Official Texans vs. Bengals Wild Card Playoff Game Thread, 1/07/2012

[chuck]

Originally Posted by WMH

Plane tix and hotel to Bmore are booked.

Damn, dude, that is solid. How the hell did you score the tickets?

[WMH]

Originally Posted by chuck

Damn, dude, that is solid. How the hell did you score the tickets?

Thru that NFL ticket exchange site. We ended up paying about $250 per. Upper deck level, but whatever.

A buddies wife had some free air tix, that's always nice.

Might not turn out great for us, but should still be pretty fun.

[Arky]

Afterthoughts:

1. When it came apparent the Texans would make the playoffs, I don't know how many times I read "one and done" not necessarily here, but at other forums/blogs/messageboards. (Where do all these people with their dirty crystal balls come from?)

2. Looked like Braman reaggravated the stinger injury. Anyone have updates? Besides that, I think the Texans came out pretty healthy.....

3. The Texans with the midseason 7-game winning streak showed up yesterday. After the slow/jittery/OMGweareintheplayoffs start, they played pretty good football.

4. Offense scored 24 pts and the defense (Watt) kicked in 7 more. Nice to see after all the harping from local radio guys about the 18 pts/game avg. since Schaub went down.

5. Baltimore will be a huge challenge. The Texans are 0-5 all time against them. The Ravens are rested up and have playoff experience. If the Texans have a chance, they'll have to get a couple of turnovers and hold Ray Rice in check. In the first meeting, the pressure on Flacco was good but I recall many times, just as he was about to be sacked, he got the ball out for a big gainer. There were 8 QB hits but just two sacks (both by Jamison) in that game - going to need to do a better job in that area. AJ didn't play in that first game so, his presence should help. Interesting that the Ravens -7.5 pt spread is exactly the same as it was back in Week 6...

[nunusguy]

10 AM (PCT) start for the Texans next Sunday in Vegas - wife and I will be cheering them on from our hotels nearest Sports-Bar on the Strip.

[HPF Bob]

Do I dare dream of an AFC Championship Game at Reliant?

[TheMatrix31]

I don't even have the words to describe how incredible yesterday was.

I would have done ANYTHING to be inside Reliant for that.

Onto Baltimore. MUST win time of possession.

[edo783]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

10 AM (PCT) start for the Texans next Sunday in Vegas - wife and I will be cheering them on from our hotels nearest Sports-Bar on the Strip.

Go to NY/NY to the ESPN center. They have a semi/private room at the back of the bar area where you have your own private waiter, recliner chairs and monster screens. Pretty cool. I watched a Super Bowl there a few years ago. Get there early and they have a min/hr spend, but it isn't rediculouse, something 20 bucks per person. Pretty easy to meet that number. Just serves drinks and bar food like wings and such.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by edo783

recliner chairs

Some people sit when they watch the Texans play?

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by edo783

Go to NY/NY to the ESPN center. They have a semi/private room at the back of the bar area where you have your own private waiter, recliner chairs and monster screens. Pretty cool. I watched a Super Bowl there a few years ago. Get there early and they have a min/hr spend, but it isn't rediculouse, something 20 bucks per person. Pretty easy to meet that number. Just serves drinks and bar food like wings and such.

Thanks for the info, we might check it out.

[WMH]

Originally Posted by chuck

Damn, dude, that is solid. How the hell did you score the tickets?

Sadly, our trip has crashed and burned.
My buddy turned out not to be master of his domain

Oh well, tickets were flipped back in less than 24 hours, and he is footing the convienence charges.

Bummer.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by WMH

Sadly, our trip has crashed and burned.
My buddy turned out not to be master of his domain

Oh well, tickets were flipped back in less than 24 hours, and he is footing the convienence charges.

Bummer.

Well, that sucks.

[HPF Bob]

My sympathies. I'm not sure I'd be that interested in shivering in a Maryland January day in a hostile crowd anyway. I'm holding out hope we can host the AFC Championship at Reliant. Miracles do happen.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

Miracles do happen.

Not so subtle Tebow referece implied.

On paper, the AFC matchups this weekend seem to really favor the home teams, but crazy stuff has happened in the Divisional round.

For a trip down memory lane, here is the link to the game thread for the Ravens game back in October: http://www.inthebullseye.com/forums/...ead.php?t=1364

[WMH]

Originally Posted by Keith

For a trip down memory lane, here is the link to the game thread for the Ravens game back in October: http://www.inthebullseye.com/forums/...ead.php?t=1364

It always amuses me to go back and re-read the roller coaster of emotions of being an NFL fan. Good stuff!