It was hard to find a louder football stadium than the Astrodome in the late 1970s. The likes of Earl Campbell and Elvin Bethea had plenty to do with that Luv Ya Blue fervor, but some of the credit belongs to Art Horridge.
Horridge, who spent 25 years as the Houston Oilers' mascot they called Roughneck, died at the age of 86, according to KPRC2's Randy McIlvoy.
Horridge always wore a Columbia blue shirt over his shoulder pads with a shiny chrome hardhat emblazoned with the Oilers' oil derrick logo and he carried a 48-inch rig wrench, which he used to implore the Astrodome crowd to make some noise.