Tennessee Titans

. I'm a man!" Osgood: "Well, nobody's perfect".
. Jerry (as Daphne): "You don't understand, Osgood! Aaah.. Numerous key players were cut or traded by the Titans front office during the off season, including Derrick Mason, Samari Rolle, Kevin Carter, and others. This was done most likely to "clean house", or free up money to put the team farther under the salary cap to make further player acquisitions. Sweet Sue: "You girls said you went to a conservatory?" Jerry (as Daphne): "Yes, the whole year." Sweet Sue: "You said it was two years." Joe: "They gave us a year off...for good behaviour.". Their 5-11 record turned out to be their worst in a decade. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.".

The 2004 season was disappointing for the Titans, who suffered an unusual number of injuries to key players. Sugar: "It's the story of my life. The Titans made the 2003 playoffs, winning their first-round game over the Baltimore Ravens and losing in the AFC semifinals to the New England Patriots. Joe: "The ship is in ship-shape shape!". In 2003, quarterback Steve McNair won the MVP award, sharing it with Peyton Manning. Sugar: "Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!". Louis Rams when Kevin Dyson was tackled one yard short of the endzone as regulation time expired. Jerry (as Daphne): Now you've done it! Joe (as Josephine): Done what? Jerry (as Daphne): You tore off one of my chests!.

The Titans' Cinderella season led to a trip to Super Bowl XXXIV, where they lost a heartbreaker to the St. The film has also been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. This game qualifies as one of the greatest games in NFL history and became known as the "Music City Miracle". The movie has been acclaimed worldwide as one of the greatest movie comedies ever made (ranking #1 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest comedies as well as #14 on their list of the 100 best American films. The 1999 first round win was due to a lateral from tight end Frank Wycheck to Kevin Dyson on a late 4th quarter kickoff return; Dyson returned the pass 75 yards for a touchdown to win the game. The film won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Orry-Kelly) and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jack Lemmon), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The Titans made the playoffs in their inaugural year in the "Music City", which was capped off by their unbelievable first round playoff victory over the Buffalo Bills and a third win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. In 2002, Tony Curtis performed in a stage production of the film, portraying the character originally played by Joe E. Brown.

In 1999, Adelphia Coliseum, now known simply as The Coliseum, was completed and the newly christened Tennessee Titans were well received by their new fans in Tennessee's state capital. In 1972, a musical play based on the movie, entitled Sugar, opened on Broadway, starring Elaine Joyce, Robert Morse, Tony Roberts and Cyril Ritchard, with book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and music by Jule Styne. The team relented and played the 1998 home schedule at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville. He then grabs a coin from the air as it is being flipped by another gangster, a cliche that originated with Howard Hawks' Scarface. The 1997 season is often recalled as having consisted of 16 road games. The crimelord "Little Bonaparte" stems from Little Caesar, while Spats Columbo threatens to smash a grapefruit in the face of one of his henchmen (James Cagney's famous scene from The Public Enemy). Weary of babysitting Nashville's team, Memphis largely ignored the Oilers, who played before crowds ranging from sparse and indifferent to outright hostile (as in the case of a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers). Wilder paid tribute to three great gangster movies of the 1930s with subtle gags in the movie's script.

The Oilers rejected Vanderbilt Stadium and played their home games at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium while waiting for their new stadium to be finished in their permanent home city, Nashville. Tony Curtis was famously quoted as saying that kissing Marilyn Monroe during the love scene in this movie was like "kissing Hitler," but he later denied it. The soon-to-be Tennessee Titans spent 1997 in Memphis as the short-lived Tennessee Oilers. It has been reported that Monroe was pregnant during the filming of this movie. Even before the Oilers relocated, they established the future cornerstone of their offense by drafting Steve McNair in 1995. He had several of them written in inconspicuous spots on the set, so she could read them. Unlike his support of an old-line NFL city (Cleveland) in holding on to its tradition, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue did not intervene when Adams declared that no other Houston football team could ever use the name "Oilers". On the set, Wilder grew exasperated by Monroe's inability to remember her lines.

Although the city of Cleveland kept the franchise's name "Browns", and the team's history when it left, Houston's status as the home of the first two American Football League championships did not save the city's AFL heritage. Brown) falls for Daphne (Jerry), while Joe dresses up as a Cary Grant-imitating millionaire to woo Sugar. The mid-1990s signaled the decline of the Houston Oilers and the ill-fated "run and shoot" offense and by 1997, owner Bud Adams moved the team out of Houston. In Florida, an aging millionaire Osgood (Joe E. From 1987 through 1993, the Oilers were one of the most successful teams in the AFC, making the playoffs each year but failing to reach the Super Bowl. Joe and Jerry fall for a ukulele player and band vocalist named Sugar (Monroe), and fight for affection while maintaining their disguises. In 1984, the Oilers won a bidding war for CFL legend Warren Moon but didn't return to the playoffs until 1987, where the Oilers nearly went to the Super Bowl. In order to hide themselves from the murderers, they disguise themselves as women (Josephine and Daphne), and join an all-girl band headed to Florida.

From 1978 through 1980, the "Luv Ya Blue" Oilers would make the playoffs each year but three postseason losses prompted owner Bud Adams to fire head coach Bum Phillips and signaled the decline of the Oilers for a few years (the 1981 Oilers won their first two games, both on the road - but then the team lost 23 consecutive away games, an all-time NFL record which remained intact until the Detroit Lions lost their 24th straight road game on December 21, 2003). Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929. In 1978, the Oilers' fortunes changed when they drafted University of Texas football star Earl Campbell, who was both Rookie of the Year and MVP that year and led the Oilers to their first NFL playoff appearance. Some Like It Hot tells the story of two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry (Curtis and Lemmon), who are on the run from the Mafia after witnessing the St. They then fell from the AFL elite, and the years immediately following the 1970 AFL-NFL merger proved to not be much brighter. Logan had already written the story (but without the gangsters) for a German movie, Fanfaren der Liebe (directed by Kurt Hoffmann, 1951), so that Wilder's film is seen by some as a remake. The Oilers won the AFL Eastern Division title again in 1967, then became the first professional football team to play in a domed stadium, when they moved into Houston's Astrodome for the 1968 season. Diamond from the story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan.

Dewveall that year caught the longest pass reception for a touchdown in professional football history, 99 yards, from Jacky Lee, against the San Diego Chargers. The movie was adapted by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. In 1962, the Oilers were the first AFL team to sign an active NFL player away from the other league, when wide receiver Willard Dewveall left the Bears to join the champion Oilers. Brown and Nehemiah Persoff. They lost to the Dallas Texans in the classic 1962 double-overtime AFL championship game, at the time the longest, and still one of the best professional football championship games ever played. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. After winning the first-ever AFL championship over the Los Angeles Chargers in 1960, they repeated over the same team (then in San Diego) in 1961. Some Like It Hot is a 1959 comedy film by Billy Wilder.

Cannon joined other Oiler offensive stars such as quarterback George Blanda, flanker Charlie Hennigan, running back Charlie Tolar, and guard Bob Talamini. They scored an important victory over the NFL when they signed LSU's Heisman Trophy winner, All-America running back Billy Cannon. The Oilers appeared in the first three AFL championships. The Tennessee Titans began in 1960 as the Houston Oilers, charter members of the American Football League.

The Tennessee Titans are a National Football League team based in Nashville, Tennessee. Frank Wycheck. George Webster. Webster Slaughter.

Charlie Tolar (1937-2003 ("the human bowling ball")). Bob Talamini (born 1939, won two AFL titles with the Oilers, AFL and World Championship with the Jets). Mike Rozier. Samari Rolle.

Allen Pinkett. Warren Moon. Ron McDole. Wahoo McDaniel.

Bruce Matthews. Derrick Mason. Jacky Lee. Ernie Ladd.

Jevon Kearse. Sean Jones. Charlie Joiner. Billy "White Shoes" Johnson.

Haywood Jeffries. Bobby Jancik. Drew Hill. Charlie Hennigan (born 1935, first professional football player to catch more than 100 passes in a season (Oilers, 1964)).

Eddie George. Miller Farr. Ray Childress. Kevin Carter.

Billy Cannon (born 1937, made All-League as a halfback in 1961 and as a tight end in 1969). 74 Bruce Matthews. 65 Elvin Bethea. 63 Mike Munchak.

43 Jim Norton (born 1938, all-time American Football League interception leader). 34 Earl Campbell. Steve McNair. Brad Hopkins.

Andre Dyson. Keith Bulluck. Chris Brown. Drew Bennett.

Gary Anderson. Mike Munchak. Ken Houston. Earl Campbell.

George Blanda (born 1927, first player to pass for 36 touchdowns (Oilers, 1961)). Elvin Bethea.