I don’t
typically feel bad for sports teams. There’s very rarely any reason to feel bad
for them as they mostly make their own destiny through winning, losing, good
and bad decisions and the like. However, as we’re on the verge of the NFL
Playoffs I can’t help but feel really bad for one franchise … and that’s the
Houston Texans.
For 10 years that franchise has struggled through many bad
seasons, only posting a winning record prior to this season in 2009, and has
never made a trip to the playoffs. This season they were set up to own their
division thanks to a Peyton Manning-less Indianapolis Colts and a weak
Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars teams, and they did. They posted
their first division title with a 10-6 record and it was made all the more
impressive by the fact that they were without their best defensive player Mario
Williams for most of the year, their best receiver (and maybe the NFL’s best
receiver) Andre Johnson for most of the year and their star quarterback (and a
vastly underrated one at that) Matt Schaub for a good portion of the season to
end the season.
The Texans with all their pieces together would’ve been a
threat to win the AFC and I’m not joking in the least when I say that. And,
that’s why I feel bad for this team. They’ve waited 10 years for this moment
and they finally get there and could’ve really done something and they stand
absolutely no chance of going deep into the playoffs, in fact, they very likely
will lose to the Cincinnati Bengals in the first round this weekend. That
absolutely sucks.
Im hurting just for that fact,but all I can do is hope.
ReplyDeleteWell, they got past the Bengals fairly easily ... I still don't see them going deep into the playoffs, but that playoff win has got to be sweet for that franchise and its fans.
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