Titans Will Wear Oilers Uniforms in HoF Game

[HPF Bob]

Originally Posted by Dave

VERTICALLY striped socks?! My understanding is that, among the players, those atrocities rank right up there with the NHL's California Golden Seals white skates for pure seething hatred. I heard that they all got together and burned the socks when they changed uniforms. Awful.

That's a bit overstated. The Broncos switched head coaches for 1962 and the new coach decided he needed to jettison the Broncos' colors as well as their attitude so he had the old unis burned during training camp as a motivational ploy. True, the socks were not popular but the burning wasn't just for the socks - it was for the whole ugly-assed ensemble which had been purchased on the cheap from a defunct college bowl game (The Copper Bowl in Tucson, AZ).