Titans fire sale has started

[bhoyal]

Slightly used former star WR.... make an offer.... any reasonable offer.

OK, we have a 4th round draft slot offered. Going once. Going twice.....

Sold the team in red from Kansas City....

(Derrick Henry's last game for the Ravens: 169 yards, over 11 yards per carry)

[historybill]

Yes... Just glad I don't waste my money on those tickets.

I've lived in other parts of the country and I have followed the NFL since about 1975, closer than I would like to admit. I spent 4 years in Northern California, where people rooted for the 49ers and the Raiders. When I moved back to Nashville, I was a reporter in the mid 1990s. I wrote a lot of stories about Bud Adams, the Oilers, and the new stadium deal. In fact, on the day it was revealed that the Houston Oilers were thinking about moving to Tennessee, it was I who bylined the story that said that the best place for the stadium was where it now is (other suggestions were MetroCenter, by the arena, etc.)

That original deal wasn't all that bad. But as best I can tell, Nashville is the most naive market in NFL history.

Nashville rewarded a team that had a 7-game losing streak with the most generous taxpayer-funded stadium in the history of the U.S. The owners, and for some reason the newspapers and the idiotic mayor, insisted that it had to go from new idea to done-deal in a few months. Meanwhile, Vanderbilt went out of its way NOT to commission a survey to see how the taxpayers felt about it. It passed the council.

Then, one of the few Metro council members who stood up against the deal was elected mayor. (So THAT"S how the taxpayers felt about it!)

But it's too late now. Come hell or high water, the Oilers are getting a $2.5 billion domed stadium, when a $700 million open-air stadium like the one that the Chiefs and Seahawks have would have been better for the sport. (I HATE indoor football!)

Between now and when the stadium is done, this is going to get real ugly. When I first started watching the NFL, the Oilers were the worst team in the league. They were 1-13 in 1972 and 1-13 in 1973. Now they are there again. They just got rid of great running back, 2 great receivers, good coach, and decent quarterback.

And yet their fans still think they are a good team and will pay for tickets and go to the games.

[Nashmann]

Since you follow or know a lot about Nashville sports history, do you know how the Nashville Sounds got their name?

[bhoyal]

Since you follow or know a lot about Nashville sports history, do you know how the Nashville Sounds got their name?

The team was called the Sounds in reference to the "Nashville sound", a subgenre of American country music that traces its roots to the area in the late 1950s. The team's wordmark and color scheme were lifted from the defunct Memphis Sounds of the American Basketball Association, who used them from 1974 to 1975. The color blue was added to Memphis' red and white palette. Nashville's original logo, which was used from 1978 into 1998, reflected the city's long-standing association with country music.

Am I close?

[Nashmann]

Since you follow or know a lot about Nashville sports history, do you know how the Nashville Sounds got their name?

The team was called the Sounds in reference to the "Nashville sound", a subgenre of American country music that traces its roots to the area in the late 1950s. The team's wordmark and color scheme were lifted from the defunct Memphis Sounds of the American Basketball Association, who used them from 1974 to 1975. The color blue was added to Memphis' red and white palette. Nashville's original logo, which was used from 1978 into 1998, reflected the city's long-standing association with country music.

Am I close?

You give the significance of the name AFTER they were named but not HOW they got their name. There was a contest to name the new ball team....citywide. The Name Nashville Sounds was picked and there were actually 17 folks who picked that name. A drawing was made and one of the 17 winners got season tickets that first year. The other 16 got 10 game tickets for two I was one of the17 that named them.