Exactly. People saying "well if he didnt somebody would have" Well, yeah probably would have tried. We tend to forget if it wasnt for him, the expansion team would have gone to LA instead of us. The NFL, the NFL owners, and the media all wanted it in LA. NOT Houston. The NFL gave the city of LA multiple extensions to get their proposal done. Bob had his finished before any deadline the NFL gave him. It was under Bob's leadership that the Houston bid for the team, and the new stadium proposal (which he paid his own money towards) got where it did and ultimately forced the NFL into having no choice but to give us the team. There has NOT been an expansion team since. Instead we had losers like the Rams/Chargers move back to LA and the Raiders to Las Vegas.... 17 years after Bob's team won the bid. Say what you want about the team, thats fine. I tend to agree its been down and mediocre at best, but Bob did bring back the NFL when the NFL was dead to the city of Houston. (and for the foreseeable future). For that I will always be grateful, for a true and true Houstonian. I guarantee half of these people never got to fully experience the POS that was Bud Adams.
Every time i see him and how thin and frail he looks, i think about how he doesn't have much longer. Hope he can hang in there a few more years.
Yup, last few times I saw him it didn't look good. Time is ticking which is sad. That also means we have to deal with Cal and Rick is even more far up his ass than Bobs.
People act like if McNair doesn't exist there would never be Houston football. We got the team cause LA said no. And there really wasn't any other competitior. If there were we'd have seen a new team relocate to somewhere beyond LA. In the end there are lots of billionaires who want to own pro football franchises and anyone who gets as good a stadium deal as the Texans would have no problem making the investment, whether through expansion on buying/moving existing team. Perhaps we would've gotten the team a few years later but we would've gotten one. So really all McNair has done is replace half decade worth of no football into that of crappy football. If that's worth a statue then we also need Matt Schaub statue alongside it.
this Football would be back in Houston at some point. Idk why some Houston fans like to pretend like we are some small market underdog city. No one was going to ignore the Houston market, especially for football for much longer
When though? It took 18 years before LA got their chance. Lets not act like it would have happened quickly. LA is and always will be a much larger market compared to Houston, no matter our football tradition.
