Author: /u/Xpo14

This is going to get buried but I just need to get it out.

My Dad has had season tickets since the inaugural season: for himself, my brother and I. We were there for all the good and bad years, the highs and the lows. Over the years, my brother and I moved away from Houston but my dad held on to those tickets. Whenever we were in town, we would get to go to the games. On the weeks we couldn’t he would take my mom (who actually became a fan herself) and sell the other ticket, almost always last second. Part of me feels like he was always waiting to see if one of his sons might come back right before the game.

He bought those tickets year after year so that he could share his love of football with his sons. I grew to love football because of those games. I an my brother saw our first drunk person…then like 100 more at those games. I treasure those games and the memories we made at them. I know I am super privileged to get to go to so many Texans games whenever I was home. I also knew they were never “my tickets”.

I just texted my dad and bother about JJ being released, and my brother and I were texting about how all our jersey’s (Andre, Williams, Hopkins, Foster, Watt, and Watson) all left in a pretty sour place with the Texans. My dad sent: “I don’t want to talk about it, I am not going to follow them anymore, and cancel my tickets, they are an embarrassment.”

Sometimes I think I might be in an echo chamber and other members of the fan base aren’t as affected as the Texans subreddit it is, but for my dad to finally pull the plug rally affected me.

Almost 20 years as a fan….God this is the first time I thought about it like that, 19 years of devotion can be destroyed by two men. Sorry, I am probably being overly melodramatic, but I feel like this might be it for me as a fan…at least for a while.