This is the big one. This is the one everyone had scrawled red on their planners, and set events for in their virtual calendars. It’s the time when the past and the present collide together into one chaotic and poetic platter of schadenfreude.
It’s a revenge game for everyone. For Hopkins, for Watt, for Johnson, and for a fanbase that was stuck watching listless Bill O’Brien game, after listless Bill O’Brien game, who destroyed the entire team by trading for a left tackle, and trading away a Hall of Fame wide receiver. Living in the remnants of his rubble, the only solace is watching Houston’s former greats in different colors, enacting their own revenge against the previous failures they were stuck playing through.