Which other Houston area teams do you support?

[anderson]

I'm just curious which other area pro and college sports teams Dynamo fans also actively support ("support" defined any way you like - buying season tix, regularly buying single game tix, avid TV game viewer/radio listener, etc.).

[nobius]

I'm one of the biggest Astros fans you will find. I was a huge Oilers fan until they left, then I started watching other NFL teams. I'm still a Texans fan but not at the level of the Luv Ya Blue yet.

As for the other teams mentioned, I've been to an Aeros game or two but don't watch them at all. I don't really follow the NBA at anymore except to know that the Rockets suck almost as badly as the Texans.

[The Spleen]

Astros & Texans

[Mr. Bee]

I was an Oilers fan until they moved and I don't watch NFL anymore, couldn't care less about the sport.

Been an Astros fan for most of my natural life. They're my favorite NL team.

[LordGhoti]

My support is pretty lukewarm at best for most other Houston teams.

I watch the Texans on TV (mostly because I have no choice) and will try to go to the home opener against the Eagles ... though I wish this game were later in the season because it would be easier to get tickets for it. I would put the Texans at a distant 3rd behind the Eagles and Bills.

I like hockey and have been to a couple of Aeros games and try to do my best to follow them throughout the season. However, I am more interested in college hockey and international hockey than NHL/AHL (where the Devils and Albany River Rats are my true teams).

I have also been to a handful of UH football and basketball games. Again, it is more that I like to see them do well than it is that the outcome of the game will affect my attitude for the rest of the week (a la USC football).

I have been to a few Astros games but I have no interest in baseball other than drinking. I have never been to a professional basketball game and also have little to no interest in either Houston team (or any other pro basketball team for that matter).

[MBean]

However, I am more interested in college hockey and international hockey than NHL/AHL (where the Devils and Albany River Rats are my true teams).

Have always been an avid Astros and Oilers/Texans fan. However, hockey has for about 18 years now been my favorite sport... and my wife and I were Houston Aeros season ticket holders for about 4 years running... and that was after following the Aeros avidly since their 1994 reincarnation as non season ticket holders first. Unfortunately, a number of factors soured us on the Aeros (demise of the IHL, move from the Summit, Chuck Watson's selling of the team, abandonment of the bomber logo, and perhaps most importantly the realization that near it's end the IHL was never going to materialize into anything other than a minor league), and we rarely go to games now. Ironically, I am a fanatic New Jersey Devils fan too, and have been since John McMullen put Devils games on HSE during odd hours of the night in the late 1980s. My relationship with the Devils was then consumated by the 1988 playoff run I watched on ESPN (the year before the NHL sold its rights to Sportschannel - which of course we could not get on Houston cable tv) when they snuck into the playoffs on the last day of the regular season with the OT goal by John MacLean in Chicago and then proceeded to beat the Isles and the Caps before falling to the Bruins in seven games in the Wales Conference Finals. Perhaps my favorite Devil moment though... was the night they won the Stanley Cup in 2000 vs. the Dallas Stars. I was playing in a hockey tournament in San Antonio with some friends I had played on a roller hockey team in college with... and the rink had the Devils/Stars game on the tube. When the Devils scored the goal in double-OT to beat the Stars and hoist the cup we were the only people in the rink cheering and carrying on like wild maniacs.

P.S. I don't like basketball... too much scoring renders most plays relatively meaningless in the grand scheme of things unless they happen in the last minute of the game. In contrast, goals in hockey and soccer are REALLY BIG DEALS because there are so few of them. At the end of the night... you can vividly remember each goal and why it was important... whereas in basketball... you can tune in at the very end to see if it's close... and even if it is... one team's probably fouling the other anyway.

[CeltTexan]

If there is anyone on this planet that is a bigger all around Houston sports nut, I've never met'em!

I have lived and died with every team for every season since the 1980 season. I have been to or watched so many Houston games over my 30 years on this planet that it truely becomes part of a persons soul.

The Rockets are for obviuos reasons my best memories as me and my friends went apeshit down on Richmond those two Back to Back summers. 2ouston Baby! It's tough to watch regular season NBA these days, it really is just overpaid street ball, no off the ball movement and no purity. College gridiron and hoops I am psycho for. local area High School ball is huge with me as well. As a Southern boy I have never played hockey in my life but as a guy that played linebacker, 2 Guard and center forward, I feel I really woulda enjoyed it. Aeros games have been great over the years. Playoff NHL is grit and sacrifice to the core. My personal core traits in sports. If it says Houston on it than I'm all for it!

Thus it is the Astros that have always been my boys! They have never threatened to pack up and move, they have always been soild, fun natured good guys and they are the one constant over my life that are there year in and year out. Baseball is just cool like that sports fans.
Like many others around here I have been there for the ups of Earl Campbell and the Luv Ya Blue era and the lows of the Bills and Frank Reich in '93. Bud Adams basically ripped my heart out of my chest when the 'Dome was "too small" for him to make adequete money.....I still don't know what I would do if I ever met him, best I never do. McNair was the owner we were supposed to have here in Houston. I love'em and our Texans. They suck rhino cock but whataya supposed to do, not support your local football team. Casserly and Sylvia Garcia soul mates? You decide Houston.

[Blu N Houston]

If there is anyone on this planet that is a bigger all around Houston sports nut, I've never met'em!
I'm a close second... I never really got into futbol until recently. So I nver cheered for the Hotshots or Hurricanes.
And we have met Sam:D


Thus it is the Astros that have always been my boys! They have never threatened to pack up and move, they have always been soild, fun natured good guys and they are the one constant over my life that are there year in and year out.
I guess you forgot about Uncle Drayton pulling his trick after Bud left town. Remebe,r we had to vote for car and hotel tax increase to keep him around. Was it Maryland aka DC? I don't recall..
Bud Adams basically ripped my heart out of my chest when the 'Dome was "too small" for him to make adequete money.....I still don't know what I would do if I ever met him, best I never do.
So he had his stoogies riped up the endzone...and had us cancel a very important game to save face with the NFL....They agreed to the move right after that.
McNair was the owner we were supposed to have here in Houston. I love'em and our Texans. They suck rhino cock but whataya supposed to do, not support your local football team.

Agreed! I live and die with my Texans....and now the DYNAMO! :D

[aveslacker]

My first sporting memories are of my dad taking me to an Astros game when I was something like 5 or 6 years old. This was back in the Astrodome when the Astros wore those beautifully ugly orange stripey uniforms and the scoreboard would play that wonderful light animation of a cowboy and snorting bull whenever the Astros would hit a home run.

So you could say I'm an avid, long-time Astros fan. To this day I still have a hard time reading the paper after the Astros lose. Biggio and Bagwell are two of my all-time favorite athletes. Nuff said.

I was a diehard Oilers fan, too, until they moved. I'm taking to the Texans, but haven't seen all that much of them because I've been living overseas for most of the last five years. I still support them.

If Biggio and Bagwell are two of my absolute faves, Olajuwon and Drexler are right up there with them (as is Earl Campbell, of course). I cried the day the Rockets won their first title (just like I cried when the U.S. beat Portugal in '02). But nowadays I really can't get into the NBA, for the same reasons other posters have mentioned.

I also follow Lamar (co '91) and Trinity (S.A) sports (co '95), especially lacrosse, for obvious reasons.

[aveslacker]

Here's a pic of the old Astrodome scoreboard. Pleasant memories.
http://www.theswearingens.com/mick/images/dome14.gif

[CeltTexan]

THANKS for that stroll down memory lane amigo!!!

Lots of good memories from that era in my sports psyche.

Sonny, I did think of ya tio...but I have to state that I have been going to the NASL Hurricane, MISL Hotshots and USL HHFC as well. So what I was saying was anyone else been going to all three of these AND all the past Spoilers, 'Stos, Rockets and Aeros games since 1980?

That's the Houston sports hat trick and thensome for any guy or gal to lay claim to always supporting our gridiron, hoops, hockey, soccer and baseball franchises. When I say die hard picture a lifer U.S. Marine that when he spits....it bounces! That's Sam's version of Houston sports die hard.

[uhcougar31]

1. Houston 1836 Dynamo
2. Houston Cougars alum '03
3. Houston Texans
4. Houston Astros
5. Houston Aeros
6. La Porte H.S. alum '95 (So it took 8 years to finish college so what!!!)

[fireman451]

UH (Alumni '93)
Stros (Disastros, Lastros and even the Astros)
Oilers (Luv Ya Blue)

I do not support the Texans (cause I was long gone by the time they came along).


Hate: Tenn. Titans, Pittsburgh Steelers, Boston Celtics and any team that represents Dallas.