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The Houston Texans played their first game ever on Sept. 8, 2002 ...
And beat the Dallas Cowboys 19-10 on two TD passes by David Carr, who was playing his first NFL game after being the first overall pick in that year's draft. One went to Billy Miller and the other to Corey Bradford.
If you care, the Dallas QB was Quincy Carter, which tells you where Dallas was in those days.
When the Texans and Cowboys meet at Reliant Stadium on Sunday, it will be only the third time they've played in what then-commissioner Paul Tagliabue called before that first game "the Texas Super Bowl.'' The Cowboys won the 2006 meeting, 34-6, a score that most people expected for that opening game.
If Houston wins this one, it won't be an upset. The Texans, in fact, are favored by three points, just what they get for home field. But it certainly will intensify the crisis atmosphere around the Cowboys, whose fans had assumed (never assume) that they'd be playing in the real Super Bowl next February in Jerry Jones' Arlington Pleasure Dome. Is Wade Phillips gone if they lose? Jason Garrett? Tony Romo? Jerry Jones gone in a coup by his son, Stephen?
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