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With extensive damage to Reliant Stadium, the state-of-the-art home of the Houston Texans, the team might relocate to Rice Stadium until its usual digs can be used again.
Though there has been talking of sending the Texans’ October 5 home game against the Colts to Indy, with the November 16 game between the two teams heading to Houston, Texans owner Bob McNair said on Tuesday that the Week Five contest could be played at the college stadium only four miles from damaged NFL venue with the retractable roof.
Rice Stadium, which was opened in 1950, hosted Super Bowl VIII between the Dolphins and the Vikings. Coincidentally, if Reliant Stadium isn’t ready by October 12, the Dolphins could be returning to the scene of their last NFL championship.
September 16th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Why couldn’t they play in Baltimore last week if the Texans are going to play in Indy? Bullshit if you ask me.
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September 16th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
I think it would be funny if they made them play their games in Tennessee.
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September 16th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
@bdub85:
Because Indy is a division rival, they can EXCHANGE home games, an no one gains or loses a home game, you no-logic assclown.
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September 16th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
“Why couldn’t they play in Baltimore last week if the Texans are going to play in Indy?”
I’m assuming you didn’t really think about it hard enough before you posted that.
From the article…”Though there has been talking of sending the Texans’ October 5 home game against the Colts to Indy, with the November 16 game between the two teams heading to Houston”
The Texans don’t play Baltimore twice, hence, no bullshit.
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September 17th, 2008 at 12:08 am
“bdub85 says:
September 16th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Why couldn’t they play in Baltimore last week if the Texans are going to play in Indy? Bullshit if you ask me.”
No not bullshit. Texans only have one game with Baltimore. They play Inday twice. So instead of playing in Houston first on Oct 5, they’d switch and play in Indy. Then on Nov 16 instead of playing Indy they’d play in Houston. If they would have played in Baltimore then the Texans would have given up a home game. Not really fair. I don’t think the league even thought about having that as a option after all the flack they got for screwing the Saints after Katrina.
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September 17th, 2008 at 12:15 am
If they do play at Rice, they won’t have to leave the city and state like my Saints did. It good for them to try to keep them in Houston.
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September 17th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Why can’t they use the Astrodome? Did it also suffer damage, or is it no longer equipped to host football?
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September 17th, 2008 at 1:45 am
@bdub85
Because then Baltimore would get an extra home game, just like the Giants did against the Saints a couple of seasons ago. They play the Colts twice every year, so they’ll just switch the dates.
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September 17th, 2008 at 4:08 am
The Saints played their home game in New York after Katrina, so I dont see why the Texans playing in Baltimore was not an option to begin with.
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September 17th, 2008 at 5:33 am
bdub85,
Since they’re in the same division, the Texans play the Colts twice. So, they can simply swap the games, so both teams have a Home and an Away game. If they simply played last weekend in Baltimore, the Ravens would end the season with 9 home games and the Texans with only 7. How is that fair to the Texans, or the 30 other teams in the NFL (with only 8 home games) for that matter?
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September 17th, 2008 at 8:21 am
ok, they don’t play the ravens twice.
Why didn’t they consider this, both teams play Oakland, in Baltimore and Texas will play them in Oakland.
Since they’ve already screwed with the schedules of 3 teams just to mess up the schedule why didn’t they:
Move Texas vs. Bal to baltimore.
Move Bal vs Oakland to Oakland
Move Texas vs Oakland to Texas.
No one loses a home game.
No one has to have their schedule FUBARed
The Texans owner doesn’t come off looking like the greedy piece of human garbage he obviously is, being only concerned with his money during a human disaster.
Seems to me some of the people above didn’t think this through, nor did the NFL.
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September 17th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Instead of the “greedy piece of human garbage ” that you claim, maybe it’s because the management would like the keep the game close to home to benefit the thousands of fans that may not be able to travel with the team and would love to see another home game…
BTW…the owner that is affectionately known as the “greedy piece of human garbage “…live a couple hours north of Houston.
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September 17th, 2008 at 11:11 am
malik, yer solution is the worst. i am sure lots of ticket holders across the country wouldnt rejoice.
rice stadium here we go!
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September 17th, 2008 at 11:15 am
@Malikail
There’s the little matter of the people that bought tickets to see Indy vs Texans. They are seeing that game either way.
Also, both those cities have baseball teams…generally football and baseball teams are not home at the same time. (not sure of either schedule, but it’s another factor).
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September 19th, 2008 at 9:03 am
“Since they’ve already screwed with the schedules of 3 teams just to mess up the schedule why didn’t they:
Move Texas vs. Bal to baltimore.
Move Bal vs Oakland to Oakland
Move Texas vs Oakland to Texas.”
… no amount of drugs could have made me think of that
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