An All-Texas Super Bowl: It could Happen, Right?

HOUSTON, TX -- In a little more than 24 hours, the Houston Texans will take the field at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, in what will in all likelihood be the final game for them in 2016 NFL season.

The Texans are 15-point underdogs.

An upset over the New England Patriots, among the most successful NFL franchises in the last 20 years, would be viewed as one of the greatest upsets in NFL playoff history.

If it happens at all.

If it were to happen, the whispered speculation of an all-Texas Super Bowl being played in the largest city in Texas would send most in the Lone Star State into utter frenzy, and would make quarterback Brock Osweiler one of the few quarterbacks to appear in back-to-back Super Bowl games with two different teams.

It’s been more than 35 years since there was talk of an all-Texas Super Bowl, and back then it was when Ken “Snake” Stabler was leading the then-Houston Oilers.

Talk of a potential all-Texas field arose again in 1993, when the Oilers gave the city hope, before being destroyed by the Thurman Thomas-led Buffalo Bills in a comeback game that is still talked about more than 25 years later.

It’s been a long time since those glory days, a time when all seemed possible.

While the Texans have an uphill battle in their quest to reach the AFC Championship game against either the Kansas City Chiefs or the Pittsburgh Steelers, should the entire New England Patriots staff call in sick on Saturday night, the Dallas Cowboys are the number one seeded team in the NFC and are favored to defeat the Green Bay Packers this weekend in Dallas.

The Cowboys, led by rookie quarterback Dak Prescott and running back Ezekiel Elliott, look to end their 21-year drought to the big game, and will face veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who could quash the Cowboys’ aspirations of making it to the Super Bowl.

The Cowboys stand a better chance of keeping the hope of a Texas Super Bowl alive and would play either the Atlanta Falcons or Seattle Seahawks, if they can send the Packers packing, and that may be as close as it gets.

Such thoughts are fueling the hopes Texans fans. Even those professing a deep-seated dislike for America’s Team are reluctantly rooting for the Cowboys. For their part, Cowboys fans, who view the Texans fans as little more than a nuisance, are doing much the same and throwing support to that other Texas team.
Whatever the outcome, it’s sure to be a humdinger, y’all.

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