(1) If they play Edmonton Oilers hockey they won't have a chance.
(2) Speaking to GQ magazine, the former Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon said: "One thing I read that was peculiar to me – [Seau] had never been diagnosed with a concussion.
(3) Victim to an era it almost single-handedly created, in which teams and fans leave behind old stadiums for flashy new ones, the Astrodome has been idle since 2008 – the Astros moved into a newer stadium downtown in 2000, and the Oilers American football team played there from 1968 before leaving Houston for a newer stadium in Tennessee in 1996.
(4) This game will mean a lot to Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, who held the same position with the Titans (or the Oilers, as they were known when he first arrived) for more than 16 years.
(5) He has made a huge, unthinkable amount of money, and made himself indispensable, too, as an orchestrator, an oiler of the wheels.
(6) Only once before had a team erased a bigger deficit to win a playoff game: the Buffalo Bills beat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in 1993.
Toiler
Definition:
(n.) One who toils, or labors painfully.
Example Sentences:
(1) September 12, 2013 Both the Conservatives and Labour are targetting the nation's toilers and strivers.
(2) He would face a predictable volley of criticism from Conservative-leaning papers who didn't like the idea of a former Blair toiler – or "labour crony" in Mail speak – at No 10 ruling the corporation they love to hate.
(3) This seemed to be a bid to reclaim the curtain vote from the chancellor, who routinely claims that low-paid dawn toilers resent neighbours whose curtails remain closed until the pub opens for them to spend their dole on champagne and oysters.
(4) Yet Ed's most exotic passage came when he praised Britain's "forgotten wealth-creators" This was not a reference to Brunel or Michael Faraday – giants of Lord Derby's prime – but to low-paid toilers who go out to work early "before George Osborne's curtains are open and come back late at night when he has closed them again".
(5) Samantha Cameron is not a humble backroom toiler at Smythson: she has acted as a public face for the firm, which we now discover is ultimately controlled by a trust based in the notorious tax haven of Guernsey.
(6) • A diary date meanwhile: 11 October, when former toilers on the Aberdeen Press and Journal and Aberdeen Evening Express meet to remember the 1989 strike for pay and conditions.