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Houston, the largest city in Texas, the fourth largest city in the United States, and the largest economy on the Gulf Coast have a pivotal position in the entire North American continent.

The city is famous in the world for its energy-especially the oil, aviation industry and canals. Port Houston is the sixth largest port in the world and the busiest port in the United States. The Fortune 500 headquarters is second only to New York; meanwhile, Houston is still The location of the Texas Medical Center, the largest and most important research and treatment facility in the world.

It is worth mentioning that Houston has the lowest living consumption and housing prices among the 27 major cities in the United States with a population of more than 1.7 million.

Houston's most famous nickname is undoubtedly "Space City", even the White House calls it, because it is the location of the Johnson Aviation Center, and the mission monitoring center is also set here. Therefore, "Houston" is the first vocabulary to be called out in the moon landing plan; in countless Hollywood movies about space adventures, "Call Houston" is also the standard line.

Undoubtedly, this is a very important and extremely prosperous city. As one of the largest ball markets in the entire western region, all three professional sports leagues except ice hockey have a professional team in Houston.

Among them, the Houston Rockets in the NBA are undoubtedly the most familiar to Chinese fans, because in the 2002 draft, they chose / Yao / Ming / as the top pick, changing the history of the four major sports leagues in North America.

Outside the NBA, MLB's Houston Astros are also a traditional strong team in the vertical and horizontal league. The team won the National League Championship in 2005, and then won the American League Championship in 2017 and won the World Championship in one fell swoop. They It has also become the only team in the history of MLB to win two league titles.

The last is the NFL.

In the history of NFL, once had a traditional strong team stationed here, Houston Oilers, this is a super star team of fans all over Texas, founded in 1959, officially joined the American Football Association in 1960 , The top champion in the first year, and completed the defending the following year.

Before the United States and the United States merged, the Houston Oilers were well-known super power teams; and in 1966, after the two major federations officially merged and announced that they entered the Super Bowl era, the Houston Oilers were still the traditional strong teams of the league in the 1980s. From the end to the early 1990s, the playoffs reached seven consecutive years.

Unfortunately, the Houston Oilers have never been able to reach the Super Bowl. Even in the Super Bowl era, they have never won the Federation championship.

1993 was the last glory of the Houston Oilers. After that, the team fell into a long period of downturn. Facing the gradually cooling football market, and the call for a new stadium has not been able to get a response from the City Hall. The team owner Bud-Adams decided to move the team to Nashville, Tennessee.

In July 1997, the Houston Oilers officially completed the relocation process, changing from the Houston Oilers to the current Tennessee Titans; almost at the same time, Houston local businessman Bob-McNair submitted an expansion ball to the league The team's application was rejected, because at that time, the league lacked confidence in Houston's ball market.

However, McNair never gave up. He worked tirelessly, hoping to bring professional football back to Houston. This insistence was initially recognized by Paul Taliab, then president of the league.

In March 1998, the NFL approved the Cleveland expansion of the team's proposal to increase the total number of league teams to 31 teams. In order to maintain the balance of the total team, the formation of the next new team has also been upgraded.

After receiving the news, McNair started to act at the first time. He joined the Houston City Hall officials and went to the official residence of the league to complete the plan. In order to work together to establish a new team, they also proposed to build a scalable The new stadium plan on the ceiling-this was also one of the important reasons why the Houston oilers ran away.

But at this time, Houston encountered a powerful sniper-Los Angeles, which is also in the blank period of professional football. Michael-Ovitz (Michael-Ovitz), who created Hollywood's top overlord innovative artist agency, is this sniper!

Prior to this, Ovitz has climbed to the top of the industry's top in Hollywood, and it can even be said to change the rules of the entire industry. At the peak, he was elected as the most influential person in Hollywood for three consecutive years.

In 1995, Ovitz believed that Hollywood ’s job was no longer challenging. He decided to change his career. He went to Disney as the president, but later proved that this was a fatal error-Ovitz and Disney ’s then chief executive Officer Michael-Eisner (Michael-Eisner) can be described as two tigers in one mountain, the latter is also known as "tyrant"; two years later, Ovitz was kicked out of Disney in disgrace, while taking away 100 million $ 20 million in compensation.

Ovits returned to Hollywood and used the compensation to create a new brokerage company and started over; but at the same time, the idea of ​​transformation still lingered. He aimed at the NFL.

Owitz built the entire team through his own connections, and proposed a plan to spend 750 million US dollars to form a new football team, and received strong support from the Los Angeles City Government.

Although McNair ’s team also received $ 150 million in aid from the Houston Cowboy Show each year, the huge market advantage of Los Angeles still left Houston at a disadvantage; more importantly, Ovitz ’s eloquent and powerful The connections have produced a huge effect among the thirty-two teams.

In March 1999, the owner of the NFL team approved the permission to form a new army in Los Angeles with a "29: 2" voting result.

But then things turned out to be huge. The preparations of the Ovits team were too slow, and they were unable to keep up with the progress; the plan to rebuild the Los Angeles Memorial Stadium did not have much feasibility and operability in terms of funds. But still failed to achieve results, and finally angered the alliance president Taliabu.

In September 1999, the NFL officially notified the McNair team in Houston, inviting them to attend the upcoming meeting of the team owners in Atlanta. At this meeting, McNair ’s $ 700 million team-building plan was a success and was passed with an absolute advantage of "29: 0" during the voting process-there were also two abstentions.

The Houston Texans were born!

Houston ’s proactiveness has allowed the new team ’s plan to advance quickly. In less than a year, the stadium and the team have been prepared one after another. The team ’s name has also passed a resolution. Among the three different names, "Texans" successfully stood out-because Texas is an alias of the Kansas Chiefs, McNair also specifically reached an agreement with the Chiefs on the use of names.

In May 2001, the league was officially reorganized and changed from the five major divisions to the four major divisions. Houston Texans and Cleveland Brown joined the new division plan, which formed the current alliance pattern. Among them, the Houston Texans are located in the Midland South, in the same district as the Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, and the renamed Tennessee Titans after migration.

As mentioned above, the Houston Texans are a very young team, and 2002 was their first official season. Young teams, like young players, need time to adapt to the fierce rhythm of the NFL, as well as chemical reactions. They have gone through a long process of construction, overthrow, reconstruction, adjustment, and slowly find their place in the alliance.

In 2006, former Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Gary-Kubiak entered the Houston Texans as coach; in 2010, the former Cowboys coach Wade-Philips took over the defensive group Coaching position; In 2011, the team selected JJ Watt in the first round of the first round of the draft.

At this point, the Houston Texans formally completed all puzzles.

In the 2011 season, the team seized the trough of the Indianapolis Colts in the same district, and performed well. It reached the Midland Southern District and entered the playoffs for the first time in history. In the 2012 season, the team went further. The offensive group played the best level in a decade, the defensive group still maintained the level, and Watt handed out the best performance in a single season, breaking into the playoffs for the second consecutive year.

The current team has an offensive and defensive balance, stable standards, and no shortage of highlights. Last season, the offensive group ranked eighth in the league and the defensive group ranked tenth in the league.

In the offensive group, quarterback Matt Shibub, wide receiver Andre-Johnson (Andre-Johnson), running back Adrian Foster built the iron triangle; in the defensive group, cornerback Jonathan-Joseph and defensive end JJ Watt are all star players who can change the game.

At this year's offseason draft, the Houston Texans chose Clemson University wide receiver DeAndre-Hopkins with the 27th overall pick in the first round, hoping to further improve The performance of the offensive group will be able to attack the Super Bowl in the new season.

The rise curve of the Houston Texans and the San Francisco 49ers has too many similarities. The rapid rise of the past two seasons has become; and this season, the situation facing the two teams is also very close.

In the Midland South, the Indianapolis Colts, led by Andrew Luck, showed an upward curve in overall strength, and the divisional duel became increasingly fierce; and the Houston Texans performed well for two consecutive seasons After that, the existing lineup has been completed, but it is also facing injury.

It's like the San Francisco 49ers who are facing the impact of the Seattle Seahawks.

In the fierce competition of the NFL, apart from the difficulty of defending, it is also extremely difficult to continue to enter the playoffs for multiple consecutive seasons. Because of the hard salary cap, the strength of the enemy in the same area is unpredictable, which also makes The one-year playoff seat competition is full of suspense. The reason why the four elite quarterbacks stand out is because of their stable output. They have been able to lead the team into the playoffs for many years. This is Ben Rothsbury Grid, Eli Manning, Philip Rivers and other quarterbacks can't do it.

After winning the Super Bowl this year, Lu Ke is also considered to be an excellent quarterback, but he is still far from being an elite, because of this-other things will not be said for the time being, at least see whether five seasons can continue to be high-energy in the regular season Stable output, this is the qualification to challenge the elite.

This is true for the San Francisco 49ers; the same is true for the Houston Texans.