Posts with players, coaches, and other topics from the Houston Oilers.
On one of my recent posts on my Facebook page The NFL in the 1970s, I questioned everyone who follows that page which NFL team from the 1970s won the greatest number of games against their divisional opponents. From 1970 to 1979, which team accumulated more victories over their common foes…. the teams that they … Read more
There were four years where pro football fans got to witness several examples of ultimate futility. These were the teams that could only win one game during a 14-game regular season. This category also continues one team that could not win a single game in a hapless and somewhat legendary inaugural campaign. The 1971 Buffalo … Read more
By the time of the 1972 NFL Player Draft, the Green Bay Packers, in particular their head coach Dan Devine, had had enough. Divine’s first year at the helm of the Packers would end up with a poor 4-8-2 record. There were plenty of reasons for this, one of the most prominent of which came … Read more
If you were to mention the name of Vernon Perry to a typical pro football fan today, they would probably look at you with a very quizzical expression. “Vernon Who?” might be a common response that you would hear from them. But when you talk about pro football during the 1970s, and specifically when you … Read more
Once it was the iconic symbol of Houston. Dubbed “The Eighth Wonder of the World”, the Astrodome was beyond state of the art of the Mid-1960s –it was “space-age” in America’s space city. For sports fans of a certain age, the Houston Astrodome was a symbol of a certain era of sports where AstroTurf and … Read more