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Bud Adams - The Founder


FILE -- This Oct. 28, 1959, file photo shows representatives of the American Football League posing in New York City. Posing in the front row from left are, Robert L. Howsam, Denver, Colo.; Max Winter, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.; Lamar Hunt, Dallas, Texas, the League's founder; and Bud Adams. Jr., Houston, Texas. In the back row from left are, Barron Hilton, Los Angeles, Ca.; Ralph C. Wilson Jr., Buffalo, N.Y.; and Harry Wismer, New York. Respected around the NFL, Bud Adams' contributions to professional football are legendary as a co-founder of the American Football League with the late Lamar Hunt in an event whose 50th anniversary is being celebrated by the league this year. He is the only owner of the Oilers-Titans franchise, a team that marked the 50th year of its founding Monday. (AP Photo/File)


Four organizers of the new American Professional Football League get together at Beverly Hills on Sept. 12, 1959 as the league owners opened a two-day meeting. They announced the league?s New York team will play its games in the Polo Grounds. From Left to right are, front row: Barron Hilton, of Los Angeles, son of hotel man Conrad Hilton, and Lamar Hunt of Dallas, son of a Texas oil millionaire. Back row: Bud Adams of Houston and Harry Wismer, President of the New York entry. (AP Photo/DAD)





![The San Diego Chargers play the Houston Oilers in the AFL Championship Game on Sunday, December 24, 1961 at Balboa Stadium in San Diego, California.
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The San Diego Chargers play the Houston Oilers in the AFL Championship Game on Sunday, December 24, 1961 at Balboa Stadium in San Diego, California. [FINAL SCORE: HOU 10 - SD 3]






Bud Adams, right, owner of the Houston Oilers, presents Nashville, Tenn. Mayor Phil Bredesen with a personalized Oilers jersey at a ceremony in Nashville on Thursday morning, Nov. 16, 1995. The two appeared together to sign the deal that will move the Oilers to Nashville for the 1998 season. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Tennessee State University President James A. Hefner, left, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and Houston Oilers owner Bud Adams, right, all point in the same direction when an onlooker asked where the Tennesse State campus is from the proposed NFL stadium as they look over a model of the stadium Monday, May 6, 1996. Tagliabue and Adams are visiting the Nashville campus as one of several stops on the day before voters decide whether to spend public money on the 65,000-seat stadium. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Houston Oilers owner Bud Adams shows off a T-shirt with the new logo the team will use this season when it moves to Tennessee. The logo was unveiled in Nashville on Thursday, June 12, 1997. The team will play two years in Memphis while its Nashville stadium is being built. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)


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Tennessee Titans vs. Jacksonville Jaguars at LP Field in Nashville, TN on September 7, 2008

FILE Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams, center, talks with coach Jeff Fisher, left, and general manager Floyd Reese, right, on Aug. 3, 2004, in Nashville, Tenn. The Titans announced Friday, Jan. 5, 2006, that Reese has resigned. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Tennessee Titans vs Houston Texans on October 9, 2005.

Tennessee Titans vs. New York Jets on 09.10.06.

Tennessee Titans vs. Indianapolis Colts in Nashville, TN at LP Field for Monday Night Football on October 27, 2008.

Tennessee Titans vs. New Orleans Saints at LP Field on August 30, 2012. Photos by Donn Jones Photography.


Tennessee Titans vs. Baltimore Ravens at LP Field in Nashville, Tn on September 11, 2011. Photo by Donn Jones Photography.



Tennessee Titans vs. Arizona Cardinals Preseason game at LP Field in Nashville, TN on August 23, 2010.

Tennessee Titans vs. Buffalo Bills in the Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio on August 9, 2009.

Tennessee Titans vs. Dallas Cowboys game at LP Field in Nashville, TN on October 1, 2006.

Titans players tour the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2009 in Canton, Ohio.

Tennessee Titans vs. New York Jets on 09.10.06.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, left, and Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams, right, talk with a solder before the start of an NFL football game between the Tennessee Titans and the Buffalo Bills in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/John Russell)

