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The last time we watched the Houston Texans play a football game they went up 24-0 on the Kansas City Chiefs, on the road, in the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs, and then proceeded to give up 41 straight points and lose 51-31. This is the closest the Texans have ever been to an AFC Championship game. Houston football fandom is divided into two different franchises. The Oilers, who played in Houston from 1960 to 1996, and eventually moved to Tennessee to become the Titans, and the Texans, who became the 32nd franchise in the NFL in 2002, and continue to play football against the Titans to this day. In the past there was a separation between those who were alive and loved the Oilers, who lived through the years of misery and defeat, and the generation of millennials and zoomers, who only know Houston Texans football. But after last season’s playoff collapse, there’s now a tether, a tie, an umbilical cord that binds these dizygotic twins who are fans of Houston football. Because like the 2019 Houston Texan