SI.com’s Michael Silver rates the owners of the 32 National Football League teams, and Texans’ owner Bob McNair comes in a respectable seventh:
Like [Redskins owner Daniel] Snyder, McNair is an aggressive, personally invested owner who desperately wants to field a winning team. Unlike the Redskins’ boss, McNair hasn’t even come close to doing so.
Since the Texans joined the NFL in ’02, there have been a lot of dubious decisions on key matters, from the stubborn insistence that David Carr was a franchise quarterback to the selection of Mario Williams over Reggie Bush and hometown hero Vince Young in the ’06 draft. McNair, at the very least, deserves some blame for hiring the people who made those decisions.
That said, he has established a highly valued franchise in a market the NFL had abandoned. He also worked exceptionally hard on last year’s revenue-sharing plan. And, on a self-serving note, McNair’s may be the most media-friendly organization in the league.
If there was ever a sports franchise owner whose team deserved some good fortune on the playing field, then it’s McNair.
Oilers owner Bud Adams comes in 18th, which is somewhat surprising only because it’s hard to believe that there are 14 owners worse than him. Go figure.
“Oilers owner Bud Adams comes in 18th, which is somewhat surprising only because it’s hard to believe that there are 14 owners worse than him. Go figure.”
Okay, this made me laugh. I don’t think nationally the extent of Bud horror is really understood.
I asked a Titan fan last year what they thought of Bud, and they said they tried not to think of him at all because he spent most of his time in Houston anyways.