Five Reasons Why the Texans Will Win Their First Super Bowl on Indy's Home Field

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Written in future-past tense, if there is such a thing, this is how it will feel for one Texan fan.

Super Bowl XLVI will be held February 5, 2012 at the home field of the Indianapolis Colts, Lucas Oil Stadium in the cold-weather city of Indianapolis, Indiana. It's just two weeks away and life is good. There's balance in the world of football. The Houston Texans are going to be playing in it! A typical day in Indianapolis in February would be an average high of 39 and low of 21. But, to keep it in perspective, remember the last Super Bowl in Dallas, TX? Snow, ice, cold, roofs collapsing? Well, if there is a storm before or during this Super Bowl, Lucas Oil Stadium should react differently. The roof is mechanically retractable and can open in nine minutes. Ice bombs sliding off the roof onto passerbys would not be expected to occur. Typically, there is over a 50% probability that Super Bowl Sunday in Indianapolis will be a cloudy day. The seating capacity of Lucas Oil Stadium is 63,000, but it will likely be expanded to 70,000 for the Super Bowl.

So, the stage will be set for the Texans to invade the Colts home field for their first Super Bowl while Peyton and company sit home in their living rooms thinking about what coulda' and shoulda' been. Maybe, some Colts will be present for the pre-game providing their unique commentary on the festivities, as they shed tears describing what it would feel like, if only. A sad day for Indy fans balanced by an equally ecstatic day for Texans fans! Memories will be flying around Lucas Oil Stadium in all directions!

Grabbing the attention of all the pre-game pundits will be the Texans well-oiled machine that propelled them to a late-season charge into the playoffs as a wildcard team and eventual AFC Championship over Rex Ryan and his NY Jets, who were led into the off-season by Mark Sanchez as he set a playoff record with six interceptions; three going to Texans' championship MVP Nnamdi Asomugha. There is lots to talk about.

First and foremost, all eyes will be on the Texans' swarming 5-2 defense engineered by defensive technician Wade Phillips. The Texans D held all playoff opponents scoreless. In fact, no team was able to move the ball into their half of the field. The Texans employed a rotation of players throughout each defensive series and each player that came in filled in flawlessly for the player that went to the sidelines for a breather. There seemed to be an internal team-wide competition to see who could get to the ball carrier first on running plays or who could rack up the most QB hurries on pass plays. Williams, Barwin, Watt, Smith, Mitchell, Okoye, Reed, and others were like interchangeable parts that fit perfectly and worked together in such a well-oiled fashion that commentators had to check jersey numbers at all times so they would get the call right. The front five seemed like six and seven at times. Simultaneous hits on the ball-carrier were the norm, not the exception.

Feeding off the chaos up front and boosted by the addition of All-Pro Nnamdi Asomugha, the Texans' secondary made plays all over the field throughout the playoffs. Opposing WRs were cutting routes off in an attempt to counteract the quick assault on their QB, opening the door for habitual route-jumping by the likes of Asomugha, Harris, and Jackson. Glover "The Detective" Quinn, assuming his role as policeman of the D-backfield was handcuffing WRs on crossing routes over the middle of the field and any long route that the opposing team had in mind, he just took it away.

An offense that last season regained it's balance while rediscovering the running game, just took off in 2011 and especially the playoffs, as the defense repetitively just said, "You want the ball Schaubby? Here it is on the 40!", time and time again. Whereupon, Schaubby took it and proceeded to hand-off to Foster, Ward and "New Guy" Tate, as they racked up big gain after big gain. And, they became an inside-the-five scoring machine. The entire front five of Brown, Smith, Myers, Caldwell and Winston lived up to their All-Pro status as the team compiled a 100% success rate inside the 5-yard line. The running game became literally, invincible. Kubiak contemplated writing a book after the season on the intricacies of the Kubiak-style zone-blocking system, but stopped short because someone on an opposing team might read it and learn something.

The passing game just went bonkers. "Just go!" was heard from the Texans huddle, reported by Titan's Cortland Finnegan after a 38-0 pasting, just before Schaubby launched a 60-yarder right to the outstretched hands of record-setting WR Andre Johnson, right before the final play of the final game of the season as the Texans clinched their first playoff spot in history. Finnegan reported, "I knew it was coming. I knew it was Johnson. I just couldn't keep up with him, even though I played 20 yards off him before the snap!" The unit of Johnson, Walters, Dickerson, Jones and Anderson set a modern day record for receiving yards in a season, along the way. They tore the record book up, in fact.

All eyes will be on the Texans offense in the Super Bowl, looking for one special play. After having unveiled their previously only dreamed about "Five-TE" play in the championship game. Everyone wants to know if they can do a "Six-TE" play in the big game, because Owen Daniels was added to the roster and will make his debut on Super Sunday! Sure to be a crowd-pleaser when it comes off, the Vegas proposition betting on this play is going through the roof!

This is dreamland for Texans fans! Even Pancakes has been walking around asking complete strangers to pinch him and wake him up! The Tim? He's here in Indy; the guest of a local SBNation editor paying up for his losing bet. All the celebs are out in force.

This is BRB Special Guest Writer Rip Jersey reporting in....