Funny enough, my experience at Wrigley was wildly different... but I was sitting in the bleachers, so that may have had something to do with it.
I see no problem with this. I'm a grown man with a family to support and a mortgage to pay. I'm not going to shell out my hard-earned money to "support" a team that sucks just so my city can be thought of as a great sports town. I'll still follow the team and watch the games on TV, but I don't see the point in going to more than a few times a year if it's a bad product. All that being said, all 3 of our teams are pretty damn entertaining right now. It's been a long time since we've been able to say that.
We were just coming off that devastating loss to the Chiefs in the playoffs before going 2-14 in the 1994 season, plus Bagwell had a broken hand before the strike hit. I give 2015 the nod so far given the entertainment level of all three teams.
I remember late 1993 very well. Oilers reeled off a bunch of wins in a row to close that season...and Rockets started off the season 15-0. That was insane. Our 2 teams playing at that time never lost
I was in Tahoe for that Xmas Day game against the 49ers. That was awesome. Then the calendar flipped and the Oilers had to Oiler.
Yeah, just counting it as the same calendar year since the seasons overlap in football and basketball... like the "tiger" slam. Oilers have a 11 game winning streak and their best record ever, Rockets have a 15 game winning streak, best record ever, and win a championship.... then after all of that, Bagwell has his huge season and the Astros are a winning team again (much like this year). Then the strike hits. If you go back to July of 1994 (before the strike in the midst of the Astros/Bagwell surge, before the Oilers bad season, and right after the Rockets won)... that was probably the best Houston has ever been, sports-wise.
Most states' populations are distributed the same. They all have their Lubbocks and El Pasos... small to decent sized cities that will never have teams, along with their Houstons and Dallases. But you're spot on. All Texas needs to catch up with other states I mentioned is 1 more team in Houston and 1 more team in the SA/Austin area. 10 teams/27,000,000 1 team/2.7 million Wouldn't it be so cool if Texas had 2 more teams!?!! More rivalries, more fun.... more attention for Texas!! Texas is too great a state for the current tally. Houston is too great a city for the current tally. Be nice if Houston could snatch MIA's NHL team, but that doesn't appear to be happening. I don't want Dallas to have something that obvious over us.
Probably true, but IIRC the baseball strike was looming and everyone knew it. So that tempered a lot of the excitement about the Astros. Everyone knew there wasn't going to be a WS that year. I still think that team would have won the WS. Bagwell, Biggio, Cami, Gonzo, Finley, Drabek, Hudek... Could be my Astro-colored glasses, though.
Strike, yes. Cancelling WS? That was not the expectation going into it. They'd have had a great shot.... of course the strike did clinch the MVP for Bagwell (as I'm not sure he would have won it with the injury).
Dishman's TD off the INT!!! I talked to him about that when I met him at the Baylor football event I went to recently. So awesome.
Until now. And everyday that comes after this one where the AStros/Texans are awful just increases the gap, IMO. Most dominant and one of the most popular players in the NFL on a team that should have a winning record and fight for the playoffs. Surprise MLB team with the best young core in the league and one of the top farm systems up and down. NBA team coming off WCF, getting a huge upgrade at PG to go along with one of the most dominating and popular players.
I tend to agree. I don't know what to think about the Texans really...but agree entirely on the rest.
With Bagwell injuring his wrist in '94, it's unlikely he returns in time to make a difference. His injury happened almost a full month later than Springer hurt his.
I don't think anyone was topping the Expos that year. The saddest part of that strike was seeing that team dismantled.
I think the Texans are easily the weakest on-field product. But I'm basing this more on the popularity of JJ Watt, who I argue is already the second-most popular sports figure in Houston history.
1978 through 1980 was really the best period for sports in Houston followed by the early mid 90s then the mid-late 80s. It's hard to beat Moses Malone, Luv Ya Blue and Richard/Ryan combination of larger than life personalities dominating a city. Heck Gordy Howe was leading the Aeros to a couple of World Hockey League titles at the time. If not for some truly awful luck, the city likely would have had titles in all of their major sports during that period.
I was going to say the same. '86 was fairly awesome, too, with the Rockets in the championship, the Astros in the playoffs and the Oilers building toward a playoff run (that started in '87).
Was he confused? Dishman didn't score a TD; Givins scored the only Oiler TD that day. (Although Dish did intercept a pass *in the end zone.*) (Sorry; we have to properly preserve our Oiler past...)
