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RIP Bum

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I remember that before the start of football one season.  The Ford Farm Dealer came up with the "Luv Ya Blue" medium farm tractor.  (Ford tractors were always blue & white anyway.) 

 

Anyway, the dealer got a call during the preseason from a man who wanted to buy one of the "Luv Ya Blue" tractors.  The dealer asked him, how big his farm was.  He pointed out that this was a medium tractor.  The guy who wanted was buying one replied.  "Farm?  I don't own a farm.  I live here in Houston."  The guy still bought the tractor. 

 

That's how much the Oiler fans were crazy about the team and Bum.

 

RIP Bum.

 

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/bum-phillips-dies-at-90-former-houston-oilers-new-orleans-saints-coach-101813

 

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I really enjoyed watching his Oiler teams back in the day.

WR Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, QB Dan Pastorini, WR Haywood "Freakwood" Jeffries, CB Cris Dishman, LB Robert "Dr. Doom" Brazile, S Ken Houston, Hall of Fame DE Elvin Bethea (105 career sacks), and of course Warren Moon and Earl Campbell.

 

If there was one thing I always remembered about those Oiler teams, those players loved playing for Bum Phillips. Earl Campbell and he were as close as I've ever seen a player and coach in the NFL.

 

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