Colts pound woeful Texans to stay unbeaten
When I was a student at Macalester College, our football team was in the process of setting an NCAA all-division record for most consecutive losses- 54 straight games of brutal, frustrating futility (the record was, thankfully, later broken by Prairie View A&M, and now stands at 88). I went through four years without ever seeing Macalester win. Things got so bad that it became less a question of who would win than what the point spread would be. If we were playing Hamline, St. Thomas, or St. John’s, expecting a spread of anymore from 50-70 points was not unreasonable. Giving up 70+ points while being shut out was not at all unusual.
At home games, we’d sit in the stands a few rows behind the school president, drinking Jack Daniels until we no longer even cared who won. This is probably a whole lot like what being a Texans fan must feel like these days. At 1-8, about all Houston really has to look forward to is the #1 pick in the 2006 NFL Draft. (Matt Leinart, please pick up the white paging phone….)
I have to confess that I didn’t even watch the Texans yesterday. I was more interested in the Vikings-Giants game, and then She Who Endures My Myriad Eccentricities called me from the Nutcracker Market at Reliant Center. Before I knew what had happened, I was buying Christmas presents on a football Sunday afternoon. Hey, at least my Vikings won, but if you sat through the Texans-Colts game…well, you have my condolences. What a colossal waste of a beautiful Sunday afternoon, eh? Hmm…anyone want to lay bets on how long it will take Bob McNair to fire Dom Capers and his staff once the Texans’ season mercifully ends?