Doomsday101
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People my age became NFL fans in an era where the Oilers were almost always pretty bad, and the Cowboys were always Super Bowl contenders, although admitted the Earl Cambell/Dan Pastorini/Bum Phillips years were pretty entertaining. But from the outset the team in Houston was always kind of an afterthought for a lot of people in Texas.
Even since the Texans have been in the NFL they have been mostly irrelevant except the last few years, and they don't even have the ability to harken back to the "good old days".
There were Oiler players like Center Carl Mauck, who hated the Cowboys and us fans here in Houston:
During the 1977 preseason, Mauck became so fed up with the saturation of the Star in Houston that he spent a post-victory interview saying he would gladly help geographically confused Cowboys fans relocate from the Bayou City to that other city up north. Then he took to the airwaves to strengthen his sermon.
"All you people that love them, I've got a buddy here that will move you up there at a great price," Mauck recalled saying. "Why don't you just move up there if you love them so much?"
Thirty-seven years later: "You can't believe all the calls and all the crap that came out. I irritated the living (crap) out of them."
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sp...Cowboys-renew-bitter-I-45-rivalry-5801637.php