While Hunt negotiated with Bidwills, similar offers were made by Bud Adams, Bob Howsam, and Max Winter.

The name " Houston Oilers " was unavailable to the expansion team, as that name was still owned by the Tennessee Titans, whose owner Bud Adams had retired the name from use in 1999.

In the late 1980s, city leaders put on a more concerted effort to convince Houston Oilers owner Bud Adams to move to Jacksonville.

Supporters of Jacksonville's bid included NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, President Neil Austrian, Vice President Roger Goodell, Bud Adams of the Houston Oilers, Rankin Smith of the Atlanta Falcons and Ken Hofmann of the Seattle Seahawks.

Houston, Texas businessman Bud Adams owned the Oilers since its inception and guided the team through the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger.

Bud Adams established the Titans / Oilers Hall of Fame after the 40th season of the franchise to honor past players and management.

George's decline in production along with numerous toe and ankle injuries were contributing factors in Titans owner Bud Adams ' decision to release him after George would not agree to a pay cut.

* Janitor Bud ( Bob Larkin ) is the janitor at John Adams High.

* Bud Adams, owner of the Tennessee Titans ; enrolled Cherokee, grew up in Bartlesville.

The scoreboard remained intact until 1988 when Astrodome part-time tenant Houston Oilers ( now Tennessee Titans ) owner Bud Adams suggested the removal of the scoreboard to accommodate capacity demands for football, baseball and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

Shortly after the original team's departure from Nashville, Bud Adams, the owner of the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League, purchased the rights to an expansion franchise in Nashville ( along with the Kats identity ).

On October 10, 2007, after months of speculation, owner Bud Adams decided to shut down operations for the second time in Nashville Kats history.

As one of only three AFL owners to be on relatively solid financial ground ( along with Hunt and Bud Adams ), Wilson lent the financially troubled Oakland Raiders $ 400, 000 and was also willing to lend money to Billy Sullivan of the Patriots.

The Titans ' owner, Bud Adams, is also the only owner his team has ever had, and the two are the only living members of the " Foolish Club ", the founders of the original eight AFL teams.

At the game, Oilers owner Bud Adams met Nashville Mayor Phil Bredesen and began discussing the possibility of moving the team to Middle Tennessee, due to Adams ' discontent with the teams ' lease at the Astrodome and unwillingness of the City of Houston to build a new football-only stadium.

On January 15, 1966, Faison and Ladd were dealt to the Houston Oilers as part of a five-player trade, but four days later, the trade was nullified because of tampering by Oilers ' owner Bud Adams.

Oilers ' owner Bud Adams was so disgusted that he ripped up the Memphis agreement a year early in favor of playing at Vanderbilt in 1998.

Other people that Christgau credits with the jump shot are Glen " Glenn " Roberts, Myer " Whitey " Skoog, John " Mouse " Gonzales, Bud Palmer, Davage " Dave " Minor, “ Jumping ” Joe Fulks, Johnny Adams, and Belus Van Smawley.

Kenneth Stanley " Bud " Adams, Jr. ( born January 3, 1923 ) is the owner of the Tennessee Titans ' National Football League franchise.

As a result of limited on-field success and the subsequent drop in fan support and ticket sales, Bud Adams announced in October 2007 that the Kats would immediately cease operations.

# REDIRECT Bud Adams

# REDIRECT Bud Adams

# REDIRECT Bud Adams

The team was owned by Bud Adams, a wealthy Houston oilman who upgraded Jeppesen Stadium for professional football use.

Founding members of SBVT include Rear Admiral Roy Hoffmann ( retired ), a former commander of Swift boat forces ; Colonel Bud Day, who won the Medal of Honor ; Houston attorney John O ' Neill, an officer who became commander of Swift Boat PCF 94 several months after Kerry's departure in 1969 and who appeared opposite Kerry in a televised 1971 debate between them on The Dick Cavett Show ; and 13 other named veterans.

He was hired by the Houston Texans on January 5, 2011 as their new defensive coordinator almost 30 years after his father was terminated by Bud Adams on December 28, 1980, after the Oilers failed to advance past the first round of the playoffs.

However, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig had moved the starting time of Game 5 to primetime, due to the rematch, and Fox had a triple-header, first the Seattle Seahawks – New England Patriots game at Gillette Stadium at 1: 00 pm ET, then Game 4 of the NLCS between the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park at 4: 30 pm ET.

' Bud ' Davis moves from the small town of Spur, Texas to Pasadena, Texas, located near the heavily industrial eastern side of Houston, and a better paying job in the city's oil refinery in hopes of saving enough money to move back to his hometown and buy some land.

* Bud Norris ( 2003 ) – MLB pitcher ( Houston Astros )

One of the minority partners was Bud Adams, who owned the Houston Oilers of the American Football League.

With the aid of Louise ( Sally Kellerman ), owlish Brewster ( Bud Cort ) constructs a pair of human-size wings in his Houston Astrodome nest to realize his dream.

Supposedly it was loans from other AFL owners, including Wilson and Houston Oilers owner Bud Adams, which kept Wismer and the Titans ( as well as several other teams including the Oakland Raiders and Boston Patriots ) afloat.

However, an inability to get a new stadium deal in Houston caused owner Bud Adams to relocate the team to Tennessee for the 1997 season.

In 1976, Billy Jim invited Walker and Texas author Bud Shrake to be guest clowns at a Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey performance in Houston.

After previously occupying the Compaq Center from 1998 to 2000, the PBR held a Bud Light Cup event in Reliant Arena in 2001 ; this was their last big-league event in Houston to date.

Realizing that Gekko may not do business with him, a desperate Bud provides him some inside information about Bluestar, which Bud learned in a casual conversation from his father.

Stone met with Tom Cruise about playing Bud Fox, but the director had already committed to Charlie Sheen for the role.

Little else is known about Janitor Bud, except for that he has presumably “ seen dead bodies ” and presumably retired after season 3 when he was last seen serving as Mr. Feeny ’ s secretary.

" When Bud Powell was opening for Tatum at Birdland around 1950, the end of an era when musicians engaged in overt competition and so-called cutting sessions, Powell reportedly said to Tatum, " Man, I'm going to really show you about tempo and playing fast.

* Book Think: Interview with Bud Webster about 41 Above the Rest: An Index and Checklist for the Anthologies of Groff Conklin

In 1986 Paudras wrote a book about his friendship with Powell, translated into English in 1997 as Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell.

" This enhances Deanie's inner struggle — about whether to do with Bud what she and he both seem to want, or whether to behave in a more socially acceptable way, avoid the risk of pregnancy, and follow her mother's advice about how to retain Bud's respect — an attempted rape later in the film drives her to madness.

Speakers included Clark descendant Peyton " Bud " Clark, Lewis collateral descendants Howell Bowen and Tom McSwain, and Stephanie Ambrose Tubbs ( the daughter of the author Stephen Ambrose, who wrote Undaunted Courage, an award-winning book about the Lewis and Clark expedition ).

A documentary film about Bud Shank, Bud Shank " Against the Tide " Portrait of a Jazz Legend, was produced and directed by Graham Carter of Jazzed Media and released by Jazzed Media as a DVD ( with a companion CD ) in 2008.

Mutt and Jeff was a long-popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about " two mismatched tinhorns.

Mr. Fisher, known as Bud, had created what became Mutt and Jeff, the long-popular comic strip about two mismatched tinhorns, in 1907.

Next, Bud stops at a pet shelter, where he asks about the life expectancy of rabbits ( he is told about five or six years ).

While advertisers played up his habit of openly rooting for the Cubs from the booth ( for example, one Budweiser ad described him as " Cub Fan, Bud Man " in a Blues Brothers-style parody of " Soul Man "), he had been even less restrained about rooting for the Cardinals when he broadcast for them.

In addition, WBZ-TV in Boston and KYW-TV in Philadelphia chose to air a series of documentaries about the Olympics by filmmaker Bud Greenspan in lieu of the telethon.

Travis went on to fame as a member of the Gateway Singers and especially as half of the Bud & Travis folk ( and Mexican music ) duo that was together off an on from about 1958 to 1965, producing 10 albums.

Following a rough Bud Shootout on February 12, Stewart expressed concern to the media about the possibility of aggressive driving resulting in the serious injury or death of a driver.

Edwin confides that he has misgivings about his betrothal to Rosa Bud.

Bud scales two, ovate, coated with brown tomentum and growing with the shoot, become orange green, hairy and about one inch long, before they fall.

* Wilma, or The Story of Wilma Rudolph, a 1977 Bud Greenspan documentary about athlete Wilma Rudolph

She stated that her biggest influence as a teenager was her teacher Bud Brown, whose lectures about the Civil Rights movement, poverty, the free press, and anti-semitism in Europe " absolutely inflamed " her and changed her life.