Houston Texans: Unanimous #1 in NFL.com Power Rankings

[SCOTTexans]

Originally Posted by Dutchrudder

Better hurry up then, first Texans MNF game is October 8 @NYJ. Could always go to a bar and watch it though.

And i know just the spot...

[RagingBull]

Texans are the only AFC in the top 7+ on all of those...

[Brisco_County]

I'm going to strut around the sports bars in Austin acting like a total dick now.

[Norg]

look at our AFCS buddies wayyy down there hopefully it will stay that way

[The Pencil Neck]

Originally Posted by Brisco_County

I'm going to strut around the sports bars in Austin acting like a total dick now.

And this is different from what you normally do... how, exactly?

[paycheck71]

Originally Posted by 417Texan

I cannot believe the success of HOuston and only 1 sunday nite game.

Yeah, let's start whining again.. Or actually, let's never stop... Because we're not among 2-3 teams picked to go to the SB from AFC. Unbelievable.

Oh, and Texans have 5 prime time games this year, the maximum number allowed per team.

[paycheck71]

Originally Posted by SCOTTexans

Thats too many Monday night games.... I need to get cable.

Aren't home team cable games also simulcast on a local broadcast channel? Channel 13, maybe?

[SCOTTexans]

Originally Posted by paycheck71

Aren't home team cable games also simulcast on a local broadcast channel? Channel 13, maybe?

Nope... but that would be nice

Edit: Just found out they are... Didn't know that

[Brisco_County]

Originally Posted by The Pencil Neck

And this is different from what you normally do... how, exactly?

Now I also have a reason to do it when sober.

[paycheck71]

Originally Posted by SCOTTexans

Nope... but that would be nice

Don't know how accurate the wiki page is, but FWIW

LINK

Local simulcasting of cable games
To maximize TV ratings, as well as to protect the NFL's ability to sell TV rights collectively, games televised on ESPN or the NFL Network are simulcast on a local broadcast station in each of the primary markets of both teams (the Green Bay Packers have two primary markets, Green Bay and Milwaukee, a remnant of when they played some home games in Milwaukee each season, see below). This station does not need to have affiliate connections with a national broadcaster of NFL games. Stations who are the affiliates of MyNetworkTV or The CW (and, in at least one case, an independent station[22]) have out bid more established local broadcasters in some markets. However, the home team's market must be completely served by the station and that broadcast can only air if the game is sold out within 72 hours of kick-off (see below).
On November 8, 1987, the very first NFL game ever aired on ESPN was played between the New England Patriots and New York Giants. Technically, the game was only simulcast in the Boston market, with a separate broadcast produced for the New York market by ESPN sister property WABC-TV – at the time, WABC's union contract prohibited non-union workers (like those of ESPN) from working on live events broadcast on the station. This marked the only time since the AFL-NFL merger that a regular season game was locally produced for TV. The WABC broadcast featured WABC's own Corey McPherrin doing play-by-play, and Frank Gifford and Lynn Swann from Monday Night Football doing color commentary.

[HJam72]

Attention Dallas and Fort Worth viewers, we interrupt this broadcast of your Cowboys game to show....the best football team in Texas.

[GuerillaBlack]

Originally Posted by paycheck71

Aren't home team cable games also simulcast on a local broadcast channel? Channel 13, maybe?

Yeah they are, both MNF and TNF.

[ThaShark316]

Originally Posted by paycheck71

Aren't home team cable games also simulcast on a local broadcast channel? Channel 13, maybe?

They are.

You'll see Texans/Jets and Texans/Pats on one of these local channels. The Colts game was on CW last year....

[DX-TEX]

http://pro32.ap.org/poll

Even Berman ranked us #1.

[KA4Texan]

Originally Posted by HJam72

Attention Dallas and Fort Worth viewers, we interrupt this broadcast of your Cowboys game to show....the best football team in Texas.

Thing is Texans are better than the Cowboys NO MATTER what condition the Texans are in.

I would rather be punched and kicked in my happy parts repeatedly than even pretend to be a Cowboys fan.

No matter how "Good" the Cowboys have been...... or ever might possibly be in the future...(Ugh that tasted like bile)... they SUCK!

Even before inception and after that previous team of ours left...... the Cowboys still fell way short of being the best team in Texas.

[MojoMan]

John McClain spoils the party, ranking the Texans #2 in his power rankings:

McClain: Texans are rising, but they’re not No. 1 yet

[HJam72]

I think some people are just harder on "their" team than any other team, and McClain is one of those people. We beat Atlanta with Yates last December. Yes, I know they've probably gotten better. So have the Texans. Truth is the Texans are the best team in the NFL right now, but it's scary to say it, because you think about the LOOOOOOOOOOOONG road to the Superbowl...

[Dutchrudder]

Originally Posted by MojoMan

John McClain spoils the party, ranking the Texans #2 in his power rankings:

McClain: Texans are rising, but they’re not No. 1 yet

That's OK, nobody really takes him seriously anyways. Sounds like a desperate cry for attention, because he knows that new young lady the Chronicle hired will have his job in the next year or two.

[HJam72]

Originally Posted by Dutchrudder

That's OK, nobody really takes him seriously anyways. Sounds like a desperate cry for attention, because he knows that new young lady the Chronicle hired will have his job in the next year or two.

That too. His act was old a long time ago.

[Premier]

Originally Posted by Dutchrudder

Umm, we have two Sunday night games (Packers and @Bears), two Monday night games (@NYJ, @Patriots), and a Thanksgiving game at the Lions. I think that's a pretty good increase over last year's one prime time game on Thursday night football.

even jim nantz said that sundays game against the broncos was the first time the texans were featured in the national double header game.. thats almost like a primetime game since the entire nation was being broadcasted the texans.