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Titans To Wear Oilers Throwback Uniforms vs. Texans

The Tennessee Titans are set to wear their Oilers throwback uniforms twice, including once against the Houston Texans.

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Earlier this week, the Tennessee Titans revealed the Oilers throwback uniforms that they will be wearing twice this season, brining back one of the most iconic looks in NFL history: 

Thursday, the Titans announced the two games they will wear the throwback uniforms for this season, the second of which figures to be very controversial.

The first of two occasions will come when the Titans host the Atlanta Falcons in a Week 8 matchup on Oct. 29. This will mark the first time that the Oilers uniforms have been worn in a game since the 1998 season. The second will be on Dec. 17, when the division-rival Houston Texans come to town. 

Of course, the Oilers called Houston home from 1960-1996, before relocating to Nashville. While they initially kept the name Oilers for their first two seasons in Tennessee, they rebranded as the Titans in 1998. So technically, the Oilers history does belong to the Titans franchise. Amy Adams Strunk owns the Titans currently, and her father, Buzz Adams, founded the Oilers franchise and eventually moved them away from Houston. 

So it's natural that Houston football fans -- who got a team back in 2002 when the Texans joined the league as an expansion franchise -- would feel upset about seeing the Titans wear a uniform that primarily represented the city of Houston. But to wear the uniforms directly against the Texans feels like an unnecessary slap in the face. 

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Tim Kelly
TIM KELLY

Tim Kelly is a contributor to SI's NFL team sites. Additionally, Kelly covers the Philadelphia Phillies as the Editorial Director for PhilliesNation.com. Previously, Kelly has been a producer at SportsRadio 94 WIP and a content producer for Audacy Sports, with written content syndicated to WIP, WFAN, WEEI and some of the biggest sports radio stations in the country. Kelly also has contributed to Bleacher Report, Just Baseball, Sports Talk Philly and Section 215, FanSided's Philadelphia affiliate. Kelly is a 2018 graduate of Bloomsburg University, with a major in Mass Communications and a minor in political science.