Build a lifetime archive of Houston Oilers games you've attended. Ticket Timeline turns Oilers history for Houston fans into a lasting personal football record centered on real seats at Jeppesen Stadium, Rice Stadium, the Houston Astrodome, and two Tennessee Oilers seasons at the Liberty Bowl and Vanderbilt Stadium—not a live-score feed or ticket marketplace.
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On January 3, 1993, at Rich Stadium, Houston led Buffalo 35–3 in an AFC wild-card game and lost 41–38 in overtime. Buffalo's 32-point rally remains the largest comeback in NFL playoff history.
35–3
Lead before the largest NFL playoff comeback
Down in the final quarter and still found a way to close it out.
~19%
Of 4th-quarter comeback bids succeed
A pick-six. A milestone. A game that gets replayed for years. Oilers fans who log every game are the ones who can prove they saw it.
Rare
Not every fan gets one of these live
Ticket Timeline ranks this as the #5 Oilers game of the season. You were one of 55,293 people there.
#5
Game of the regular season
An interception returned all the way for six—a swing play most fans never see live.
~1 in 5 games
Feature a defensive touchdown league-wide
Buildings the Oilers called home in the attendance data Ticket Timeline uses—useful when an old ticket names a former stadium from the Houston years or a temporary Tennessee Oilers home in Memphis or Nashville.
Coverage in Ticket Timeline's game data starts in 1960, the Oilers' first AFL season. Jeppesen Stadium and Rice Stadium hosted the early Houston years; the Houston Astrodome hosted 1968–1996. Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium hosted 1997 and Vanderbilt Stadium hosted 1998 as the Tennessee Oilers. Titans nights from 1999 belong on the Titans page.
If your ticket says Jeppesen Stadium, Rice Stadium, Houston Astrodome, Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, or Vanderbilt Stadium, those are five different buildings in three cities—not a rename chain. The Oilers name lasted through 1998; Titans tickets start in 1999.
Owner Bud Adams moved the club to Tennessee after 1996. It played 1997 and 1998 as the Tennessee Oilers, then was renamed the Titans in 1999. Oilers nights stay in this archive; Titans nights belong on the Titans page. The Houston Texans, an expansion club that began play in 2002, are not a continuation of this franchise. George Blanda quarterbacked back-to-back AFL championships in 1960 and 1961. The Luv Ya Blue years under Bum Phillips, with Earl Campbell, produced 1978 and 1979 playoff runs that ended in AFC Championship losses at Pittsburgh. Warren Moon and the run-and-shoot offense defined the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Houston Oilers hosted AFL and NFL games in Houston, Memphis, and Nashville from 1960 to 1998. Dates for those nights are anchored in Central time. The building list above is what Ticket Timeline uses when an older ticket names a former stadium.
Use that timeline when dating a night: Jeppesen Stadium (1960–1964) and Rice Stadium (1965–1967) were former Houston homes—different buildings from the Astrodome, not a rename; Houston Astrodome (1968–1996) was the last Houston home, the first enclosed stadium, with a last home game on December 15, 1996 against Cincinnati; Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium (1997) and Vanderbilt Stadium (1998) were temporary Tennessee Oilers homes in Memphis and Nashville. The last Oilers home game was December 26, 1998, against Minnesota at Vanderbilt; the franchise then continued as the Titans. Rebuilding Oilers attendance is usually a scavenger hunt: paper tickets and PDF confirmations, camera-roll scoreboard dates, calendar invites, season-ticket statements, and memory anchors (companions, rivals, life events, stadium names on stubs). Work season by season; a partial list of attended games is enough to start matching opponents and stadiums. When confirmations live in Gmail, import games you've attended walks through a read-only preview before anything is committed. For a shoebox of stubs, see what to do with old ticket stubs.
Once you've logged Oilers games you attended, Ticket Timeline surfaces the attendance story—not a live scoreboard. Visited insights can include Jeppesen Stadium (1960–1964), Rice Stadium (1965–1967), Houston Astrodome (1968–1996), Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium (1997), and Vanderbilt Stadium (1998).
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Houston has not hosted Oilers football since 1996, and the Oilers name last appeared in 1998. Home nights opened at Jeppesen Stadium, continued at Rice Stadium and the Houston Astrodome, then finished as the Tennessee Oilers at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis (1997) and Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville (1998) before the franchise continued as the Titans. Use the venue timeline above when an old ticket prints any of those names.
Add Oilers games from memory, import a spreadsheet, or scan ticket stubs. Ticket Timeline links each attended game to NFL context—teams, stadiums, players, and notable moments—so nights at the Houston Astrodome, the Liberty Bowl, Vanderbilt Stadium, and elsewhere become a browsable Houston Oilers archive. Primary focus on this page: a lifetime attendance archive.
Ticket Timeline is for fans reconstructing thirty-nine seasons of Oilers football. Keep Jeppesen Stadium, Rice Stadium, Houston Astrodome, Liberty Bowl, and Vanderbilt Stadium nights from 1960 through 1998 in an exportable personal archive—not a live-score feed or ticket marketplace.
If your stub says Jeppesen Stadium or Rice Stadium, you were at an early Houston home—a different building from the Astrodome, not a rename. If it says Houston Astrodome, that is the long Houston home (1968–1996). If it says Liberty Bowl or Vanderbilt Stadium, you were at a Tennessee Oilers temporary home in 1997 or 1998; those seasons still used the Oilers name.
Related team relationships for fans rebuilding attendance history across shared metros and venues.
Ticket Timeline is built as a long-term archive of attended Houston Oilers games: teams, stadiums, players, milestones, and moments across seasons, including nights at Vanderbilt Stadium.
Add games as you remember them—or import a batch—then keep growing the archive. Ticket Timeline stores attended Oilers history with NFL context in an exportable personal record.
Yes. Ticket Timeline helps you see stadium progress across the Oilers and NFL games you've attended, so you can revisit which stadiums you've been to and keep building that record over seasons.
Yes. You can import a spreadsheet of attended Oilers games, and Ticket Timeline also supports finding games from Gmail ticket confirmations with a read-only, preview-before-commit flow. That makes it easier to reconstruct years of history without retyping every date.
No. Ticket Timeline does not sell tickets. It is an app for tracking NFL games you've already attended and exploring the story behind your fandom.
Yes. This club played as the Houston Oilers from 1960 through 1996, then as the Tennessee Oilers at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis (1997) and Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville (1998), and was renamed the Tennessee Titans in 1999. Oilers nights stay in this archive; Titans nights from 1999 on belong on the Titans page. The Houston Texans, who began play in 2002, are a separate expansion club—not a continuation of the Oilers.
Those are still Oilers games. After leaving Houston, the club kept the Oilers name for two seasons as the Tennessee Oilers—home games at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis in 1997, then Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville in 1998—before the Titans rename in 1999. Memphis crowds were often in the high teens or low 20,000s in a stadium that held about 62,000. Both years belong on this page, not the Titans page.
Yes. Ticket Timeline helps you track Houston Oilers games you attended at Vanderbilt Stadium, including rivalry games, road trips, playoff memories, and regular-season Sundays.
Build a searchable lifetime record of attended Houston Oilers games.
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