Four (possibly five) Texans have been chosen to go to the NFL Pro Bowl in January.
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The Texans had a distinct game plan going into this weekend's NFL Draft: improve the defense. Despite the best efforts of Mario Williams, DeMeco Ryans, and Dunta Robinson, the team had one of the worst defenses in the AFC last year, and GM Rick Smith set out to rectify that deficiency.
Hopefully, the 2008 Texans season will be remembered by history as the first year of the Steve Slaton Era (not for any combination of the words "Rosenfels" and "helicopter"), as the rookie from West Virginia gave Texans fans their first look at a marquee RB since the teams inception.
Last week, Houston Texans cheerleader, Randi, was voted by Maxim Magazine readers as the NFL's Hottest Cheerleader.
Well, today is the first day of finding out which four Houston icons makes Houstonist's Mt. Rushmore of Sports and former Houston Oilers running back Earl Campbell gets the first spot.
ESPN did their take last week on the four best athlete's from each state. For Texas, Lance Armstrong, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan and Tom Landry were selected as Texas' Mt. Rushmore.
Tomorrow is the biggest day in professional football: two sets of grown men in protective padding, brain buckets and tight pants will go head-to-head to see which is the best team in the nation. Whether you feel this to be the most spectacular sporting event, a good excuse to party like a rock star or you care less about it, but, you dig the commercials, most of the nation will be glued -- beverage in one hand, nacho in the other -- to the television.
Houston Texans tight end Owen Daniels will be making his first ever trip to the NFL's All-Star game in Hawaii next month.
Here is what Houstonist is doing this weekend:
This one was an easy choice. Andre Johnson was without a doubt one of the best players in the NFL this year.
Houston Texans running back Steve Slaton was the pick for this award.
There were many candidates for this award but Rice All-American wide receiver Jarrett Dillard just stood out above the pack.
It's been a long drought since UH's last bowl win; 28 years to be exact but now the Houston team can get that monkey off their back as they enjoyed a 34-28 win over Air Force Wednesday afternoon at the Armed Forces Bowl in Ft. Worth, TX.
"Rice University" and "athletic success" are not words that often go together, at least outside of baseball season. Apparently no one passed this message on to Chase Clement.
Umm, that wasn't how that was supposed to go. Riding a wave of momentum after last week's upset win over the Titans, the Texans had two pansy opponents left on their 2008 schedule, with eyes on an even more successful 2009. The normally woeful Raiders pulled the rug out from under them on Sunday in a 27-16 loss, and now an 8-8 finish is the best they can hope for (again).
Can you remember the last time a Houston pro football team had a winning season?
Two Houston Texans and greater Houston-area athlete Shane Lechler were named to the 2009 Pro Bowl roster this afternoon.
Well, that felt good. After years of futility against the ertswhile Oilers, the Texans smacked down Bud Adams' boys on Sunday in a game where the 13-12 final score didn't do justice to the dominant performance by the Texans offense.
C-USA has named their top players for the year and UH and Rice represented the Bayou City well by placing four players on the team.
It wasn't pretty, but the Texans' thrilling win on Sunday showed that the once moribund team still has some life in it with three weeks yet to play in the season. With the divisional rival Tennessee Titans up next, the Texans will have to try to carry this week's emotion into one of their most crucial home games ever.
Houston, here we go again. It's UH v. Air Force for the second time this year except it will be played in Ft. Worth instead of Dallas.
For the second time since John F. Kennedy was in office, the Rice Owls are bowl bound and this year they will travel a mere three miles to Reliant Stadium as they await to find out who their opponent will be at this year's Texas Bowl which will be played on December 30 at 7 p.m.
Matt Schaub? Big Bad Bust! Sage Rosenfels? Well, he has seven turnovers in seven quarters of play this year to go along with that Texas-sized meltdown against the Colts in week four. Sprinkle some sage on that Texan fan.
On Saturday, the Houston Cougars (5-4, 4-1 CUSA) routed the Tulane Green Wave (2-7, 1-4 CUSA) 42-14 at Robertson Stadium.
Houstonist is giving you a fair warning. At least a year in advance. Don't roll over next year when you're tuning into some NFL football and you notice the Houston Oilers playing the New York Titans in Nashville. Why you ask? It's the 50th anniversary of the AFL and the NFL will honor the original AFL teams next year.
Mike Singletary, a graduate of Houston's Evan E. Worthing High School, was named interim head coach of the San Francisco 49ers last night after the the team fired former head coach Mike Nolan.
The Houston Texans will be looking to do what no other team in franchise history has ever done before; win for the third consecutive time. And this week, the Houston team welcomes the winless Cincinnati Bengals to Reliant Stadium as head coach Gary Kubiak looks to turn the 2008 season into a positive one.
Houstonist was in attendance on Thursday night as the Houston Cougars overcame a 17-point halftime deficit to stun the Alabama-Birmingham Blazers with 42 unanswered second half points to win 45-20 in front of a national tv audience.
This has to be the biggest loss in Texans history. Sage Rosenfels made an emergency start today because Matt Schaub was hospitalized overnight because of a viral infection. Rosenfels had his chance to shine and maybe even take over the quarterback position because of Schaub's mediocre start to the season.
Coming off an unexpected bye week because of Hurricane Ike, Matt Schaub and the Texans offense came out flat in a 31-12 loss at LP Field in Nashville against the Tennessee Titans.