[RANT]Does Houston Not Care about Sports Outside of Football?

You know, its funny, I've been a Texans fan since day 1. I've been through all the bad years, very rarely did I see anybody representing the Texans. People just didnt really care about the Texans.

Recently, these past two years, Texans have had some success and now everybody and their ****** momma is a Texans fan. Everywhere I go theres Texans fans everywhere with their texans hats, shirts and jerseys. I have neighbors with texans signs, banners and flags on their front lawn!

Make no mistake, Houston is a bandwagon town. All these bandwagoners that claim to be "fans" are really the worst kind of people. I get so annoyed by all these bandwagon fans b****ing about the texans. Where were they when the texans were 4-12, 6-10, 2-14?

If the Texans continue to lose watch em jump ship and go back to watching the Cowboys.

 

The 2-14 texans had better rating then the astros when they were having a NLCS game.

 

When it comes to watching non rockets and non texans game, I've started to prefer NFL > NBA. NBA doesn't really heat up until the second half anyways. Good teams coasting for a while. You can't really coast in the NFL.

 

What I meant by that was that it's a one dimensional town when it comes to the sports attention. That can't be said for a lot of other sports towns even when Football is #1 in those towns. Just shows how much bigger football is in Houston than any other sport.

 

Football is king in 90% of this country. NBA, aside from a few choice cities (LA/Boston/NY/CHI) has traditionally lagged well behind Football, Baseball, & even NCAA BB (During conference and NCAA tournaments).

Just the way it is. Houston is no exception, and like most of the south, is even more skewed towards Football than the rest of the country.

The Rockets need to prove it on the court, likely by making the finals, before the city of Houston will be in love with them.

 

It's like that in every city. No one is lining up to watch the Jaguars in Jacksonville. Of course people will be more invested in a team that is actually good.

 

All major cities, besides St. Louis, with both a football and/or baseball/basketball team are talking football right now.

Maybe Pittsburgh is a little skewed towards the Pirates right now, but plenty of Steeler-centric talk still dominates.

 

I'm a Rockets fan, but in general for NBA games I don't really care to watch until the 4th quarter.

 

What about the Browns? Browns have been a joke for a very long time. The last time they made the playoffs was over a decade ago. Yet, the fans are still passionate, they still show up to their games knowing that their team will end up dissapointing the fan base.

Eagles as well. Eagles fans are intense fans. They love their team no matter what. Sure, they cuss and fight all the time but they still love their Eagles

 

Every town is a "bandwagon" town.... go to Chicago (a great sports town) and you will see Blackhawk jerseys and Bears jerseys everywhere...... 5 years ago you never saw Blackhawk jerseys anywhere and amazingly when the Bears win, everyone wears their gear.....

It is just how it is.

 

Cannot agree..... go to Chicago and you will see that 90% of the attention is on the NFL and the Bears..... hell, the Packers get more attention than the Cubs or Bulls.... It is big everywhere now, the NFL rules... for better or worse.

 

As a Texans fan, why in the world would this piss you off?

 

I wouldnt say it pisses me off, I just strongly dislike bandwagon fans. Those are the same people that never followed the texans until they started winning. The same people that care about their football team only when it's "convenient" for them.

 

Sure... every city has this.

I know plenty of people who used to be Astros season ticket holders 10 years ago. Now, the team is not so good and the attendance is minimal... but the same people will be back once the team starts to get good again.

None of them "stopped" being fans... its just that you'll rarely find a fan-base that support the team with the same fervor in losses that they do when they are winning.

Only difference between the Astros situation now and the Texans situation then is that the Astros have been around longer... for the Texans, once they became good for the first time, they generated a lot of first time fans. They'll go away when/if the team starts struggling again as well.

 

Why would y'all ignore this:

I knew RACCOON wasn't real.

A gem! :grin:

 

fairweather, not bandwagon.. every city is a fairweateher city.. even the one sport cities.. remember when everyone raved about jazz fans and their commitment.. well that arena was half empty ast year.. just like okc fans now during this run, give it 5-10 years and watch how those passionate fans disappear..

 

they actually draw very well, but there stadium is so huge it looks empty, they draw 60 thousand people a game.. which by nfl standars is low..

 

Bulls had pretty good attendance even when they sucked. The cubs have sucked for a 100 years and they still draw a lot of fans.

 

Sacramento Kings had one of the longest sellout streaks at one point back in the 90s and were terrible, but then they weren't competing against any other pro teams in the area either.

 

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