The Josh Innes Show - I Made A Mistake On Twitter

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

Yesterday, after seeing that Rice has an Oilers colored alternate uniform, I asked Houston sports fans if the Oilers color alternates were played out. Well, apparently that was the wrong question because I was pelted with personal insults. I know I say this often, but social media has truly revealed how feeble minded so many sports fans are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Well, for my Houston friends, first off, I made a mistake on social media yesterday, and by that I mean I posted something. But on social media yesterday, after seeing a picture of Rice, the Rice University football team, the Owls, wearing like an oilers colored uniform combo, I had this feeling come over me that is, I think that Houston teams wearing oilers colors as an alternate jersey has kind of jumped the shark. Once Rice is involved in it, it just doesn't feel as cool. like you get kind of burned out on it and that's look I live there for 10 fucking years and I know a lot of people who come at me have no idea who I am and that's fair but I'll get people why do we care what some Detroit guy has to say well because I get you don't know who I am I don't expect you to some people there do some people don't but like I live in Detroit I lived in Houston for over a decade I know a little bit about the fucking city I've done more in the city

than you probably have in terms of media shit and I've covered events that you haven't covered so I know a little something about the city So I can speak on those things, probably more than I can speak on things in any other city. Okay? So shut the fuck up. But the thing about people that's interesting, like, no matter what you say on social media, it's like a personal affront to these people. I didn't even offer an opinion. All I did was I saw a dude in like the rice oilers color uniform.

And I asked if people thought it was getting kind of played out. I said, for Houston people, do you think that your local teams wearing oilers colored uniforms is played out? That was it. A legitimate question, not trying to fight with anybody. Maybe they took umbrage with the use of the word played out as if I'm some guy like ripping these teams. I'm not ripping the rockets for having an oilers uniform or the Texans for having their oilers colored uniform. I'm not ripping them for it. I'm a fan of it.

I wish they still had those colors because they're great colors. They don't, but I wish they did. First of all, let me play a couple of commercials here. All right, it's game week, baby, and we are ready for football with Draft King's Sportsbook and official sports betting partner of the National Football League. You know, I love my live bets, but I'll also put in some pregame spread bets over unders, anytime touchdowns, we do it all. And get this, new customers.

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Made just for you at Starbucks. But what ends up happening is people get like irrationally defensive over shit. And it just shows to you how little people know how to actually cope. It goes to the Taylor Swift thing, right? Like her fans are not 14 year old girls anymore. they're 34-year-old girls who cope like 14-year-old girls and live in a fantasy land. They live in a Peter Pan type of world. She lives in a world of arrested development.

It's like her life just stayed. It's like she suffered a severe brain injury, and she is perennially 14, 15 years old, like for the rest of her life. And that's what her fans are like. And sports fans are like that, too. But, like, they get super defensive. It was legitimately just a question. Like, it's always the things that when I put them out, I don't think anything of that get the most reaction

and people get the most pissed off about. I wouldn't have thought that asking, hey, are you kind of thinking that it's jumped the shark that teams are wearing these Oilers uniform? Like, you forget that the Oilers haven't been there in 30 years. And it's been longer than that than anybody gave a shit about the Oilers. Because nobody wants to live in the reality,

but the reality is the last handful of years they were there. They sucked and people didn't go to the games anyway. Now, part of that is they knew that they were probably going to leave. I'm not going to shit on you for losing a football. team. I lived in St. Louis. They lost two football teams. Usually it's not the fault of the fans as to why a team moves. It's because an owner sucks and wants to go somewhere else. It happened in St. Louis. It happened in Houston. So I'm not going to rip the fans for that. But it's been over 30 years. Now, what happens is these people get super defensive. We got an idiot here that, I mean, you're an asshole. You were an asshole when you were here. So you're just being an asshole now. How is asking a fucking question being an asshole? How is asking you, Hey, are you guys, like, if I'm an asshole because I'm asking you a question, that I don't know when I'm not an asshole. It was a legit question.

I just wanted to know if people in Houston are kind of burned out on the love you blue oiler thing. Now, of course, everybody is so poetic about it now, and everybody's like, oh, my God, those are our colors. And my favorite is I keep getting these messages from people that are like, those cities and colors belong to Houston because that's our, that's our colors. No, the light blue color, the Columbia blue color, yes. It's like the Houston flag. I will be 100% honest with you. I live there for a decade, and I never once saw the Houston flag,

and I've never seen the Houston flag wave to some sort of symbol of civic patriot, or civic, you know, civic, you know, passion. I've never seen it. If you would, you could have given me a million tries looking at different flags and gone, hey, is this the flag of Houston? Is this a flag of Houston? I would not have told you. There are some city, most people don't even know what the city's flags look like.

So to say like, oh boy, this is our colors. No, I did a little research on it. So the reason why the Oilers' colors are or were what they were is because, yes, Columbia Blue was kind of the Houston color and it was on the Houston flag cool. The reddish color came because your boy Bud Adams won the uniforms to look more like Kansas uniforms because that's where he went to school, so they put red in the uniform. So the idea that, hey, they stole our uniform and those are our city's colors. Well, one of them is your city's color.

So, like, but to get all fucking worked up over that kind of shit, no want to fight people and get all defensive and take personal shots at people over a fucking question. Like, God damn, dude. I knew you were a troll. How am I trolling? To ask you a question? Like, if you do not have the mental capacity or the emotional maturity to handle somebody asking you a question about uniforms that a team wears, you're just a fucking dip shit. I don't know what to tell you. And this kind of goes to the tribalization of sports, and it goes to the social media impact on sports, how social media has impacted sports in a negative way.

It's allowed us to see all the dipshits and confirm that they are dipshits. As I say at least once a month when we discuss something like this, social media has just revealed the people that have been there all along. but I think it's heightened it and made it worse because it gives them like a little neighborhood. It gives them a cult to be part of. And I think this has had a negative impact on the media that covers the teams as well. The people that cover teams cover the teams like fans more so than media people now. And in some instances, that's fine. Like a radio host can cover the team like a fan because you're not a real journalist.

You're not someone who's – I mean, you're out there hosting a radio show. You're one with the people. Like, that's fine, right? like you'd like to think people are somewhat objective but for the most part they're fans they don't want to piss off social media i'm totally cool with that but whatever but then you see the way people like I like this Chandler Rome who I think is kind of a snarky asshole right like his vibe like he comes off like most baseball writers come off very much smarter than you and snarky on social media baseball particularly print baseball people like somehow live in this world where their sport is still as relevant as it was 50 years ago and they feel as if they're the only people that can provide for you the accurate information about the shitty baseball game you just watched right and I think he carries him kind of like a snarky better than you asshole, like a lot of the baseball writers do. Now, maybe that's just being kind of snarky on social media and it gets lost in translation, but I think a lot of these guys are just kind of dickheads to people on social media, right?

But guys like Chandler Rome cover the team, and I think fans anticipate that they should be some sort of diehard fan of the team as well, and that kind of goes to the tribalization of the whole thing. In their mind, well, you write about the team and you're in Houston, so you should feel the way we feel and then they get pissed when you don't. It's like, grow the fuck up, Peter Pan, count chocula. Like, just grow the fuck up. Like, because of the fact we see these people and we see them every day and we see the way they interact with people, we realize just the level of loser we are dealing with. It is a person that cannot cope.

It is a person that does not have any mechanism inside their body to cope. They are children. To the point that, like, when someone asks, hey, are you guys kind of burned out on this? Like, if they jump the shark, everybody doing it, does it lose its luster? Is it one thing when the Texans put on an oiler's colored throwback uniform or alternate uniform? And it's like, hey, there's our football team again. When you start seeing rice doing it, is it kind of like, maybe it's a little, it's over now. You guys have ruined it.

Like it's kind of a joke, kind of a half question, has it jumped the shark? Oh, but we're super defensive about it because people don't know how to cope. Like, this is going to sound ridiculous, but like, I miss. Missed the days when I had no clue what people thought of shit. I think life was a little bit better that way. I don't need to know what everybody thinks of shit because let's be real. The majority of people, please have your opinions and share them. Most people don't have opinions that are worth acknowledging because most people are either

uneducated or most people are not privy to the accurate information or whatever. People are just stating dipshit opinions and many of them are just parroting shit they hear from other dipshits. So have your opinions. I'm not saying you shouldn't have social media. I'm not saying you shouldn't have your opinions. Have all your opinions. We just shouldn't have to see them all the time. Because most of you just have the opinions of children.

And then you see these people and you're like, wow, they get to vote. Wow, these people have the same rights I do. And you see them and you're like, fuck. We are fucked. Maybe that's the beauty of it. But feel free to message me or whatever. I'm all for blogs having access and podcasts having access. I'm all about the new media world.

I'm down with it. There have been a lot of people that have been able to go from nothing to something because of social media slash podcast slash YouTube. That's awesome. That's cool that people that don't have some sort of official training or didn't have a situation like I did where I knew somebody in it. So I had it in and I worked at it and got better at it and had opportunities. People created their own opportunities, created their own websites,

created their own blogs, created their own podcast, created their own whole world. And that's very cool. But that doesn't mean they're particularly good at it or particularly interesting or someone that you should go to and go, oh, that's someone who I kind of am inspired by. Because most people, especially when you start talking about people who are a niche and cover particular teams, they don't look at things through any sort of unbiased or any sort of equal thing. It's just they view it as like people who are part of a cult that supports a team. That's how you, that's their world.

And anybody who's against their team is an enemy to them. And they cannot look at any argument. If they agree with you, you're brilliant. If they disagree with you, not only do they disagree with you, they think you're a giant piece of shit and will fight you and make personal attacks on you, all in the name of defending their shitty football team. Or in this instance, wanting to shit on me because I. I said, hey, you guys burned out on this uniform combination. It was pretty absurd. Hey, Detroit guy.

What does a Detroit guy know about what's going on in Houston? Stick to your shitty sports. Like, okay. Like, I understand that you don't know who I am and that's fine. But I think before you're going to just, like, lob shit at someone, Google them and see, like, oh, by the way, this guy was in Houston for 10 years. Like, that's what I would do. Because I don't want to be the guy that ends up hurling that insult. Then the guy comes back at me and goes, dude, I've lived in Detroit for 10 minutes.

I lived in Houston for 10 years. I think I have a little bit of an idea. But people are dipsets. What are you going to do? All right, more to come.