Winner. I still have a "Super Blue in '92" poster. IIRC, we won the AFC Central that year and had Home Field. And I dont believe this was a Divisional game as I thought we had a first round bye. That would have made this the Conference Semi-final game. Hosting at home against a washed up Montana, who would later get demolished against Buffalo the next week in the Conference Final.....yeah, that Oiler team was Super Bowl Bound. That might have been enough to keep them in Houston and keep the Luv Ya Blue love affair rollin....
Yes, we would've HOSTED the Bills the next week for a berth in the Superbowl. The thing about it was that we would’ve played Buffalo the next week and totally erased what happened the year before. We would’ve exercised those demons just 1 year later. Demons that everyone here is STILL dealing with more than a decade after the whole team skipped town. That Buffalo team was washed up and LORD KNOWS we would’ve had all the motivation we needed to mop the floor with them the next week. It could’ve changed everything. But the Chiefs caught us looking ahead and the rest is history.
if you're gonna go with that game, it was Blake Gideon. Not Crabtree. imo... my phone was broken on Gideon's play, cause I knew he dropped a championship appearance with no one around him and with a floater in the air.
The Super Blue in 92 year had the Buffalo game. Still have that poster too, came in the Chronicle right? The 1993 season/1994 playoffs was the KC game. ima, the Oilers were the 2 seed for the KC game, Bills were the 1 seed. Oilers could have played the Cowboys in the Super Bowl!
Okay, that makes more sense. I remember us having a bye week, but I don't remember us having home-field throughout. I would've remembered that. Still, going back to the scene of the crime (Rich Stadium) would have made beating them even more poetic. And an all-Texas Superbowl? I'm telling you....that would've changed EVERYTHING.
To me...since I have been on earth... Jazz/Rockets game 7 in 2007 is second to 2005's NLCS game 5 with the Astros and Cardinals. AT THE TIME...it hurt...I almost cried...and I was 20 at the time. I thought we we're screwed. Broncos/Oilers was horrible (4th on my list)...losing to KC in the dome = 3rd.
I remember Baggy finally getting a clutch post-season knock to tie the game 2 outs 2 strikes...I ran out of my breakroom screaming!!! Dan Miceli is the devil in my book, he ruined game 2 vs the Braves that year and finished it off my taking care of Game 6!!
Watching John Stockton hit that buzzer beater in Game 6 in 1997 still stings. I truly believe that Rockets team would have beaten the Chicago Bulls. What a series that would have been.
I mean, yes, it's therapy. But, it's so hard to move on when people keep bringing up the past! Honestly though, I don't think ANYTHING will beat the Chiefs-Oilers game for reasons already stated in this thread. And to me, a Super Bowl would mean SO much more than an Astros Championship or another Rockets title. This is Texas, where football is king. Just imagine how much buzz the city would get if the Texans go on an extended run, and actually have A PLAYOFF GAME. When that day finally comes, my GOD is that going to be exciting.
I appreciate it. It was theraputic for me. I dont know why, but it was. Just after talking to my buddy after NLCS Game 4, I figured this would be a pretty good thread. Those Oiler losses, Game 6 of 1986, and that Game 7 loss at home against the Jazz were just heart breakers. I think also that the Astros Game 6, Oilers vs Chiefs, and Game 7 against the Jazz were extra hard because those were losses at home. The Stockton shot was devastating as well.
Sad thing that has developed is that because all 3 major sports have suffered devasting lossess in almost everyway imaginable, everytime any of the 3 seem to be on the verge of accomplishing something special, or in the Texans case a winning season, the sarcastic nature in all the Houston sports fans pops out. It happens to me to me to often and honestly the only team that had erased it was of course the Rockets and even in 05-06 when the Sonics finally did us in during game 4 there was a point when they where down 20 I got the feeling, along with I am sure every Rockets fan, it wasnt over and sure enough the Rockets made a historic run to send it to OT.
although it feels much better now, the loss to the JETS this season was pretty darn painful just because my hopes were so high. like i said, it feels a lot better now. i also am pained by a loss that bucky richardson (oilers) had to the cowboys in 1994. one late hit by charles haley changed bucky forever. for some reason, i thought bucky was gonna be the man after he made that left handed pass to beat the cowboys in a pre season game.
Yeah the 2007 game 7 loss to Utah is probably my number 1 now that I think about it. I did shed a tear after the Tmac press conference. He wanted that so bad for this city.
Well in that case, you can also blame the coaching staff for bad clock management. Texas could have easily burned some more time on the their last possession.
