The new team’s offense was designed for a quarterback who didn’t show up for training camp and never set foot in the locker room. The biggest name—and body—on defense was ordered off the field after five plays, having been served with a restraining order that barred him from playing. And Texas’s only team in the inaugural season of the World Football League, fifty years ago, wasn’t even in Texas when the chaotic campaign lurched to its finish.“Everything about covering the Houston Texans, it was almost surreal,” recalled Tony Pederson, who covered the team for the Houston Chronicle.The WFL’s name was no accident—the upstart league launched with plans to locate franchises around the globe. That’s how San Francisco lawyer Steve Arnold bought the rights to a…
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