Music City Troll Job: The Tennessee Titans Are Going To Wear Their Throwback Oilers Uniforms This Weekend Against The Houston Texans
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I'm not sure if it's because I don't think about the AFC South a lot since it's usually meh at best or because warm weather NFL divisions never seem all that vicious since the rivalries haven't been built on decades of hatred forged in freezing cold temperatures. But I didn't think the Tennessee Titans had that in them. Can you imagine what the Texans will be thinking when they see their opponent wear the uniforms of the football team that used to reside in Houston lining up across from them on the gridiron?
[Looks up the ages of all the Houston Texans]
Okay, so there are like three Texans that might remember watching the Oilers actually play a game in Houston while wearing those beautiful baby blues. But you know there are going to be a shitload of angry Texans fans acting like Yosemite Sam when the Titans show up as the Zombie Oilers.
Not that I blame them. No matter how much pain they've caused me, I couldn't imagine how mad I'd be if some city stole one of my favorite teams along with a Top 5 jersey in the sport. Every game against that team would be Must Win. And if said team actually pulled the outright disrespectful move on wearing the jerseys that my team was wearing when they were kidnapped, it would turn that Must Win game into a Super Must Win game, which only come around once or twice in a lifetime.
Which means this game just got bumped from 1 out of 5 Balls in my book if CJ Stroud is out to 2.5 Balls simply due to the pettiness and angry tweets that will be fired off. This jersey grudge match is easily a Top 3 highlight of the season for the Titans along with last week's comeback against the Dolphins and their schedule reveal video.
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P.S. I had a very rare Eddie George Tennessee Oilers jersey that existed for only one year and it was absolute gas.
P.P.S. I would love if the Ravens wore some sort of Browns throwback against the Browns before a massive game just to fuck with them. But I know it can't happen because they agreed to leave all the logos and jerseys in Cleveland when they moved to Baltimore. Besides, the Browns are one of maybe three NFL teams that you avoid dipping into their juju at all costs (the Jets and Lions are the other two teams).