The #Humblebragger

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten Oilers lore—     While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a thudding, As of some one violently chopping, chopping at my chamber door. “’Tis Earl Campbell,” I muttered, “running over some defender poor—             Only this

The Texan Football Experiment

In 2013, researchers at the University of Houston exposed five people to an entire season of some of the worst football of all time. Promising potential subjects the opportunity to watch every minute of an all-time great season by a generational defensive football talent, rent-free and supplied with endless barbecue,

The Monkey’s Paw : A Texan Tale

Years ago I went to a dinner party. In attendance at this party were an old soldier, who had traveled extensively in India and a Houston Oilers fan. After dinner, over brandy and cigars, the Oilers fan was complaining about Bud Adams's management of the team. He

Selfieman

"Come on man, do it." "No, I don't want to." "What, are you SCARED?!" "No! I just...don't want to do it!" "You'll never have a chance at starting in the NFL unless you do it! Everybody does it!" "Unless you blow out your knee you mean...." "Whatever." "OK FINE!! I'm not scared!" Zach Mettenberger enters the Tennessee Titans'

The Dirk Half

A number of years ago, back before my children were born, I traveled quite a bit for work. One fall I found myself in Little Rock, Arkansas for a two week assignment. Little Rock isn't much of a city for tourists, so during the weekend I was there I thought

The Price of the Cost

Veteran Linebacker Brian Cushing is escorted into the office of his agent, Drew Rosenhaus. With his coach, Bill O'Brien, the agent delivers an insightful plea to his client. Two of the men most invested in Cushing will beg for the star to allow his individual performance to taper off. Unfortunately for them, negotiations

Don’t Turn on the Lights!

Sarah commandeered the room in the basement of her dorm as soon as she realized she would have to pull an all-nighter in order to prepare for tomorrow’s mid-term exam. Her roommate, Skylar, liked to get to bed early, so she packed up everything she thought she would need and went

In the Dome of Dementia

How we came to that blasphemous place is a tale so unworthy of the appalling events that succeeded it that I hesitate to offer any word on the subject at all. Suffice to say we were retained through intermediaries acting on behalf of what they would only describe as "a party

I WOULD LIKE A SELFIE

“I Would Like A Selfie” For context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7xWw-_VIy0&ab_channel=JASONSCARYSTORYS Outside of a small town in Central Texas was a supposed haunted house. This house was surrounded by a relatively thick woods, and had been abandoned for untold years. Local children had learned legends of how every night, a severed head would fall down its decrepit chimney. A

Waiting For Godot: Your Baffling Buffalo Bills Bye Brief

So I gave my two cents regarding the unreliability of preseason predictions back in my Pats Preview, although my revised conclusion the God is Dead seems be holding in that TAWM TERRIFIC has not yet succumbed to Stage 3 Spontaneous Combustion. But with regard to the Bills, we all thought we