Robertson: The worst of times? These Texans have nothing on bumbling Oilers teams.
Texans fans haven't had much to cheer about during a winless season to date but Houston football aficionados have been subjected to much worse through the years, writes Dale Robertson.On Friday, Oct 6, 1972, I became a for-real professional journalist, having been hired as a 20-year-old sports copy editor at the Houston Post.
Of course, at that juncture, Houston was “big league” only in the sense it had three teams playing in the big leagues. That Oilers victory would be their last until Nov. 4, 1973 — 402 days later — and their last at home for nearly two years. In between, they would lose 23 of 24 games, including 13 in a row in the Dome. Not many were close, either.
Ultimately, I would cash paychecks from the Post, which died in 1995, and the Chronicle for 46-plus years before hanging up my press pass in early 2019. In that nearly five-decade span, I got to write about all of three championships, the pair claimed consecutively by the Rockets in 1994-95 and the Astros’ scandal-tainted 2017 World Series triumph.In stark contrast, my sports writing colleagues in Boston have covered 12 championship teams in the 21st century alone. I’m not here to whine, though.
Which leaves us with the Texans. True, it’s hard to have much optimism regarding their short-term prospects. Still, they’re at worst a mediocre team, not a historically awful one like the Oilers of 1972 and 1973. Peterson, who went 1-18 before being mercifully shown the door, was arguably the most hapless, malaprop-prone head coach ever to preside over one of Houston’s pro teams, making even Hugh Campbell seem to be Hall of Fame material.
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