Official Texans vs. Panthers Game Thread, 9/29/2019

[chuck]

At least the Stagger Lee had the quarterback throwing the football.

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by chuck

At least the Stagger Lee had the quarterback throwing the football.

I guess most of us are old enough to remember that play. Dang we are all old.

How far back do you guys go back in Houston Football?

[chuck]

Originally Posted by painekiller

How far back do you guys go back in Houston Football?

I have no idea how old barrett is but him aside, I'm pretty sure Keith and I are the youngest idiots in here. Which feels nice, let me tell you.

I go back to the Luv Ya Blue days.

[HPF Bob]

My father had his kids sitting in end zone seats at Rice Stadium before the Oilers moved to the Astrodome. Watched Joe Namath get humiliated in his AFL debut in 1965. (note: I never watched a game in Jeppesen Stadium and never watched the Colt .45s in Colt Stadium). I remember the stench of cigar and cigarette smoke under the stands at Rice Stadium. I was a kid and I was watching live sports so it was all good.

This was the year that made me a football fan - watch how often defense and special teams made up for a relatively weak offense that had to trade for a starting QB after the first four weeks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLmaE3l8jzE

I was at all the home games.

[Arky]

I had an uncle that would come get me and my dad on Sunday mornings and take us to Oiler games. He always had tickets (probably gratis). 1963-64 IIRC. The Astrodome was just a skeleton in those days.

Saw games in both Jeppesen and Rice stadiums. I can remember my uncle complaining about George Blanda in the shotgun formation (shotgun was considered "gimmicky" back in the day). I can remember a Chargers game. Of note was Lance Alworth (U of Ark), aka "Bambi". My dad and uncle were both Arkansas boys so they were taking notes. Alworth didn't so much as walk as kinda floated along.....a real light stepper. Probably the most graceful white-boy on the football field that I've ever seen...

Pretty sure we attended the AFL all-star game that was moved from New Orleans to Houston because of racial tensions. A very different era to be sure....

[chuck]

Bob, did you spend your childhood in Houston?

[HPF Bob]

Roughly the elementary school years (Spring Branch area) and high school (Inwood Forest). Graduated from Eisenhower H.S. Also spent one year at Univ. of Houston before transfering to Univ. of Texas.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by chuck

I have no idea how old barrett is but him aside, I'm pretty sure Keith and I are the youngest idiots in here. Which feels nice, let me tell you.

I go back to the Luv Ya Blue days.

Ha, I guess so. Luv Ya Blue days as well. Houston Oilers Number One was my jam. On vinyl.

Probably earliest Oilers game memory I still have was the road playoff loss to the Raiders in 1980. Can't tell if I truly remember games before then firsthand or if I just remember it from watching highlights over the years. I mean, aside from knowing Bum and Earl in the late 70s - and who didn't back then - that was the earliest game I still remember, though I moved to Spring the winter of 78/79 I think. Anyway, in the '80 wild card, Raiders pulled away in the 4th, and my dad took me out for ice cream before it was over. Bum's last game iirc.

Little did I know then that there is not enough ice cream in the world for coping with 35-3 and Frank Reich some 13 years later.

P.S. I was at Alameda County Coliseum for an A's-Rays game earlier this summer. Place is a time warp back to the 80s. I kinda dug it. Not many multi-purpose stadiums like that left anymore. Nostalgia is a dangerous thing.

[Warren]

Originally Posted by Keith

Ha, I guess so. Luv Ya Blue days as well. Houston Oilers Number One was my jam. On vinyl.

Probably earliest Oilers game memory I still have was the road playoff loss to the Raiders in 1980. Can't tell if I truly remember games before then firsthand or if I just remember it from watching highlights over the years. I mean, aside from knowing Bum and Earl in the late 70s - and who didn't back then - that was the earliest game I still remember, though I moved to Spring the winter of 78/79 I think. Anyway, in the '80 wild card, Raiders pulled away in the 4th, and my dad took me out for ice cream before it was over. Bum's last game iirc.

Little did I know then that there is not enough ice cream in the world for coping with 35-3 and Frank Reich some 13 years later.

P.S. I was at Alameda County Coliseum for an A's-Rays game earlier this summer. Place is a time warp back to the 80s. I kinda dug it. Not many multi-purpose stadiums like that left anymore. Nostalgia is a dangerous thing.

This thread brought me out of my lurkerhood. I guess I'm another "young" idiot. I was in elementary school for Luv ya Blue, and remember the excitement that was in the air more than the actual games. My family got Oiler season tickets starting around 1984 -- after the Ed Biles and Chuck Studley eras, there wasn't exactly a waiting list. That's when I really started getting into the Oilers and the NFL and obsessed over any crumb of information that I could find about the team, which was usually limited to John McClain's daily notebook in the paper. Like everybody else I went through the rollercoaster ride/soap opera until they left town. Personally, the loss to Montana and the Chiefs was more disappointing than the Buffalo game because that team was on such a roll. I remember on the ride home we were all just numb.