While I enjoy the entire trilogy, I have seen Back To The Future roughly 5,481 more times than I've seen either BTTF II or BTTF III. I figure most people --- aside from my odd buddy, Jeff, who likes II the best of the whole series --- are in a similar boat. So, while I've seen the first movie so many times that I can tell you off the top of my head the names of the streets around the courthouse¹ and the major businesses on each², I can do so only in the context of the BTTF I timeline.³

I realized this fact last Friday, and I decided to attempt to rectify the discrepancy, starting with the second film. Going through it more closely, I noticed a number of things that bothered me, including one that was football related:

When Biff from 2015 is giving the Grays Sports Almanac to 1955 Biff, the older version proves that the almanac can't lose by tuning the car radio to a broadcast of a UCLA-Washington football game. Over the radio, we hear that there are 18 seconds left in the game, that it is fourth down, and that the Bruins trail by 1, 17-16. 2015 Biff predicts that the Bruins will win 19-17, which 1955 Biff scoffs at, quoting the radio announcer who said that it looked like it was "all over for UCLA." UCLA launches a 33-yard FG and wins by the predicted score. 1955 Biff is amazed that the old man got the score right.

Immediately, three things jumped out at me:

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We're going to be talking about this for at least the next several weeks, if not longer. Might as well check the pulse of the Texans fan base before the offseason begins in earnest.

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As everyone begins to look forward to the draft, we're going to take one last look back on the Kubiak Konundrum, at the year that was. Undoubtedly, some fans will never will embrace Kubes no matter what he does. I even heard some talk show callers saying before the Ravens game that Kubiak needed to go even if the Texans won the Super Bowl. Such calls make you know their true fandom lies in their own "genius" and not the well being of the Texans as a franchise.

However, here we have had a refreshing group of commenters, who have been willing to take an honest look at evaluating the coaching decisions. Sure, that whole newfangled winning thing makes the discourse a lot more pleasant. We didn't have to pull out our hair over halfback passes. The ongoing Kubiak-is-challenged-on-challenges joke reared its unseemly head a few times early in the season, but a winning streak then challenged that prevailing notion. Whether to kick field goals of a certain lengths proved troublesome, but that issue was as much on the unreliable kicking as the coach.

Mainly, I want to reiterate two points I made late in the season about what I have taken from the Kubiak Konundrum experiment.

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With only the Super Bowl left to play, the interminable drudgery of the offseason is nearly upon us. While we're sure to talk free agency, 2012 NFL Draft, and the Texans' roster ad infinitum over the next few months, there could well be a great idea for a post (or even several posts) that has crossed your mind, despite never even entering the vacuous airspace betwixt the collective ears of the BRB "staff."

Thus, I have a question for you. After the jump, naturally.

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One of the key offseason contract negotiations to take place for the Houston Texans over the coming weeks will be with Pro Bowl center Chris Myers. From a player standpoint, and this is by no means disrespectful to Myers, his deal probably rates third in importance to the franchise, behind quarterback destroyer Mario Williams and defensive shredder Arian Foster.

There seems to be some concern by fans that the Texans can’t sign all three, forgetting that Mario’s 2011 cap hit was excessively high and you could get a deal where he’s not making the per-year amount as last year. I digress and come back to Mr. Myers...after the jump.

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