Texans VP Hannah McNair takes shots at Titans

Titans proprietor Amy Adams Strunk certainly knew the response she would get in Houston when she selected to have her workforce put on the throwback Oilers uniforms in opposition to the Texans final season. Strunk lives 44 miles from Reliant Stadium, and it was her father, Bud Adams, who moved the workforce from Houston to Tennessee in 1997.

Strunk both didn’t care or wished to throw the Oilers’ historical past within the Texans’ face.

So, Houston, particularly Texans followers who grew up rooting for the Oilers, maybe celebrated just a little extra exuberantly final season after a 19-16 extra time win in opposition to the Titans.

The Titans’ uniform resolution solely elevated the ferocity of the rivalry.

Now, Hannah McNair, the vice chairman of the Texans Foundation and the spouse of Texans proprietor Cal McNair, is throwing gasoline on the already heated rivalry between the groups.

During the Texans’ uniform redesign, the workforce introduced an “H-Town Blue” shade that was just like the Oilers’ “Columbia Blue,” the rights of which belong to Strunk and the Titans. Hannah McNair revealed the league vetoed it.

When requested by SportsRadio 610 the place the pushback got here from, McNair mentioned, “What do you think?”

Eventually, the sides reached a compromise.

Hannah McNair remained sad with the Titans and their followers, who referred to as her “salty” for complaining about Tennessee sporting the Columbia Blue in a recreation in opposition to the Texans.

“Who started it? [The Titans did by] wearing it against us,” she mentioned on the radio, through Cole Thompson of USA Today. “And if anyone was at [last year’s game in Tennessee], their in-house PA was instigating it. It was unbelievable but also wonderful, because we finished the story, OK? So, I mean, who’s salty here?”

The division rivalry is restored, with some dangerous blood amongst possession of the 2 groups, and Hannah McNair reminded the Titans of who has received the previous three video games.

“Well, first they need to beat us,” Hannah mentioned about whether or not it’s one of many NFL’s finest rivalries.