Wasn't Central Texas more of a Cowboy fan base for years? It's not like they shifted from a Houston based love affair to the Titans. It's more like they are mainly split between the Cowboys and the Titans now that the guy that brought them a National Championship is a Titan. I know there are a lot of Texan fans out there, but I've always perceived that there were more Cowboy fans than fans of the Houston pro football franchises up there.
Vin, I've been here since 1983 and you are right about it being Cowboy country. It was never pro-Houston ANYTHING and it never will be. Within the last year I got to talking to this guy who had a Rangers cap on and I asked if he was an Astros fan at all. He recoiled and said that no way was he an Astros fan. I asked why and he said
the Astros have been around too long to have never won it all. I laughed and pointed out the Rangers have won one playoff
game in their miserable existence and he thought I was wrong. He grew up in Austin and listens to the media around here and that's what happens, I guess, when all you have is Austin media all your life.
It has always been "fashionable" to bash
anything Houston ever since I got here 24 years ago. When the Cowboys were 1-15 you couldn't find a guy wearing a Cowboy shirt, but that's all you heard on the radio. People I know suddenly started wearing Cowboy garb when they started winning, taking pride in their bandwagon mentality.
The dumbest thing you can do is a radio station on-air and ask why about the anti-Houston sentiment. They will interrupt you in mid-sentence and stay, "Ohhhh here we go with another poor, mistreated Houston fan. What is it with you guys........."
As far as backing the Titans team, I think there are 2 or 3 other Horns on the team who somehow managed to play here without getting arrested so they might be rooting for those guys as well as Vince.
Around here when they get around to pro sports, it's Spurs, Cowboys, and they don't yet know what a baseball is. Most folks here don't even know the Express is a farm team of the Astros and root against Houston during their annual game (no kidding.)
Houston has hosted a World Series, a couple of Superbowls, NBA Finals, the Houston Open, and I'm just keeping it sports when I go over how much better Houston is IMO.
What was good about Austin has long since gone. Now it's just weird, and that's just the way they like it.