1981 Houston Oilers

Another quick & easy belt modification...

Database shows black belts with blue pants and blue belts with white pants - it should be blue/blue and white/white:

Houston @ LA Rams 9/8/81 (white/white)

http://cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/82064316-football-houston-oilers-earl-campbell-in-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=GkZZ8bf5zL1ZiijUmxa7Qb97pYWl8x0GtdzoUoz%2bzWkBoU4mFlKACv%2fNiYfh9NAO66v5tQYng2zCHXTxhqmWYx40Q%2f7ufAyU%2fZryosUbXho%3d

Houston @ Cleveland 9/13/81 (white/white)

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/147855143-quarterback-ken-stabler-of-the-houston-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=GkZZ8bf5zL1ZiijUmxa7QdWrathFVZq4UGhQwuf56hpZxw5oKnTq8%2fv%2bGuTHTk4clFi6TmMHT6%2bZFsyGfNUtvw%3d%3d

Houston @ Jets 9/27/81 (blue/blue)

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/73934760-freeman-mcneil-of-the-new-york-jets-carries-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=GkZZ8bf5zL1ZiijUmxa7QcmelQpJQ9RAC%2fPdCuBgtFgeerFmqLFD8Fuz7qJJYb%2fQihtSXFg%2bX7ignLgJuzq8jyGKTjUjEQnKWZ8OzZZyibc%3d

Houston @ San Francisco (blue/blue)

http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/108909384-earl-cooper-of-the-san-francisco-49ers-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=R4V%2fQay2ANwpmCZhkZDSEth7rS02eW0UmSGj6VxlRU%2bxVe5InAImFtuTtbPhvEhHuqql5HRtPTyXhATLwcvG4w%3d%3d

This appears to be true for other years as well. I will dig deeper when I get some time, but just to highlight, it looks like the black belts went away with the silver pants in 1972. For most years after I think it's white with white and blue with blue.

Good news - no sign of peek-a-boo belts!

Houston @ Atlanta 12/3/72 (blue/blue)


Houston vs St.Louis 10/20/74 (white/white)



Houston @ Cincinnati 11/30/75 (blue/blue)


Houston @ Cleveland 10/1/78 (white/white)


Houston @ New England 11/12/78 (blue/blue)


Houston @ Pittsburgh 9/7/80 (white/white)


Houston @ Cincinnati 9/28/80 (white/white)


Houston @ Oakland 12/28/80 (white/white)


Houston @ Tampa Bay 11/27/83 (blue/blue)


Houston @ Kansas City 9/21/86 (white/white)


Houston @ Cleveland 11/18/90 (white/white)


Houston @ LA Raiders 10/30/94 (white/white)


Tennessee Oilers @ Cincinnati 9/6/98 (white/white)

Nuts.

Looks like the pattern continued into the Titans (1999)

Yeah, it did (2003)