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When it comes to facing ridiculously high expectations, Warren Moon can relate to Kevin Kolb. In 1985, the rebuilding Houston Oilers gambled on Moon’s cannon right arm and burgeoning legend when they signed him away from the Canadian Football League, where he’d led Edmonton to five straight championships. They made him the league’s highest-paid quarterback before he’d thrown his first NFL pass, sending a clear and powerful message to his teammates that a new sheriff had arrived. “Nobody knew who I was,” Moon recalled. “Now, all of a sudden, this guy’s coming to Houston — an African-American at the same time; the only African-American quarterback in the league in ’85. There was a lot of

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Can Kolb chisel his own legend?

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