When you are a sick fan of a sports team, the team itself becomes intertwined with your own life. I remember what year something happened because of the Houston Texans. 2016 was [NAME REDACTED], 2011 was when the Texans finally won the AFC South, 2014 was when Bill O’Brien saw a dead cat talent bounce with Ryan Fitzpatrick, and 2017 was when Houston drafted Deshaun Watson.
I’ll always remember where I was. I was driving across I-10 out to the desert to devour the springtime. The golden disk was curving down below the edge of the Earth, and the sky was pinks, and blues the color of the Robin’s egg, and oranges, and yellows, and I had five more hours to go.