Houston sports fans embrace their teams, but it could be argued that no group of players had a more passionate love affair with the city than the Luv Ya Blue Houston Oilers of the late 1970s. A ...

"He believed it was okay for a coach to love his players." In doing so, he changed leadership in professional sports and left a legacy that continues to resonate with NFL generations even today. Blue ...

When every football coach in America was striving to be the biggest, baddest drill sergeant they could be, one man stood out for his family-first philosophy and kind nature. That was legendary Oilers ...

Legendary football coach Bum Phillips is getting the Hollywood treatment, and a documentary based on his life and career will hit theaters this week. USA TODAY Sports is exclusively releasing the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Harbor Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to SXSW prize winner Luv Ya Bum! The documentary feature, produced by Lucky Number 8, celebrates an indelible figure in NFL ...

The documentary “Luv Ya, Bum!” tells the story of how coach Bum Phillips used a family-first approach to make the Oilers a winner — and became beloved in Houston. As Houston was booming in the 1970s, ...

People, usually men, often oversimplify Niccolò Machiavelli when they say that for a leader, “it is better to be feared than loved.” Bum Phillips, the head coach of the Houston Oilers from 1975 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vance Howard is a local businessman with many talents, including the title of executive producer of films. His latest piece of ...

The Houston Oilers lost the AFC Championship in Pittsburgh on Jan. 6, 1980, the second straight year in which the Oilers -- led by head coach Bum Phillips-- fell one game short of the franchise's ...

HOUSTON — Bum Phillips, the folksy Texas football icon who coached the Houston Oilers during their Luv Ya Blue heyday and later led the New Orleans Saints, died Friday. He was 90. “Bum is gone to ...

Bum Phillips became a fashion icon. During the Luv Ya Blue era, Richard Wolf, president of Gary's Hats 'N' Boots in Houston, Bum's hat supplier since 1946, said his store sold more cowboy hats than ...

Check out this trailer for the interestingly-titled Luv Ya Bum!, which is a new documentary about the legendary 1970s NFL coach Bum Phillips, which will debut in cinemas stateside starting on 24th ...