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What?s another few hundred million when you?re talking about Texas football? Energy billionaire Robert McNair was oilman-frank about how he brought the NFL back to Houston ?- by going "higher than any reasonable person would go" with a negotiations-ending $700 million bid for a franchise. "We knew we differentiated ourselves," he said. Result? Two groups (one led by Hollywood power broker Mike Ovitz) that wanted to bring a team back to oft-abandoned Los Angeles are going home unhappy. And the price of a sports team ? which these days comes with the additional cost of the kind...
...have been his city?s fans. L.A. certainly had plenty going for it, namely television. With broadcast deals skyrocketing at least as fast as franchise fees, TV is the best source of the league?s long-term revenues, and Los Angeles is the nation?s second largest media market; Houston is the 11th. Both cities have shed teams in recent years ? the Oilers left Houston in 1996, and both the Rams (in 1995) and Raiders (in 1994) have found it too hard to make a go of it in L.A. But it was McNair that came up with $195 million...
...Raiders featured three players who weighed 240 pounds or less and one at 259. Their most effective interior lineman, Alex Houston, weighs only 240. They were going up against a Harvard line that averages 284 pounds, but the size factor hindered Harvard as much as it helped...
...Crimson's next possession, Houston blew into the backfield to stop a Wilford option keeper for a loss of two, then Wilford had to pull the ball down on the next two plays and scramble for his life. Harvard's next third-down conversion attempt also failed because of pressure on Wilford, and the one after that ended with a four-yard sack...
...have gone too far, however. He got personal in his attack of a teammate, one who is more important to the team than Pippen. Nevertheless, Houston has to wonder whether getting rid of a surly player is worth strengthening a Western Conference opponent in Portland, which might even ship Pippen to the Lakers...