Austin is where the true fans meet and duke it out. Where Rocket fans show there colors in front of Spurs and Mavs fans. But I guess you are too afraid of them or you have force field around the 610 loop that you cannot leave or you will be vaporized.
I am actualy south of 610 in the NASA area where ASTROphysists TEXANS are building ROCKETS. Have fun with your enchanted rock.
While I *love* talking smack and pointing out Houston's supreme supremacy over all other pretenders, I must pick this one little nit: the Longhorns say hi.
you aren't really a houstonian. you aren't even in the loop. have fun in Pearland or Clear Lake or the Woodlands.
Aggie, I presume? Or Cougar or Owl, perhaps? I'm none of the above. I just want every team from Texas to win every time. Then, when they play one another, I want the undefeated team to win. Because I'm a "Texas bandwaggoner", I guess--I want the championship in Texas. I don't care if it's in the Panhandle, in Austin, in CS, or H-town, or wherever, as long as it's in Texas. That, of course, excludes North Oklahoma (Dallas).
There's been a raging VY/Mario/Texans debate going on at KBME 790 for a couple of hours now. The 790 talking heads are taking shots at all of the VY fans. Their basic premise is that if you are a football fan in Houston you don't root against your home team which is the Texans even for a hometown phenom like VY. What they are conveniently overlooking is that not all pro football fans in Houston are Texans fans and to smugly keep telling people that they have to "get over it" does nothing to win them over. It only fans the flames so to speak which is exactly what they want to happen (it's called ratings). I personally think that a lot of folks are using VY to express their extreme displeasure with the Texans franchise and its lack of success and the overt stupidity it has displayed since its inception. If the Texans players and coaches don't like this and want it to change, then a good place to start would be on the field Sunday. Beating VY & Tennessee on the field would go a long way toward showing the doubters that this is no longer the same old Texans (which would be a welcome relief considering what we saw last week).
while i can in agree with a lot of what you said, i'll be damned if somebody can consider themselves a Texans fan 14 games a year, and a VY (read: Titans) fan for the other 2.... like the one caller from Cleveland emphatically stated, you would be out of your damn mind if anyone - even the biggest ohio state homer - would root for Santana Moss the day he walked into cleveland stadium just because he was a buckeye; and you would probably be shot if you rooted for ANYONE who plays for the ravens. i was on 6th street w/ about 100,000 of my closest longhorn fans the night vince owned USC, and i was extremely disappointed when he passed him up.... but as a houstonian, i will NEVER root for the f*cking titans. VY or no VY.
The thing that everyone's forgetting is that the reasons Cleveland fans feel that way is that they grew up rooting for the Browns. How many people here "grew up" rooting for the Texans? Nobody. Some people are able to find something about a team that they love even without a history. I did that when the Dynamo came to town last year. I'm jealous of those of you who have become diehard Texans fans. I wish I could feel that way about them because they're a Houston team. I just don't. It has nothing to do with winning and losing. I watched nearly every minute of every game they've played rooting for them the whole way. There's just something missing and I don't know what it is. Comparing Cleveland fans to Houston fans is comparing apples to oranges. They are rooting for the "same team" they grew up rooting for. I think this whole VY thing would be completely different if the team were the Houston Oilers because everyone would have had that immediate connection to their childhood. That's why people root for sports teams. They root for them because it's the team they grew up rooting for. It's the team their parents and grandparents grew up rooting for. When that connection isn't there, it's just harder to be so diehard about the team.
So, you think had Modell been able to keep the Browns' name/history, there'd be people in Cleveland rooting for Baltimore over the Cleveland Firelakes? Very, very doubtful.
Rockets fan in the 512. Spurs is 212 I think. Vince is loved everywhere! 512,713,218, every area code!
Man, you have described the way I feel perfectly. I grew up as an OILERS fan and I absolutely despise Bud Adams for the POS that he is and it would please me to no end if the earth was to open up beneath him sending him straight to hell. While I follow the Texans, I just don't feel the same emotional attachment that I did before. It certainly doesn't help matters when after 12 years of no pro football in Houston, the team that replaced them comes in and picks up where the Oilers left off in ineptness, stupidity and above all else, losing. The smartest thing that Cleveland did was to force the NFL to keep the Browns name in Cleveland. Had that occurred here, then many more folks - especially old timers like myself - would still have that bond with the past. And I'm certain that I'm not the only person who feels this way.
Wow, there's some serious haters on here today. Why the Houston/Austin hate? Just because VY played at Texas instead of Houston? Just because VY went to Madison instead of Travis? Just because one team moved to . . . Tennessee? Wow. To put it in perspective, MEOWGI, the sports breakdown in Austin is roughly (as I experience it): NBA 30% Spurs 30% Rockets 20% Mavs 20% other (with the Lakers and Knicks making up a disproportionate number) -----hardly "Spursville" -- there are waaaaaay more folks from Houston here than from SA... NFL 85% Cowboys 10% Texans 5 % other (with a disproportionate number of Saints fans in here) MLB 75% Astros 5 % Rangers 20% other (being largely Yankees/Red Sox -- obviously) Hockey ----is not a sport--- True, Austin has no professional sports team. However, the great citizens of this city are as passionate about the Longhorns as any fan of any sport on any level in any city I've ever seen. Houston fans of the Texans/Rockets/Astros don't even come close. To you, College Football (or Basketball, I'm assuming) aren't "real" sports. To many, many folks around the country, they're the only sports. This board seems to have great difficulty separating opinion from fact. Sheesh... Go Texans! Beat the crap out of the Titans! Go Rockets! Go Longhorns! Hell...Go Coogs and Owls! Whatever... (Die, Dallas. Seriously.)
good post Futants. Representing the Rockets vs Mavs in Austin at the sports bar is a moment I'm proud of. Rocket fans yelling smack to Mav fans. That's more fun than staying at home watching it on TV. Oh yes, Rocket fans do represent in the 512!
