When you’re a Houston Texans fan, there is an unspoken understanding that nothing can or ever will be normal during a game; and if it is, it’s usually a trap somehow. And certainly today’s game was no different.
The Texans, in Lovie Smith’s debut as head coach and with the Uvalde High School football team in attendance, chose to play one of the strangest games of football I’ve ever seen.
It was like if you took the myth of Icarus and put it in football form and modified the ending.
If you’re not familiar with Icarus, here’s the really short version:
Icarus and his father Daedalus are stuck in a prison on an island with no means of escape.