What Is Your Favorite Pre-Texans Football Memory?

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

What a crazy season for me as a freshman in college

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…

• Bud Adams!

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’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.

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.

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).

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.

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