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2009 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Dave J. Phillip; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Jets 24 Texans 7 Well, as one salty high school football coach used to put it, "That went over about as well as a fart in church!"...
Can you spare $350 million?
And you think the Texans' season is going badly? Get a load of what Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is facing, and I'm not talking about whether to fire head coach Wade Phillips (H/T Brad Humphreys): Industry watches as...
2008 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/David J. Phillip; previous weekly reviews are here). Colts 31 Texans 27 The following was a conversation that I had with another long-suffering fan of Houston sports teams after the Texans (0-4) became the first team in NFL...
2008 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar; previous weekly review is here). Steelers 38 Texans 17 Geez, that Texans' performance certainly didn't make this preview look very good. Getting one's ass kicked in the first game of the season is never pleasant,...
The NFL's next flagship stadium
Reliant Stadium in Houston is a nice and comfortable place to watch sporting events, but this Wired Magazine article reports that the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington looks to take the stadium experience to an entirely new level. "The...
Cowboy business
The Texans are the toast of their local cheerleading team, but the unquestioned NFL team of Texas remains the Dallas Cowboys. This Glenn Hunter/D Magazine interview of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones confirms that the Cowboys business model is performing...
Say what, Jerry Jones?
So, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is lobbying the Texas state legislature to intervene on the National Football League's behalf in the league's dispute with the cable companies over carrying the NFL Network's slate of games. As I understand Jones'...
The Texans' valuable brand
Forbes' annual valuation of National Football League franchises (related article here) was published this week, and the annual survey rates the Houston Texans as the fourth most valuable in the NFL at $1.056 billion (the Dallas Cowboys top the list...
Super bidding
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is pulling out all of the stops today to convince the other NFL teams owners to award Dallas Super Bowl XLV in 2011 -- Hall of Famer QB Roger Staubach will assist Jones in Dallas'...
Might the Cowboys' stadium deal actually work out?
Mitch Schnurman, business columnist for the Ft. Worth Star-Telegraph, thinks that the Dallas Cowboys stadium project (prior posts here) is -- against all odds and economic sense -- is shaping up to be a reasonable deal for the city of...
2005 Weekly local football review
Texans 30 Cardinals 19 Now that we know that the Texans' draft picks are not all that bad, the Texans (2-12) went out and set up a January 1st "Reggie Bush Bowl" in San Francisco against the 49ers by beating...
2005 Weekly local football review
Titans 13 Texans 10 Texans kicker Kris Brown made his contribution to the Reggie Bush sweepstakes today as he missed not one, but two, field goals in the closing minutes to ensure that the Texans (1-12) remain in position to...
2005 Weekly local football review
Texas Longhorns 70 Colorado 3. Just as this special Texas Longhorn football team exorcised the Stoops Curse earlier this season, the Horns annihilated Colorado and freed Longhorn fans everywhere from the nightmare of the 2001 Big 12 Championship game in...
2005 Weekly local football review
Texas Longhorns 40 Texas A&M Aggies 29 The 5-6 Ags came up with an unexpectedly spirited performance for me behind redshirt freshman QB Stephen McGee (pictured) and true freshman RB Jovorskie Lane before the 11-0 Horns put the clamps on...
2005 Weekly local football review
Rice 42 Tulane 34The Owls (1-8) get the top spot on the local football review this week as they finally broke their 14 game losing streak (the longest in major college football) in beating Tulane at Rice Stadium. The win...
2005 Weekly local football review
Texas Longhorns 52 Texas Tech 17 Texas QB Vince Young didn't really have all that good a game, yet Texas (7-0) rolls over formerly undefeated Tech (6-1), anyway. The fact that Tech is arguably the second-best team in the Big...
Kelo ripples hit the Cowboys stadium project
As noted in this earlier post, the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Kelo v. City of New London inevitably will have ripples, including the use of government's eminent domain power to increase the value of privately-owned professional sports franchises...
2004 Weekly local football review
Browns 22 Texans 14 In an effort to compete with the Aggies for the most uninspired effort of the holiday season, the Texans laid an egg against the hapless Browns in the final game of the 2004 season. The loss...
2004 Weekly local football review
Jets 29 Texans 7. After leading 7-6 at halftime, the Texans folded in the second half to allow the Jets to win easily. In another miserable performance during a season of inconsistent outings, Texans' QB David Carr (12/25 for 157...
2004 Weekly local football review
Texans 31 Titans 21. My younger son and I went to the Texans game today with a couple of friends and we all enjoyed an entertaining game. The Texans began the game in a coma and found themselves trailing 21-3...
The $300 Million Cowboys Victory
Lest anyone think that the Big Tuna is in any hot water with Dallas Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones over the rather pathetic turn in the Cowboys' season, Reid Slaughter of the Frontburner makes a persuasive case to the contrary: THE...
The intangible value of professional sports franchises
These prior posts have been following Jerry Jones' efforts throughout this year to obtain lucrative public financing for a new stadium in the Dallas area, which resulted in Arlington voters approving a financing deal for Jones and the Cowboys this...
Pokes get municipal funding approved for new stadium
The Dallas Cowboys won easily their biggest victory of the season Tuesday as Arlington voters approved a $325 million proposition to help build the team a new stadium. The proposition authorizes tax increases to pay for half of a $650...
2004 Weekly local football review
Lions 28 Texans 16. "Uh-oh" is the barely audible sound that you will hear emanating from Reliant Park this week. Not only did the Texans lose their second straight, but they once again showed the inconsistency that could really make...
More on the Cowboys' stadium deal
Professor Depken is providing clear thinking on the Dallas Cowboys' proposed new stadium deal with Arlington. Check it out....
Arlington and the Cowboys have a deal
The Arlington City Council and the Dallas Cowboys apparently have struck a deal on a new stadium for the Cowboys, subject to voter approval. Professor Depken over at Heavy Lifting provides an objective analysis of the proposed deal....
Arlington seeks new Cowboys stadium
Already the home of the Texas Rangers baseball club and AmeriQuest Field this Dallas Morning News (free online reg required) article reports on the city of Arlington's play to be the home of the Dallas Cowboys' new stadium. As usual,...
New Dallas stadium proposal
Following up on this post from a couple of months ago on Dallas' proposal to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to build a new stadium in Fair Park for the Cowboys, Professor Sauer posts this analysis of Jones' counter-offer to...
Cowboys back to Fair Park?
This Dallas Morning News article is about the proposal that Dallas officials have made to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to bring a new Dallas Cowboys stadium to Fair Park, which is the location of the Cotton Bowl, the stadium...
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