I hope Mario Williams stomps a mudhole in Young's Arse!! Young, as far as I'm concerned, is enemy #1 He plays for Bud Adam's freaking Titans....I HATE the Titans. Therefore I HATE Young. I respect Young....WISH he was as Texans...but he is not. So I hope Young enjoys his first game back in Houston when he is on his back with snot bubbles drooling out of his nose and he's looking up at Reliant Staduims roof with Mario Williams standing over his weak beaten body.
i don't know...i'm pretty blindly loyal to the astros, frankly. but that comes as a product of rooting for them since i can remember. of going to games with my dad when i was 5 years old. of crying when they lost the 86 NLCS. of watching games with my grandmother, a HUGE astros fan, while she was dying of lung cancer. they were just a huge part of growing up in houston for me. the oilers and rockets had those aspects as well. that builds fans. that history...that aspect where they're literally "part" of you. i'm just having a hard time understanding how anyone can be there yet with the texans.
Yet you can still call a spade a spade if they do something different in your estimation. I was royally pissed and threw all kinds of fits when they dissed Shane the way they did. (I was wrong, of course, but I spoke my piece.) Same here! Of course, my story's different, but you know what I mean. It's not the same kind of *there*. I was all ape for the Comets for about 90 days, too--because they're from Houston. I'd still be pumped about the Comets, but the WNBA sucks. The NFL, however, does *not* suck, and by virtue of being from Houston, the Texans are my team. Of course they don't yet mean to me what the Oilers did or what the Astros do, and that will take decades to build. But it's going to be sweet (if we're still around) when we get *there* with the Texans. Hofefully, there's a couple SuperBowl championships/MVP's/Hall of Fame players on the way. Mebbe Demeco is the first!
A few thoughts here on people who feel a "connection" to the Texans: David Carr is not Warren Moon Zach Wiegart and Chester Pitts are not Munchak and Matthews Moron Greenwood is not Ray Childress As such I feel no loyalty to this team the way I did to the defunct Oilers or the Astros for instance. The Texans are a group of loser scrubs that I didn't grow up watching and to whom I have no connection whatsoever.
and? Guess what, if the Oilers were still playing in Houston today ( ), Warren, Munchak, Childress, and Matthews would *not* be playing. (But they'd still be our Oilers .) And such is your prerogative. I exercise my prerogative to feel immediately connected due to the name, "Houston" on their jerseys.
There's no way to be sure of that. If the Oilers stay here, the course of their history is much different. Perhaps they don't make that SuperBowl; perhaps they make that one and two more. Perhaps they don't have even a top five pick last year; perhaps they have the #1 pick (and go with Bush!).
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okay, so you guys grew up rooting the Oilers. You have memories of going to the Dome and all that. Okay, how do you build a relationship with the Texans? By jumping on the bandwagon of another team? You think the Titans really give a ****? What about your kids? You gonna make the roadie to Nashville with your kids, like you and your daddy and grandpy, and momma did? Of course you have no relationship with the Texans. You've experienced 35 years of losing with the Oilers. What's five years with the Texans. Tell me what the Houston Oilers have done. Since the Merger in 1970, (i think it was 1970), they had two apperences in the AFC Championship? Two AFC Central Divisions? A handful of apperences? (if i recall, it's 3:12 AM). Yes, they won 2 AFL Championships, but I guess that's different. It's kinda like the Middle East. You can't have the adults sort it out. You need the kids to figure it out. I wonder if people in LA are Rams fans and Raiders fan. I wonder if Current Browns fans are fans of the Ravens. Anybody know?
if the Browns passed on LeBron James and Carmelo for Darco, then yes, Browns fans would be rooting for the Ravens. The LeBrons!
The Oilers were far from losers during their time in Houston. They had some of the greatest teams to never win a championship. I know moral victories don't count. They choked many times in the playoffs (death, taxes, and an Oilers collapse) but during the regular season they were on fire. If you never saw the Run and Shoot and the House of Pain you missed out. I missed out on Bum and Earl (the Luv Ya Blue days). Fortunately I got to see Moon in his prime. People's hatred of Bud makes them forget the good times. Sure what he did was ****ty. I have forgiven him because my favorite player in any sport plays for his team. Like the Chronicle said the betrayal of the Texans passing on VY to some was just as devastating as losing the Oilers. I've told you what the Oilers/Titans did for me. What have the Texans done? Nothing.
Then you're right...you shouldn't root for the Texans. In fact, please don't. Bottom line, Kam's right. The Oilers did NOTHING but break the hearts of their fans. The Texans made some bad personnel decisions. They've done nothing in their short existence. However, they are still the HOUSTON Texans. Vince is an incredible athlete, and so far has been a great role model. He deserves all the success that he earns and I wish him the best. But some of you people are acting like the Texans broke your broke your hearts by not agreeing to go to the prom with you or something. So what do you do? You act like a bunch of petulant children about it. Frankly, it's sad and I will be embarassed by anyone watching CBS today and listening to you root for another team. I don't care if Jesus himself is QB'ing the Titans, I am not going to root for them.
But Jesus was a hometown hero, who could be walking on the water at Relient stadium 8 times a year instead of just 1. DD
As I have posted before, the Texans made a possibly fatal blunder by passing on Vince. They failed to heed the lessons of Oilers history in Houston - a history that was bittersweet to say the least. Oilers' fans suffered through long tough years of losing capped with some brief moments of success. The way that dog Bud Adams raised his hind leg and pissed all over the Houston fans who'd been there with the team through thick and thin left a foul, bitter taste in their collective mouths. Above anything else, McNair had to be aware that he was drawing his fan base from these people and more than anything, he had to make sure he did not recreate the "Oilers" experience ( the losing one that is). Unfortunately, that's exactly what he's done with volumes of help from Casserly & Capers. Now it's the worst of all possible worlds for the McNair & the Texans: their "poster boy" QB is playing his way off the team while the young Jedi Vince is leading his team to wins while playing for the evil emperor Bud Adams. No matter the outcome of today's game, this will mark a turning point in the fortunes of the Texans. A bad loss today will set them back years in winning the hearts of local football fans. And some may never come back.
As soon as the Texans make a playoff run and/or win the Super Bowl, I guarantee you that every last fan will be back, every single one, except for maybe .000001%. Winning heals all.
