TigOl'Bitties
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12/05/06 03:32 PM
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The rationalization of Texans fans just reinforces the theme of this thread.
[censored] THE TEXANS.
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DRAG69
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12/05/06 03:34 PM
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I will bet you that Vince never, ever ends up with negative yards passing in a game for his entire career.
That was the funniest thing I have ever seen.
Yeah they won the game........uh.......against the only team in the league that they are better than.
As happy as a gopher in soft dirt........
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Mike_Tyson
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12/05/06 03:37 PM
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great thread
This had me laughing.
I've never been a Texans fan (I live in Houston). The reason, everything hit as very aggy.
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longyak
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12/05/06 03:38 PM
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Go pull for the flavor of the month. Trade last year's Roethlisberger jersey in for a VY jersey, like you traded your Jordan jersey in for a Kobe jersey.
A little different for those of us that saw Vince play at Madison and then Texas and then the Texans passed on drafting him.
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TigOl'Bitties
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12/05/06 03:39 PM
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The whole scenerio with the Texans would be funny if it wasn't so sad...... OK. Its kinda funny. Here they are, however many years they've been in the league, and I still don't think anyone outside of Houston knows there is a professional football team there. They have terrible management, a mediocre coach, and a lifeless football team that looks like it couldn't give two fucks if they win or lose. They are a joke, a farce, and an embarassment to Texas.
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AugieBall
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12/05/06 03:41 PM
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The arguments the Titans haters are using truly are some of the funniest things I have read this week. Vince is the flavor of the month? Oh man.
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Vince. Young. Scores.
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Hooky Hornstein
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12/05/06 03:43 PM
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I grew up in Austin as a diehard Texas fan and a cursory Cowboys, Astros & Spurs fan. When the Oilers drafted Earl Campbell, I became an enthusiastic Oilers fan… until Bud Adams fired Bum Phillips.
Then the Cowboys disillusioned what little faith I had left in the NFL when Jerry Jones bought the team and fired Tom Landry.
When I heard Houston was getting a new NFL franchise I was interested… until they named them the Texans. How boring. I think the Houston Humidity would’ve been a much better name. Or maybe the Houston Mosquitos. Mosquito fans could hum obnoxiously while the opposing team’s offense is on the field. That would have been cool. But no. They had to steal the name of the Kansas City Chief’s Dallas incarnation. Booooring.
When I heard San Antonio might steal the Saints, I got real excited and dreamed of becoming a San Antonio Santos fan. But that didn’t work out either.
So I had resigned myself to being scarcely anything more than a Texas Longhorn fan. The NFL, I had finally decided, was nothing more than bland entertainment to get my Sunday afternoon naps started.
Then came Vince Young. He’s special.
After 35 years of frustration he said “here ya go” and effortlessly handed Texas an MNC.
Then VY decided he wanted to go pro. I figure that I, as a Texas fan, can’t begrudge Vince Young anything he wants. After all, he delivered an MNC. If he wants to go pro, fine. God bless him.
But you know what? Just because Vince Young went pro does not mean that I can no longer root for this messiah in cleats.
Heck no. I’d root for Vince Young if he played for the Oklahoma Osamas.
So what happens? Old evil nemesis Bud Adams drafts Vince Young. What’s an old angry Earlers fan to do?
Well, I’ll tell you what I did. I let bygones be bygones. After all, I figure any man who was smart enough to draft both Earl Campbell and Vince Young can be excused for firing Bum Phillips and for screwing over the city of Houston.
After all, Bum wore a silly hat and when you get right down to it the city of Houston actually sucks. I don’t mean that as an insult, merely as a factual statement.
So I have no problem being a Tennessee Titans fan. Nope. None whatsoever.
Luv ya Blue! And VY too.
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MTF
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12/05/06 03:44 PM
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You pull for your hometown team. Sure, they make mistakes, but they are still your team.
Why are they my hometown team? Vince has been in Houston longer than they have. You have to do more than slap my city's name on your team to be the hometown team; you have to earn fan support. They had some goodwill just from their mere existence, but whatever remained evaporated when they passed on VY. The Oilers were my hometown team, but they don't exist anymore. The Texans are pretenders and an embarassment to my city.
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If you're from Houston and you don't pull for the Texans then you are not a fan of your city.
If you're from Houston and you don't pull for the Houston legend VY to win games then you are not a fan of your city.
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gardere_owns_OU
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12/05/06 03:44 PM
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Houston Texans are dead to me.
i look forward to VY stiff-arming Mario this weekend.
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ut2010
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12/05/06 03:45 PM
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The original poster did not just say that he would root for the Texans over the Titans. He hoped the Titans lost EVERY SINGLE game they played. Then said he hoped VY did well. How can Vince do well if Tenn. is always awful? QB is the most important position on the field. Where VY goes, so go the Titans. Therefore, GO TITANS.
After what Vince did for my FAVORITE team the Longhorns, I at least owe him my support.
Also, "evil Roy" is not that bad a person. He won me over after I saw the piece on channel 8 after a Boys game. What he does for the community and his church blew me away. If only that clip could find its way onto Youtube. I swear I saw watery eyes by at least half the men in the room.
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TigOl'Bitties
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12/05/06 03:46 PM
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Augie:
No [censored] dude. Its like they're saying "Oh Tennessee has this really good QB named Vince Young. He seems good. Go Titans!" I don't know about the rest of you, but Vince Young represents alot more than just another Longhorn in the NFL who we hope does well. He represents a national championship and the kind of leader we can be proud of representing our university in the NFL. He's not just another guy we root for. He IS the guy we root for. Period.
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FondrenRoad
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12/05/06 03:47 PM
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Hey Augie,
I love VY for what he did at Texas, but you guys are doing the same thing you criticized Reggie Bush lovers for doing. Clearing out a spot in Canton for the guy before he's really done anything of note in the NFL.
And I'd still like to see one true Cowboys fan who pulled for the Titans to beat the Cowboys. Just one.
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TigOl'Bitties
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12/05/06 03:52 PM
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Fondren:
I pulled for the Cowboys to beat the Titans. Sure did. I've been a diehard Cowboys fan since birth and absolutely wanted them to beat the Titans. There ya go. Now what exactly does your question mean if anything? It still doesn't support your argument. Its more circular aggy logic.
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MTF
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12/05/06 03:52 PM
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Clearing out a spot in Canton for the guy before he's really done anything of note in the NFL.
Rooting for him and his team is clearing a spot in Canton? Ok...
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GHOST HORN
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12/05/06 03:54 PM
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Jump on bandwagon
Nation now noticing Titans after comeback
The Link
at least i can say i got on the bandwagon on draft day 
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HornsForever'93
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12/05/06 04:04 PM
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What the original poster fails to understand is that the Longhorn faithful will always have Vince's back no matter what team he plays for!! His contribution of a national championship has won the loyalty of all of us come hell or high water. I know I would never root against him, especially when playing an arrogant yet feeble organization like the texans
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FondrenRoad
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12/05/06 04:04 PM
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There's no aggy logic to it. Why should Houston fans pull for the Titans over their team, when you didn't do it? Especially considering the Titans history. The Texans and Titans were put in the same division to create a rivalry between the two and build on Houstonians hate for Adams. So yeah, as a Houston fan I want to beat the Titans and I want to beat them more than any other team. Just like as a Longhorn fan, the aggie loss is much worse than the ksu loss.
Would you be pulling so hard for Vince if he played for the Redskins, especially against the cowboys? Definitely not, since you were pulling against Vince even when he wasnt' on your rival.
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FondrenRoad
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12/05/06 04:06 PM
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What the original poster fails to understand is that the Longhorn faithful will always have Vince's back no matter what team he plays for!! His contribution of a national championship has won the loyalty of all of us come hell or high water. I know I would never root against him, especially when playing an arrogant yet feeble organization like the texans
This is false. Longhorn faithful Cowboy fans don't have his back when he is playing the Cowboys. So Texans fans, don't have his back when he plays the Texans. What's wrong with that?
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LONGHORNman
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12/05/06 04:09 PM
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I have to LOL at some of the predictions the Titans bandwagoners have made on this board recently. I have seen predictions of multiple Super Bowl wins from some. And this for a 5-7 club. Pretty hilarious.
Newsflash: Late comebacks and 60 yard FGs do not a Super Bowl contender make. Now the Titans may develop into a damn good team but that isn't chiseled in stone anywhere just yet. Nor is it written somewhere that the Texans won't steadily improve in the coming years.
I'll post it again in case any Titans bandwagoners missed it the first time.
The Texans will win Sunday.
Now to address some accusations leveled at me on this thread.
I am 99% a Longhorn fan, I squeeze all the rest of the teams I pull for (Texans, Cowboys, Rockets etc.) into the remaining 1%. I follow recruiting year round and take an intense interest in Spring football. No one is going to out Longhorn fan me.
But the Titans blow and the Houston Texans represent Houston for better or worse. And by extension (along with the Cowboys) represent the state of Texas.
Consider that the Houston franchise is called the "Texans", that the logo is designed to remind people of the UT logo and that the uniform colors make the Texan players into walking versions of the Texas state flag and you get what the Texans look like to the rest of the country.
Why the hell should any of us pull for the state of Tennessee.
I can just imagine you all if VY became a coach at A&M. I expect you all would have to learn to whoop and mash your nuts like imbeciles.
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DigglerontheHoof
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12/05/06 04:10 PM
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And I'd still like to see one true Cowboys fan who pulled for the Titans to beat the Cowboys. Just one.
I grew up in Dallas and live in the area now.
I've lived through all of Dallas' ups and downs....the 70s SB wins...the heartbreaking loses to the Steelers....three straight NFC championship games in the early 80s...and three straight loses. I rooted for them when an Aggy bought the team....I railed against Jerry Jones when he fired Landry in the disgusting manner in which he did.
I went to all three Cowboy SBs in the 90s and actually like Michael Irvin.
However, this year, for the first time ever, I rooted for another team against the Boys.
That team was Tennessee and the reason is VY.
If you don't root for Tennessee against every other team in the NFL (while VY is there) then you're a bigger Texans/Cowboys/NFL fan than you are a Texas fan/alum.
And if you disagree w/ that then you haven't lived through decades of Longhorn football frustration only to eventually be led to the promise land by Vince.
To me Vince represents the heart and soul of Longhorn football.
I'm a fan of the Cowboys. I AM a Longhorn...
Basically, Vince Young is moving to a beat that is entirely his own. Immediately after the touchdown, Vince Young is absolutely still for a moment -- a calm man in a stadium of absolute bedlam.
-Clay Travis, a CBS SportsLine contributor
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