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It's nice, but it doesn't help us against the Titans this weekend. It won't buy us any points with those stupid blind unbelievably dumb replacement refs. If we beat the Titans this Sunday like we should, those horrid ESPN announcers will be insufferable duing our Monday night game.
 
Thorn said:
It's nice, but it doesn't help us against the Titans this weekend. It won't buy us any points with those stupid blind unbelievably dumb replacement refs. If we beat the Titans this Sunday like we should, those horrid ESPN announcers will be insufferable duing our Monday night game.
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I just realized that both of our Monday Night games this year is away... that really suck :(
 
Like many on this board, I've been watching this team since the inception. While this is the best I have seen the Texans, I can help the feeling the other shoe is going to drop. I'm glad to get the press, but I'm also a little nervous about it.
 
Thorn said:
It's nice, but it doesn't help us against the Titans this weekend. It won't buy us any points with those stupid blind unbelievably dumb replacement refs. If we beat the Titans this Sunday like we should, those horrid ESPN announcers will be insufferable duing our Monday night game.
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On the other hand, these refs are calling a lot of stuff for the home team and, I think, shifting the games slightly in the home team's favor.

5 of our next 7 games are home games.

So. Maybe. That could be a good thing.
 
417Texan said:
I cannot believe the success of HOuston and only 1 sunday nite game.
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Umm, we have two Sunday night games (Packers and @Bears), two Monday night games (@NYJ, @Patriots), and a Thanksgiving game at the Lions. I think that's a pretty good increase over last year's one prime time game on Thursday night football.
 
Dutchrudder said:
Umm, we have two Sunday night games (Packers and @Bears), two Monday night games (@NYJ, @Patriots), and a Thanksgiving game at the Lions. I think that's a pretty good increase over last year's one prime time game on Thursday night football.
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Thats too many Monday night games.... I need to get cable. :rake:
 
417Texan said:
I cannot believe the success of HOuston and only 1 sunday nite game.
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Yeah, let's start whining again.. Or actually, let's never stop... Because we're not among 2-3 teams picked to go to the SB from AFC. Unbelievable.

Oh, and Texans have 5 prime time games this year, the maximum number allowed per team.
 
SCOTTexans said:
Nope... but that would be nice
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Don't know how accurate the wiki page is, but FWIW

LINK

Local simulcasting of cable games
To maximize TV ratings, as well as to protect the NFL's ability to sell TV rights collectively, games televised on ESPN or the NFL Network are simulcast on a local broadcast station in each of the primary markets of both teams (the Green Bay Packers have two primary markets, Green Bay and Milwaukee, a remnant of when they played some home games in Milwaukee each season, see below). This station does not need to have affiliate connections with a national broadcaster of NFL games. Stations who are the affiliates of MyNetworkTV or The CW (and, in at least one case, an independent station[22]) have out bid more established local broadcasters in some markets. However, the home team's market must be completely served by the station and that broadcast can only air if the game is sold out within 72 hours of kick-off (see below).
On November 8, 1987, the very first NFL game ever aired on ESPN was played between the New England Patriots and New York Giants. Technically, the game was only simulcast in the Boston market, with a separate broadcast produced for the New York market by ESPN sister property WABC-TV – at the time, WABC's union contract prohibited non-union workers (like those of ESPN) from working on live events broadcast on the station. This marked the only time since the AFL-NFL merger that a regular season game was locally produced for TV. The WABC broadcast featured WABC's own Corey McPherrin doing play-by-play, and Frank Gifford and Lynn Swann from Monday Night Football doing color commentary.
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Attention Dallas and Fort Worth viewers, we interrupt this broadcast of your Cowboys game to show....the best football team in Texas. :texflag:
 
HJam72 said:
Attention Dallas and Fort Worth viewers, we interrupt this broadcast of your Cowboys game to show....the best football team in Texas. :texflag:
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Thing is Texans are better than the Cowboys NO MATTER what condition the Texans are in.

I would rather be punched and kicked in my happy parts repeatedly than even pretend to be a Cowboys fan.

No matter how "Good" the Cowboys have been...... or ever might possibly be in the future...(Ugh that tasted like bile)... they SUCK!

Even before inception and after that previous team of ours left...... the Cowboys still fell way short of being the best team in Texas. :)
 
I think some people are just harder on "their" team than any other team, and McClain is one of those people. We beat Atlanta with Yates last December. Yes, I know they've probably gotten better. So have the Texans. Truth is the Texans are the best team in the NFL right now, but it's scary to say it, because you think about the LOOOOOOOOOOOONG road to the Superbowl...
 
Dutchrudder said:
That's OK, nobody really takes him seriously anyways. Sounds like a desperate cry for attention, because he knows that new young lady the Chronicle hired will have his job in the next year or two.
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That too. His act was old a long time ago.
 
Dutchrudder said:
Umm, we have two Sunday night games (Packers and @Bears), two Monday night games (@NYJ, @Patriots), and a Thanksgiving game at the Lions. I think that's a pretty good increase over last year's one prime time game on Thursday night football.
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even jim nantz said that sundays game against the broncos was the first time the texans were featured in the national double header game.. thats almost like a primetime game since the entire nation was being broadcasted the texans.
 
MojoMan said:
John McClain spoils the party, ranking the Texans #2 in his power rankings:

McClain: Texans are rising, but they’re not No. 1 yet
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I have to say he makes a decent point - if you put down the koolaid and take the homer glasses off for a sec.
All other things being equal (and they kinda are), a 24-pt road victory over a 2-0 team trumps a 6-pt road victory over a 1-1 team.

After all... Power Rankings are just some :clown:'s opinion
 
First week it was the Packers...

Then the Patriots,

Then the 49ers,

Now the Texans are the flavor-of-the-week. Pfft.


That and $2.01 will get you a cup of Starbucks coffee.
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ObsiWan said:
I have to say he makes a decent point - if you put down the koolaid and take the homer glasses off for a sec.
All other things being equal (and they kinda are), a 24-pt road victory over a 2-0 team trumps a 6-pt road victory over a 1-1 team.

After all... Power Rankings are just some :clown:'s opinion
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Dead on. Dang it, I keep wanting to rep you.

MSR :mad:
 
ObsiWan said:
I have to say he makes a decent point - if you put down the koolaid and take the homer glasses off for a sec.
All other things being equal (and they kinda are), a 24-pt road victory over a 2-0 team trumps a 6-pt road victory over a 1-1 team.

After all... Power Rankings are just some :clown:'s opinion
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I'd like to point out that the Falcons played the Broncos IN ATLANTA and beat them by 6 points. We played the Broncos in Denver and beat them by 6 points.

Not that it means anything because there are too many variables at play and too many random chance things BUT if you're going to compare two teams that haven't played each other, you might as well look at common opponents as your measuring stick.
 
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