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.

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!

Donovan McNabb and his Philadelphia Eagles played to a 13-13 tie when they played the Cincinnati Bengals last weekend. The Eagles were favored to win the game and to have played to a tie against the lowly Bengals was the story. The media missed the main story focusing instead on a minor issue [...]

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.

To hear the fans talk, you’d think the Texans were the Aggies after losing to perennial whipping boy, Baylor.

If the Texans can figure out what happens to their defense in the second half, they’ll be competitive the rest of the way.