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NASHVILLE -- Titans owner Bud Adams, who helped found the American Football League and whose battles for players helped lead to the merger with the NFL, has died. He was 90. The team announced Monday that Adams had died, saying he "passed away peacefully from natural causes." The son of a prominent oil executive, Adams built his own energy fortune and founded the Houston Oilers. He moved the team to Tennessee in 1997 when he couldnt get the new stadium he wanted in Houston. The franchise, renamed the Titans, in 2000 reached the Super Bowl that Adams had spent more than three decades pursuing. Coach Mike Munchak said Adams was willing to spend money to help his team win, remembering how he ordered the Titans to chase free agent Peyton Manning in March 2012. The Titans also spent more than $100 million this off-season on players, and Munchak said their challenge now will be winning the Super Bowl in his memory -- the one item missing from Adams legacy. "Thatll be our challenge going forward," Munchak said. Funeral plans have yet to be announced. Munchak said the Titans will decide later how to remember their founder. Adams 409 wins were the most of any current NFL owner. He notched his 400th career win in the 2011 season finale when his Titans defeated the team that replaced his Oilers in Houston, the Texans. His franchise made 21 playoff appearances in 53 seasons, eighth among NFL teams since 1960. "I consider Bud one of the founders of the game of professional football because of his role in helping to create the American Football League," Dallas owner Jerry Jones said in a statement. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell called Adams a pioneer and innovator. "As a founding owner of the American Football League that began play in 1960, Bud saw the potential of pro football and brought the game to new cities and new heights of popularity, first in Houston and then in Nashville," Goodell said in a statement. Kenneth Stanley Adams Jr. was born in Bartlesville, Okla., to the future chief executive of Phillips Petroleum Co., K.S. "Boots" Adams. Adams joined Dallas oilman Lamar Hunt on Aug. 3, 1959, when they announced the AFL would begin competing with the NFL at a news conference in Adams office. Adams founded one of the new leagues charter franchises. The NFL retaliated by placing the Cowboys in Dallas and tried to get into Houston, but Adams held the lease to the one available stadium. "I wanted to be the only pro team," Adams said in a 2002 interview with The Associated Press. He won a major battle with the NFL in June 1960, shortly before the AFLs debut, when a judge ruled Louisiana State Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon -- who signed with the Oilers underneath the goalposts after the Sugar Bowl that year -- was their property despite having later signed with the NFLs Los Angeles Rams. "It was a big step for us," Adams said. The Oilers won the first two AFL titles and reached the championship game four times during the 1960s. In 1968, the Oilers became the first indoor football team when they moved into the 3-year-old Astrodome. Meanwhile, Adams quietly became one of the nations wealthiest oilmen as his ADA Oil Co. evolved into the publicly traded Adams Resources & Energy Inc., a Fortune 500 company based in Houston. His business interests included farming and ranching in Texas and California, cattle feeding, real estate and automobile sales. He also was a major collector of western art and Indian artifacts and maintained a private gallery at his corporate headquarters. "He was very passionate about his football team," Rams coach Jeff Fisher said of his former boss on 104.5 The Zone WGFX-FM. Adams convinced Tampa Bay owner Hugh Culverhouse to trade him the rights to Heisman Trophy-winning running back Earl Campbell in 1978. The Campbell-led teams reached two straight AFC title games, only to lose to eventual Super Bowl winner Pittsburgh each time. The Oilers flamed out of the playoffs early in 1980 and Adams fired popular coach Bum Phillips, a move that permanently alienated him from many fans of the teams "Luv Ya Blue" era. Phillips died Friday, also at the age of 90. Adams complained about the Astrodome in 1987 and toured the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville scouting a possible move before getting the 10,000 extra seats he wanted in Houston. The Oilers had their longest run of success in the late 1980s and early 1990s after signing Warren Moon in 1984. They became best known for blowing a record 32-point lead in a playoff game at Buffalo on Jan. 3, 1993 -- Adams 70th birthday. Adams began railing about the aging Astrodome shortly afterward. When he moved his team, Adams continued to live and work in Houston. Renamed the Titans, his franchise reached its lone Super Bowl after the 1999 season only to lose to the Rams 23-16 when Kevin Dyson was tackled at the St. Louis 1-yard line as time expired. The Titans made a second AFC championship game after the 2002 season as part of six playoff berths, the last in 2008. His wife Nancy died in 2009. He is survived by daughters Susie Smith and Amy Strunk, and seven grandchildren. Another son, Kenneth Stanley Adams III, died in 1987 at age 29. Discount Yeezy Store . Louis, MO (SportsNetwork. Clearance Yeezy For Sale .4 seconds left and dribbled up court, weaving through Pitts defence. https://www.yeezychina.us/. It was well worth the wait. Manning and the Denver Broncos waited eight long months, then another 33 minutes to get the season started because of a lightning storm. Cheap Yeezy China . Winning more at home probably should be on the list. The Flames look to avoid a fifth defeat in six home games by winning a sixth straight meeting with the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night. Yeezy China . Jagr had a goal and two assists, Andy Greene scored 43 seconds into overtime and Marek Zidlicky had two goals as the Devils rallied past the Washington Capitals 5-4 Saturday night.Sebastian Vettel has thrown his support behind Maurizio Arrivabene after speculation in Italy suggested the Ferrari team boss could be fired at the end of the season. Italian publication Autosprint claimed Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne could replace Arrivabene as team principal with current technical director James Allison.Speculation at this weekends Spanish GP has also suggested Ferrari could be interested in recruiting Toro Rossos highly-rated technical boss James Key or Mercedes Aldo Costa, who worked for the Scuderia from 1995 to 2011. Arrivabene, a long-time commercial boss at Ferrari sponsor Philip Morris, was hired by Marchionne amid a senior management purge at the end of 2014 and oversaw their return to race-winning form last season.And Vettel has criticised the suggestion the 59-year-olds position could now be under threat.Hes the boss and is doing a very good job, the German said after Friday practice at Barcelona, where Ferrari ran Mercedes close.He is leading the team. Hes accessible for all the people, he spends a lot of time with the team, not just here but also [at Ferraris factory in] Maranello.I know there has been some rumours and some bull**** lately, but were very, very happy that hes with us and not with somebody else. James Allison (r) has been linked with replacing Arrivabene (l) With Ferrari yet to beat Mercedes in 2016, pressure has been growing on F1s most successful team.Marchionne told Sky F1 at last months Chinese GP the clock is on and earlier this week was quoted as saying I expect us to win shortly - starting with Spain.Mercedes are currently on a run of 10 consecutive race wins and the reigning champions will tie McLarens all-time F1 record with an 11th consecutive triumph in Spain. Ferrari have not beaten their rivals since last Septembers Singapore GP and their challenge at the start of this season has been hindered by reliability problems and on-track incidents.Who has the best driver line-up?But encouragingly for Ferraris prospects at Barcelona, the team split the Mercedes in Friday practice - leaving Vettel optimistic they can give Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton mmore of a challenge this weekend.ddddddddddddI dont think its ever too soon to start winning! he said in reference to Marchionnes pre-race remarks. We all know where we want to go, we want to win - thats why were here. Im not here to come second.But equally we know that our opposition at this stage is very strong. But this weekend coming should be a challenge for them. Ferrari have gone eight years without winning either world title and Marchionne has made clear only a championship victory will suffice in 2016.The Italian-Canadians recent comments suggest he is already running out of patience, but Vettel said the Ferrari presidents desire for success should be viewed as a positive, rather than a negative.First of all its great to see that our president cares, the German said. Hes really living with the team, he wants to help us where he can, and of course hes upset or disappointed as much as we are when something happens thats out of your hands and we are not finishing the race at all, or we are not finishing where we could have finished.So I see more the positives, rather than the pressure. Its good to have him behind us. Obviously I and the team speak to him more than the press, so this makes me actually quite confident that bit-by-bit things are going the right way.But, of course, we set out the target to win this year, we havent achieved that yet, so you have a fair point if you want to criticise us. Whatever happened lies behind us, we look ahead.Watch the Spanish GP live on Sky Sports F1. The race starts at 1pm on Sunday, with build-up underway at 11.30am. Or watch the race without a contract for £6.99 on NOW TV. Every race live in 2016 Sky Sports F1 brings you every race live in 2016. Fast and easy online upgrade - click here. Also See: Mercedes pip Ferrari in practice When is the Spanish GP on Sky? ' ' '