When Titans owner Amy Adams Strunk decided to have her team play in the vintage Oilers uniforms against the Texans during the previous season, she undoubtedly anticipated the response she would receive in Houston. The club was relocated from Houston to Tennessee in 1997 by her father, Bud Adams, and Strunk currently resides 44 miles away from Reliant Stadium.
Strunk wanted to rub the Oilers’ past in the Texans’ faces, or he just didn’t care.
Houston therefore may have celebrated a little more raucously last season following a 19-16 overtime victory over the Titans, especially Texans supporters who grew up cheering for the Oilers.
The rivalry became much more intense after the Titans decided to change their clothing.
The wife of Texans owner Cal McNair, Hannah McNair, vice president of the Texans Foundation, is now stoking the already fierce animosity between the teams.
The Texans introduced a “H-Town Blue” colour during their uniform makeover, which was modelled by the Oilers’ “Columbia Blue,” which is owned by Strunk and the Titans. According to Hannah McNair, the league vetoed it.
“What do you think?” McNair questioned SportsRadio 610 when they inquired about the source of the resistance.
In the end, a compromise was achieved by both parties.
Hannah McNair was still upset with the Titans and their supporters, who referred to her as “salty” when she voiced her displeasure about Tennessee’s Columbia Blue uniform during a game versus the Texans.
“Who initiated it? According to USA Today’s Cole Thompson, she stated on the radio that “[The Titans] did by] wearing it against us.” “And their in-house PA was starting it if anyone was at [the game in Tennessee last year].” It was amazing and unbelievable all at the same time since the tale was resolved, see? I mean, who’s sour in this place?
Hannah McNair reminded the Titans of who had won the previous three games, reigniting the division rivalry between the two teams and causing some animosity amongst them.
Hannah responded, “Well, they have to defeat us first,” when asked if this rivalry is among the greatest in the NFL.