Sunday’s NFL sport in Nashville, Tennessee, will as soon as once more have a decidedly Houston really feel.
The Tennessee Titans, who started because the Houston Oilers earlier than the franchise relocated after the 1996 season, will put on Oilers throwback uniforms throughout Sunday’s regular-season finale in opposition to the Houston Texans. The Titans’ uniform plans had been revealed this week on social media, with the Oilers’ iconic crimson, white and Columbia Blue derrick emblem serving because the workforce’s profile image on the X platform.
Titans defensive deal with Jeffrey Simmons, whereas chatting with reporters in Nashville on Wednesday, acknowledged the workforce’s uniform alternative possible might be a sore spot for the Texans and Houston soccer followers.
“It is our job to not get embarrassed in these uniforms,” Simmons stated. “I am certain that the Texans would like to embarrass us in that uniform, particularly (contemplating) what we did earlier this 12 months to them.”
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The Titans, whose 3-13 report is tied for worst within the NFL, rallied to beat the Texans 32-27 on Nov. 24 in Houston. The Texans are 9-7 and have already got clinched the AFC South Division title in addition to a playoff spot.
Sunday’s sport, set for a midday kickoff, would be the first time this season for the Titans to put on their throwback Oilers uniforms. The final time they donned them was throughout final 12 months’s regular-season finale in opposition to the Texans, who got here from behind in Nashville and gained 19-16 on a 54-yard discipline purpose by Ka’imi Fairbairn.
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The Oilers started play in 1960 as a constitution member of the previous American Soccer League and reached the peak of their reputation within the late Nineteen Seventies, with Bum Phillips serving as head coach and Texas native Earl Campbell main the workforce as a star operating again. Group founder Bud Adams finally moved the franchise to Tennessee and rebranded it because the Titans, though the workforce retained the rights to the Oilers’ title and emblem.
Houston later was awarded a brand new NFL franchise, the Texans, who started play as an growth workforce in 2002.
