The Dreaded Vote of Confidence

[HPF Bob]

Originally Posted by chuck

I'm very sorry, friend, but the Houston fans don't deserve shit. They have sold out a stadium that houses a terrible and very occasionally mediocre franchise for nine years running. The fans do not demand accountability; they keep buying tickets and buying god knows what once they get into the stadium. They buy merchandise outside the stadium. Very much like government, you get the team you deserve. Houston fans, and I of course count myself in the vanguard here, are saps and idiots and have been completely hoodwinked and brainwashed

Fans tried the opposite approach and it gave us the Tennessee Titans.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

Fans tried the opposite approach and it gave us the Tennessee Titans.

Suits the shit out of me. Think of all the time and money and emotional anguish I would have saved if Tagliabue had given the franchise to the vacuous phonies in southern California.

[HPF Bob]

I hear ya, but I sure felt a void when there was no NFL team in Houston. I hoped having an NFL team without Bud Adams would be the cure. It might yet be but hasn't happened yet. Some say the ground around the Astrodome/Reliant is cursed. Given the sometimes excruciating way our teams have lost there, it does make me wonder a bit.

[superbowlbound]

I called in to one of the radio shows this week (couldn't tell you which one), because I'd heard a good 4 callers in a row bitching and moaning about how they'd been season ticket holders for 4, 5, 7 years and were tired of losing, but all said that they were renewing their tickets for next year. This was my first year to have season tickets, and if this vote of confidence can be taken at face value, it was also my last. I told them I'll still watch the games on tv at the pub, I'll wear my gear (it's really a substantial chunk of my wardrobe), but I won't spend one red cent on the team until I feel the organization is handling its business, and I was both lambasted and lauded. Chuck's right. We don't deserve any better, because the bottom line doesn't change. I was appalled at MNF in the first half. It was as if we were on offense the entire time. There were honestly multiple moments on defense when I was literally the ONLY one IN MY ENTIRE SECTION making any noise whatsoever. Our fans blow, our coach can't gameplan his way into spring break pussy (easiest thing I could think of), and the owner thinks at 5-8 he's doing a great job. I love my team, but I must've been a rapist or a murderer or whoever the guy is that invented the stage musical in a past life to deserve this shit.

And so it is, I'll still run my mouth in my gear at the sports bar; I'm still gonna tivo and archive every game we play; I'm not taking off the Texans stickers on my battle red truck (well, it's close); but I'm absolutely not giving the organization another dime of my hard earned cash without legitimate changes coming down. Period. That's that.

[NBT]

SBB - Hell I can't say as I blame you, or Chuck either. We have been the most crapped upon fans in the NFL. But we still could luck into that one coach and/or GM that is going to propel us into the big one. Fat chance you say, but if the hapless Indianapolis Colts of the '80s & '90s could do it, and MOST important - if the New Orleans Saints, of all the teams, could do it, so can we say I. Sure I have been saying/hoping this for over 50 years now, but I will always continue to hope.