In case you missed Sports Sunday on KPRC last night with Randy McIlvoy let me give you a quick synopsis.
Mark VanDerMeer is incapable of offering credible opinion on the State of the Texans.
Bud Adams feels he's personally responsible for the success of sports in Houston.
You read that second one correctly. It seems that Bud Adams love potion is spreading, this being the 50th Anniversiary of the AFL and the professional sports media pretty much mailing it in these days.
As it was I about fell out of my chair when ol' Bud took credit for the Texans, Astros and Rockets all having new stadiums. Really? Listening to Bud tell it what he did was for the Good of Houstonians, and not his pocketbook as we have obviously believed erroneously these last 10 or so years.
And hey, naysayers, lest you doubt Bud's affection for the city of Houston. Bud's still employing 900 Houstonians, wants people to forget Lamar Hunt (and the Chron's John McClain is going to help in this endeavor) and still promotes the good of Houston whenever he has a chance. Just make sure that football conversation or Houston taxpayers aren't involved. Then Bud sings a different tune. Besides, Houston really wasn't happy with that stodgy ol' Astrodome, especially not after the big score-board was taken away. (Oh...wait...nevermind)
As an Oiler fan Bud Adams is dead to me, and there's nothing he can say to convince me otherwise. Seeing the Titans wearing the Houston Oilers uniforms (and rookie Britt wearing a "Property of Houston Oilers" T-shirt on the sidelines) just felt wrong. It's almost as if the NFL is allowing Bud to rub our noses in it for not building for him what we had to build for Bob McNair.
And that's what Bud Adams doesn't understand. We may have built the Texans their glorious new playpen, but in the process we had to lose the Oilers, a team that meant an awful lot to those of us who grew up rooting for them. The Titans? No connection whatsoever, they're a division rival, no more, no less. I'd rather the Texans lose to them then the Colts or the Jaguars any day of the week.
My only consolation in this is that the Titans are stuck trying to figure out what to do with Vince Young while the Texans are not. Vince is your problem now Bud, enjoy that.
I realize this is all just the part of a movement to get Bud in the HOF. The thing about Houston media, especially the Chronicle, is this: They are more than ready to let by-gones be by-gones provided they get to bask in the reflected glory of someone with even tenuous ties to Houston. Don't believe me? Beyonce, the Next Food Network Star you name it. If someone receiving an award so much as had an extended layover at IAH the Chron is ready to claim them. As is KPRC.
They can have him, Bud Adams that is, because as far as I'm concerned he's a citizen of Tennessee now, if he goes into the HOF it shouldn't be as an Oiler, but as a Tennessee Titan.
The Oilers are dead now anyways, I think last night's telecast finally killed them off permanently in my mind.
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