If Pro Bowl voters like Winston as much as I like his radio show, he’ll be in Hawaii this year. Winston’s show can be heard on SportsRadio 610 from 5-6 every Tuesday afternoon.

Marc Vandermeer, the voice of the Texans is to the Texans as Rush Limbaugh is to the United States. Does that make sense to you? Think about it.

Steve Slaton just scored on a 40 yard touchdown run over the right side. I thought Slaton’s ability to run would be key to this game. Big Eric Winston mans the right tackle spot for the Texans and Slaton has rushed for 127 yards and 2 touchdowns with Winston’s help.

With 9 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter, the Texans defense is looking good. Who would have thought? I knew that the Jaguars offensive line has had some trouble this year, but the Texans defense has been poor this year. The question is can the Texans defense hold up through the final quarter and a half of the game. A shut out by the defense would be an early Christmas for a much maligned defense.

The first thing I noticed when I turned on the tv is that the Texans crowd is strong. It is loud in the stadium and sounds like a bona fide NFL Monday Night Football game. Much talk today was about the fans not getting into their seats early enough. Many stay out in the parking lot too long tail gating. I’m not sure how the crowd started out at kickoff, but they sound great right now.

When I think of Monday Night Football, I think of Howard Cosell, Don Meredith, and Frank Gifford. I escpecially loved halftimes back in those days. Howard Cosell describing the Sunday’s previous games was something to look forward to every Monday night. I don’t really care for the current crop of announcers doing Monday night’s. I don’t dislike them. I just don’t like them.

An odd thing happens to me when I’m around family in Dallas. I find myself rooting for the Cowboys. Ordinarily, when I’m in Houston, the Cowboys are the last team I want to watch play football. I love talk radio that bad mouths anything Dallas. My love-to-hate the Cowboys attitude began in college.

Bailout is the term currently being used in a financial sense to get the economy back on the road to recovery. Following the 1996 football season, the Houston Oilers would not play another football game in Houston. Bud Adams, the owner of the Oilers and now the Titans was moving his team to Tennessee.

So, Happy Thanksgiving Texans fans. We get to root for a good group of players. I think John McClain would say that we don’t root for punks, jerks, or losers!

Slaton is coming off his best running game as a Texan. He ran all over the Indianapolis Colts in last weeks loss. One of his runs went for 71 yards which is the current Texan record.