At the start of the season most sportsbooks had calculated the odds of the Houston Texans winning Super Bowl XLVI at 16:1. Diehard Texans fan Chris Brown feels a little bit more confident than that.
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Yes, that is a picture of his tattoo. Just in case you are keeping score, the achievement that is immortalized on his arm hasn’t happened yet. Note the shading behind the roman numerals; that’s not going to be easy to fix. His inspiration? “Danieal Manning, he’s my favorite Texans player,” Chris was quoted as saying by the Houston Chronicle. “He inspired me to get the tattoo. I read where he said, ‘You can’t go to the Super Bowl if you don’t think Super Bowl.’” I’m glad no one explained to Chris that he has no bearing on their title chances, because then I wouldn’t have had anything to write about today. If I were Chris I wouldn’t have let this become a story in the media though. I would have stopped at random bars across Texas on game day, lifted up my sleeve and said, “I’m from the future”, and darted out of there. In all seriousness, we live in an era where most fan bases that haven’t had success in a while (or in this case, ever) are bitter. While the Texans haven’t experienced the misery of Browns fans the last few decades, it’s nice to see the positive attitude.
And why can’t they win it? They have a solid defense, a great running attack, and when he’s healthy maybe the game’s best wide receiver in Andre Johnson (settle down Megatron fans, I said maybe.) If Matt Schaub plays well this is a team that can hang with anyone. So right here, right now, am I going to call them my AFC pick to go to the Super Bowl?
Haha, not a chance.
My friend John, a Detroit Lions fan, was a little bit more modest with his tattoo. During the Matt Millen era he had “We won’t draft another wide receiver in the first round” tattooed on his back, and was disappointed every year. That last anecdote may or may not be completely false.
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I have since had additional work done on that piece of art that scribes the clause… “unless of course the wide receiver in question is Calvin Johnsons heroically athletic twin Alvin Johnson who has exactly the same physical build and DNA makeup of his aforementioned brother … Who is undoubtedly the games best wide receiver despite whatever nonsense falls out of Ben van itens perplexing mind and ends up on the interweb.” The tattoo artist formally known as Jim-Bob Joe (yup three first names) did not have grammar or spellchecker available at the shop. Conveniently enough the tattoo stretched beyond my back leaving the players position etched in a location where each word is separated by a crack rather than a space. For this, I was not happy with J-B-J. Yet he won’t acknowledge if it was intentional. The last laugh is once again on the Lions fan I suppose
Way to not capitalize my last name. Almost deleted this. Sheesh.
That’s your last name? I always thought you just had a strangely long first name with unnecessary syllables and odd spaces
Any argument you had in your reply has been completely negated by the retarded “strangely long first name” comment. Like you don’t watch ESPN! Scott Van Pelt? Better luck next time I guess.
Nice try, Scott Van Pelt.
Why it doesn’t do a bit of good to listen to SB predictions.
Go back to the beginning of the season and look at who was considered SB contenders. Well that is pointless b/c a game hadn’t been played yet. Fast forward to week 9. Who is undefeated………GB. That’s it. Just GB! Lets see who else leads their respective areas.
Giants…..Ok that’s ok but being in the NFC East that is possibly the most mix it up division in all of football. Any given week all of those teams could be winning or loosing that division. The other 3 teams are all 3-4!
GB…..Seriously who didn’t think that was gonna happen. But wait, that’s the NFC North which holds the (wait for it) Lions! Did anyone even think that would be in the conversation this year? They are 6-2!
NO….Well as a die hard fan that’s great to see but as the previous articles posted here have mentioned, a 62-7 routing of one team and a 31-21 failure the next week to a win less team is, well disheartening to say the least. NFC South is another toss up division! TB and Atlanta are a win away from tieing the division.
SF….The NFC West is being run by the 49ers? Well, I sure would have thought the Cards would have been at least competing on some level They are now tied for last in that division. They could be 3rd with a comfortable 1 game lead over the Rams, but hey NO F’ed that up!
And now, to the best run ever! The AFC!
Buffalo is winning the AFC East! Well tied with NE but really? Buffalo? Did anyone see that coming? A QB that until the start of the season and some crazy comeback wins, no one on Earth had even heard of! In that same division, NE is tied with Buffalo! Say that again with a straight face!!!! The Jets are in 3rd and Miami is no-fer!
Pitt is winning the AFC North. While that isn’t a surprise to anyone Cinci and Balt are tied for second and Clev is just one game out from a 3 way tie for second place. While none of this is really a shocker to anyone, a GINGER ( I can say that, I am one! It’s like the N Word I guess) is in Cinci, appropriate for their colors, and has them in division contention!
Houston is winning the AFC South! Really? Oh and on a side note, P. Manning is out and the Colts can’t win a game for charity! Although it pains me to say it, since my team is being so charitable this season, the should play NO again for that elusive 1st win! Tenn and Jacksonville are tied for sucking! Although Tenn is in second, I doubt their high payed running back is going to get them going.
There is a 3 way tie for 1st in the AFC West! KC, SD, and Oak all tied for 1st! The kicker? KC has won 4 straight! On a side note, the T-Blow effect is on in Denver! It’s hard to look at this division and not see SD and Denver battling it out for first, but that’s the thing about pro sports, it’s not predictable!
Case for point, the St Louis Cardinals. That’s right, I’m talking baseball now! They were 10.5 games out of the wild card race at the beginning of Sept! None of the playoff teams were even scouting them b/c it was completely improbable that they would make it to the playoffs! And what happens? They clinch a wild card spot on the last day of the regular season, win their WC game, clinch a championship series and win the World Series! F You Rangers. I haven’t seen a WS choke like that in like….. well like a year when you did it against SF Giants last year in the WS! So based on that logic my SB prediction is Miami and Indy! Miami winning by a field goal with a final score 3-0!
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