The Houston Texans
I'm a Houston Texans fan. I just recently got "into" football about four years ago, much to my wife's dismay. My sister-in-law Anita's boyfriend (now husband) Mike had an Xbox and Madden Football 2003 (the games are always one year ahead, don't ask me why).
One day, while hanging out at Anita's condo Mike asked me to play some football. I was bored and said yes. I picked the Broncos because I'm slightly more familier with them, having lived in Denver for almost twenty years.
Football here in Denver is HUGE! I guess it's mostly because all of our other teams; basketball, baseball, and to a lesser extent hockey, all suck ass. The Broncos are a good football team and they have been for a long time.
Anyways, I picked the Broncos, Mike picked his favorite team, the Colts, and we went heads. I beat him by a disgustingly large number, something like 40 to 13. Mike's a REAL competitive guy. He know's and plays just about every sport. He HATES losing. Especially to someone who doesn't know what they are doing, like me.
So we kept playing. And I kept winning.
It quickly became a ritual for the two of us. Whenever we got together, we played one or more games of football. Nine times out of ten, I'd win. Well, I wouldn't just win, I'd spank him. I'd destroy his team and make him look like a sissy. It was so bad that most games wouldn't last through the third quarter (and we were using 4 minute quarters as a rule) before he'd quit in disgust.
I tried playing different teams. I liked playing the Broncos because I knew them the best. I liked the Raiders because they have cool uniforms, and psychotically cool-looking fans. The Buccaneers had the best defense and I liked their whole pirate theme. Unfortunately, Mike was feeling the brunt of the whoop-ass that I was unleashing.
I decided, in all fairness, to pick a team that WASN'T already good. In 2003 the worst team in Madden Football was the Houston Texans. They were a first year franchise with low expectations. They had a rookie starting quarterback named David Carr. They had the worst offense and defense in the entire game outside of the European teams.
Mike isn't stupid. He's also extremely competitive, like I stated before. It's not a win for him if I play a team with an overall rating in the forties while he's playing a team twice as good. It's insulting to him for me to play a team like that in order to give him a fair shot at winning.
Me? I'm not very competitive at all. If you are that much better than me, I'd expect you to give yourself handicaps so that the game is evenly balanced and fair to each. But that's me. He's different.
So I played the Texans. I still won more often than not, but my margin of winning wasn't nearly as high. Mike let me play the Texans even though they were the sorriest team in the NFL because:
1. I'm from Conroe Texas, which is now a suburb of Houston, so the Texans count as my hometown team as much as the Broncos do.
2. I like their uniforms and logo. Maybe it's my feminine side, but they look a hell of a lot better than the Brown's, Eagle's, Miami, Bills, Cowboys, Saints and most of the others. In fact, I'd say that the best uniforms would be the Texans, Raiders, Bengals, and the Broncos new uniforms (their old orange uniforms were just embarassing).
3. I like the fact they this team started the same year that I started liking football. Whenever I wanna know how long I've been enjoying the greatest of games, I can just look up the Texans history. Dorky, but cool.
4. David Carr is a hell of a quarterback. The man is tough as hell, a great passer, and a great leader. He has more guts than anyone else that I know of in the NFL.
So Mike and Madden got me hooked on football. Madden introduced me to the Texans. I've been playing football on the Xbox four a large portion of those four years, but only in the last year have I played the game itself as opposed to Mike or a friend.
Mike and his family moved this last year out of state. I do not have Xbox live and so I cannot play him. I play Fanchise mode on the Xbox instead.
I've also started playing Fantasy Football on Yahoo and writing articles for my fellow employees throughout the season.
I've followed the Texans as close as I can for the past four years. Unfortunately, their games aren't broadcast locally or on basic cable. I guess it's because they aren't a contending team.
The first years that the Texans were in the NFL they broke records. Records like the Most Times Sacked in a Season which David Carr earned by being sacked 76 times in his rookie year. It took the Texans most of three years to win two games back to back.
The first three years were hard ones for the Texans. But they were improving. In 2002 they won four and lost twelve. In 2003 they were five and eleven. 2004 they were seven and nine. Steady, slow, improvement.
This year they were two and fourteen. They did worse, much worse, than they did in their very first season. They are right now, the worst team in the NFL. That's pretty hard to swallow. I'll post another article explaining why.
One day, while hanging out at Anita's condo Mike asked me to play some football. I was bored and said yes. I picked the Broncos because I'm slightly more familier with them, having lived in Denver for almost twenty years.
Football here in Denver is HUGE! I guess it's mostly because all of our other teams; basketball, baseball, and to a lesser extent hockey, all suck ass. The Broncos are a good football team and they have been for a long time.
Anyways, I picked the Broncos, Mike picked his favorite team, the Colts, and we went heads. I beat him by a disgustingly large number, something like 40 to 13. Mike's a REAL competitive guy. He know's and plays just about every sport. He HATES losing. Especially to someone who doesn't know what they are doing, like me.
So we kept playing. And I kept winning.
It quickly became a ritual for the two of us. Whenever we got together, we played one or more games of football. Nine times out of ten, I'd win. Well, I wouldn't just win, I'd spank him. I'd destroy his team and make him look like a sissy. It was so bad that most games wouldn't last through the third quarter (and we were using 4 minute quarters as a rule) before he'd quit in disgust.
I tried playing different teams. I liked playing the Broncos because I knew them the best. I liked the Raiders because they have cool uniforms, and psychotically cool-looking fans. The Buccaneers had the best defense and I liked their whole pirate theme. Unfortunately, Mike was feeling the brunt of the whoop-ass that I was unleashing.
I decided, in all fairness, to pick a team that WASN'T already good. In 2003 the worst team in Madden Football was the Houston Texans. They were a first year franchise with low expectations. They had a rookie starting quarterback named David Carr. They had the worst offense and defense in the entire game outside of the European teams.
Mike isn't stupid. He's also extremely competitive, like I stated before. It's not a win for him if I play a team with an overall rating in the forties while he's playing a team twice as good. It's insulting to him for me to play a team like that in order to give him a fair shot at winning.
Me? I'm not very competitive at all. If you are that much better than me, I'd expect you to give yourself handicaps so that the game is evenly balanced and fair to each. But that's me. He's different.
So I played the Texans. I still won more often than not, but my margin of winning wasn't nearly as high. Mike let me play the Texans even though they were the sorriest team in the NFL because:
1. I'm from Conroe Texas, which is now a suburb of Houston, so the Texans count as my hometown team as much as the Broncos do.
2. I like their uniforms and logo. Maybe it's my feminine side, but they look a hell of a lot better than the Brown's, Eagle's, Miami, Bills, Cowboys, Saints and most of the others. In fact, I'd say that the best uniforms would be the Texans, Raiders, Bengals, and the Broncos new uniforms (their old orange uniforms were just embarassing).
3. I like the fact they this team started the same year that I started liking football. Whenever I wanna know how long I've been enjoying the greatest of games, I can just look up the Texans history. Dorky, but cool.
4. David Carr is a hell of a quarterback. The man is tough as hell, a great passer, and a great leader. He has more guts than anyone else that I know of in the NFL.
So Mike and Madden got me hooked on football. Madden introduced me to the Texans. I've been playing football on the Xbox four a large portion of those four years, but only in the last year have I played the game itself as opposed to Mike or a friend.
Mike and his family moved this last year out of state. I do not have Xbox live and so I cannot play him. I play Fanchise mode on the Xbox instead.
I've also started playing Fantasy Football on Yahoo and writing articles for my fellow employees throughout the season.
I've followed the Texans as close as I can for the past four years. Unfortunately, their games aren't broadcast locally or on basic cable. I guess it's because they aren't a contending team.
The first years that the Texans were in the NFL they broke records. Records like the Most Times Sacked in a Season which David Carr earned by being sacked 76 times in his rookie year. It took the Texans most of three years to win two games back to back.
The first three years were hard ones for the Texans. But they were improving. In 2002 they won four and lost twelve. In 2003 they were five and eleven. 2004 they were seven and nine. Steady, slow, improvement.
This year they were two and fourteen. They did worse, much worse, than they did in their very first season. They are right now, the worst team in the NFL. That's pretty hard to swallow. I'll post another article explaining why.
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