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Updated 09/09/2002

A record, and a season

Houston · Monday, December 30, 2002
Four wins. Dallas in the opener, Jacksonville on the road, the Giants at home, and Pittsburgh on a December afternoon nobody who saw it will forget. Twelve losses around them.
David Carr was sacked 76 times, more than any quarterback in the history of the league has been sacked in one season. He started all sixteen games. He is 23 years old.
213 points scored, fewest in the NFL. 356 allowed. The roster was assembled in ten months from men nobody else wanted, and it beat a playoff team in Pittsburgh by eighteen points.

Titans 13, Texans 3

Reliant Stadium · Sunday, December 29, 2002
The first season ends the way a lot of it went: 41 passes, 196 yards, no touchdowns, 28 yards rushing on 22 carries.
Tennessee takes the division. Houston finishes 4-12, and the stadium empties on the first year of a franchise that did not exist three years ago.

Redskins 26, Texans 10

FedExField · Sunday, December 22, 2002
Washington ran it 46 times for 247 yards. Houston had the ball for 23 minutes and managed 166 yards with it.
Kris Brown's field goal and a late touchdown were the whole afternoon.

Glenn and Walker are Pro Bowlers

Houston · Thursday, December 19, 2002
Cornerback Aaron Glenn and defensive end Gary Walker are selected to represent the AFC in the 2003 Pro Bowl. It is Glenn's third selection and Walker's second.
Two men from a first-year roster. The Texans tie the 1961 Vikings for the most Pro Bowlers an expansion team has ever produced, and become the first expansion club represented since the 1967 Saints, back when every team had to send somebody.

Ravens 23, Texans 19

Reliant Stadium · Sunday, December 15, 2002
Four points. Houston moved the ball for 277 yards and got inside the Baltimore end of the field all afternoon, and lost by four.
Two interceptions was the difference, and it usually was.

Texans 24, Steelers 6

Heinz Field · Sunday, December 8, 2002
Forty-seven yards. That is the entire offensive output of the Houston Texans on the afternoon they went into Pittsburgh and won by eighteen points. Forty plays, 47 yards, three first downs, three completions for ten yards.
It is the lowest total any team has ever put up and won an NFL game.
The defense scored all three touchdowns. Aaron Glenn returned two interceptions, Kenny Wright returned a fumble. Pittsburgh gained 422 yards, ran 95 plays, held the ball for nearly forty minutes, and lost.
The Steelers will win this division.

Colts 19, Texans 3

RCA Dome · Sunday, December 1, 2002
Six sacks, two lost fumbles, 165 yards, eleven punts. Indianapolis did not need to be good.
Kris Brown's field goal in the second quarter was the whole of it.

Texans 16, Giants 14

Reliant Stadium · Sunday, November 24, 2002
The third win, and the first at home since the opener. Houston ran 35 times for 123 yards, held the ball for 32 minutes, and made two field goals stand up.
The Giants outgained them by 157 yards and lost anyway. That is becoming the pattern when this team wins.

Jaguars 24, Texans 21

Reliant Stadium · Sunday, November 17, 2002
Carr completed 22 of 30, the best accuracy of his rookie year, and Houston ran in two touchdowns. Still three short.
Jacksonville has now beaten them once and lost to them once, which is a rivalry starting.

Titans 17, Texans 10

The Coliseum · Sunday, November 10, 2002
The first trip to Nashville. Houston kept it to seven, which against this team, in this building, with this history, counted for something.
Three turnovers decided it.

Bengals 38, Texans 3

Reliant Stadium · Sunday, November 3, 2002
Cincinnati completed 22 of 27 for four touchdowns and did not punt until the fourth quarter. Houston crossed midfield repeatedly and came away with one field goal.
22 first downs and three points is a hard thing to do.

Texans 21, Jaguars 19

Alltel Stadium · Sunday, October 27, 2002
The first road win in franchise history. Kris Brown put a 45-yard field goal through with 2:11 left and Houston held on.
Carr was 11 of 18. The offense ran 53 plays all afternoon and scored three times with them, which is the most efficient this team has been.

Browns 34, Texans 17

Cleveland Browns Stadium · Sunday, October 20, 2002
354 yards, 17 first downs, eight third-down conversions, and two lost fumbles that ended it.
Carr threw for 265 and two touchdowns and was sacked eight times.

Bills 31, Texans 24

Reliant Stadium · Sunday, October 13, 2002
The best offensive afternoon of the season so far: 338 yards, 141 on the ground, no turnovers at all.
Buffalo ran for 173 and that was the game. But nobody left this one angry.

Eagles 35, Texans 17

Veterans Stadium · Sunday, September 29, 2002
Two Carr touchdown passes in Philadelphia, and seven more sacks.
The rookie is on pace to be hit more times than any quarterback in the history of the league. Nobody is pretending otherwise.

Colts 23, Texans 3

Reliant Stadium · Sunday, September 22, 2002
The first home game since the win over Dallas, and the first division game ever. Indianapolis completed 21 of 28.
Houston ran for 126 yards and could not finish a drive.

Chargers 24, Texans 3

Qualcomm Stadium · Sunday, September 15, 2002
One week after the best day in the short history of this team, the worst. Nine sacks. 118 total yards. Six completions in 25 attempts for 29 yards.
The first road trip. It will not be the last one that looks like this.

Texans 19, Cowboys 10

Houston · Sunday, September 8, 2002
Billy Miller is tackled after his 19-yard touchdown catch, the first points in Houston Texans history. PHOTO: Billy Miller is brought down after his 19-yard touchdown catch, the first points in Houston Texans history, on the opening drive at Reliant Stadium.
Seventy-four seconds. That is how long the Houston Texans existed as a regular season football team before they scored. On the opening drive of the opening game, David Carr found tight end Billy Miller for 19 yards, and 69,604 people inside Reliant Stadium — roof closed, ESPN carrying it into Sunday night — came apart.
Kris Brown pushed it to 10-0 with a 42-yard field goal early in the second quarter. Dallas answered before halftime on a Billy Cundiff field goal and tied it in the third when Michael Wiley broke a 46-yard run. Then Corey Bradford ran under a Carr throw for 65 yards and a lead the Texans never gave back.
Seth Payne finished it, dragging Quincy Carter down in the end zone for a safety inside of three minutes. Houston became the first expansion team since the 1961 Minnesota Vikings to win its opening game. Carr threw 10 of 22 for 145 yards and two touchdowns. It was the first NFL game played in Houston since the Oilers' final season here in 1996.
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Texans open in Canton

Canton, Ohio · Monday, August 5, 2002
Broadcast capture of the Texans taking the field at Fawcett Stadium, Canton, for the Hall of Fame Game. PHOTO: The Texans take the field at Fawcett Stadium.
The franchise played its first football in the Hall of Fame Game, on ABC's Monday Night Football, with Al Michaels and John Madden on the call. The New York Giants won it 34-17.
Kris Brown's 22-yard field goal was the first point the franchise ever scored. Billy Miller and Sherrod Gideon added touchdown catches. David Carr made his professional debut, 9 of 17 for 96 yards, and found Miller for that first touchdown — the same pairing that would open the regular season five weeks later.

Carr goes first overall

New York · Saturday, April 20, 2002
David Carr holds up a Texans jersey at the 2002 NFL Draft. PHOTO: Carr holds up a Texans jersey at the Theater at Madison Square Garden.
With the first pick of the 2002 NFL Draft, the Texans selected David Carr, quarterback, Fresno State. He flew from New York to Houston that same afternoon and signed a seven-year contract.
Wide receiver Jabar Gaffney and offensive lineman Chester Pitts followed in the second round. Houston made 12 selections in all, more than any other club, and closed the draft with the very last pick of the seventh round.

Nineteen picked in expansion draft

Houston · Monday, February 18, 2002
Nineteen veterans in a single afternoon, and a roster where there had been none. Tackle Tony Boselli and defensive tackle Gary Walker came over from Jacksonville. Cornerback Aaron Glenn came from the New York Jets. Wide receiver Jermaine Lewis and linebacker Jamie Sharper came from Baltimore.
All nineteen: T Tony Boselli, T Ryan Young, CB Aaron Glenn, DT Gary Walker, LB Jamie Sharper, WR Jermaine Lewis, CB Marcus Coleman, DT Seth Payne, G Matt Campbell, S Matt Stevens, G Jeremy McKinney, T Ryan Schau, RB Charlie Rogers, TE/LS Sean McDermott, DE Jabari Issa, WR Avion Black, QB Danny Wuerffel, LB Brian Allen, TE Johnny Huggins.
Charley Casserly had been preparing for this afternoon for two years.

The uniforms are revealed

Downtown Houston · Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Broadcast capture of the Texans uniforms unveiled to a downtown crowd. PHOTO: Float-sized home and away jerseys are unveiled to a downtown crowd of more than 12,000.
More than 12,000 people came downtown for the second rally in twelve months. Bob McNair counted down from ten and the jerseys came out, built at float scale so the back of the crowd could see them.
Deep steel blue at home with white pants. White on the road with blue pants. A blue helmet carrying the bullhead on both sides. The cheerleaders debuted the same afternoon.
Dusty Hill of ZZ Top stood up on the stage with Eric Dickerson and A.J. Foyt.

Capers named first head coach

Houston · Sunday, January 21, 2001
Dom Capers becomes the first head coach in Texans history. He comes from Jacksonville, where he spent the last two seasons as the Jaguars' defensive coordinator.
He has done this before. From 1995 through 1998 he ran the expansion Carolina Panthers, and in 1996 — year two — he had them winning the NFC West and playing in the NFC Championship Game.

Reliant Park, and a Super Bowl

Atlanta · Wednesday, November 1, 2000
At the owners' meetings the league announced that the new stadium will host Super Bowl XXXVIII on February 1, 2004. That makes Houston the seventh city to host more than one — Rice Stadium had Super Bowl VIII back in 1974. The building will not have opened yet when it is awarded the game.
Six days earlier Reliant Energy took the naming rights, and not only for the stadium. The 32-year agreement covers Reliant Stadium, Reliant Astrodome, Reliant Arena, Reliant Hall and Reliant Center, and the complex around them becomes Reliant Park. It is the most comprehensive naming rights deal ever signed.

The name is Texans

Texas Avenue, Houston · Wednesday, September 6, 2000
Broadcast capture of the Houston Texans name and mark revealed on Texas Avenue. PHOTO: Bob McNair and Commissioner Paul Tagliabue unveil the bull-head mark on a stage set up in the closed street.
Texas Avenue closed to traffic. Thousands downtown. Commissioner Paul Tagliabue on stage and ESPN2 carrying it live.
McNair named the colors first — Deep Steel Blue, Battle Red, Liberty White — and then revealed the mark: a bull's head split down the middle to echo the Texas flag, with a lone star for the eye. Its five points stand for pride, courage, strength, tradition and independence.
The name went up at the same moment in Austin and San Antonio. McNair then headed to Enron Field to throw out the first pitch before the Astros played the Florida Marlins — except it was not a pitch. It was a Texans football, and he threw it to Astros owner Drayton McLane.

Ground breaks on Reliant Stadium

Houston · Thursday, March 9, 2000
Shovels went into county land next door to the Astrodome, with McNair, Commissioner Tagliabue, Mayor Lee Brown and Harris County Judge Robert Eckels all taking a turn.
The building will seat 69,500 and will be the first football stadium in the world with a roof that opens. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo will be co-tenant.

Five names in the running

Houston · Thursday, March 2, 2000
After months of research run jointly with NFL Properties, the club put five names on the table: Apollos, Bobcats, Stallions, Texans and Wildcatters.
The work behind it was not small. Forty focus group sessions, roughly 500 people, conducted in English and in Spanish, and not only in Houston — San Antonio, Austin, Galveston, Beaumont and Corpus Christi all got a say. By April the list was down to three: Apollos, Stallions and Texans.
Which name should it be? Cast your vote!

Casserly hired to build the roster

Houston · Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Charley Casserly is named executive vice president and general manager. He arrives from Washington after 23 years there, the last ten of them as general manager, in a run that produced Super Bowl titles in XVII, XXII and XXVI.
He inherits a franchise with a stadium site, an owner, and not one player under contract.

A logo for a team with no name

Houston · Wednesday, November 24, 1999
There is no name yet, so there is nothing to draw. NFL Properties built a transition logo instead — a placeholder that carries the organization until a name, a set of colors and a uniform exist to replace it.
That same month McNair and his executives sat down for the first of forty focus group sessions, asking people what Houston looks like from the outside and what they want from a football team here.

Houston gets a team

Atlanta · Wednesday, October 6, 1999
Bob McNair, who led the Houston ownership bid. PHOTO: Bob McNair.
NFL owners voted 29-0 to award the 32nd franchise to Bob McNair for a record $700 million, beating the Los Angeles bid by $160 million.
Three years after the Oilers played their last season in Houston, professional football is coming back. There is no name yet, no colors, no coach and no players. There is a city and a vote.

How Houston got back in line

1997 to 1999 · The long version
It started with a rejection. On June 18, 1997 the NHL passed over Chuck Watson and Bob McNair's bid for an expansion hockey club. The pair moved straight on to the next project: getting the NFL back to Houston.
Two weeks later Bud Adams got the court sign-off to move the Oilers to Nashville. By the October 15 owners' meeting Commissioner Tagliabue was praising Houston's early plans out loud, and two days after that the Livestock Show and Rodeo came out publicly for a shared domed stadium rather than an Astrodome renovation.
On June 30, 1998 Tagliabue and stadium committee chairman Jerry Richardson came down to see the retractable-roof drawings. Then on March 16, 1999 the expansion committee voted 29-2 — for Los Angeles, handing it until September 15 to produce an ownership group and a stadium plan. If it could not, the committee would recommend Houston.
It could not. Michael Ovitz's Coliseum scheme never found its financing. On September 9 the league told the Houston group to be ready for Atlanta, and on September 28 Marvin Davis walked away from the Los Angeles bid altogether.

The Voice of the Texans

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Kick like Kris Brown

Stop the power bar, then stop the aim bar. The wind moves the ball. Every make moves you back five yards.
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Kris Brown is up. Line it up.
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On a phone, tap and hold the left or right half of the table.
Bumpers 500 · slingshots 100 · H-O-U lanes 750 · targets 1,000 · roof ramp 2,500 · skill shot 5,000Nudge with X and C. Too much and you tilt.
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Franchise firsts

Every first, in order
DateFirst
Jan. 21, 2001Head coach — Dom Capers
Feb. 2, 2001Offensive coordinator — Chris Palmer
Dec. 29, 2001Players under contract — ten of them at once
Jan. 14, 2002Defensive coordinator — Vic Fangio
Feb. 18, 2002Expansion draft — nineteen veterans
March 4, 2002Trade — QB Danny Wuerffel to Washington for DT Jerry DeLoach
March 6, 2002Unrestricted free agent — OL Steve McKinney
March 25, 2002Offseason program — all 65 players report to Reliant Astrodome
April 20, 2002Draft pick — QB David Carr, first overall
April 26, 2002Mini-camp — 99 players, 25 of them rookies
April 28, 2002Outreach tour — Austin, Beaumont, College Station, Corpus Christi, Lufkin
July 20, 2002Training camp — 97 players report
Aug. 5, 2002Points — K Kris Brown, 22-yard field goal
Aug. 10, 2002Win — 13-10 over New Orleans at the Superdome
Aug. 24, 2002Game at Reliant Stadium — a 24-3 loss to Miami
Sept. 8, 2002Touchdown — TE Billy Miller from David Carr
Sept. 8, 2002Regular season win — 19-10 over Dallas

Coaching staff

2002 Houston Texans coaching staff
PositionName
Head CoachDom Capers
Offensive CoordinatorChris Palmer
Defensive CoordinatorVic Fangio
Wide ReceiversKippy Brown
Offensive LineTony Marciano
Assistant Offensive LineSteve Marshall
Running BacksChick Harris
Tight EndsGreg Roman
Defensive LineTodd Grantham
LinebackersReggie Herring
Defensive BacksJon Hoke
Assistant Defensive BacksBrian Stewart
Defensive Quality ControlJedd Fisch
Special Teams CoordinatorJoe Marciano
Assistant Special Teams / Admin. AssistantEric Sutulovich
Strength and Conditioning CoachDan Riley
Assistant Strength and ConditioningRay Wright
Strength and Conditioning AssistantEverett Coleman
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Roster

The roster was assembled in two sittings. Nineteen veterans came out of the expansion draft on February 18, 2002, and twelve more arrived through the draft that April, more selections than any other club made that year.
See all nineteen expansion selections >>
2002 Houston Texans roster (98 players)
NamePosNFL ExpCollege
Akbar, HakimS2Washington
Aldridge, AllenLB9Houston
Allen, JamesRB5Oklahoma
Austin, LarryCBRVirginia Tech
Baker, JohnP3North Texas
Baxter, JarrodFBRNew Mexico
Black, AvionWR3Tennessee State
Boose, DorianDE5Washington State
Boselli, TonyOT8Southern California
Bradford, CoreyWR4Jackson State
Brown, KrisPK4Nebraska
Carr, DavidQBRFresno State
Carter, ChrisSS6Texas
Chew, EricWR1McNeese State
Coleman, MarcusCB7Texas Tech
Collins, CalvinC6Texas A&M
Davis, LarryWR1New Mexico
DeLoach, JerryDT2California
Donald, TonyLBRWestern State (Colo.)
Evans, LeomontS7Clemson
Evans, TroyLB1Cincinnati
Faggins, DeMarcusCBRKansas State
Finn, DevonDE1Illinois State
Flowers, DelvonRBRArizona State
Foreman, JayLB4Nebraska
Gaffney, JabarWRRFlorida
Gideon, SherrodWR1Southern Mississippi
Glenn, AaronCB9Texas A&M
Graham, DeMingoG5Hofstra
Graham, KentQB11Ohio State
Granville, BillyLB5Duke
Green, HowardDTRLouisiana State
Groce, ClifFB7Texas A&M
Hamiter, UhuruDE3Delaware State
Harney, KennyLBRSouth Carolina
Harris, AtnafWRRCal State-Northridge
Hawkins, JelaniOTRSan Jose State
Heimburger, CraigC/G3Missouri
Herndon, JimmyOT7Houston
Hill, CharlesDTRMaryland
Insley, TrevorWR3Nevada-Reno
Issa, JabariDE3Washington
Jenkins, MichaelRB1Arkansas
Jones, DwauneWR1Richmond
Jones, GregLB6Colorado
Jones, ToyaFS1Texas A&M
Kent, RashaadTERRutgers
Knapp, JoeyTERTexas-El Paso
Lamar, JasonLB1Toledo
Lane, MaxOT8Naval Academy
Langley, AronP1Wyoming
Lewis, JermaineWR7Maryland
Lorenti, ChrisC1Central Florida
McClain, JimmyLBRTroy State
McDermott, SeanTE2Kansas
McKinney, JeremyG3Iowa
McKinney, SteveC5Texas A&M
Miller, AhmadDTRNevada-Las Vegas
Miller, BillyTE4Southern California
Miller, JohnOT3Duke
Minardi, JohnWR1Colorado
Moreland, JakeTE1Western Michigan
Newell, MikeC1Colorado State
Overhauser, ChadG4UCLA
Payne, SethDT4Cornell
Phillips, JoshFSRYale
Pitts, ChesterGRSan Diego State
Posey, JeffLB4Southern Mississippi
Prentice, TravisRB3Miami (Ohio)
Quinn, MikeQB4Stephen F. Austin
Rutledge, RodTE5Alabama
Samuel, KhariLB3Massachusetts
Sankey, BenQB2Wake Forest
Schau, RyanG/T4Illinois
Sears, CoreyDE3Mississippi State
Sharper, JamieLB6Virginia
Shepherd, JacobyCB3Oklahoma State
Simmons, JasonCB5Arizona State
Simmons, TonyWR4Wisconsin
Sinceno, KaseemTE4Syracuse
Snider, MattFB3Richmond
Stanley, ChadP3Stephen F. Austin
Stansbury, EdFBRUCLA
Stevens, MattSS7Appalachian State
Suttle, JasonCB3Wisconsin
Thompson, AaronLBRMaryland
Tisdale, CaseyLB1New Mexico
Tuthill, JamesK1Cal-Poly
Walker, GaryDT8Auburn
Walker, RamonFSRPittsburgh
Washington, TerrellLBRIllinois
Weary, FredGRTennessee
Wells, JonathanRBROhio State
White, GregLBRMinnesota
Williams, KevinS4Oklahoma State
Wisne, JerryOT4Notre Dame
Wong, KaileeLB5Stanford
Young, RyanOT4Kansas State
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Stadium information

Reliant Stadium
OpenedAugust 24, 2002
Capacity69,500
RoofRetractable. The first in the NFL, and the first anywhere over natural grass
Roof constructionTranslucent Teflon-coated fiberglass fabric. Splits at the 50-yard line and docks in the end zones. Ten minutes to open or close
Main concourse40 feet wide, the largest in the NFL, with an open view of the field
Video boardsTwo, both among the largest in the league
Playing surfaceNatural grass, 97,000 square feet, grown on eight-foot square trays and trucked in
Total area1.9 million square feet
Cost$352 million
GroundbreakingMarch 9, 2000. Topped off October 2001. Built in 30 months
ArchitectHOK Sport
BuildersManhattan and Skanska
Co-tenantHouston Livestock Show and Rodeo
Naming rightsReliant Energy, 32 years, $300 million, covering all of Reliant Park
Coming upSuper Bowl XXXVIII, February 1, 2004
Closed and secured, the roof is built to hold against winds of 140 miles an hour. The building is climate controlled. The Texans front office sits at the south end, so for the first time the club's football operations and its business operations are under one roof.
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Directions

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Reliant Park sits on roughly 350 acres about nine miles south of downtown Houston, on the south side of Loop 610. The Astrodome is immediately next door.
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Fingertip information

Houston Texans at a glance
AwardedOctober 6, 1999. The NFL's 32nd franchise
ConferenceAmerican Football Conference, South Division
Address2 Reliant Park, Houston, Texas 77054
ColorsDeep Steel Blue (Pantone 5395C), Battle Red (Pantone 187C), Liberty White
StadiumReliant Stadium, capacity 69,500. Natural grass, retractable roof
Ground brokenMarch 9, 2000
First game at ReliantTexans vs. Miami, August 24, 2002
First preseason gameAugust 5, 2002 vs. New York Giants at Canton, Ohio
First regular season gameSeptember 8, 2002 vs. Dallas at Reliant Stadium
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2002 schedule

2002 regular season
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Home games in bold. Results appear as the season is played.
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  • Ray T. - Pasadena - 09/08/2002
    Sixteen years without a team. I sat in section 129 today and I have not stopped grinning. Worth every one of them.
  • Denise M. - Sugar Land - 09/08/2002
    My husband cried when Miller caught it. He will deny this. I am putting it in writing.
  • Coach Vasquez - Katy - 09/09/2002
    I teach at a middle school here. Half my second period showed up in that steel blue this morning. Half.
  • Marcus - Third Ward - 09/08/2002
    Waited a long time for a Sunday like this one. Did not think I had it in me again. Turns out I do.
  • Little Rey - Baytown - 09/09/2002
    I am nine. This is MY team. My dad had a different one before but I only ever get this one.
  • Patricia O. - Clear Lake - 09/09/2002
    Instant Texans fan. My sister in Dallas is not speaking to me and that is fine.
  • Big Tony - Spring - 09/08/2002
    Carr got hit a lot and got up every single time. That is the guy. That is the whole thing right there.
  • Sandra L. - Alief - 09/10/2002
    Bought the jersey at noon, wore it to work, three people asked where I got it. We are a football town again.
  • Hector G. - East End - 09/09/2002
    My grandfather took me to the Astrodome in 1979. I took my grandson to Reliant on Sunday. That is a whole life.
  • Wanda - Missouri City - 09/09/2002
    Seth Payne in the end zone. I have watched it four times on the news and I will watch it four more.
  • D. Bhatt - Sharpstown - 09/10/2002
    New to Houston, new to football, apparently now a season ticket holder. It escalated quickly.
  • Coach W. - Humble - 09/08/2002
    Thirty two years coaching youth ball in this city. Never seen kids talk about a Sunday like this.
  • Rosa - Magnolia Park - 09/09/2002
    Roof closed, sixty nine thousand people, loudest room I have ever stood in. My ears are still ringing.
  • Kenny R. - Pearland - 09/10/2002
    Beat Dallas. First game ever. Beat DALLAS. I do not need anything else this year.
  • Mrs. Adeyemi - Fifth Ward - 09/09/2002
    My boys painted their faces. My kitchen is ruined. Best Sunday we have had in years.
  • Frank D. - Deer Park - 09/11/2002
    Houston is a football town and today it felt like one again. That is all I came here to say.
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