Texans Ramblings: On The 2010 Season And Fandom

I wouldn’t have been offended by the shirt.., honestly I probably wouldn’t have noticed it even had I been there…, but I don’t think i’d describe the team as a laughingstock either…

It’s not like playing the Texans is just short of a bye week as it once was, probably at least half of the games they played in this year the Texans were favored by the so called “experts” of football… They underperformed for sure, but if they were a laughingstock you’d see more of the arrogant fans from other teams showing up here during the week of the game to create an account just to tell us how easy a time their team will have against us… and yes to call us a laughingstock… The truth is the Texans are now taken seriously by the media, opposing teams, and their fans…

If being dissappointed with your team made them a laughingstock, there’d only be one team every season that wasn’t a laughing stock.

That’s your right brother, and you won’t ever here me ask you to sacrifice it for my own selfishness, which is more than I can say for a lot of folks. Hold on to those rights because there are always those that wish to strip them from you for their own personal gain…..always have, and always will.

/end soapbox

If it were me I would approach you and ask you what your honest opinion is because I love to talk football with people that get it. Anyone can talk about the good, but too few like to acknowledge the bad in anything. The truth is too painful to accept, I guess. As far as I’m concerned, everyone has the right to say what they want and express their feelings as they choose, as long as they can back it up with truth and logic. But, they should also be prepared to back their opinions with fact and logic.

With that said, in my own honest opinion I believe the Texans are a finesse team. They lack discipline, allow themselves to lose focus, and can’t “find a way” to play a full 60 minutes in any given game. Actually, they can’t find a way to do a lot of shit……the coaches make bad decisions that hurt the team as much as the players do, the front office isn’t aggressive in free agency OR the draft, players don’t live up to their potential, the team sets all time records in FAIL, and the owner tends to let failures hang around too long. The flag waivers are lame, the stadium music is outdated, they don’t open the roof enough, the uniforms could use some work…….and David Carr still SUCKS!

But at least our cheerleaders are smokin’ hot.

GO TEXANS!!

(felt kinda good to get that off my chest)

Or you could also write posts about how he IS pro-ready and that it was a rational selection and that we shouldn’t be mad he was picked and how awesome and beautiful and great he is. You know, like this idiot. Hahahahahahaha people are so stupid.

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in a lighthearted manner, like the t-shirt.

If you constantly whine about how bad we are, and how we don’t do it like team x does it, that gets annoying.

The optomistic fan is more fun to hang around than the pessimist. But after this year, I think a lot of people will be making the switch to the darkside.

Start scouting all the TE prospects I guess. Can any play on D.

“Even if we take out the Capers/Cassery Era (absurd, I know), the Texans have won only 46% of their games since Smithiak rode into town. Again, that’s embarrassing.”

So, ya, let us put aside the horrible years. A .46 winning percentage is more or less what you should expect in the NFL unless you happen to be the patriots or colts or whatever. Certainly not good. But hardly laughingstock. I am quite sure there are a lot of teams that have a much worse winning percentage over that time frame, and except for those few dickhead teams that win all the time, not all that many with a much better percentage.

I go to the NFL website to watch some of the stupid, crazy, funny plays that teams did so I can laugh at them. Like the Skins botching the extra point as time expires to lose by 1 point. Or the Giants surrendering a million points in 7 minutes. I don’t think anyone provides more laughingstock than the Texans: the list is huge, I am sure I don’t need mention every single fail through the years but they are A LOT. Rosencopters, Half back passes, etc. If I weren’t a Texans fan I’d laugh my ass off every Monday. But for good or for bad I AM one so instead I chug Clorox.

And it’s definitely within anybody’s right to wear one that says that in a game.

I can see the merit of their disgust, but i’d have to disagree with them.

Houston Texans, Playoff bound in 2008 2009 2010 2011.

Anybody who wants to argue with the validity of referring to the Texans as a laughingstock needs to take off the battlered-tinted glasses and wake the hell up.

From Wiktionary…Laughingstock: An object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed; a butt of sport

Do you honestly think the Texans amount to anything other than a punchline in NFL circles at this point? We are the Cincinnatti Bengals/Detroit Lions/Buffalo Bills/Carolina Panthers.

And it would be one thing if the deck were stacked against the Texans, i.e.: bad fan support (see Jacksonville), cash-strapped ownership (see Miami)…but it’s not! Reliant is full every fucking Sunday. Only 325 Americans have more money than Uncle Bob. The Texans have a publicly-financed stadium, and are in the top 5 in the NFL in both revenuse and franchise value. So you tell me…why can’t the Texans be a top-flight NFL team? If winning football games was the most important thing for Bob McNair, they could be.

If you want to tell me I’m not a “true fan” because I refuse to continue guzzling Uncle Bob’s bullshit-flavored Kool-Aid, then fine. I guess the thousands of dollars I have sunk (and will continue to sink) into season tickets, gear, tailgaitng, and road trips for the past 9 years is completely negated by my ability to see this team for what it truly is.

Congratulations, Texans Superfan! You’re obviously a better fan and human being than I am. Now put your helmet back on, and go ask those girls if they’ve see your baseball…but they have another name for it…they call a baseball a “wiener.”

The defense was a laughing stock and has been the last two years. It would have been more appropriate to say…

“Houston Texans Efense”
Laughing stock since Frank Bush misplaced our D.

I wouldn’t wear it, but I could care less about you wearing it. I don’t think we’re laughing stocks. Bad? Yes. extremely disappointing? Yes. Long periods of mediocrity? Of course.Laughing Stock? No, but that’s really just a matter of how you interpret the word so who cares.