@@bigbearkat2010 Even though I’m a Cowboys fan, I might have more respect for the Texans had they chosen a cooler, or even just more unique, name and logo for themselves. What they have now is worse than the generic team names in Madden relocation.
you make fun videos with good info :)
It must have taken quite a lot of work to decide what Bud Adams' dumbest move was. There are several videos on CZcams that mention how bad Bill Peterson was as head coach.
Yeah, him and anybody else that he hired as head coach not named Bum Phillips.
One would think it would be impossible for a team to go 1-13 in consecutive seasons; then along came Hue Jackson with a 1-15 campaign, followed by an 0-16 season.
"If you think I'm gonna take that standing down you got another thought coming"
"Everybody line up alphabetically by height"
@@kyle1910 I literally just heard all that in his voice 😂😂😂
Suggestion for a video-Billy Joe Hobert not reading the play book in 1997!
He made one of the worst decisions ever after the 1980 season.
It wouldn’t have been so bad, if he would have had a good replacement lined up. But Ed Biles?
the oilers around this time made a trade with the cowboys. the cowboys gave up a player in return for the oilers number 1 draft pick , which the cowboys used to get ed too tall jones
As bad as the Texans' situation is now, this makes me feel that things can't get any worse since the Oilers were a terrible brand in the 70's.
The offense was middling to terrible but the Oilers from 74 on had one of the best defenses of the decade. They had a beast in LB Robert Brazille
The Texans aren't even in that bad of a spot currently
Give them 2 years and they'll be back on top
They aren't the Jets or Lions
Luv ya blue with Bum Phillips was very popular with everyone started in 1975 and Earl Campbell was one of the greatest RB’s ever
@@fredleeland2464 Ha Ha, when have the Texans ever been on top on anything? Win a lousy division and get clobbered after the wild card game. You must be one of the suckers that throw your money at Cal. They will be the worst team for at least the next 5 years. They were recently named as one of the five worst franchises in all of sports. No they are not the Lions or Jets, they're worse. You're always making stupid comments on here about the Texans. Now be a good little Fred and go buy several thousand dollars for Texans gear. You've got some real big games coming up next year. Loser.
@@alvintexas5859 don’t disrespect the guy who’s optimistic because one of these days, he will be right.
I wish that the Adams family would let you buy back the Oilers name. I think that the logo for the Houston team is cool, but the name "Texans" is a little bland. A bit like "Philadelphia Phillies". I mean, really? It's almost like Boston Bostonians, Cleveland Clevelanders, or Milwaukee Wisconsinites.
Suggestion. 1980 lions got off to a good start and "another one bites the dust" was their song. I was 11 and excited. Then, they lost a bunch. From high to low.
Low point 17-3 lead in fourth qtr, sims fumble in Detroit end, Bears TD, another drive by Chicago ending in a final play fourth down TD run by Vince Evans, and then a loss on the opening kickoff of OT (Dave Williams) the shortest overtime game in NFL history. The Lions were dominating this game at home and found a way to lose. When Cleveland gave up the miracle catch to the Vikings in week 15 the Lions had lost the division on tie breakers.
@@fredbobberts5753 I think the Bears game was on Thanksgiving??
I always thought you can't be that bad to have 2 1-13 seasons in a row the 72 and 73 Oilers proved me wrong
The 2016-2017 Browns: Are we not a joke to you?
Another interesting one, between 2007 and 2009, the St. Louis Rams went 6-42. And they somehow got worse each year. 3-13 in 2007, 2-14 in 2008, 1-15 in 2009.
Remember the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers were 0-14 and 2-12 in 1977. They were 0-26 before winning the last two. They actually started 1978 on a two-game winning streak.
As bad as Bud Adams was, The Fords in Detroit have been far worse.
Bud Adams was more up front with Houston, than Art Modell was with Cleveland. I wonder how many people are willing to forgive him, too.
Trying to pick the dumbest move of Bud Adams is tough as he made a ton them.
I miss the Oilers. Yeah Texans fine, Titans fine, whatever. There was just something about those Oilers. White helmets or Silver helmets or the Blue ones with those powder baby blue jerseys. Yes Bud Adams was a repulsive "human".
Correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't Bud Adams the one flipping the bird from the visitors owners box at the stadium in Buffalo.
He flipped it on TV at the mayor of Houston showing his Super Bowl ring with the Titans.
@@alvintexas5859It was an AFC Championship ring. Bud Adams never got a Super Bowl ring.
Who was a better man, Art Modell or Bud Adams? Who was a better owner?
I'd have said "moving to Nashville" but this is a close second.
Not only that, but they moved to Nashville a year before they were supposed to and the stadium for them there hadn't even been built yet! I was there for the team's final game in Memphis and Bud Adams got so angry at all the Steelers fans there that he decided to move early.
He had to. He had the worst stadium deal in the NFL. The county and city were NOT going to build a new stadium for him. So 5 years later, they build Reliant stadium for even a worse owner, Bob McNair.
@@mcswain69 And he was at fault for it. If you look into the history of the Oilers, everything bad that happened to Bud Adams lies firmly at the feet of Bud Adams. By the time he left, he'd wasted every bit of good will he'd had. They'd have gladly bought a new football stadium if he hadn't squeezed them for every dime he could over the last thirteen years - and all over the threat of relocation. All during an economic crash (thanks to the faltering oil industry) that affected the entire state for years to come.
Also, no way in hell that McNair is worse. I'm no Texans fan, but Bud Adams makes Bob McNair look like Robert Kraft.
@@z2ei at least Bud Adams wanted to win. Was he good at it? No. But McNair never wanted anything except to fill seats and sell merchandise. Winning was and still is secondary. What a pathetic franchise.
McNair is a clown. This organization is just as pathetic as the Oilers were. Bud wanted to win and he did some. McNair just wants to rip off the people. The day will come when Texan games will be half empty. Just watch.
Bud Adams was an idiot at running a football team, but he forgot more about football than Cal McNair will ever know.
Dumbest move he ever made was firing the most beloved figure in Houston sports history after three successful seasons, all of which were only ended by playoff losses to the eventual Super Bowl winners of each year.
You should make a video on that, if you haven't already.
I'm surprised that you think that trumps moving the Oilers. Okay, you can think whatever you want. It's just that I would think that losing a team is worse. To each one's own, though.
Bud Adams who was also the guy who Funded the career of and paid Boxer Cleveland Williams hospital bills after being shot in a scuffle for the cops gun in a traffic stop. Williams lost a kidney, ten foot of his intestines and had a partially paralyzed leg and a bullet still in his hip. When Williams was managed by someone else, Ali gave him a title shot. Right before the fight, a process server from Adams informed Williams that they would garnish all but several thousand dollars from his purse. So WIilliams who did get himself in good shape but far from his best from the shooting, minus training expenses almost fought for nothing. Adams was not a very nice guy to have so much money and come back after Williams best payday.
Bud's worst move in my eyes was getting the extra seats in the dome in 86 or 87(I think, I'm working off memory) and ruining the scoreboard, it was just never the same, especially for Astros games. Then add to that 6 or so years later he wanted a new stadium and there was no shot that stubborn Bob Lanier was going to let that happen.
It’s amazing how times have changed. Bud Adams said a 1974 that if he sold out every game he would still lose money. Today NFL teams don’t have to sell one ticket and they make money because of TV and other sources of revenue that have been created since 1974. With the newest being sports betting. Former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle must be spinning in his grave.
you'd pretty much never see this in the modern NFL, it would be ownership suicide and would tank your team like nothing else would. Not even sure how Bud Adams even survived that gaff and was not forced to sell the team immediately. The worst part was, he got to stay as owner for another 40 years.
Plenty to choose from, and his daughter is continuing the family tradition.
Helmets cars where the best!
I’m not trying to say that owners of pro sports teams can’t be selfish. However, why do you think that Art Modell was a little sympathetic about moving his team from Cleveland, but Bud Adams wasn’t about moving his team from Houston?
"We're Number One!"
Bud Adam's almost moved the Oilers to Jacksonville in the late 1980's.
Maybe he should have.
The Houston mayor should’ve acted better. Bud Adams seemed to make Houston fans become more apathetic!
7:52 my man butkis really taunted him XD
Mine was the coveted sixth 'Like".
In 13 years, mostly with the Packers, Lynn Dickey NEVER had a winning season as a starter, going 45-63-3 as a starting QB.
Understandable
The Packers were trash after Vince Lombardi left until Favre came in
1982, with Dickey as the starting QB, they went 5-3-1. That’s a winning record.
They had NO defense during that time.
worst move was moving the team to TN
Well, at least what Bud Adams did was Honest? Although you can be dumb with honesty.
Also during the 1974 off-season, he hired Bum Phillips. So not entirely a dumb off-season.
I wish the Oilers were still in the NFL! Way better than the Texans.
Cover Eli Herring's story
He probably ran the team like that for the tax breaks, I'm sure his other business endeavors were successful
Team should've been folded by the league
"(Context) will help us understand why Bud Adams was an absolute idiot"... 😂😂😂 My, my OJG9, you keep me young LOL ironically, I just rewatched A Football Life's, HOUSTON 93'... he was an idiot God rest his soul lol
I thought his worst move was hiring Buddy Ryan.
Are you serious. They won 11 straight games that year and went 12-4, mostly due to the 46 defense.
That was one of his best moves.
47 Years Ago
This video guy keeps making videos that are WAY TOO LONG. All of his videos are the same length regardless of content. All of the videos can be made within 5 minutes. The old saying "Less is better."
Then stop watching dummy
@@kingrama2727 Amen! 👍🏼
I think it’s “Less is more.”
Your videos have good topics but are ridiculously padded.
Same lame music, drop it