Curses are irrational. They aren’t real. Many of us who watch sports have to remind ourselves of these things in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
But if you look at the number of injuries to major pieces of both the Houston Astros (Jose Altuve, Yordan Alvarez, Michael Brantley, etc.) and the Houston Texans (Jalen Pitre, Jimmie Ward, the entire offensive line not named Shaq Mason, Derek Stingley Jr., etc.) and their on-field struggles and you’d start to wonder which Sumerian deity the city of Houston angered in the last 12 months.