Rockets Season: Over and Out

Gotta love it when your two superstars can only play 20 games a year. They were 21-10 last year together and were something like 14-2 this year. I think the Rockets are 12-48 without either, so...yeah. Yao was on pace to have an MVP year, and we all know what Tracy McGrady is capable of. Too bad we haven't been able to enjoy watching them for what's going to be 2 years now. It takes a hard hit to your team to lose a big guy who averages 27 points a night. Yao will be out for 6 weeks or more, and T-Mac is out indefinitely. The Rockets are probably one of the scariest teams in the league when both are on the floor and healthy. But I guess we'll never know what that's like. I really don't want to talk about it anymore because it makes my blood boil just thinking about it. Very frustrating.

In other news, I just got back from the Texans game and watched them somehow beat the Colts. We were sitting in the luxury suites enjoying ourselves to free food, drinks, and service the whole game. We will be further enjoying ourselves next week when we sit in the luxury suites at the Rockets game. One of the tree suppliers we do business with hooked us up with the tickets.

Well if some of you don't know by now, I survived my first car accident. I was on my way to work one morning and some girl ran a stop sign and t-boned my passenger side, knocking me into the ditch. I swerved just in time to avoid hitting a telephone pole head on at 45 mph. The pole took off my left mirror, so I was about 4 inches from it. No one was hurt, and luckily she had insurance, so they will cover it.

Kinda looks like the Rockets season. Welp, Merry Christmas!

Texans: What Might Have Been

This weekend, the worst thing that could possibly happen to the Texans...happened. And by that, I mean this is the best thing that could have possibly happened. It's the best thing because it shows how inept our front office is. An absolute phenom, comes home to show an incompetent franchise what a QB looks like. Let me start off by saying I was not a Vince supporter on draft day. I trusted in Carr, and thought he would become an outstanding quarterback once we drafted Reggie Bush. Oh wait, we didn't draft Bush EITHER?!?! The NFL is an entertainment industry, right? Why not give the customer (the fans) what they want? We wanted Vince or Reggie. The Texans organization flat out ignored every fan that knew what they were talking about, and pulled a Sam Bowie on us.

So now, after watching VY win week after week and constantly improve, and watching David Carr, a 5th year veteran, actually get worse every week, I'm thinking Vince would have been an awesome pick. I thought it would be a step backwards at first because we already used a #1 pick on a QB. All we needed was a playmaker in Bush to make Carr better. But I've come to the realization that the dude just sucks. 7 TD passes, and you have Andre Johnson and Eric Moulds.

I have grown to really respect Vince Young as a player. The way he handled himself after the game was amazing. He had no hard feelings and nothing but good things to say. He knows he's loved in Houston, and he even went as far as to compliment our team on the haunting decision they made on draft day, saying we had a "big, beautiful defensive end." VY is a class act and one heck of a playmaker.

Now I must pose the topic of his high school days. I watched him play 3 years as a high school QB at Madison. Several of my friends have actually played against him. Here's the thing: Katy High School's football is nothing but a bunch of 5'0 100 lb Rudy's. Yet they contained a backfield of Vince and Courtney Lewis to almost nothing. Vince was the playmaker in high school that he is now. Madison was 0-3 vs. my alma mater. So...is the coaching at Katy better than the Texans? Of course I'm kidding...
(sigh)