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steve mcnair 
Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 06:56 PM CDT
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Steve McNair was drafted by the Houston Oilers in 1995 after the worst season since 1982, and the 2-14 record was the worst that I had experienced as a fan. As a kid who was born in Houston, despite also being a fan of the more successful Houston Rockets and the Houston Astros, the Oilers were always my first love. Being a fan of the Oilers built character, or at least that is how I look at it now. Before that losing season every season that I can remember before that the Oilers finished with a winning record and made the playoffs, but every season the oilers lost in the playoffs. In fact not only did the Oilers lose in the playoffs, they lost in heartbreaking fashion.
In 1991 the Oilers lost to the Denver Broncos in the Divisional Playoff game, and were the victims of a John Elway comeback which has become known as the Drive II. Then in 1993 the Oilers lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in the Divisional Playoff game after winning eleven consecutive games to end the season; losing to Joe Montana who found new life on a new team. The most heartbreaking loss of all of course was the lost to the Buffalo Bills in the 1992 Divisional Playoff game; this game was the greatest comeback in NFL history.
When McNair was drafted in 1995 it gave Oilers fans new hope; but that hope was gone after the 1995 season when owner Bud Adams broke the promise he had made only a year earlier and announced that the team would be moving to Tennessee. The franchised was moved by Adams after the 1996 season, during which the Oilers regularly played for less than 20,000 in the Astrodome. The fans still wanted to support the Oilers; however, they did not want Adams to make a profit after breaking a promise to keep the team in Houston.
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