Official Texans vs. Vikings Game Thread, 10/4/2020

[Warren]

Originally Posted by painekiller

I've recently moved to College Station, and they had the Brady vs anyone over the Texans, 70 miles from the game. Thankfully I have the Sunday Ticket.

I almost wish I had watched Brady play. If you took the under for how long Bill would let someone else call the plays at 3 games, than you can collect your money.

Welcome to town -- I live in Bryan. My understanding is that since we're outside of the Texans' TV market area, CBS/Fox decides what games we get.

As for Fox, KYLE, the "local" affiliate is really just a re-branded version of the KWKT broadcast from Waco/Temple/Killeen. So we get whatever games Fox gives Waco and Fox doesn't seem to view Waco as having particularly strong ties to the Texans. If there is a choice between showing the Cowboys and the Texans, it will be the Cowboys every time.

If the Texans are on CBS, we will almost always get the Texans on KBTX because, I assume, B/CS is so close to Houston. But it's not automatic, and if the Texans are sucking and there is a sexier game available then we may be out of luck.

[HPF Bob]

I remember when Austin affiliates had issues with showing the Texans or the Titans during Vince Young's quick NFL career. Show the Texans, Longhorn fans complained. Show the Titans, Texans fans complained. The station finally decided to post a poll on their website and let the viewers decide.

I imagine B/CS had the same issue when Johnny Manziel was a Brown, although that didn't last long.