The Houston Dry Heat. I like the eagles, provided that they choose different colors for the team. Give it's own identity. Mexicans can and will call them aguilas. Mexican news almost always translates the names of american sports teams.
That would probably be an even more out-of-place nickname than Utah Jazz or Los Angeles Lakers. That nickname might work in Amarillo or Lubbock, but NOT Houston.
And someone said I want a sandwich in San Diego once so they should be the San Diego Sandwiches... Just because some other teams have overused nameds that have nothing to do with there area dooesn't mean its a good thing. Los Angelas and Utah are both named with names that were fitting for their former homes (Minn, New Orleans) and fit in with a nice sporting tradition of naming teams with something in mind (Phoenix Suns, San Francisco 49rs, San Antonio Spurs, Colorado Rockies, etc).
Right, the sandwich industry is big in San Diego, isn't that where Quiznos started? or was it Subway? The whole rocket industry has never been that important to houston however or and the rest of the country never really had any interest in it either. I bet nobody's ever even heard of that whole eagle landing quote. But Quiznos is a different story. BTW, one of the finalist names for the NFL's expansion Houston Texans was the Houston Apollos. I guess there must be a lot of Greeks in the area, hence the tip of the cap to the greek god.
No cacti here (aside from people's gardens). The three ecosystems that meet in Houston are coastal marsh, prairie (northwest, west, and south), and softwood forest (north and northeast). The cacti are in the west and south of the state.