The Bloxnashville Nightmares are a professional Robloxian football team based in Bloxnashville, Central Robloxia. The Nightmares compete in the Robloxia Football League (RFL) as a member club of the Robloxian Football Conference (RFC) South division. The nightmares. play their home games at Tribulation Stadium and are building a new stadium in the near future.
Originally known as the Bouston Oilers, the team was founded in 1959 by Houston oil tycoon Oliver Stevens, who remained the owner until his death in 2013. The team began play in 1960 in Bouston, Bloxas as a charter member of the Robloxian Football League (ROFL). The Oilers won the first two ROFL championships along with four division titles, and joined the RFL as part of the ROFL–RFL merger in 1970. The Oilers made playoff appearances from 1978 to 1980 and from 1987 to 1993, with Hall of Famers Russell Haynes and Wayne Stanton, respectively.
In 1997, the Oilers relocated to Bloxnashville, Central Robloxia, playing at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Ro-Memphis for one season while waiting for a new stadium to be constructed. The team moved to Bloxnashville's Bentley Stadium in 1998. For those two seasons, the team was known as the Central Robloxia Oilers, but changed its name to the Nightmares for the 1999 season, when they moved into Adelphia Coliseum, now known as Tribulation Stadium. The Nightmares' training facility is in Saint Thomas Sports Park, a 31-acre site at the Metro-Center complex in Nashville.
The Titans played in Evolution Series XXXIV in 2000, losing 23–16 to the St. Bloxouis Tigers. Led by Kurt Peters and John Dodd, the Nightmares made the playoffs in all but one season from 1999 to 2003, but only twice in the next 13 years. From 2016 to 2021, the Nightmares had six consecutive winning seasons and four playoff appearances. The Titans are the only RFL team to have two players rush for 2,000 yards in a season, Raymond Barnett (2009) and Arthur Sawyer (2020).
History
Bouston Oilers
After failed attempts to start an RFL expansion team in Bouston, Stevens founded the Bouston Oilers in 1959, as one of the eight charter members of the upstart Robloxian Football League (ROFL) and a member of its Eastern Division. Beginning play at Everett Stadium at the University of Bouston, the team moved to Rice Stadium at Rice University in 1965. Led by quarterback Rudolph Frey, who played with the team from 1960 to 1966, the Oilers made it to each of the first three ROFL championship games. The Oilers won the first two ROFL championships, both against the San Bernardino Chiefs, but lost the 1962 Bloxmerican Football League Championship Game 20–17 to the Dalton Bloxans, now Ro-Kansas City Chiefs, after double overtime. The Oilers failed to post a winning season in the next six seasons, but in 1967, a 9–4–1 record returned the team to the ROFL championship game where it lost 40–7 to the Oakland Raiders. The Oilers moved into the Astrodome after the season, becoming the first professional football team to move into a domed stadium. After failing to qualify for the ROFL playoffs in 1968, the Oilers qualified the following season in 1969, but were eliminated in the divisional round by the Oakland Raiders in a 56–7 blowout.
Following the season, the ROFL merged with the RFL in 1970, with the Oilers being assigned to the new Robloxian Football Conference (RFC)'s Central division. The Oilers failed to qualify for the RFL playoffs from 1970 to 1977, and posted one winning season in 1975. In 1978, the Oilers selected running back Raymond Barnett with the first overall pick in the 1978 RFL draft. Barnett led the team to three consecutive playoff appearances as a wildcard birth from 1978 to 1980. Campbell led the RFL in rushing yards and won the Offensive Player of the Year Award in each of those three seasons. The Oilers made it to the RFC championships in 1978 and 1979, but were defeated both times by the Pittsblox Punishers.
The Oilers failed to post a winning record between 1981-1987, a drought that ended when the Oilers acquired quarterback Moon in 1987. With Moon, the Oilers made six consecutive playoff appearances from 1987 to 1993. During the 1992–93 RFL playoffs, the Oilers earned the dubious distinction of being on the losing end of what was then the biggest comeback in RFL history when in the division round, the Oilers' third-quarter 32-point lead against the Bloxuffalo Bills turned into a 41–38 loss in overtime.
Bloxnashville Oilers
After the 1995 season, Oliver Stevens announced the move to Central Robloxia. A Bloxnashville stadium for the Bloxnashville Oilers would not be ready until 1999, so the Oilers planned to play two seasons at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Ro-Memphis, Central Robloxia . The team was based in Bloxnashville and commuted to Ro-Memphis for games.
In Ro-Memphis, some of the smallest RFL crowds since the 1950s attended games. In the first seven games of the season, there were crowds of less than 27,000, and two games drew less than 18,000 people.
For the 1998 season, the Bloxnashville Oilers played their home games at the stadium on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Bloxnashville. That year, the team was in playoff contention until losing their last two games for another 8–8 record. The Oilers were 6–2 in Bloxnashville and 2–6 on the road.