Back in the day, the Houston Oilers played in the same city as today's Houston Texans, so it should be only natural for the Texans to wear Oilers jerseys as throwbacks, right?

Well, not exactly.

Even though the Texans share a location with the Oilers, they never actually were the Oilers.

That distinction belongs to the Tennessee Titans, who became an NFL franchise in 1997 when the Oilers decided to pick up and move. So, it makes sense that Tennessee's front office does not want the Texans wearing the old powder blues.

“That’s very interesting, except the Oilers don’t have anything to do with the Texans,” Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk told Paul Kuharsky of paulkuharsky.com. “That’s a hard no.”

But how about the Titans potentially wearing those uniforms at some point? Strunk says that would be up to the fanbase.

“I think that would be something I would take to the fans,” Strunk said. “If they were on the board and excited. I mean, so many people love those uniforms, so maybe. Maybe we’ll put a survey out there and sometime if they love them and wanted it to happen, I’m sure we could make it happen.”

Texans stars DeAndre Hopkins and J.J. Watt have been vocal about wanting to represent the old Oilers squad, but Strunk is 100 percent right: it would just be weird.

Butt Watt simply loves the jerseys.

“People think I don’t understand that we have no rights whatsoever to the Oilers’ history or uniforms,” Watt said, via Kuharsky. “I understand it completely. It doesn’t mean I can’t still enjoy those uniforms and wish we did have the rights.”