Introduce Yourself: Hi, I'm bfd, and My Turn-Ons Are...

Hi, I’m Canada Goose. I’m 21 years old and one of the few Texans fans living in Canada. (Montreal to be exact). Anyways, to find out why I’m a Texans fan, I’ll take you back to 2002…

The Rose Bowl. Miami vs. Nebraska. National Championship. Anyways, The U stayed at my hotel. Andre put up 3848758 yards. Followed The U for a year, then followed Andre. Bought his jersey before he even put the “A” on it. Also, I have a Battle Red Carr jersey that makes me cry.

Hi, I’m DilloTex (aka HoundDog previously),
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Love my wife, dogs, and Houston Texans pretty much in that order.
Grew up a Cowboys fan… Completely lost interest when Satan bought the Cowboys and fired one of the finest men to ever walk a sideline (Tom Landry). Experienced something similar to what many here did when Beelzebud took the Oilers to Tennessee, in that I was without a real NFL rooting interest for a little over a decade. I was tickled when the Texans were announced as coming to Houston and I’ve followed passionately from game one which I drove to Fort Worth to watch with a bunch of my old (still-Cowboy-loving) buddies. 19-10. What a magical night.
Live in Austin.
Computer geek.

Been a fan of The Houston Texans since its debut against the cokewhores.
I love dark beer. I love Shiner(except blonde). I love football. I love redheads(preferably dutch) and asian girls. And I love music.

Hoping to see more lurkers de-lurk themselves. And every single one will get their rec’d cherry popped.

That is all.

My name is NoSafetiesNeeded and I have been following the Texans for many excruciating years. I currently live in Austin and a student at the University of Texas. I used to lurk on the blog for a while and officially signed up a couple of months ago.

My turn-ons include: hot girls at UT on gameday, any texans or texas victory, failure of the southern oklahoma franchise, failure of the minnesota favhrus, and huge failure by the ny jests. any texans player but especially eugene wilson , demeco ryans and he who is greater than everyone.

my turn-offs include: the red carpet zone, dunta robinson, brent farve, any mention of the oklahoma or ny franchise and bleach lemon scent.

I do a lot of things. I’ve been known to make outrageous claims like inventing the question mark. Sometimes I accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. I’m also the keeper of the glossary, which badly needs updating.

I was born and raised in Houston. Went to college in San Antonio. Ever since then, I’ve been a vagabond and have lived in several different places on several different continents. I currently live in Qatar with my wife and two (soon to be three) boys.

I’ve been a fan of Houston sports since about the age of eight. The first time I went to the Dome to watch the Astros play was on or about 1981.

This is my third season as a member of BRB and my first as a writer. My wife thinks I spend too much time on the internet.

I have a lot of hobbies and/or passions. In no particular order, they are: surfing, skiing, climbing, barbeque, poker, squash, lacrosse, playing guitar and seeing the world. In addition to the Houston teams, I’m a huge fan of Ajax Amsterdam, the greatest soccer team in the history of the cosmos. I speak four languages reasonably well and can cuss like a sailor in Spanish.

Turn ons: the sublime beauty of the Schaub to AJ completion; the audible gasp that is breath shooting out of a quarterback’s lungs as Mario hits him before he can release the ball; the arc of a breaking wave in crystalline blue waters; two feet of fresh powder on a 45-degree rock chute; and a smoker with a brisket cooking inside it and friends to drink beer with while it’s cooking.

Turn offs: people who still think that Mario wasn’t the right choice; BESF fans; whats-his-name; mainstream journalists who are too lazy to do any fact-checking and write something intelligent and provocative; and BESF fans.

Yes, that is actually my real name. I know, real original.

I have been a fan since day one. I admit, back in the day I hated football (soccer thing). I grew to love football after I had the pleasure to work for the Texans for a little over two years. Since then I have been a die-hard fan.

I live in Wisconsin but my Number 1 non-wisco team is the Texans. I’ve been a fan since year one, where David Carr continued to break my heart. I am a writer for Nascar Ranting & Raving, another fine SB Nation blog. I get a semi everytime Matt Schaub drops back to pass. And I’m not ashamed to say it.

Lifelong Houston _______fan. Born in Houston.Other than a few years in San Antonio I have lived either here in Houston or a short ride down I-10 in the Golden triangle. I support all of the Houston sports teams. Hell, I even watched five minutes of the comets first WNBA championship game. Five minutes was all I could take though.Texans are probably at the top of my list in terms of the ridiculous amount of time I spend obsessing over them, but I’m just as big of a Rockets, Astros, Dynamo fan too.

I also grew up on Texas Longhorn football with my old man and attended the University of Texas at Austin for a little while myself. On weekends. When Shake was there.

Side note-I might actually be bigger, fatter, and drunker than BFD….but I still have my hair. Well, some of it…. Ok, my hairline is teaching the french army a thing or two about retreating, but at this moment I think I still have more than him.

Turn-ons: beer, watching my teams win, 12 play TD drives consisting of nothing but handing the ball to Arian Foster(seriously that gave me wood), and pretty much any women who’s not completely repulsed by the thought of having sex with me.

Turn-offs: beer snobs, people with no spatial awareness as to the size of their car, Beelzebud, Southern Oklahoma, and any women who is not completely repulsed by the thought of sleeping with me…seriously WTF is she Thinking?

Call sign Maverick. I’m from Houston and go to Texas Tech, where just about everyone is a Cowboys fan. I’ve been a fan since 2002 and can safely say my life has been a hell of a lot better since football came back to Houston. I love this blog and all the contributors to it.

Turn ons include: girls with blond hair, girls with brown hair, girls with red hair, girls that aren’t bald, Bernard Pollard circa 2009, bald chicks.

Turn offs: beer snobs (like papabear said), hipsters, arm hair.

Have to say i lived in houston all my life until 5 months ago. Now i am in San Antonio wife and i both got two job offers we could not turn down. I was not around with the old oilers but when Moon and the RUN AND SHOOT offense came i really starting watching them. Quick does anybody know the receiver we had back then jeffries, duncan, hill, and givens right? Anyways married have 3 kids love them, still trying to get my wife to leave that NY team alone yes the giants. Otherwise then that just enjoying life to the fullest and i try and post some stuff on here every now and then. During the games it is hard to sit at the cpu and watch the game without getting pissed or excited.

Turn-ons- wife number 1 of course texans and i know i am going to it but Hard hitting Defense i just love it.. or by the way if nobody has seen this yet check it out had me all sentimental and shit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMoFwUNK_0&feature=player_embedded

I’m from houston and i live in houston
ive been a fan from the start
im a fan of any hpuston team when there good or bad
i go to college
i love music
and i love the texans
ive been lurking reading since mid last season
and am now trying to post more often
im happy to have found this slice of the internet we call Battle Red Blog
GO TEXANS

I live in Bangladesh. Very big fan of American football and Huston Texans. I have many clothes and trinkets of team. You wonder why I am big fan? This my favorite team because symbol is cow. Cow very sacred. Go Huston Cows!

Virginian by birth, Skins hater by the grace of God.

Growing up as something of a larger fellow, it was pretty clear my future in sports went through the offensive line. Dad and I picked Tony Boselli as a lineman to emulate, and thus I became a Jaguars fan. Until the expansion draft. Then I was a Texans fan.

Two shoulder surgeries later (one for Tony, the same kind of surgery for me), my faith/patience/tolerance for football-masochism as a Texans fan was waning. But then we signed Schaub. As a lifelong UVa fan, this was great news. My faith restored, I’ve enjoyed watching the rise to relevance (too early yet for prominence) in the Schaub-Johnson-Williams era.

Turn-ons: pancake blocks, pancakes, tight end post routes, pulling guards, NCAA women’s volleyball (tall + short shorts + knee pads = yes please)

Turn-offs: cowboys, Cowboys, the muskrat pelt Jeff Fisher wears as a beard, Virginia Tech

I de-lurked myself a few weeks ago. Name’s Ryan; I lived in The Woodlands for the first 7 years of my life (‘78-85’), moved to west Texas where I continued to support all things Houston sports. I was super bummed when He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named moved the Oilers to TN. I basically stopped watching football then and didn’t get interested again until the Texans started up in ‘02. I’ve been a season ticket holder since the ‘08 season after moving back to Houston. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed battleredblog for a couple of years now; I especially like that this isn’t just a collection of homers rambling on and on about how awesome the Texans are, and instead just seems to be a bunch of drunk dudes inventing their own Texan lexicon…..in which case I expect I will feel pretty much right at home.

Greetings, Texans fan representing in KY here. I am a student at the University of Kentucky. I have been a fan since the beginning. I originally followed the team just for the sake that they were new and 2002 is really when my love for football and the NFL was beginning. The Texans truly were my favorite team after having Dave Ragone (went to my church…I know he sucked), having Shane Boyd (former UK QB), and Samkon Gado spoke at my church. I have never been to a game in Houston though I have been to Indy, Nashville, and Cincy, and I’m going to Nashville this year. My girlfriend is a UK student from Dallas, cowboys fan, this week was rough :/ . I own three jerseys, battle red jamie sharper, blue domanick davis-williams-smith-jones-jarvis-green-ellis, and a white carr jarsey….I need a new one. and thats that.

Maker of graphs, talker of smack, instigator of opposing team fights and generally swell guy.

Been posting here for about a year and a half and have yet to actually provide anything of value. It’s a record I’m proud of.

Also reigning champion of the BRB Fantasy Football League from last year.

Our football, who art in Houston, Texans be thy name. Thy wins will come, this will be done at Reliant and on the road. Give us this year our winning season, and forgive us for our penalties, as we forgive those who false start against us. And lead us not into overtime but deliver us a Superbowl!

Amen

I’ve lived in Southern Orange County in Southern California my entire life, so my local teams since I paid attention to football where the Raiders and Chargers,and all I can say is fuck that right in the heart. Instead, I chose the impossible, I chose the Texans. When they came into the league I decided to hop on that bandwagon and hold on for dear life, and when I watched Carr throw that td pass at the beginning of their first game against Dallas there was no going back. It has been tough to follow them over the years, but once I found BattleRedBlog it was like coming home. Thank all of you guys so fucking much for making this community what it is, I would be lost without it.

Graduated from UCI, work as a software engineer/application developer doing GIS shit. I have a Shiba Inu mix and a Spanielish mutt, plan on dying in SoCal, and hope to god I can convince my wife to give me my balls back long enough to make a trip to Reliant soon. Oddly enough the only time I’ve ever been in Texas was in Dallas, which oddly reminded me of orange county minus the hot women, the good weather, and the beaches, and any redeeming value.

Born and raised in the Houston area, left to the wonderful Rocky Mountain State for college, and am a slight vagabond as I look for work. I’m still the newbie of the writer group, so I have to carry the boxes of Zima and Rogaine around.

I hated the Oilers growing up, so you’ll never see me luv that blue. 49er fan since my birth, Texans fan since theirs so life since 2002 has not been kind, but I am there on Sundays…hopeful that this is the Sunday that I’ll remember as the beginning of the new glory days.

Current likes: Microbreweries, weekends where all my sports teams win, football weekends in general, bull-rushing DEs who break rookie OTs, eating buffalo wings while Andre Johnson runs over people, hockey, Arian Foster, hoping the Twins bounce the Yankees, Tim and Rivers spreading sunshine and cheer on Battle Red Radio, and making jokes about unemployment.

Current dislikes: Eugene Wilson, Houston media coverage of Dallas and Tennessee…you know, two teams that don’t play in the market, Piss-water (cheap beer, save on other things but not beer), Eugene Wilson, LeBron James and all LeBron James-related events, Tim and Rivers making me drink because of their sunshine and cheer on Battle Red Radio, Eugene Wilson, Season ticket holders who sell their tickets to Dallas fans, my alma mater soliciting for donations, and job-searching…and I hope Eugene Wilson joins me in that endeavor soon.

I love all things Texas (except A&M) and hate Oklahoma (I consider Dallas to be part of Oklahoma).

Call me.. Mindfinger. Yes yes I’ve been stalking the board for a long time. Die hard fan raised in Austin and transplanted to Pasadena, Ca. Became an Oiler fan back in the 80s and went to training camp where I collected autographs back in the day. Broken hearted when the team left, I still do not acknowledge the record book of the Titans that has erased and thieved our Oiler history. When the Texans arrived I was elated. Went to the first scrimmage and a few games. Started working out here as a teacher assistant and it turned out I was TAing a players’ brother on the Texans. He got me a boat load of autographs and we sat around watching the Colts in the playoff game with him last year and it has given me a refreshing perspective on the sport.

Feel free to stop by the autograph portion of my website: http://lee.n8d.com/?cat=40
I’m a football nut so it might bring some memories back of the San Antonio Riders as well if you get far enough into the site.

You can also fight Titans fans with me on Facebook on Paul Kuharsky’s profile from ESPN as well.

Gooo Texans!

Hey everybody! I’m teh BabyBeeze. I’m 17 (I think I’m the youngest here), hailing from Plainview Texas (Suburb of LBK). I’ve been around the blog since last season, delurking in December. For awhile now I’ve been a bigtime Houston Fan, which is frowned upon here on the great plains. I’m also a massive Texas Tech fan so Wreck ‘em.
Uhh turn-ons= Andre Johnson meeting 3 Card Defenders. Michael Crabtree (haters gonna hate man!) The Schaub when he doesn’t make a WTF throw, And Hugeomongous Boobs.
Turnoffs= Fucking Texas A&M, Dallas Cowboys, and The Tennesee Titans. And of course Frank Bush’s Defense playcalling

…and I’ve been a Texans fan from their inception. I am native to the Houston area. I WAS a livelong Oilers fan until satan moved the team and they became the BESFs. In fact, I went to high school with one of Bum Phillips’ daughters. (Bum Phillips, be ye praised forever.)
bfd, do you have any kind of pull regarding the glossary? I found a couple of entries that could use some tweaking, but the comments are shut down. For example, Shankapotamus is, in fact our ex-kicker, not just “hopefully”.
I’ll have to check back with y’all later. I’m at work and have something I have to take care of.

The name is Mookie, and i’ve been a member for a year or two or whatever but am still technically a lurker. I’m 23 and if you picture New York as a wolf’s head, I live right around where the eye ball would be. If you can’t picture New York as a wolf’s head, I apologize. I am kind of all over the map in terms of my favorite teams. I fell in love with football watching my old man agonize every year as his Bills continued to upset, but I never really caught on with a particular team. When 2002 rolled around i figured a fresh start with a fresh team was the way to go, and became a texan’s fan. Last years game at Buffalo was the only texans game that I have attended, and it was not a very pleasurable experience wearing my #90 considering Buffalo is the worst place to watch a game in the worrllllddd.

I graduated from the University of Buffalo last year and moved back to my hometown of Carthage. I cook for a job and am not really having fun unless I have a cheap ice (keystone or natty, preferably) beer in my hand. That’s all homies, and I am looking forward to de-lurkisizing in the future.

Float on.Like BFD and a few others, i am essentially a life long Houstonian. I was born here, and except for a six year stint in the Navy, have been in the area my entire life.

I graduated from MacArthur HS in 1980. My HS years saw the resurgence of the Oilers lead by Sid Gilman, and then Bum. I crawled under a fence to get into the 1978 Oilers pep rally where Bum promised to “kick the SOB [door] in” next year. I’m still waiting for that.

I am employed by a NASA contractor at JSC, been married 20+ years, and have four grown children.

BigTexBD. Houston sports fan. Longhorn (last weekend was absolutely the worst football weekend in my memory). BRBer since the beginning.
Turn-ons: discovering microbrews (esp. Texan) after college, bourbon, football, my woman, my dog
Turn-offs: receivers who run a 3 yard slant on 4th and 4, anything that starts with the word “dallas” or “oklahoma”