After losing horrifically to the Houston Texans 23-14 in a home game where the dauntless Raider Power Mullet defense limited Yoostun to 32 yards passing yards and

-5! Negative five yards net passing yardage was what the Texans had earned at game's end. That the Raiders could not overcome such an utterly one-dimensional team is a new level of embarrassment in a season where new sub-basements of embarrassment have been breached over and over again, down and further down, like Oak Island's infamous Money Pit.

Luckily, few had to withstand this game since the local TV coverage was blacked out. Those Raider fans of you who went to this game; American Football Spectacular salutes your stolidness and your dedication to the Silver And Black in these painful times.

Now that this game has passed to its end, the Raiders are in a two horse race with those hapless Detroit Lions for the first overall pick in the 2007 NFL Draft.

Sportswriters just looove being able to trot out devastating statistics about recent Detroit results as a way of publicly repudiating (former 49er and Raider linebacker) Matt Millen's regrettable mismanagement of a once proud team. Like how the Lions have the NFL's worst record over the last six years at 23 and 69. Ugh. So horrendously squirm-inducing is that stat, it's like watching Fear Factor on TV or an Evil Dead movie.

Incidentally, Evil Dead writer/director Sam Raimi is from the Detroit area. Now he helms the Spiderman movie franchise. Well, then -- we suppose successful franchises are possible from Detroit after all!

Other folks can recap the HOU/OAK game. Let them. We're looking ahead to break down the last four weeks of the season for the Lions and the Raiders. Who will be #1?

still lost!