Get ready for it this week.
“In the 1992 AFC wild-card, the Buffalo Bills rallied from 35-3 to beat the Houston Oilers.”
So what? What does that have anything to do with the Houston Texans?
Yes, both the Oilers and the Texans share the same city, Houston, but they are no more connected than the Ravens and Colts are, even though both played ball in Baltimore, or the Rams and Browns are, even though both won championships in Cleveland.
One of the big reminders that gets thrown in the face of Houston sports fans like mace full of bad memories that the Tennessee Titans own the records, jerseys, and history of the Oilers. Amy Adams Strunk reminded everyone of that in the offseason when J.J. Watt expressed interest in wearing Oilers throwbacks sometime.
If the Titans want to own Oilers history so bad, they can own that ignominious playoff loss to backup quarterback Frank Reich. It has no place in Texans franchise history. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
How inequitable is it that the city of Houston can have no piece of the Oilers legacy aside from the Astrodome that Bud Adams demanded have luxury boxes installed in 1986 or else he would move the team? But if it’s a horrible playoff loss in the history of pro football, oh, sure the Texans can have that demon haunting the tunnels at NRG Stadium.
Let the past die, or at least let the Titans have the past.
The Texans won’t be reliving the failures of the Oilers on Saturday at 3:35 p.m. when they take on the Bills. They will be creating their own new failures or establishing a brand new avenue of postseason season excellence.
The Titans blew a 35-3 lead to the Bills nearly 26 years ago, not the Texans.
