Disappointment
This season is probably the end of the line for me. I've threatened this before and cried wolf. This year I think I might have to totally abandon ship.
I've been pretty silent around here on the new site. Frankly, I felt quite betrayed by Sweeney's cowardly and whipped decision to pull the plug on the old site without giving someone else the chance to keep it going. We had a good community over there I think, far better than the monkey cages at all the other Texans sites. So I was pretty disheartened to learn that Ric would turn his back on the contributions that everyone had made to the site and simply act like they didn't mean anything. Perhaps he issued an explanation. I never saw one. I was pleased and not surprised that a stand-up guy like Keith would take over but for me it was never the same.
And the team. They are terrible, of course. They always have been and they will be for the foreseeable future. Eight years in and they still have a clueless coaching staff. And no running game and no pass protection (did they not know that Rex Ryan was going to blitz???) and no sacks and two passed to Andre Johnson for 12 yards or whatever it was, barely more than Kevin Walter. And honestly I got tired of being the dark cloud following everyone around like you'd see in a cartoon strip. I say David Carr sucks and lots of people say NO. I say this year's team sucks and lots of people say IT'S JUST PRESEASON. Well, if you can't f'king run the ball in preseason then how are you going to run the ball in the regular season, particularly against an opposing coach who isn't a mouthbreathing moron unable to process more than one thought at a time?
But beyond any of that the thing that has finally driven me over the edge is the stadium experience. I didn't make it to either of the preseason games so I was surprised by what I saw today. Less what I saw and more what I didn't see, actually. To those of you who never attend games at Reliant (Hi Bob!) this is going to sound incredibly picayune. But believe me, it is not. The in-game stats used to be displayed constantly on one panel of the end zone scoreboard. You know, yards amassed by each team passing, rushing, time of possession, first downs, etc. Basic stuff. Now, in place of that useful information I get to view an ad for HEB. Furthermore, the band of media available directly above the mezzanine used to show prominently a rotating scroll of out of town game scores. You could easily keep track of the action around the league. No more. Now you can easily keep track of the brands of three or four advertisers.
I am completely disgusted by this, more so than by the team's play. The Texans are telling me, an interested fan, that I do not merit receiving the information that I require to enjoy fully the game day experience. And perhaps they know what they are doing. Perhaps they know that the stadium is filled with fat idiots who are there to eat and jump around when some fool shoots t-shits into the crowd. Maybe they understand their demographic.
But they don't understand me, obviously. Tomorrow I am going to phone Jamey Rootes and tell him that unless they restore the statistical information and the out of town scores THIS SEASON I will not renew my season tickets regardless of whether the team goes 15-1 or 0-16. I have been a season ticket holder and PSL owner since day one.
I'll return to let everyone know if he takes my call and, if so, what his response is. But I am naive. I expected the Texans to win today's game. And I also expect to get Mr. Rootes on the phone. We'll see.
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