Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry will play with an oil-derrick logo on his helmet during the 2023 season when the NFL team turns back the clock to another era in the franchise’s history with its throwback uniforms.

The Titans unveiled the uniforms on Sunday night, which reflect the Luv Ya Blue years of the Houston Oilers.

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Henry, a former Alabama All-American and current Tennessee Pro Bowler, was one of the contemporary players who modeled the throwback uniforms. The Titans plan to wear the uniforms in two home games during the 2023 NFL season, but the team has not identified which two games.

The uniforms will have one modern addition: “Luv Ya Blue” will appear on the back neckline of the jerseys.

“It allows us to honor as many players as we can, because it covers so much time,” said Surf Melendez, the vice president and executive creative director for the Titans, on the team’s website. “It also represented our transition to Tennessee, because we wore these uniforms in Tennessee as well. …

“This was an original AFL team, so there’s a rich tradition there, and now people are going to see this, and they are going to be reminded of this rich history.”

The current Tennessee franchise started as the Houston Oilers in the American Football League in 1960. The Luv Ya Blue uniforms were worn by the team from 1975 through 1998.

The final two of those seasons were played as the Tennessee Oilers – in Memphis in 1997 and in Nashville in 1998 – before the franchise changed its nickname to the Titans, a switch that came with a new look for the uniform.

Former Vigor High School standout Robert Brazile played his entire NFL career in the Luv Ya Blue uniforms, breaking in as the sixth selection in the 1975 draft and starting all 147 of his games over the next 10 seasons with Houston on his way to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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The Titans said Brazile was among the former players who had been given a look at the uniforms before their public unveiling.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.