Once again, other writers follow where Off the Kuff leads. Not only does Richard Connelly of the Houston Press take his shot at poor defenseless Fran Blinebury, he even quotes LA Times writer TJ Simers doing the same:

After the [Houston] Texans won their first game," he wrote, "a sports columnist for the Houston Chronicle wrote: 'The Texans came out like old-time gunslingers, their six-shooters blazing, and served notice there was a new marshal in town.' Just think, if we had gotten the team instead of Houston, I could have written like that.