(05-19-2023 08:10 AM)bluebacker Wrote: I remember all of that, then just a couple of years later the Oilers used Memphis as a temporary home and the idiots could not understand why we didn't fall all over ourselves to support and facilitate them. As I recall it was going to be a 2 year stay but the first year went so poorly they moved to Nashville after only 1 and played their games at Vanderbilt? Not sure on that.
The Oilers were supposed to help build the fanbase.
Players were supposed to go out to area schools, meet the kids, build relations that way etc.
That's not what happened.
A lot of times the players were no-shows.
I remember when the Memphis Americans indoor soccer team came to Memphis.
They played a game of volleyball against our volleyball team at Bellevue Jr High, the Americans's players could only use their feet.
Still, I became a fan that day as I got to meet them after the 'show was over'.
The Oilers acted spoiled...like they were too good to be in Memphis.
Our town was a dump to them, and that's how they treated it and it's fans.
I was already a fan of another team...but I vowed id never have anything for them... No good feelings or anything of the sort.
The Oilers/Titans can go to Hell for all I care.