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Originally Posted by Keith
Ha, I guess so. Luv Ya Blue days as well. Houston Oilers Number One was my jam. On vinyl.
Probably earliest Oilers game memory I still have was the road playoff loss to the Raiders in 1980. Can't tell if I truly remember games before then firsthand or if I just remember it from watching highlights over the years. I mean, aside from knowing Bum and Earl in the late 70s - and who didn't back then - that was the earliest game I still remember, though I moved to Spring the winter of 78/79 I think. Anyway, in the '80 wild card, Raiders pulled away in the 4th, and my dad took me out for ice cream before it was over. Bum's last game iirc.
Little did I know then that there is not enough ice cream in the world for coping with 35-3 and Frank Reich some 13 years later.
P.S. I was at Alameda County Coliseum for an A's-Rays game earlier this summer. Place is a time warp back to the 80s. I kinda dug it. Not many multi-purpose stadiums like that left anymore. Nostalgia is a dangerous thing.
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This thread brought me out of my lurkerhood. I guess I'm another "young" idiot. I was in elementary school for Luv ya Blue, and remember the excitement that was in the air more than the actual games. My family got Oiler season tickets starting around 1984 -- after the Ed Biles and Chuck Studley eras, there wasn't exactly a waiting list. That's when I really started getting into the Oilers and the NFL and obsessed over any crumb of information that I could find about the team, which was usually limited to John McClain's daily notebook in the paper. Like everybody else I went through the rollercoaster ride/soap opera until they left town. Personally, the loss to Montana and the Chiefs was more disappointing than the Buffalo game because that team was on such a roll. I remember on the ride home we were all just numb.
10-03-2019, 07:21 PM
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