What Is Your Favorite Pre-Texans Football Memory?
BFD's allusion to Roberston v. Pastorini in this FanPost got me thinking. Many Houston fans simply stopped following NFL football after Beezlebud announced he was moving the Oilers to Nashville in 1995, choosing to remember the good times with the Oilers rather than supporting any other professional team or players. Other fans continued to watch pro football, but opted to follow other teams or players (Barry Sanders and the Lions, for me) before the Texans arrived.
Regardless of how you handled the City of Houston being without a professional football team, you likely have a fond recollection or 34 of NFL football that pre-dates the Houston Texans. Tell us some of your favorite pre-Texans football memories in the Comments below.
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I didn't watch much football before the Texans came into existance
but my most vivid football memory by far from before they came into existance is the last drive of the Rams Titans super bowl. What a hell of a finish to the game.
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for an hour. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Caught that one live.
Probably my most memorable as well. I had no stake in that game though… I was sitting there in a red Arizona Cardinals’ Jake Plummer jersey, surrounded by blue, purple, and gold, sticking out like a sore thumb.
There are many 49ers moments I can point to throughout the 80s, but I'll keep it more recentish.....
but to me, it had to be Super Bowl XXIX…I don’t think I was ever more excited as a fan than to see Jerry Rice catch a deep bomb and sprint into the end zone with his arms outstretched.
T.O.‘s “The Catch II” was another pretty exciting moment. I don’t know how he held onto the ball to this day.
Even though I am not a Chiefs fan, I still loved the 94 playoffs…it was great to see Joe Montana get some last shining moments in the playoffs.
I’m sure I’ll think of more…
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Prime Time!
I ended up seeing Deion Sanders play for the Falcons against the Oilers in the Astrodome. The whole carnival that surounded him and his style of play lead me to follow him to his 49ers, Cowboys, Redskins and Ravens days.
His socks, wearing gold bracelets under his gloves w/o strapping them up, his lack of tackling, dancing in the endzone and having his own music cd were all things that made him a groundbreaker for NFL players today.Deion made the game fun and exciting. You never knew if Deion would take it to the house when he touched the ball but he got the fans on the edge of their seat.
He always was the lockdown corner wherever he went, except in the the twighlight of his career in Baltimore. I did what I could to see him play on TV, he was football for me when the Oilers left.
by Patrick D. Starr on Feb 3, 2011 12:09 PM CST reply actions
Deion
He got big as I was in college, and I stole EVERYTHING I possibly could from him. I already had a rep for talking non-stop trash playing sports, but it got that much worse from watching him. My favorite was his “shark” move (I think that’s what he called it), when he’d put his hand behind his head when going in for scores. Often being the shortest guy on the field – with my badass mullet – probably made it that much funnier.
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Probably
Warren Moon throwing to Jeffries, Slaughter, Duncan and Givens. Also the entire O-line beasting out and the defense actually being “respectable”.
Joe Montana in a Chiefs uniform was the fucking worst.
I got serious man love for Warren Moon
I’ve taken a lot of shit in the past for claiming he’s one of the best pure passers to ever play. He doesn’t get his due because he never played for an NFL title, but he was an incredibly polished passer. No one in the game at that time threw a better deep ball than Moon.
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I think we Houstonians underrated Moon when he was playing.
Which is criminal, really.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Feb 4, 2011 1:24 AM CST up reply actions
I took a trip down memory lane...
the other day and youtubed the oiler games that I attended. The first of which was a MNF against the Bears, the play that stands out, and I found on youtube was Bubba Mcdowell’s pick 6 of Peter Tom Willis, man that’s a name I wish I had thought of the other day when we were discussing who we wanted instead of Schaub. I saw the play live just as it’s seen on youtube, happened right in front of us. This is probably my fav moment, that I witnessed.
Youtube, Jacksonville’s first ever win, and it was against the Oilers, I was also at that game. I swear it looks just like the Texans in oiler uniforms.
But my fondest Oiler memories, are watching Ernest Givens, and the Electric Slide, Ray Childress driving Christian Okoye to the turf flat on his back, and when they played “Bad Moon Rising” when Moon was getting hot.
I also walked up on Gary Wellman, Pat Carter, and Bucky Richardson at Dave and Busters and had a drink with them and laughed as Gary Wellman was stumbling drunk.
GO TEXANS!!!!
Our time will come...
Yeesh!
Why not add some navy blue to it and silver pants to complete this nightmare?!
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by UprootedTexan on Feb 3, 2011 1:59 PM CST up reply actions
I really should ban him.
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The *other* Big D
My parents lived in Denver for a few years before I was hatched and they would cheer for the Broncos as long as their wins didn’t affect the Oilers. So in that down time between teams I finally got to root for a winner. It was fun watching Elway get a trophy.
Before then, my fondest memory might be Bucky throwing left handed as he was jumping out of bounds in what I believe was a preseason game for the Oilers. That was probably his only decent play, but I remember it anyways. Sadly my dad always emphasized Moon’s bad play more than the good so I don’t have as many good memories from the Oilers as I should. I was also too young to remember seeing Earl dominate (although the youtube clips are unbelievable).
BUCKY!!! BUCKY!!! BUCKY!!!
I remember yelling for Bucky Richardson b/c Cody Carlson would screw up so bad.
by BruiserTexans on Feb 3, 2011 1:23 PM CST up reply actions
MIne would have to be a bit different to most
I caught the Broncos superbowl win against the packers, but I don’t really remember a whole lot about the game.
So the best pre-Texan memory would have to be Cris Carter on NFL.com circa 2001. He did a video of how to catch the ball. “Point and fat” was used to describe the ball as it comes at him. It was a damn good display of his football skills.
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by distant_texans_fan on Feb 3, 2011 1:05 PM CST reply actions
Oiler fan until they moved....
Some of my fondest memories, and heartbreak, about football came from the Oilers. Growing up in Spring, it was southbound trip to the Astrodome and I got the priviledge to watch Haywood Jeffries, Drew Hill, Ernest Givins , and Warran Moon running the Run-N-Shoot offense. Now that was special. Jeffries toe-tapping in the back of the end zone was the epitomy, before AJ and Randy Moss, of a corner of the end zone jump ball.
Easily the best has to be the Rams-Traitors Super Bowl.
Not only was it the most entertaining Super Bowl I’ve seen to date but I will always remember the crunchy video goodness that came with seeing the Traitors coming up one yard short of forcing overtime.
I always imagine Traitor fans wailing in their double-wide trailers and meth labs at the defeat they suffered; thinking “You wanted a football team? Guess what? THAT’S the kind of team you got, a heartbreaking team.”
I wish them all the worst and hope that someday whatever the hell that thing is on Beelzebud’s head wakes up and decides to eat him alive.
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Oilers
I started going to games in ’74, so I grew up with that era of greats: Curley Culp, Gregg Bingham, Zeke Moore, Tim Wilson, Rob Carpenter, Mike Reinfeldt, Carl Mauck, etc. But my favorites were Elvin Bethea, Robert Brazile, Billy “White Shoes” Johnson, and, of course, Earl. An uncle went to HS with Mike Barber, so we had him over a couple of times.
The run and shoot crew was fun, but my fave from that era was Hugene Seale.
Yes, I very clearly have a thing for defensive linemen and linebackers.
Before I end this post, that Robert Brazile is not in the HOF is a crime against humanity. Thank you.
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by bigfatdrunk on Feb 3, 2011 2:04 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
I was always a huge Steelers fan back in the day
But, Robert Brazile was a huge player from that day and it is a shame he is not in the HOF. He was LT before there was Lawrence Taylor. He terrorized opposing teams! What can we all do about getting him in? What are the possible options?
I didn't do anything wrong!.... and, I won't do it again.
Yes Brazile should be in HOF
I have a lot of favorite times, Earl and Whiteshoes. I even liked it when we got washed up Stabler throwing slow wobbly passes to Casper.
Run & Shoot was a lot of fun to watch and Pardee had a good team.
I am totally optimistic about the Texans new season - at least until the first of the 4 or 2 (if any) preseason games
by Barryfromtexas on Feb 3, 2011 5:27 PM CST up reply actions
Here's your ballot
http://www.petitiononline.com/HOF/petition.html
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yeah that 74 team.
my first game was in 73. they lost to cincy 27-10 and it wasn’t even close. they finished 1-13 that season and the next i think. tommy kramer was at rice and the owls couldve beat the oilers back then. my folks caught that miami-vikings superbowl at rice stadium. You couldnt help but love the team that they turned into under Bum.
by Ezekiel 25 17 on Feb 3, 2011 7:40 PM CST up reply actions
Eugene Motherfucking Seale
Described by one commentator as a “special teams demon.” Loved that guy.
I also remember Keith Bostic introducing Bubby Brister to the NFL on his first play behind center.
Awesomeness.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Feb 4, 2011 1:27 AM CST up reply actions
2001 Season
Football was still foreign to me.
I rooted for the Broncos and Brian Griese was doing his best to change my mind.
First superbowl that I watched was in that same season. Made $50 bucks better on the underdog lol
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Does anyone remember the WFL's Houston Texans?
I think they were green and gold. The league last one or two years I think, I was but a wee one, but I read about it.
GO TEXANS!!!!
Our time will come...
The 1974 Houston Texans
uni’s looked identical to the Shreveport Steamers:
http://www.oursportscentral.com/uniforms/wflunis.html
Some fun facts about the league:
http://wfl.charlottehornetswfl.com/pages_wfl/fast_facts.php
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Heh heh
He said “steamer.”
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by tehGrindCrusher on Feb 4, 2011 1:27 AM CST up reply actions
When I see the word "steamers"
I think of a steamed clam, which isn’t very menacing. But, I’m guessing in this case they are talking steamboats….
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WFL Texans moved to Shereveport; it's the same club
Lots of yellow in many of the old WFL unis. Tackiness was abundant, throughout that league.
Pre-Texans...I suppose we're talking about here in Houston, so I won't bore you with any stories from other places
Let’s see. I showed up in 2001 when Reliant Stadium was in construction. I knew the contractor building it, so I went down for a personal tour. The four main structural columns were poured and if my memory serves me, they were in progress with installing the retractable roof structure. Because the project was still in progress, you could see things that would go unseen today because it’s all covered up now. It was a real nice project and you could see that when it was finished it would be a marvel. Of note, the same local general contractor that was involved in building Reliant also built the new Cowturds stadium.
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Definitely the Rams stopping the Titans 1 yard short
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Super Bowl XXIX
I was in second grade, too young to really understand what was going on, and I didn’t really care about football at that age. But what is very noteworthy is that I watched that travesty of a game with my dad, a huge Chargers fan, and he inadvertently taught me most of the profanities I know and love today. Ah, childhood.
Man, I got so many of 'em!
I was born in 72, so I grew up watching the greats…..Staubach, Montana, Bradshaw, Elway, Marino, you name it. I remember the Hogs, Steel Curtain, Doomsday Defense, Orange Crush, and House of Pain. I watched Dorsett’s 99 yarder, Earl get his jersey ripped off, Bo break his hip, Sanders break ankles, and Emmitt break all the records. Do Saints fan remember wearing paper sacks on their heads? I do.
I’ve got an NFL Films highlight reel in my brain and I love it!
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2000 bcs national champions
What a crazy season for me as a freshman in college
by AllenOU on Feb 3, 2011 5:46 PM CST via mobile reply actions
that Brazile HOF petition is now up to four signatures...
My favorite moment would have to be SB XXXII. Real surprise, there, I’m sure.
Reggie White and Gilbert Brown looking as though they were going to faint by the 4th Quarter. Holmgren telling the media later, that the Pack “let” Denver score the eventual game-winning TD. Ahhh those Favre-led Packers and their “near-dynasty”…
My second favorite moment would have to be the single greatest play that I’ve ever seen. ‘98 regular season, Peightoon’s rookie year. The Colts jumped out to an early 21-0 lead at Candlestick, in a game the Niners would eventually win…
I don’t remember if this was a play that resulted in one of his two rushing TDs that day… but Steve Young had a long scramble, in which he broke something like 13 tackles by nine different Colts’ defenders. It was amazingly beautiful. I hate that it’s never shown anywhere. Won’t find it on youtube, either. I always look.
I would absolutely love to see more of this play… I could watch it over, and over, and over, again. You would, too…
favorite pre-Texan memories
Oilers beating Dallas 30-24 on thanksgiving day in 78 or 79. Earl putting 199 yards and 3 tds on Miami on Monday night. Bum’s defense. Vernon Perry’s 4 picks off Fouts to put Houston in the afc championship. Renfro getting his 2nd foot down (even though he didn’t get credit) in the next afc championship. The insanity of coach Glanvilles Oilers’ Dishman and Johnson running into the Bengals huddle and taking 15. Moon putting 527 yards up on the chiefs. That 11 game win streak in 93. The city telling Adams to go **** himself after repeated threats to move the OIlers. All-time favorite…..32nd NFL franchise awarded to Robert McNair.
by Ezekiel 25 17 on Feb 3, 2011 7:09 PM CST reply actions 4 recs
Newb rec
Welcome, Ezekiel! I was at that MNF game when Earl blew up. In fact, my seats were at the goal line to his right side, and you could see that hole opening up after the first missed tackle in the backfield. Referencing your name, it was rather Red Sea-esque.
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oops party foul
Yeah, what a game that was. I still have my Luv Ya Blue placard in box somewhere. That game put the Oilers in the national spotlight.
by Ezekiel 25 17 on Feb 3, 2011 7:35 PM CST up reply actions
That was Nov 22 1979
I remember it well
I am totally optimistic about the Texans new season - at least until the first of the 4 or 2 (if any) preseason games
by Barryfromtexas on Feb 3, 2011 10:51 PM CST up reply actions
That was the game
Houston was a bunch of perennial losers, Dallas had won 2 SBs in the 70’s. I lived in San Antonio and the entire city was pissed afterward….what a great memory.
by Ezekiel 25 17 on Feb 4, 2011 9:32 AM CST up reply actions
and then there was
pastorini with busted ribs and a flak jacket beating miami 17-9 in the wild card game. stabler throwing 6 passes for 6 yards and Oilers still winning. The recoil of any defensive body that Earl crashed into. Houston beating Pittsburgh 6-0 on Monday night and something like 12 players were stretchered off the field. Pastorini’s shovel pass to Tim Wilson on a fake field goal to beat the pats after being down by 16 at halftime. Glanville’s disrespectful comments toward Sam Wyche. Any play where Ray Childress lined up. Lorenzo White in muddy weather. Alonzo Highsmith knocking the snot out of blitzing dbs.
I vaguely remember that MNF game.
I also remember that EVERY Oilers – Steelers game started being called “The Black and Blue Bowl”. Cause EVERYONE was going to be black and blue the next week.
Just my $.02
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thanks.
I’m a big fan of the edgier prophets, in addition to Tarantino quotes.
Yeah, what a game that was. I still have my Luv Ya Blue placard in box somewhere. That game put the Oilers in the national spotlight.
How about the good ol Houston Gamblers!
by wbishop6019 on Feb 3, 2011 9:04 PM CST reply actions 3 recs
Newb rec #3 today
Welcome!
I gotta admit: even though I was only 14 when the Gamblers came around, I steadfastly refused to watch them…because I felt like I was cheating on the Oilers.
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Thanks for the welcome!
I initially felt the same way but Jim Kelly won me over. When the USFL folded and Kelly’s pleas to remain in houston fell on deaf ears my 14 year old mind blamed it all on Bud Adams and I hated him like only a scorned teenager can!
I moved to Houston
in 1983, and was, at the time a Redskins fan, so I had a hard time adopting the Oilers.
The Gamblers, however, were a club I could get behind. I went to a few of the games, and I considered myself a fan for the whole of their existence.
I still think we shoulda taken up that franchise name for the Texans.
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I think the NFL is saving that one for the eventual Las Vegas franchise
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by The Night Owl on Feb 4, 2011 1:53 AM CST up reply actions
Here's a game
between some familiar names:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv-eiIEXMMw&NR=1
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Kelly vs. Steve Young
I remember that game. Houston came from 20 or 21 down in the 4th. Kelly threw for 575 yards.
by Ezekiel 25 17 on Feb 4, 2011 9:36 AM CST up reply actions
my dad was a Skins fan
so I grew up a fan, natch.
I cried when they lost, and I was in my pjs jumping up and down after this run by the great John Riggins.
the tenth time is a charm
i know personally that are lots and lots of titans fans in houston, and in texas still. dont lie you all prolly watched the titans, and you heart was racing as they almost won the game. now that they didnt win you all talkshit. most of you like the titans as well and the texans. i was born in 87. oilers fan 87-98, titans 99-death. and ive never lived in houston or tennessee. a nice mexican guy told me at the titans texans game in nashville, that theyre are thousands and thousands of titan fans still down there. have a good day folks. wish the titans were still the oiler(soemthing we can agree on).
~~~NeVeR FoRgEt ThE OiLeRs~~~
most of you like the titans as well and the texans
I’m not the voice of the community nor was my heart ever invested in the Oilers (was never a fan, often rooted against them), but I feel confident in stating that no one here likes the Titans as well as the Texans.
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by TexansDC on Feb 4, 2011 8:59 AM CST up reply actions 5 recs
Truth
Fuck the Titans
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by Hydroshock on Feb 4, 2011 11:01 AM CST up reply actions 3 recs
What's the punishment for high treason around these parts?
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by UprootedTexan on Feb 4, 2011 1:53 PM CST up reply actions
BFD makes you motorboat him
/shutters & cringes at the thought of that cruel & unusual punishment
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by The Night Owl on Feb 5, 2011 6:07 PM CST up reply actions
most of you would like to see the titans’ entire organization be destroyed by a nuclear bomb.
Fixed.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Feb 4, 2011 9:35 AM CST up reply actions 7 recs
No, there aren't, actually
The vast, vast majority of people I know despise Bud Adams and want the team to disappear. Also, I didn’t know anybody who was rooting for the Traitors in 99. You can use your specious logic all you want – your user name tells me everything I need to know – but making this claim is beyond silly. Now that VY is gone, there will be even fewer traitors fans.
But, I’m sure the nice Mexican (it’s capitalized, it’s a country) guy has encyclopedic knowledge of Houston fans’ rooting interests. Heck, I once met a guy who claimed the world was going to end next week. That was back in ’88. Awesome sources kick ass!
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by bigfatdrunk on Feb 4, 2011 9:43 AM CST up reply actions 7 recs
Obvious...
oilers fan 87-98, titans 99-death
and ive never lived in houston…
Well forgive me if I fully expected that 2nd statement. Because no self-respecting individual from Houston or the surrounding area continued to root for anything associated with Bud Adams after what he pulled. (unless by “associated”, we’re talking about his limo going off a cliff)
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by Shake on Feb 4, 2011 12:44 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
I know personal attacks are forbidden here
But you are trying my patience here. Don’t you dare assume who I like and don’t like. My hatred for the Traitors is pure and simple, and no true Texans fan would be caught dead following, much less rooting for, the Traitors (because they ARE Traitors) and I don’t need to see posts saying that most of us pull for both; because it’s simply not true.
Such a thing borders on incest (a Tennessee specialty, I understand).
Oh, and you PERSONALLY know there are lots of Traitor fans or you heard it from someone? Which is it? You can’t have it both ways. By the way, thousands, in a city of 5.5 million does not constitute “lots and lots.” But thank you for playing.
And screw the Oilers/Traitors. I need them back here like I need cancer of the scrotum.
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by UprootedTexan on Feb 4, 2011 2:06 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
I'll give him that
In Texas, there are a significant number of Titans fans…but will they still be when VY is traded/cut? That’s the question.
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Watching the Titans-Texans game at the bowling alley, I was amazed at how many were pulling for the Titans solely because of VY!
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I respect your love for the Oilers, because I'm a native Houstonian and I loved the Oilers too
But you are SOOOOOO far off on the Titans thing bro. Now, there are “thousands and thousands” of Vince Young fans down here (hopefully they’ll go into hiding now), but the Titans are probably the single most hated team in Houston.
I suspect the “nice mexican guy” had either drank too much tequila, or he was only saying that to keep from getting lynched on the way out of the parking lot.
I'm a man!! I'm forty!!
You were born rooting for the Oilers?
RLY?
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by Jordann on Feb 4, 2011 11:14 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
January 3, 1988
Houston Oilers vs Seattle Seahawks. Our first game back in the playoffs after the Bum Phillips years. Tony Zendejas with the winning field goal in OT.
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Since you didn't specify NFL...
Then my favorite pre-Texans football memory has to be sitting in my Moore-Hill dorm room, drinking cheap beer and watching as Roll Left transpired:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6×3DmBfQrIE
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by Shake on Feb 4, 2011 12:47 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
In Longmont, CO
Knew the owners of a bar, and I forced them to open at 10am so I could watch the game.
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