It was the best of times and it was the worst times. Halfway across the country, the hometown Houston Astros were squeezing out a key victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in game five of the World Series. In Houston, the hometown football team was losing another predictable game to the Philadelphia Eagles 29-17. You couldn’t get a much starker contrast between the two teams from Houston.
Even though the Houston Texans lost by double digits, they ended up playing better than they had the previous week against the Tennessee Titans.