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Speaker 1: who brought professional football back to Houston, and we will

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Speaker 1: be with you for the next couple of hours talking

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Speaker 1: about the life and the contribution of Bob McNair, who

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Speaker 1: has done so much for so many And I could say,

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Speaker 1: Bob McNair was a giver. And you think about over

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Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars in charitable donations through the Houston

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Speaker 1: not even getting into texts and the fans and people

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Speaker 1: I think that's what's gonna resonate with me, Mark, just

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Speaker 1: South Carolina. Bob Mayor paid for all paid for every funeral,

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Speaker 1: I mean the number of people that were were touched

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Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form. I mean, it's pretty immense. Yeah, John,

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Speaker 1: to echo what you said, I mean, into echo what

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Speaker 1: get Hell owners across the league, and I know he'd

429
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Speaker 1: be very proud of that, because someone who goes to

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00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: every NFL meeting and asked for thirty five years, I

431
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 1: would see how Bob would interact with the other owners

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00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 1: in the league and it was pretty phenomenal. Love got

433
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,639
Speaker 1: a lot of really cool stories about Bob that I

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Speaker 1: know that I was there for. That'll be in this

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00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 1: tribute that I did in the Chronicle tomorrow, and I

436
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 1: would appreciate it if people checked him out. Well, he

437
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 1: sat still my thunder job because I was gonna read

438
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,120
Speaker 1: you a tweet that Kim Pegoula owner Kim Terry Pegoula,

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00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 1: two owners of the Bills. She said, we were sitting

440
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 1: and learning the passing of Bob McNair. We will never

441
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 1: forget how gracious he was to us as we transitioned

442
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 1: in the ownership of the Bills on behalf of the bills.

443
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 1: We expected then to our deepest consolences to me, their family,

444
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, and their fans. And just reading that tweet

445
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 1: and maybe thinking made me think that the owners felt

446
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,920
Speaker 1: a certain way about Bob, and you sort of encapsulated that.

447
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 1: But is that the feeling throughout the NFL about Bob

448
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,920
Speaker 1: that there will be obviously some sadness amongst most, if

449
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 1: not all of the owners that were in conjunction and

450
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 1: connected with him over the last few years. Well, I

451
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 1: think every owner ever met mcnaire liked him. He gracious

452
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 1: as a great word. You know, he was not a

453
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:36,440
Speaker 1: forceful personality. He listened before he reacted. He was he

454
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,680
Speaker 1: could be opinionated, but not publicly. But he was very

455
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 1: careful about what he was about what he said because

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00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 1: he would think things out. And I remember him tell

457
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: me he'd been an Oilers season take it Older after

458
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,880
Speaker 1: all those years, and how much he wanted to get

459
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 1: a franchise here and knew it was never possible. Then

460
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: when Dweilers Bud Adam started negotiating to move, he got

461
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 1: his hopes up. He'd already been a proof financially by

462
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: the league. League tried to get him to buy the Dolphins.

463
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,199
Speaker 1: He said no because Wayne Isazinga was still going on

464
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:12,919
Speaker 1: the stadium. They tried to get him involved in Saint Louis, Carolina, Jacksonville.

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00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,400
Speaker 1: He told me the only one besides Houston he might

466
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 1: have an interest at that time would have been Washington

467
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 1: because he spent so much time there on business. But

468
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 1: it worked out exactly the way he wanted. And he

469
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: did so many great things for Houston. And I'll say this,

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00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 1: he made sure that his organization was diverse. They had women,

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Speaker 1: they had African Americans, they had Hispanics. He was very

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Speaker 1: important to him. And you guys are over there every day,

473
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: much more behind the scenes. I'm certainly not buying the scenes,

474
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,199
Speaker 1: but I'm there a lot. And I thought that was

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Speaker 1: a tribute to him, because that's what he insisted for me.

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00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,879
Speaker 1: Get go. And he also didn't want bad apples. And

477
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: he told me one time, he said, the guys that

478
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: have multiple baggage coming into the league, when you win,

479
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 1: everything's but when you lose, they're the first one the

480
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 1: point fingers and become cancers. We don't I think you

481
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: can win with good people, and I think that they

482
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: have and right now with a seven game winning streak,

483
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: they're doing it with good people. And we'll see how

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00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 1: the players handle Bob's death as they approached the Monday

485
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: night game against the Titans. And I'm glad Bob's going

486
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,439
Speaker 1: to get a lot of tributes on national television Monday night,

487
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Speaker 1: and I think that's terrific. The Chronicles John McLean with

488
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: us talking about the passing of Bob Mcneron John, you

489
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 1: just brought up a lot of great points about who

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00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: he was as a person. You brought up his graciousness,

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Speaker 1: You brought up his philanthropy, you brought up his optimism.

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00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: But you, I know, have at least one or two

493
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,360
Speaker 1: or a million great stories about just how competitive this

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00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,159
Speaker 1: guy was. You don't get to be such a successful

495
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: businessman without having a competitive streak in there, don't you.

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00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: Well he was, Yes, he was competitive in business. You know,

497
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 1: he he knew what At some point Bob got out

498
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 1: or he was in a telecommunications business before he got big.

499
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 1: He told me one time, he said, well, I was

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00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: out of the state and that and he was he

501
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 1: coaching technologies which supplied most of the electricity to the Northeast.

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Speaker 1: He saw that for a billion to en Ron, and

503
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 1: I think it was three hundred and eighty seven million

504
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: in stock. And I asked him one time when en

505
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: Ron started to have trouble, I said, I said, did

506
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 1: you losing? He said, I pay? He said, I pay

507
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 1: good people a lot of money to help me make

508
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 1: good decisions. And we saw that a long time ago,

509
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: and he made a lot of good decisions, and he

510
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: wanted to give the money away. He didn't like people

511
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 1: knowing about that either. One of the things I'd tell

512
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: in my tribute is when I met him, I said, well,

513
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: these things you do privately are could have started to

514
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: get out because you're an NFL owner. And he said, well,

515
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,199
Speaker 1: I don't want it to look like I'm blowing my oar.

516
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: And I said, well, you're in the wrong business. And

517
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: when nine to eleven happened and the immediately made a

518
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: donation up there, I found out and I called him

519
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: for a comment. He said, to you have to write that,

520
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 1: he said, I said, Bob, He said, I know, I

521
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:13,360
Speaker 1: shouldn't have bought an NFL franchise. And he was always

522
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: trying to give away money in multiple states, but mainly

523
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 1: right here in Houston, with all the things he did

524
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: in our city, and he's going to be missed by

525
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: a whole lot of people, not just locally but nationally,

526
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: and because he was a very beloved figure for a

527
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: lot of people, especially those who knew him. And that's

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Speaker 1: why I feel so bad for Jannis and Cal and

529
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 1: people wonder about Cal. Cow's been his right in man

530
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,479
Speaker 1: for years. Cow's basically been running the franchise. Cow is

531
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: I talked of Cow many times through the years about

532
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: his dad and what a great owner his dad was.

533
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: I spend money, I treated people, I handled the media,

534
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 1: and I know Cal was watching and learning, and it'll

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00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:59,640
Speaker 1: be a smooth transition. Great point, John, With Cal McNair

536
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: as the COO and Sheriman Bob had become senior chairman,

537
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: and you have Jamie Roots as president, Brian Gaine as

538
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: general manager, Bill O'Brien as head coach, the team is

539
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: in very good hands right now. John, How much of

540
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: a long shot was Houston to get the thirty second

541
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 1: franchise When McNair started the campaign, I wrote a column

542
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,400
Speaker 1: and I said, met the House, NFL will not come

543
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: to Houston, It's going to la And I was certain

544
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: of that because the NFL gave LA that exclusive negotiating period,

545
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 1: and Bob was so confident he had people out there

546
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: studying every time they brought up the possibility where stadium was.

547
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: He had people studying the environment, the land, and he

548
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,479
Speaker 1: kept up and he said, I'm telling you, we're going

549
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: to get it. And I just never believed it because

550
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: the NFL didn't want to come here. And right up

551
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: until the end, he was confident in the bid, the stadium,

552
00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: the political leaders, the business leaders. Bob McNair got everybody

553
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: on board like nobody else could. And that's one reason

554
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: we got that franchise. And when it was awarded in

555
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: Atlanta and they were this city was celebrating, I was

556
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: just I just like gave a side of relief because

557
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: I just thought, you know what the league is. Paul

558
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: Tagley Boo SA Roger Goodell, his right hand man, out

559
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: to hang out in LA and make sure that this

560
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: deal came off. And then when Goodell quietly moved back

561
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: to New York, Bob told me nobody I didn't know it,

562
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: and he said, you know what that means. I said,

563
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: what he said, that means that they've given up on

564
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: LA and I think we're gonna get that franchise, and

565
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: I said we last year. I hope you're right. Well, John,

566
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: to tell you one more story? Can I tell you

567
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: one more story? When when Bob got the franchise and

568
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: they weren't playing, he would come to the league meetings

569
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: and he would come into the media run and people

570
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: are like, who's that. I said, that's the new owner

571
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: of the Texas and and they're like, what's he doing

572
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: in here? Owners don't come in here? And Bob come in.

573
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: He'd sit out and guys would go over to him,

574
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: like you know, some pet can pet him, and they started,

575
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: but he would engage them and they were just amazed.

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00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: Now friendly he was. And then one time he said,

577
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: the meeting was in Palm Beach and he said, do

578
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: you think do you think any media people would like

579
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: to go out on my boat for dinner? Like at

580
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: dinner cruise? And I said, yeah, how bigs your boat? Well,

581
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: of course I called it a yacht and he said

582
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: he had room for forty eight. He got him, he

583
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: took him out. Everybody had a blast, and when the

584
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: last one laugh I was about to leave, and he goes,

585
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know why those owners don't like y'all.

586
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun. I said, well, he

587
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: didn't played a game yet, and the league tolding said

588
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: I don't. The league told him, we don't think the

589
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: owners are gonna like you doing this, and he said,

590
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not doing it for the owners.

591
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: And so that's kind of guy he was. He was

592
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: just a very giving person, a very friendly person who

593
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: didn't know a stranger. John, thank you so much for

594
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: the time, and thank you for remembering Bob McNair. We

595
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: look forward to your stuff, says to Janis and Cal

596
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: and carrying the rest of the family. All right, Thank

597
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: you very much, John McClay from the Houston Chronicle, and

598
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: indeed we continue to remember the life of Bob McNair.

599
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: Charlie Casually the general manager of the expansion Houston Texans

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00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: when they started play in two thousand and two. He

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00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: will join us next to talk more about the birth

602
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: of this franchise and working for Robert McNair. It's Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: It's Texans Radio. It's Texans Radio. Welcome back, Mark vandamer

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00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: John Harrison, Drew Doherty with you. Bob McNair no longer

605
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: with us, passes away today at age eighty with his

606
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: family by his side, and we are joined now by

607
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: the very first general manager in the history of the franchise,

608
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: Charlie Casually, who worked closely with Bob McNair to launch

609
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. Charlie, it's great to have you with us.

610
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: I know we'd like to visit under different circumstances. But

611
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: how are you doing, sir well. Kind of like all

612
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: of us, very sad this evening, the city of Houston

613
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: lost one of the greatest citizens that they ever had. Charlie,

614
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: tell me what it was like when you first met

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00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: mister McNair and those early days and talking about launching

616
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans and your first impressions. But we have

617
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:32,239
Speaker 1: a lot of conversations before we ever met about the

618
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: viability of the franchise, the vision he had, and we

619
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: both seemed to be on the same page right from

620
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: day one that we wanted to build it right on,

621
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Speaker 1: a first class organization, be community involved, be state involved.

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Speaker 1: And he had a lot of pride in the city

623
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Speaker 1: of Houston. He was an original season ticket holder of

624
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: the Houston oil Is back in nineteen sixty, so he

625
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: was a great football fan, had great passion for it.

626
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: We had a mutual interest in the development of youth football,

627
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: high school football, and he shared a passion just as

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00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: I did for that. And I know when I was there,

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00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: that was a big commitment on his part. So um,

630
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: he wanted to do things right. He lets you run

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00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: the team. He was there every day because he cared

632
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: about the team. Not to interfere, but he cared. He

633
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: would back you on your decisions. He never waivered in that.

634
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: And I think the greatest example of that came in

635
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: the Marry A. Williams decision when he asked Gary Kubiak

636
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: and I, what are what we wanted to do? We

637
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: told him Mary A. Williams and he never ever hesitated.

638
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: Now he knew what the thinking was. And you know,

639
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: obviously I took a lot of heat. He took a

640
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: lot of heat too on that one. But he backed

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00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: this one hundred percent. And Charlie it is it was Charlie,

642
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: this is Drew Dorry. What did that mean to you?

643
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: You know that that trust, that commitment, because you're not

644
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: the only person that he showed that with throughout his life.

645
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: Throughout his career, well at number one, I never gathered it.

646
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: I expected him to say what he said there in

647
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: that situation because we had worked together and I knew

648
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: how he operated. But when you have that kind of backing,

649
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: it makes life a lot simpler for you because you're

650
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: going to have to make some tough decisions and you

651
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: can't have people you know wavering or second guessing after

652
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: the fact first guessing. That's part of the job. I mean,

653
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: you have to rationalize what you do. But I think

654
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: it's important that you have the backing of the people

655
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: that you work for when you go out there to

656
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: do your job, and that they trust what you're going

657
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: to do. And I think that's important. It makes you

658
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:53,280
Speaker 1: able to work much more smoothly and much more efficiently. Charlie,

659
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 1: we've been sharing stories throughout the night, just our stories

660
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: about Bob McNair and other people. John mcclaim would just

661
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: talked to. Is there a story that stands out to

662
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: you that maybe gives our listeners the true understanding of

663
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: Bob McNair through your eyes, through something that happened with you.

664
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 1: Do you have a story kind of the share with

665
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: all of us about Bob McNair well, other than of

666
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: course the Mario Williams when I'll give you the second one.

667
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: Here is UH first day on the job, and we

668
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:29,879
Speaker 1: sit down and they showed me the plans for the

669
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: football facility and I had to explain to him. Now

670
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 1: you have to understand he just paid I was a

671
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: six hundred million for the team, and and he had

672
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 1: they had a budget for the practice facility and the

673
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,359
Speaker 1: locker rooms at center on the stadium. And I says, well,

674
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 1: the first thing I got to tell you is they

675
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: gave you the wrong It was modeled at the Carolina Stadium.

676
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: See uh. And I says, well, the first thing I

677
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: got to tell you is they gave you the wrong

678
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: plans to the Carolina Stadium. This is the original plans,

679
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: but this is not what they built. Oh okay, well

680
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: let's go through this. And the original plans that were

681
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: laid out were you all know what the stadium was,

682
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: and if you think of where Main Street is, the

683
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: practice facility was. The practice field was going to be

684
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,919
Speaker 1: on Main Street. So and I said, well, how would

685
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,240
Speaker 1: a player is going to get to from the stadium

686
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: over to main Street? And he says, well, they're just

687
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: going to walk. I said, They're going to cross Kirby. Okay,

688
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: walk all the way down there. He says, yeah, and

689
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: this is you know, the people that were involved. And

690
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 1: I said, of what's going to happen. He said, that's

691
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 1: not the way we need to do this thing. As

692
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: we as we quickly went forward, I said, you know,

693
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: I've researched this and talked to a lot of different

694
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: people and they're convinced you need an indoor facility to

695
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: practice with because of the weather here. And so Bob says, well,

696
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: if you think that's what we have to do after

697
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: it now, nobody'd ever done that in the state of

698
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: Texas before. That was like a heresy in Texas to

699
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: build an indoor and bopped in bat an eye. So

700
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: he says, tell me what you need. And I outlined

701
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: what we did, which was the finest indoor facility in

702
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: the country at that Portfool Football, and he did it.

703
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: And everything we outlined that we had to do was

704
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: not in any of the plans. Where the first par

705
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: if you think about where the practice field is now,

706
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: the one closest to Kirby that was a parking lot

707
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: which he tore up to build a practice field there

708
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: so it would be right near the stadium. We built

709
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: three fields that wasn't in the plans. We built an

710
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: indoor field that wasn't in the plans. We expanded the

711
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: square footage by something like fifty thousand square feet inside

712
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,240
Speaker 1: the stadium for the football facility, because that was what

713
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: we felt was needed. And as we all know, when

714
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: you build the best, people will copy it and we'll

715
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: move past you. But you know, the facility was the best.

716
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: At times. I told him, I says, where are we

717
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: going to practice? And we started, Well, that hadn't been

718
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: thought of usaid okay. I went around. There was no

719
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: place to practice. There was no locker rooms. I says, well,

720
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 1: let's go to the astrodome and we'll refurbish the astrodome,

721
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: which we did for the locker rooms at least, so

722
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: we had something that was presentable on our first day

723
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: when we brought our team in. So the point was

724
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: he wanted to do everything to win. Now, he wasn't

725
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: gonna be wasteful, but he but you know, if you

726
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 1: could rationalize it, and he was first class, things were done.

727
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: So I think the big one was I'm one day

728
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: on a job and I just tore up all our plans.

729
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: So and he says Okay, so that's a good one.

730
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: Charlie casually joining us original general manager of the Houston

731
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,760
Speaker 1: Texans on the day that Bob McNair passes away, Charlie,

732
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: opening night of team history, all the build up, all

733
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: the planning, you just described some of it. What was

734
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: it like? What was it like to be around him?

735
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: That night? Jerry Jones on the other sideline and the

736
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:58,280
Speaker 1: Texans beat the Cowboys nineteen to ten. Well, of course,

737
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: you know, we went in as a big under dog

738
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: and uh no expansion team had won the opener in

739
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: forty one years, and we had actually practiced against the Cowboys.

740
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: We had scrimmaged against him. They beat us in a

741
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: scrimmage seven to nothing. But was interesting though their seven

742
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: came against our backups. Okay, and so you know, we

743
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: we knew we were a big underdog and really had

744
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: no idea what to expect going out there. And I

745
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: know the Cowboys were supremely over confident going into the game,

746
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: and you know, we're hanging in. Obviously, we scored first

747
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: and the place erupted and we're hanging in the game.

748
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:39,240
Speaker 1: We're hanging in the game. And I saw it, and

749
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: then Jerry Jones came down the sideline in the third

750
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: quarter and there was a point in the game and

751
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: I don't remember, you might remember point where we got

752
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: a safety and there was a point. I turned him,

753
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: I said, I said, we can win this thing now

754
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: because we were in earshot. And I know he was

755
00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: just beyond overjoyed after to win. And I know we

756
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: came in the next day and it's all he could

757
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: talk about. One of the biggest events in the city

758
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: of Houston. It meant a lot to the city of Houston,

759
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: and it meant a lot to him, and especially to

760
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: beat Dallas, as we all know, that's a big rival

761
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 1: for the city of Houston. So he was a static,

762
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: but he was his usual reserved, classful self about it.

763
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: I mean he wasn't doing any dances in the locker room, okay,

764
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: but but he was. He went around, he congratulated, everybody

765
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 1: shook their hands. Uh, and then he turned. Uh. You know,

766
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: I said to him, I said, you know, um, what

767
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: would be nice is if we gave a game ball

768
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: to everybody in the organization. I said, this is a

769
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: big event, and he's absolutely next thing. I know, everybody

770
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: got a portrait, a picture of the stadium, on that

771
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: night and it was handed to him. So uh, you know,

772
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: those those are the kinds of things that he did.

773
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: He appreciated the hard work, he appreciated the winds, He

774
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: understood the law, he understood the process, and he was

775
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: a great person to work for. Got Charlie Castley joining

776
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: us now talking about the passing of Bob McNair and

777
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: some of his very classy acts through the years. Charlie,

778
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 1: can you talk and kind of explain and illuminate what

779
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: sort of a competitor he was. We talked about it

780
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: with John McClean just a few moments ago. But what

781
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: did you see competition wise from Bob McNair in his life. Well,

782
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: he was a competitor. Did you remember he was in

783
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: horse racing and he you know, he was very proud

784
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: of that and what he did there, of the success

785
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: he had. You know, he wanted to win, there was

786
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: no question about that. He hated to lose. He did

787
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: it gracefully, but the committitive factor was there. There was

788
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: no question that he wanted to win. He just didn't

789
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: wear it on his sleeve publicly, but we saw it privately.

790
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: But he was always clad head class and was first

791
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 1: class about it. So when he win, he was the happy.

792
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: He did it with class. When he lost, he did

793
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: it with class. But you know, he held everybody accountable,

794
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: which is what you expect that that's fine. You know,

795
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: we don't everybody doesn't mind that part of it. He

796
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: didn't do anything negative in public, which I thought was good. Charlie.

797
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 1: One more for you here where the franchise is today,

798
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: because obviously they have not won the Super Bowl yet.

799
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: That's something he very much wanted and he will not

800
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,399
Speaker 1: get to see that, but you know, maybe he will

801
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: from beyond. It's just the point of the franchise in

802
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: existence today. Cal McNair will take over, we presume, of course,

803
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: and you have Brian Gained as general manager, Jamie Roots

804
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: the president, Bill O'Brien the head coach. Texans are seven

805
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: and three. What do you think of the state of

806
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans right now on the day that Bob

807
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: McNair passes away. Well, there's two things that jump out

808
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 1: to You got one of the best coaches in the

809
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: National Football League and Bill O'Brien, And you have one

810
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: of the best young quarterbacks in the league and Shawn Watson.

811
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 1: So you got those two things you ought to be

812
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,439
Speaker 1: very happy and then that not to say the best

813
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: defensive player. Uh, and better than Aaron Donald. Okay, let's

814
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: get that straight. Even though Donald sam I like White,

815
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: he plays more positions, plays the run better. I'm giving

816
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 1: you a scatting report anyway. And you've got J. J. Watt,

817
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: who's a premier player and premier leader. And obviously you

818
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: know Brian Gaye and Cal and Jamie. You know, they're

819
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: all very competent in what they do. But in reality,

820
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: if you you better have the coach and you better

821
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: have the quarterback if you expect to get to the

822
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: promised Land. And I think they've got both of those

823
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: guys can do that. And it's a shame because the

824
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: year that they lost Andrea and they lost Mario and

825
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: they lost a shop, that team could have done it. Yeah,

826
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: that was twenty eleven and it was a rough year

827
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: with those injuries. Charlie, we really enjoy your work on

828
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 1: the NFL Network and we really appreciate you coming on

829
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: tonight to talk about Bob McNair. Thank you so much

830
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: for being with us. No glavy with you, Mark, It's

831
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: always a pleasure, all right, Charlie casually original General manager

832
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:08,760
Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans. Bob McNair passes away eighty years

833
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: old with his family today peacefully cal McNair chairman and

834
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:18,240
Speaker 1: CEO ready to go, Brian Gaine, Bill O'Brien, Jamie roots

835
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: organization in great hands. But wow, what a day as

836
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: we remember the passing of Bob or the life of

837
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: Bob McNair. On the day he passes, tributes are coming

838
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: in from everywhere through social media. The immediacy of social

839
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: media just fantastic. As we will share with you some

840
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:41,760
Speaker 1: tributes coming in for Bob McNair, including presidential tributes. JJ

841
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 1: Wattway's in. You can imagine who is commenting on the

842
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: passing of Bob McNair and will continue with our tribute

843
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: here on Texans Radio. Next here on Texans Radio. Next

844
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: here on Texans. We are here in the Hyunday Texans

845
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: Radio Studio live, Mark Vandermayer, John Harrison, Drew Doherty with

846
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: you on the day that Bob McNair passes as mister

847
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: McNair brought the NFL back to Houston, gave away over

848
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: a half billion dollars to charitable causes that we know of. Yeah,

849
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: I mean, there's the stuff that you might not know about, because,

850
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 1: as John McClain eloquently pointed out, he didn't want a

851
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: lot of it out there. You know, some of it fine,

852
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: others know. And I think you said it best, Drew,

853
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: that you go around to this city and all of

854
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: a sudden, Oh, look there's a plaque because they donated

855
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: this thing, and it was you know, they just put

856
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 1: up a plaque for something at a university or a school,

857
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: or how about the Houston Zoo. You ever see the

858
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: Elephants Center there. That's I mean, that's you know, and

859
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: people might not know about that, but they've done so much.

860
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: The McNair family, and God bless Janison, the McNair family,

861
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: as we remember Bob McNair on this evening, six thousand,

862
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,720
Speaker 1: eight hundred tweets and counting so far on the life

863
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: of Bob McNair, and we're gonna get to some of

864
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: these because these are great tributes coming in from all

865
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 1: over and from the Texans players of DJ reader Ways

866
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: and JJ Watt says, rest in peace, mister McNair. Thank

867
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: you for giving myself and so many others an opportunity

868
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: here in Houston. My thoughts are with Janie cal and

869
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,720
Speaker 1: the entire McNair family one note on that, and Sean

870
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: Pendergas from Sports Radio six ten, of course, tweeted something about, Hey,

871
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: a lot of us have jobs in sports talk radio

872
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: because Bob McNair brought the NFL back to Houston. I

873
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: raised my hand and John Harris raises his hand. I mean,

874
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,839
Speaker 1: I don't go. You know, you look at Sports Radio

875
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: six ten, which for a long time was the only

876
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: sports talk station in Houston, and the colors of the

877
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: station and being the flagship from the get go, and

878
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: the association, the partnership that this radio station has with

879
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans so powerful, and it obviously caused this

880
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: whole wave of sports talk in the city. And I

881
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: think it's true. I mean, without the NFL, what do

882
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: you really have, you know? I mean, God blessed Rockets

883
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,280
Speaker 1: and the Astros, of course, but this is the National

884
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: Football League we're talking about, and mister McNair made sure

885
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: that Houston would have a franchise and what an impact

886
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: it has on so many people. We're just getting personal

887
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: with it in terms of sports media. But Brian T. Smith,

888
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,879
Speaker 1: mister McNair brought the NFL back to Houston, that says

889
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: it all. Well, think about columnists and everybody else involved. Yeah,

890
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: you know you talk about getting personal with it. Hey,

891
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: when I walk into work every day, I look to

892
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: my left and I see the Astrodome. And if you

893
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: had told the seven year old self, or my seven

894
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 1: year old self, for my ten year old self, for

895
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,439
Speaker 1: my fifteen year old self, someday you're gonna walk in

896
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,760
Speaker 1: and work for the pro football team in this town,

897
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see that site every single day, and

898
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna do that, my little self probably would have

899
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,400
Speaker 1: exploded or imploded or whichever it is. I mean, I

900
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't have a job if it weren't for ultimately his

901
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: actions in the late nineties getting the Texans here. I

902
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: got a fantastic job. I love this job. It's it's

903
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 1: due in large part to him. Yeah, I'm the same.

904
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: I mean, Sean echoed those thoughts. I mean, Sean and

905
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: I obviously started radio back in two thousand and seven

906
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:11,399
Speaker 1: together with a station that was not affiliated with the

907
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: Texans at all, But there was seemingly at the time,

908
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 1: this growing need because the Texans had come here because

909
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: sports talk radio, you know, we can we can talk.

910
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: We want about the Astros and the Rockets. Sports talk

911
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: radio is not Baseball and basketball are not going to

912
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 1: carry sports talk radio. They're not. No, not not on

913
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: a daily not on a daily basis, But football will

914
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: because of the way that football has grown. Uh and

915
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: and two droops point about, you know, growing up here

916
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 1: in the city of Houston, something that both of us

917
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: were able to do. I used to think about that too,

918
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: about being part of an NFL organization. Well, what about

919
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: being part of the others. Well, by the time I

920
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: was graduating from college, that dream was about up because

921
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: the others there was talking with the others moving at

922
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,839
Speaker 1: that point, and it's like, well, you know, there there

923
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: goes that team, you know. And then I end up

924
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, and I kind of lie started the Jaguars

925
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: at that point because I was in Jacksonville and my

926
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: team had just left Houston, and I'm thinking, I'm not

927
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: I'm you know, my team, my city's never going to

928
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: get another team. And so I was actually in between Jacksonville,

929
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: North Carolina when when Bob You paid the money to

930
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: bring the team here, and it was surreal to see

931
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,439
Speaker 1: a different team, to see a different logo, to see

932
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: the bullhead and go, wait, this team is in my town. Well,

933
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 1: this is kind of strange. And then when I ended

934
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,280
Speaker 1: up in Houston and I could come to the games,

935
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: I could see it up close, it was like, Wow,

936
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: this is something, this is great. This is great for

937
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: our city and great for our town. And I'll then

938
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: forget meeting him for the first time because you guys,

939
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: I mean, Mark, you've been here from the beginning. Drew,

940
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: You've been here since two thousand and nine. So unfortunately

941
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 1: for me, I ended up not meeting him until two

942
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 1: fourteen when he started having some of the some of

943
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: the health issues. But I remember I went out to

944
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: I went out to OTA's and I just happened to

945
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: be out at OTA's and I had been going to OTA's,

946
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: you know, every single day with you guys, and I

947
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: was not full time into building it, but I was

948
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: going out the OTAs And at some point mister McNair

949
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: said to Coop at the time, who was running up?

950
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: He said, who's that? And so strange, man, yeah, who

951
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: is that? Because he was kind of putting faces with

952
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: names and he's like, who's that. So at some point

953
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: I walked by Coop's like, don't come here, and so

954
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 1: I walk over and now I'm almost shaking, like I'm

955
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: about to meet an owner of an NFL team for

956
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: the first time. I mean, and I was just I

957
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: was so nervous, and missus McNair actually extending her hand

958
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: and couldn't have been nicer, and I mean just the

959
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: way that they kind of took me in. I I

960
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: felt comfortable immediately, and it was just it was just

961
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: that feeling of hey, you're now, You're now on the family,

962
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: and I was like, it was really cool. It was

963
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: really cool feeling to know that they were that they

964
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 1: were on my side and on the forgear. We were

965
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 1: playing the game and I I can't remember who it was,

966
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: but we were playing a game and in the fourth quarter,

967
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: mister McNair he's always coming down the sideline. He used

968
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 1: always come down to the sideline and be on the

969
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:57,800
Speaker 1: north side of the north side of the field. I

970
00:50:58,040 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 1: was what was going on. He'd be on the north

971
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 1: side out of the field. And we scored. We scored.

972
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 1: I can't remember, maybe in the Tennessee game last year,

973
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: but we scored, and you know me, I'm just getting

974
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 1: excited and so I'm just kind of patting guys on

975
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: the back, and all of sudden I get to him

976
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:13,359
Speaker 1: and I'm about to do it, and I realized it's him,

977
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: and I kind of pulled up right before I was

978
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 1: want to pat him on the bag, like yeah, and

979
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: then I went, wait, this one from MCNAIRA I can't

980
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: do that. I gotta act like I know what I'm

981
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: doing out of here. And so I didn't do it,

982
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: but I was like, he probably had I done that,

983
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: it just kind of pat He probably would have fifth

984
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: It would have been just fine. He would have been

985
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: just fire. He had a great sense of humor that

986
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: I don't think everybody knew about. And back in two

987
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: thousand and eleven, twenty and twelve, Sean Cody had on

988
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: the Nose the video segment and they got about seven

989
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: or eight of those going in eleven, and I can't

990
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: remember who came up with the idea, but it was

991
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,760
Speaker 1: let's get mister McNair on the show. And he agreed,

992
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: said sure, what do you want to do? And so

993
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:58,879
Speaker 1: basically everything we asked of him, he basically said, sure, Hey,

994
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: mister McNair, can we take up your dress shoes and

995
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:04,240
Speaker 1: your argyle socks like you're getting your ankles tape. No problem.

996
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 1: Hey mister McNair, do you mind putting on these EyeBlack strips?

997
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,959
Speaker 1: No problem. Hey mister McNair, do you mind doing chest

998
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 1: bumps with Cody and jumping up in the air. No problem.

999
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: Can we go into the locker room? Have you unbuttoned

1000
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: just a few buttons on your shirt and make it

1001
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: look like you're putting a dress shirt on after the game,

1002
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: and we put Connor Barwin in like as a body double,

1003
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: and Connor was pumping his pecks and flex and stuff.

1004
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: No problem, let's do it. He was his shirtless. He's smart. Well,

1005
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of guys, you know, in his

1006
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 1: positioner would have thought that's beneath them. They can't. But

1007
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,840
Speaker 1: he was. He was all for it. He saw the

1008
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: fun and yeah he really he had a good time

1009
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: with it. And not everybody saw that side of him,

1010
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: but he did have a pretty darn good sense of humor.

1011
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 1: Well what about the one in the stadium the Toro

1012
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,479
Speaker 1: skin to A lot of people saw that where he's

1013
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: talking to Touro about a dance idea he has and

1014
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 1: then the next thing you know, you're just seeing his

1015
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 1: feet and this is another body double. His feet dancing

1016
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 1: on the desk, and Toro's like, what am I doing

1017
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: here in mister McNair's office while he's dancing on the desk,

1018
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 1: But all you see is the legs dancing. And it

1019
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: was a body double. It was so well done, and

1020
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:17,319
Speaker 1: he was all over and he had a great sense

1021
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: of humor, and you know, he just he knew what

1022
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: this was all about. This is about fun, this is

1023
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: about entertainment. It's about winning, but he knows that it

1024
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,439
Speaker 1: consumes people. It's just it's such a part of our

1025
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: lives every single day. You know. I met him in

1026
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:35,320
Speaker 1: two thousand and two. I'm here for the expansion Draft.

1027
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: That's my first official Texans duty. And he introduced me

1028
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: to the crowd at the expansion Draft and it was

1029
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: so nice because he said, here's our number one draft pick,

1030
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: our announcer. You know, I thought, wow, that's pretty flattering

1031
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 1: right there. You know, so Selly's really the number one

1032
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:53,959
Speaker 1: pick in the expansion draft. Not that there's an order

1033
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,840
Speaker 1: that's necessary here, but he was really really nice to

1034
00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: say that, and uh, and it was such an honor

1035
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 1: to be introduced by like, like you said, John, it's

1036
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 1: the first time I met an NFL owner. Yeah, yeah,

1037
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: I'm at Don Shula in Miami. I'd actually met Robert

1038
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: Kraft a few years before. That's besides the point. But

1039
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: I was just I was kind of in awe because

1040
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: mister McNair, I knew, you know, I wasn't following it

1041
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: from Houston. I was living in another market, but I

1042
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: knew that Houston. When Houston got the franchise, I thought,

1043
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:23,760
Speaker 1: what what happened? How did that happen? What an upset?

1044
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: You know? But that's that speaks to his competitiveness, as

1045
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,359
Speaker 1: Drew has been pointing out and asking John McClean about

1046
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:34,280
Speaker 1: and Charlie casually about how competitive he was to get

1047
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 1: the NFL's thirty second franchise here to Houston. Well, and

1048
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: you told a great story earlier today to me, and

1049
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: you can kind of kind of lend some more creeds

1050
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: to this. Just tell the positivity story, all right. Story.

1051
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,399
Speaker 1: So Bob McNair, and this is this is the most

1052
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: positive person I've ever met. And I could easily say

1053
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: that he's so positive. Look, Charlie said he was a

1054
00:54:56,200 --> 00:55:00,399
Speaker 1: total optimist. John McClean said that as well, that Bob

1055
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:02,839
Speaker 1: was convinced he was going to get professional football here,

1056
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: and we just talked about what a long shot that was.

1057
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,880
Speaker 1: And I've asked him because I'm big and my favorite

1058
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: book is The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale,

1059
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: and I've mentioned that to mister McNairy. He and I

1060
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 1: had a lot of conversations about my dad. My dad

1061
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 1: is eighty five, with about the turn eighty six, and

1062
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:20,879
Speaker 1: you know, he'd ask me some questions about my dad

1063
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: from time to time, like what's he doing, you know,

1064
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: because he knew that he was doing really well as

1065
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: he was advancing in years, and we'd talk about different things. Anyway, Bob,

1066
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,399
Speaker 1: he's so positive. I said, mister mccairn, how and why

1067
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:36,439
Speaker 1: are you so positively? Tell me about that. He said, well,

1068
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: I don't know too many people who are successful and

1069
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 1: negative too. And I'm thinking, geez, he's a very matter

1070
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 1: of fact. Like I just thought, oh, man, Like he's

1071
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: so right, you know, like you can be negative, but

1072
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:53,280
Speaker 1: you can't really you have to be optimistic and positive

1073
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: about your chances and fight through the storms and stand

1074
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: on the bow and you know, like all the things

1075
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: that he's done in his life. As John mcclaim pointed out,

1076
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: he wasn't born with a silver spoon. He wasn't born

1077
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 1: without his spoon. He comes from very humble begins, beginnings

1078
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,439
Speaker 1: in North Carolina. And he talked, he talked about many

1079
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 1: times throughout his life, how many disappointments business wise, how

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00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: many times he went broke, but he still came through

1081
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: and in that true really successful people. Uh. And here's

1082
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: here's another one, uh, that that he says that actually

1083
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 1: we haven't emblazoned on the wall of one of our

1084
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,400
Speaker 1: conference rooms now, which is you can't go wrong doing

1085
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: what's right. You know. He used to say that. I'm thinking,

1086
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,280
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a drop the mic one. It's really

1087
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 1: you know, like, how can you argue with that? But

1088
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: it's so succinct too. I mean, for the three of

1089
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 1: us who spend our lives on TV and radio, weren't

1090
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:44,839
Speaker 1: especially radio, we're not supposed to be succinct. We have

1091
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: two hours or four hours to fill. We've got to

1092
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:51,400
Speaker 1: stretch everything out. And yet he could say everything in

1093
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 1: one sentence and went wait, ye oh wow and move on.

1094
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: Very much so. And it was funny when I got

1095
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 1: into building. I remember we went to my first I

1096
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 1: went to my first business ops meeting, and when I

1097
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: think about NFL franchise, you know me, I'm thinking, no, no no,

1098
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,399
Speaker 1: this is my winning championships like you win rings. That's

1099
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,319
Speaker 1: what it's all about. And I remember one of our

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00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 1: tenants was do great things for Houston, and I never

1101
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: I remember my first year. I was kind of like, yeah,

1102
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, doing great things for Houston? Did you

1103
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: win championships? And really, the more I was around the building,

1104
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 1: the more I realized where that came from and what

1105
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 1: that what that meant, and that came from him doing

1106
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: things for his city, for his people, and that, you know,

1107
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: that was that was something that always resonated with me.

1108
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: He was doing it for my people because I'm from

1109
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: this city, this is my city, and so I felt

1110
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: like that was speaking for me and for everybody. All Right,

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00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 1: Two nuggets from our conversation with Charlie Casually I want

1112
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: to get into because one of them I knew, probably,

1113
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: but it sort of speaks to me a little bit

1114
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 1: right now, especially on this very very special day, very

1115
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: tough day. And we'll get it to that. More memories

1116
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: attribute from a president for Bob McNair and a whole

1117
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 1: lot more as we continue to remember the founder of

1118
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans here on Texans Radio. Didn't Texans here

1119
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: on Texans Radio, didn't Texans. Tributes pouring in from all

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00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 1: over for Bob McNair, who passed away today with his

1121
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: family by his side peacefully. As he founded the Houston Texans,

1122
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: brought professional football back to Houston, gave away over a

1123
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 1: half billion dollars to charitable causes, and we continue to

1124
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: remember him this evening. Mark vandamer John Harrison Drew Doherty

1125
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Speaker 1: with you tonight from the Hunday Texans Radio studio as

1126
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 1: we got the news today late in the day and

1127
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 1: knew that we had to go live to talk about

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00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: the life of a great, great man survived by his wife, Janis,

1129
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: his lovely wife, Janis and Cal McNair of course, along

1130
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: with the other McNair kids children, if you will. Just

1131
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:59,440
Speaker 1: an outstanding family and they've met so much to the

1132
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: city of Houston, and I just think about what they're

1133
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: going through right now, such a tremendous loss, such a

1134
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 1: tremendous life. A few things I wanted to mention. We

1135
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: had Charlie Casually on the original general manager of the

1136
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, and one thing he said that kind of

1137
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: stuck with me was the youth football emphasis that you know,

1138
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 1: we live it today and we work here in the building,

1139
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: so we see, you know, Brett Stewart and his gang

1140
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 1: and like they do so much. And I know it's

1141
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 1: been going on for a long time, but this was

1142
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: not just like the last ten years or even the

1143
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: last fifteen years. This was Bob McNair saying to Charlie

1144
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 1: casually day one, Jamie Roots in the conversation, I'm sure,

1145
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: saying we need to be huge proponents of youth football,

1146
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: playing the right way, support it, promote it, make sure

1147
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: kids love it, make sure it's being done the right

1148
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 1: flag football, whatever kind of football, Let's get it in

1149
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: the community even more than it is. Obviously it's it's

1150
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 1: part of the fabric here. But the Texans really wanted

1151
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: to nurture that. Yeah, you know, we brought up a

1152
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:01,439
Speaker 1: couple of times now in the last hour or so,

1153
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: the five hundred million that we know of that he's

1154
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 1: given of his own money, but that doesn't really take

1155
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: into account what the Texans have done as well, which, yeah,

1156
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: he made that a point of emphasis that was important

1157
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 1: to him. There's a whole division of the business op

1158
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 1: side of things. You just mentioned it with Brett Stewart

1159
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 1: doing that, and think of all the money they've funneled

1160
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: in over the years. I mean, every single spring there's

1161
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: a clinic here for coaches to teach him, how youth

1162
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 1: coaches teach him, how to coach kids to tackle correctly,

1163
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: all that stuff, hydration, concussion awareness. They've really up the

1164
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 1: ante as far as making the game at those lower

1165
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: levels very much safer than it had been. So, yeah,

1166
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: you bring that up. It's not a new thing. It's

1167
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: not just because of all the news it's been going

1168
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: around it out. It's about ct It's started well before

1169
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 1: two thousand and two with Bob McNair. You know, the

1170
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Speaker 1: Houston Texans YMCA. And I might fumble this story a bit,

1171
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 1: so I apologize at advance, but this YMCA has historical

1172
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: significance in the city of Houston. So many civil rights

1173
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: meetings took place there long time ago, obviously very important

1174
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 1: for our city, and that Why needed a hand, that

1175
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 1: Why was not doing well, and it was so important

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01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: for that part of the city to have a facility

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01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 1: like that for kids, for adults too. I mean, it's YMCA,

1178
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:26,919
Speaker 1: it's for all and the Texans stepping in and it's

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Speaker 1: the first YMCA ever named after a professional franchise. It's

1180
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 1: a heck of a YMCA. I mean, I'm a why guy,

1181
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 1: and I think it's an amazing building. And you look

1182
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 1: at how that whole area has really has really turned around,

1183
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 1: if you will, I think it's a tremendous contribution. And

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01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 1: that's just one of many dozens, thousands, whatever you know

1185
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 1: of examples of things that he's done or through him

1186
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: in this community. Well, here's one from somebody that doesn't

1187
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 1: live in our community. Okay. In fact, he covers the NFL,

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01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: but he lives up in Dallas. His name is edward Er.

1189
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 1: Ed used to be with ESPN. He tweeted this earlier today.

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01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 1: And for those that don't know ed Warder's story, his

1191
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: son Trey, yes, son in law right because his daughter

1192
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 1: I think had some medical issues as well, but Trey

1193
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: was his son in law. He was very close with. Yeah,

1194
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: he said, I will never forget once when Trey came

1195
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: out of a visit to MD Anderson during his cancer battle,

1196
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,920
Speaker 1: that I received an unexpected call from mister McNair offering

1197
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 1: to help us with anything he could. Condolences to his

1198
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 1: wife and family, and you just like it's ed Warder.

1199
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 1: You know, he's an NFL reporter, and you know they're

1200
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: in Houston because obviously the medical centers here, MD Anderson, etc.

1201
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 1: And he just happened to see Edwarder and calls him, Hey, everything, okay,

1202
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: can I help you with anything? Can I help Trey?

1203
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 1: Can I help the family with anything? I mean, he

1204
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 1: didn't owe Edward or anything, and he didn't owe him

1205
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,040
Speaker 1: anything thing at all, and yet he made it. He

1206
01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 1: made a call to generosity. And I just we've seen

1207
01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 1: things like that all, you know, since it was announced

1208
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 1: at almost right at the time we went on the

1209
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 1: air about six o'clock, and we've seen those types of

1210
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 1: stories and those sort of tributes. We read one, so

1211
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 1: we talked of John McClain from kim Pogula, who's one

1212
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:21,120
Speaker 1: of the owners of the of the Buffalo Bills, and

1213
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 1: what the Bills, what she encountered as being a new

1214
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: owner in the NFL, and how Bob was very helpful

1215
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:31,439
Speaker 1: to her. It's just it's kind of amazing to step

1216
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:35,280
Speaker 1: back and just realize that he had not only the

1217
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: city of Houston in mind when it was to help

1218
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 1: somebody it was everybody he ran in concert with. It's

1219
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 1: just pretty amazing to think about. Yeah, you know who

1220
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:46,520
Speaker 1: who he ran in concert with throughout his life. President

1221
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 1: George H. W. Bush rights the most famous of all

1222
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 1: Texans fans, and he was a regular up in the suite.

1223
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 1: You saw him flipping the coin at least once a year,

1224
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 1: one year, I think, oh nine ten did it with

1225
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 1: his son, President George W. Bush Well George H. W.

1226
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 1: Bush President President. He released a statement today, Bob McNair

1227
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 1: wasn't just the brightest point of light in Houston. He

1228
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: was one of the kindest and most generous people anywhere.

1229
01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 1: Nobody cared or helped people more. And that's just one

1230
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:17,640
Speaker 1: of the reasons I will always be proud. Bob was

1231
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:20,000
Speaker 1: my good friend. He was simply and he puts this

1232
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 1: in capital letters, the best, my most sincere condolences and

1233
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 1: family love go to Janie and her wonderful family. Pretty

1234
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 1: strong words from a guy who led the free world

1235
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: for four years. Absolutely, yeah, no doubt. One of one

1236
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:37,959
Speaker 1: of my favorite statements came from Jacksonville Jaguar's owners shot

1237
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:42,400
Speaker 1: con Bob McNair returned the NFL to a quintessential football city.

1238
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 1: My memories will be of Bob's love for Houston, the league,

1239
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 1: in the game, but personally, I'll never forget how helpfully

1240
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: was to me when I was exploring the notion and

1241
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 1: becoming an NFL owner myself. Bob McNair was a good

1242
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:57,080
Speaker 1: man lost too soon, and my heart goes out to

1243
01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:00,040
Speaker 1: his family, friends and everyone in Houston. How about the

1244
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:03,240
Speaker 1: greatest Texan of all time, Andre Johnson, He just recently

1245
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 1: tweeted something out. There's a nice picture of him and

1246
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:10,000
Speaker 1: mister McNair on Instagram. Looks like they're in Denver and

1247
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:13,760
Speaker 1: that preseason practice facility with the Broncos. But it said,

1248
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,760
Speaker 1: can't thank you enough for giving a kid from Miami

1249
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 1: a chance to live out his dream of playing in

1250
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 1: the NFL. My deepest condolences goes out to the McNair family.

1251
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Houston, Texans. So Drey sad tonight and

1252
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 1: a lot of other people are around the city. I

1253
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 1: think that there's sadness and there's also acknowledgement of everything

1254
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:39,480
Speaker 1: that he's done. And just to reiterate some of the

1255
01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:42,400
Speaker 1: things we talked about in the first hour, if you're

1256
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 1: just joining us here, and by the way, before I

1257
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 1: get into that Tilman for Tita. Sad day for Houston.

1258
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:48,920
Speaker 1: I was a partner with Bob from the beginning with

1259
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:52,080
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. Yes, he was. It's such a disappointment.

1260
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 1: This is life. We will always remember that Bob was

1261
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: a leader in this city and brought the Texans to Houston.

1262
01:05:57,880 --> 01:06:00,919
Speaker 1: We're losing one of the icons of this generation. He's

1263
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 1: got a wonderful family and hearts are filled, or our

1264
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:09,760
Speaker 1: hearts are with all of them. Uh, bringing the NFL

1265
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:14,400
Speaker 1: to Houston. You think about it, the stadium, the Super

1266
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 1: Bowls that go along with it, hosting Super Bowls here

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Speaker 1: in our city. The economic impact is gargantuan of hosting

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01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: Super Bowls in our city, the exposure that the city gets,

1269
01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:30,160
Speaker 1: the buzz, and the Final Fours aren't coming here either

1270
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 1: if there's no stadium. So think about that. You're saying

1271
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 1: they're not going to be in the Astronaut Yeah, I

1272
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:38,800
Speaker 1: don't know, I know, Joe, I wonder will just happened?

1273
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,520
Speaker 1: You know, this is I've mentioned it's a wonderful life earlier, Like,

1274
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 1: what what if there's no Bob mcnairon the NFL doesn't

1275
01:06:44,080 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 1: come back to Houston. What happens to the Houston Livestock

1276
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 1: Show and rodeo. You know that that's an excellent organization.

1277
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:52,120
Speaker 1: I think they find a way to obviously exist and thrive,

1278
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 1: but maybe they have to. I mean, this is great.

1279
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,240
Speaker 1: Whatever they would do to the Dome to actually continue it,

1280
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 1: there would not be enough to have Final four US.

1281
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:04,880
Speaker 1: Let's just let's just be right out there with it.

1282
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: In my humble opinion, anyway, So this stadium, this team,

1283
01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:12,960
Speaker 1: this organization, all of that gargant you an economic impact,

1284
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 1: but the impact goes well beyond economics. It's about the

1285
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:20,360
Speaker 1: fabric of life. It's about having the NFL in your city.

1286
01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 1: All the joy, all the angst, all the emotions associated

1287
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:29,680
Speaker 1: with having a professional football team, all the complaints, all

1288
01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 1: the fun everything. It's it's the experience. It's the day

1289
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:38,480
Speaker 1: to day of it. It's Brendan Circus. It's a wonderful

1290
01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:41,280
Speaker 1: thing for your city to have the NFL. And he

1291
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:44,000
Speaker 1: brought it back here. And I don't want to say

1292
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 1: this because because I am from Houston. Drus from Houston.

1293
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:52,680
Speaker 1: Mark you got here as fast as you could. But

1294
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 1: there's something about the owner in this town having and

1295
01:07:57,400 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 1: I knew he grew up in South Carolina, but he

1296
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 1: spent the majority, if not all, of his adult life

1297
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: here in the city of Houston. So I always look

1298
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,400
Speaker 1: at him as a Houstonian. I think the fact that

1299
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 1: he was a Houstonian who brought football back to this city.

1300
01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 1: And I remember when I moved here in nineteen eighty three,

1301
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:18,000
Speaker 1: the one thing that I couldn't I could never shake.

1302
01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:19,600
Speaker 1: I mean I was going through my teenage years and

1303
01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:21,519
Speaker 1: I could never shake. I was like, man, people are

1304
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: so proud to be from Houston. Like I didn't. I

1305
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 1: didn't get it, Like I didn't understand, like why there

1306
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:31,160
Speaker 1: are other places in this world y'all, like so many

1307
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: other places in this world, Like what is it about

1308
01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:38,760
Speaker 1: this this city? But yet Bob McNair was seemingly the

1309
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 1: person who embodied all of it because he gave this

1310
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:45,679
Speaker 1: so many which is what I feel like this city

1311
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 1: has done. I mean, I think about Hurricane Katrina and

1312
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:51,240
Speaker 1: how the city gave for those for those people, that's

1313
01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:53,200
Speaker 1: what this city is all about. And I mean, Bob

1314
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:56,280
Speaker 1: mcnaire seems to embody everything that's great about this city.

1315
01:08:56,640 --> 01:09:00,040
Speaker 1: And in due time, I realized, Hey, yam proud to

1316
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 1: be from Houston and heck. Yeah. The fact that you know,

1317
01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:06,440
Speaker 1: our owner, Bob McNair is from the city, He understands

1318
01:09:06,479 --> 01:09:09,519
Speaker 1: the city, and I wanted so badly for this city,

1319
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 1: this team, my team, my town, to win for that

1320
01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:16,240
Speaker 1: man who brought football back here to our town. And

1321
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 1: I mean that that always that always kind of you know,

1322
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 1: each of the year, you know, when we start the year,

1323
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:22,800
Speaker 1: I remember every first game of the year, I'd walk

1324
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:24,679
Speaker 1: out going, this is the year. This is a year

1325
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:27,120
Speaker 1: that he that that he gets to hold the trophy,

1326
01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:30,559
Speaker 1: and this is this is that year. And unfortunately that

1327
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:34,120
Speaker 1: year is not going to happen. But maybe Cal's gonna bring,

1328
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 1: you know, hold that trophy one day over his head.

1329
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 1: And I think that'll be a great day. Yeah. And

1330
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:40,840
Speaker 1: if you're just joining us. Earlier in the program, we

1331
01:09:40,840 --> 01:09:43,040
Speaker 1: were talking about an interview that McNair did at his

1332
01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:45,200
Speaker 1: house back in the springtime, and I got to go

1333
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: along and ask some of those questions, and he was

1334
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:50,679
Speaker 1: very optimistic about what the future held for the Texans.

1335
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:54,960
Speaker 1: He liked Deshaun Watson a whole lot, and he knew

1336
01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:59,639
Speaker 1: that that bright days were ahead and he said as much.

1337
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:02,240
Speaker 1: I mean he he said that this guy's the best quarterback.

1338
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:05,080
Speaker 1: He thinks this franchise is gonna have. Well, I always,

1339
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 1: you know, people often ask me in my travels, especially

1340
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:12,320
Speaker 1: out of market, you know about this team and about

1341
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:17,120
Speaker 1: this organization, and I always start with him, you know,

1342
01:10:17,240 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 1: because when I was making the decision and this is

1343
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 1: getting personal here to come here to pursue this opportunity,

1344
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:26,960
Speaker 1: people told me, and I had a lot of people

1345
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:31,280
Speaker 1: I talked to get advice from. They said, in professional sports,

1346
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: it's all about your owner. And if you have an

1347
01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:36,960
Speaker 1: owner that wants to win, that has integrity, that's good

1348
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 1: to work for, you're gonna have a great experience in

1349
01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:42,040
Speaker 1: professional sports. And let's be honest, in his professional sports,

1350
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 1: there are a lot of owners that just aren't so hot.

1351
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 1: And he had such adoration from others, and I picked

1352
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:53,880
Speaker 1: up on that very quickly, even though this team had

1353
01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 1: not played a game. So I was really honored to be,

1354
01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 1: you know, part of the launch of the franchise on

1355
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 1: the air. And I quickly discovered, you know, over the year.

1356
01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 1: One quickly, over the years, I discovered that day, not

1357
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 1: everything always goes swimmingly on the field in pro football.

1358
01:11:10,760 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 1: And we know that for this team, some bad locks,

1359
01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 1: some tough times whatever inside the lines, right, But a

1360
01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:20,599
Speaker 1: couple of things about him. He's always big on what

1361
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:22,960
Speaker 1: can you control? You know, what are the things you

1362
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 1: can control? And the fan experience here and when you

1363
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:29,320
Speaker 1: look at that, and led by President Jamie Roots and

1364
01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:32,440
Speaker 1: everything they do for the season ticket members and tailgating

1365
01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:34,559
Speaker 1: because the Oilers didn't have it, We're gonna have tailgating here.

1366
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:37,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna make it phenomenal. We're gonna make game day

1367
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:40,360
Speaker 1: as great as it could possibly be. So no matter

1368
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:43,360
Speaker 1: what happens on the field, hopefully you know, obviously winning

1369
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:45,120
Speaker 1: is the most important thing. But what if you don't win,

1370
01:11:45,120 --> 01:11:46,679
Speaker 1: because you're not gonna win every game, You're not gonna

1371
01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 1: go sixteen and ozer. How do you have a great

1372
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:54,960
Speaker 1: fan experience, create memorable experiences for people. Well, he's always

1373
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:58,600
Speaker 1: put everybody to the task of making sure that you

1374
01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:01,679
Speaker 1: can do everything in your power or despite whatever's happening

1375
01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:03,320
Speaker 1: on the field, they have a great fan experience, and

1376
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 1: I think this franchise has done that. There is no way,

1377
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:08,960
Speaker 1: you know, people say, oh, it's football in Houston. Sell

1378
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: out every game, no problem. There is no way you

1379
01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:13,479
Speaker 1: sell out every game unless Bob McNair is running this

1380
01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:17,280
Speaker 1: organization because he knows what it's about taking care of

1381
01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:20,240
Speaker 1: the customer. You haven't won every game, so how have

1382
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:22,400
Speaker 1: they done it. They've done it because they've done the

1383
01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 1: best job they possibly can at all the stuff I

1384
01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 1: just mentioned, and it's very important to be able to

1385
01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, you ever see the Astrodome Back in

1386
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:33,920
Speaker 1: the mid mid the early nineties through seven playoff appearances

1387
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 1: had trouble selling out. I mean we used that. We

1388
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:38,559
Speaker 1: used to live at a time where we couldn't see

1389
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 1: games unless randalls came in because they were blacked out

1390
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:45,439
Speaker 1: Friday nine or Thursday afternoons. Yeah. Yeah, there are lots

1391
01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:48,320
Speaker 1: of thousand tickets or whatever. They were playoffs that had

1392
01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:51,759
Speaker 1: their games. These were oiler playoff teams. They weren't playoff

1393
01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:54,759
Speaker 1: games that got blacked out, but during playoff seasons games

1394
01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:57,160
Speaker 1: got blacked out because he didn't sell out. And you

1395
01:12:57,240 --> 01:13:00,360
Speaker 1: bring up the creating a great fan experience. I mean

1396
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:03,479
Speaker 1: that's the three prongs of this organization. The goal ultimately

1397
01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:06,760
Speaker 1: with Super Bowl titles, also do great things for the city,

1398
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:10,719
Speaker 1: but also create you know, memorable experiences with fans. And

1399
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:12,680
Speaker 1: you bring up Jamie Roots, the president, I mean he's

1400
01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:16,520
Speaker 1: an animal about that. I mean he is constantly consumed

1401
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: by making that happen. And you've got a big Your

1402
01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:23,559
Speaker 1: biggest competitor is the television in the guy's home, because

1403
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 1: it's it's very easy to just sit at home and

1404
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:27,840
Speaker 1: watch a game. It's free. You don't have a line

1405
01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:30,280
Speaker 1: for the bathroom, you get free all that stuff, and

1406
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:33,559
Speaker 1: the Texans strive to make that a better experience, all right.

1407
01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 1: Next up Bob McNair and football. Drew brought up some

1408
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:41,080
Speaker 1: of the things where he gets involved, and look, Charlie

1409
01:13:41,160 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 1: casually mentioned it. He'll let you run the team, but

1410
01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:47,160
Speaker 1: Bob does have input on certain things and how the

1411
01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:51,320
Speaker 1: Texans have gone big for things under Bob McNair. Again,

1412
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 1: not everything has worked out right away, but he's been

1413
01:13:53,880 --> 01:14:00,160
Speaker 1: able to redirect, to reemphasize. And here you are today

1414
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:02,959
Speaker 1: with a seven and three team on the day he passes,

1415
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 1: the Texans are getting ready for a huge Monday night

1416
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 1: game in first place in the division, with a lot

1417
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:10,919
Speaker 1: of great possibilities in front of him. As we remember

1418
01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:13,759
Speaker 1: and continue to remember the founder of the Houston Texans,

1419
01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:24,280
Speaker 1: Bob McNair. Tonight on Texans Radio Radio Radio, here we

1420
01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:27,920
Speaker 1: are in the Hunday Texans Radio studio remembering Bob McNair

1421
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 1: and it is just so strange to say that I've

1422
01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:33,760
Speaker 1: been with the franchise since two thousand and two. I

1423
01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:38,200
Speaker 1: mentioned meeting him at the expansion draft, and it's just

1424
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:42,639
Speaker 1: so stunning to think that the Texans will be without

1425
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: Bob McNair. Of course Cal has been here. You see

1426
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 1: Cal all the time. Cal's the chairman and it's great

1427
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 1: to have that continuity there with Cal and Brian Gaine,

1428
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:56,599
Speaker 1: Jamie Roots, of course the president of the Texans. And

1429
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 1: I said it earlier, even when Bob's not here, you

1430
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:01,400
Speaker 1: feel this presence in the hallway. You just do. You

1431
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:03,840
Speaker 1: just do. And I think it's going to go on

1432
01:15:03,920 --> 01:15:07,080
Speaker 1: for a long long time. I just think that this franchise,

1433
01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:10,360
Speaker 1: and you know, John McClain mentioned getting players of character,

1434
01:15:10,479 --> 01:15:12,439
Speaker 1: high character, you know, as much as you can control that,

1435
01:15:12,479 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 1: as much as you know guys and can know guys.

1436
01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 1: Think about it. The amount of players that have been

1437
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:21,000
Speaker 1: through here, and the fact they have so many great,

1438
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:24,320
Speaker 1: great citizens of Houston that you've brought it to be

1439
01:15:24,400 --> 01:15:28,720
Speaker 1: members of this franchise. I absolutely love that. That is

1440
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,360
Speaker 1: so important to them and it will continue to be

1441
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 1: so important to this franchise. You bring it up. It's

1442
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 1: interesting because over the years we have heard from countless

1443
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:44,640
Speaker 1: people talk to countless people in this town, Well, did

1444
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:46,799
Speaker 1: they have to go and get a bunch of choir boys?

1445
01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:49,160
Speaker 1: They have to go out and get guys that you know,

1446
01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:51,080
Speaker 1: That's the term I hear a lot of times is

1447
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:53,680
Speaker 1: get a bunch of choir boys. I look at that

1448
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,400
Speaker 1: locker room now, and the guys that are in that

1449
01:15:56,439 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 1: locker room now, and the guys that have been in

1450
01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:01,160
Speaker 1: that locker room, but the one I look at now

1451
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:04,320
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is what this is a Bob

1452
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 1: McNair locker room. They're guys in there like Tyrann Matthew.

1453
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:11,439
Speaker 1: They bring in Tyrant signs. In one year deal Spen's

1454
01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving giving out what five hundred turkeys to families in

1455
01:16:14,560 --> 01:16:16,320
Speaker 1: the you know, the city of Houston. I mean, he's

1456
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:19,559
Speaker 1: not alone, but it's it's the kind it's the kind

1457
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: of locker room that Bob McNair, you know, loved, and

1458
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:25,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it speaks to the fact that

1459
01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:30,360
Speaker 1: and I remember when, you know, when when Bill was

1460
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:32,800
Speaker 1: up for the job, and having known Bill for a

1461
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:35,360
Speaker 1: long time. I'll never forget when he got the job.

1462
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 1: I just told people, I said, I'm shocked. I'm shocked

1463
01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 1: because I just you know, you guys have seen Bill.

1464
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 1: I mean, Bill's emotionally where's it on his sleeve? That

1465
01:16:45,560 --> 01:16:48,400
Speaker 1: was kind of unlike the two other coaches that that

1466
01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 1: Bob had had hired here. But what I realized about,

1467
01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:57,800
Speaker 1: what I realized about Bob was that Bill understood that

1468
01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:00,720
Speaker 1: very thing that Bill believed in a strong locker room,

1469
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:03,719
Speaker 1: that Bill believed in people, and he wanted good people

1470
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:07,160
Speaker 1: around his organization. And obviously Brian Gaine the same way.

1471
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:11,160
Speaker 1: And I feel like those two guys are carrying that

1472
01:17:11,240 --> 01:17:14,360
Speaker 1: spirit in general manager and head coach going forward. And

1473
01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:16,920
Speaker 1: I think it's it's made for an incredible locker room,

1474
01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:19,479
Speaker 1: it will continue to make for an incredible locker room.

1475
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:21,840
Speaker 1: But it's channeling the best in Bob. And that was

1476
01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:25,559
Speaker 1: and I think about I think about something from Bill Belichick.

1477
01:17:25,600 --> 01:17:27,960
Speaker 1: Belichick once said, I just want to coach the people.

1478
01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:29,600
Speaker 1: Now my career, I want to coach the people. I

1479
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:32,000
Speaker 1: like coaching. I just want the people that I'm around,

1480
01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:34,120
Speaker 1: I want to I want those to be good people.

1481
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:36,799
Speaker 1: And I can imagine when Bill when Bob started franchise.

1482
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:39,799
Speaker 1: That's what he thought about. He wanted good people around

1483
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:42,920
Speaker 1: him that he wanted to be around. You bring up

1484
01:17:42,960 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 1: all that. But he would swing and sometimes miss, but

1485
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:48,760
Speaker 1: he would swing for the fences, you know. He let's

1486
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:50,760
Speaker 1: go back to uh and we can go back before this,

1487
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:53,320
Speaker 1: but let's go back to two thousand and eleven. Texans

1488
01:17:53,320 --> 01:17:57,280
Speaker 1: are trying to court and they were courteen Namdi Asomla.

1489
01:17:57,400 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 1: He was the best cornerback in the game and he

1490
01:17:59,400 --> 01:18:02,000
Speaker 1: was gonna be one of the lynchpins of a of

1491
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:06,439
Speaker 1: a defense that would get turned around. I mean, Phillips

1492
01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:09,200
Speaker 1: hired Wade Phillips because in twenty ten, you had the

1493
01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:14,439
Speaker 1: worst NFL pass defense, Yeah, NFL sinn and the offense

1494
01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:17,439
Speaker 1: looked and he figured, look, the offense is good here. Yeah,

1495
01:18:17,520 --> 01:18:19,680
Speaker 1: let's get a good defense. So how do we do that.

1496
01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:22,559
Speaker 1: You hire the top available guy in the market. And

1497
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:24,720
Speaker 1: this is a theme with him. Who's the top guy

1498
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 1: out there, Wade Phillips. Let's go get him. Let's just

1499
01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:29,639
Speaker 1: let's hire Wade Phillips. He got fired by Dallas. He's

1500
01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:33,080
Speaker 1: a tremendous defensive coordinator everywhere he goes. And this was true.

1501
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:35,080
Speaker 1: Then as it is now everywhere he goes in his

1502
01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 1: first year, at the very least, they go to the playoffs.

1503
01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 1: So let's get Wade Phillips. Guess what happened. They went

1504
01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 1: to the playoffs first time ever. And you're going after no,

1505
01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:44,639
Speaker 1: the awesome off you don't get them. Instead, you get

1506
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:47,719
Speaker 1: Jonathan Joseph and Daniel Manning, the ladder of whom Manning

1507
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,760
Speaker 1: lasted longer in the NFL than Awesome one did. The

1508
01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:53,720
Speaker 1: former Jonathan Joseph is still with the take here. He's

1509
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:57,080
Speaker 1: the best free agent signing in team history, and he's

1510
01:18:57,080 --> 01:18:59,400
Speaker 1: been He's been awesome for you, and he's been a

1511
01:18:59,479 --> 01:19:01,479
Speaker 1: leader for He was one of the reasons you were

1512
01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 1: able to turn that defense around and put together what

1513
01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 1: Casserley said was a team that could have challenged for

1514
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 1: a super Bowl title in two thousand and eleven. Head

1515
01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:12,360
Speaker 1: match Hub not gotten hurt. I think about and you

1516
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 1: heard Charlie talk about the Mario Williams decision, because how

1517
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 1: easy would it have Hey, how easy would it have

1518
01:19:19,360 --> 01:19:20,920
Speaker 1: been to just go with the Texas boy and the

1519
01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 1: Houston homeboy and Vince Young? I mean, how easy would

1520
01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:28,160
Speaker 1: that have been? And then beyond that, hey, look, we decided, weided,

1521
01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:30,720
Speaker 1: we decided, we didn't go with David Carr Camp. But

1522
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 1: Reggie Bush, I mean, it was an offense that needed something.

1523
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 1: And yet Charlie and Gary go to him and say,

1524
01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 1: now we think it's this guy. We think it's this guy.

1525
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: Maria Williams and Bob just said, Okay, I'm going with it.

1526
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:47,920
Speaker 1: I mean to me that that's as big, that's as

1527
01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:50,320
Speaker 1: big a risk as anything that you go with a

1528
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:54,360
Speaker 1: defensive band from Medica State. And yet he backed it

1529
01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:57,439
Speaker 1: and went with it. And yet of those players who

1530
01:19:57,439 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 1: had the longest and most fruitful career, no doubt about it.

1531
01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:03,719
Speaker 1: And when you look at Reggie Bush, there was also

1532
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:06,599
Speaker 1: they were thinking about maybe the scandal back at USC,

1533
01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:09,439
Speaker 1: would that be a big circus here with the media

1534
01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:11,760
Speaker 1: and everything. And I think, you know, New Orleans, as

1535
01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:13,400
Speaker 1: it turned out, was a better spot for him to

1536
01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 1: start his career and Houston would have been a very

1537
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:19,479
Speaker 1: tough go. But you're right, it was unpopular, but it

1538
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:21,759
Speaker 1: was the right thing. And we bring up the hiring

1539
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 1: of Wayne Phillips. How many people wanted Gary kubiec fired

1540
01:20:24,439 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 1: after twenty ten And when I say people, media, outsiders,

1541
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:30,240
Speaker 1: whatever it was, reported that he was fired. I mean,

1542
01:20:30,240 --> 01:20:32,839
Speaker 1: there were people that said he's gone. He's gone, it's officially,

1543
01:20:32,960 --> 01:20:34,519
Speaker 1: but Bob's like, no, no no, no, no, We're gonna keep

1544
01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:36,080
Speaker 1: him and bring in Wade Phillips and they go to

1545
01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:38,240
Speaker 1: the playoffs for two straight years, which they had never

1546
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:41,320
Speaker 1: done before. That was unpopular, but it worked out. Now,

1547
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:43,080
Speaker 1: when you talk about going all in, yeah, they went

1548
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:45,559
Speaker 1: all in on Brock. You know, they definitely did. He

1549
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:48,679
Speaker 1: was the here's the theme, top guy on the market.

1550
01:20:48,720 --> 01:20:50,920
Speaker 1: He was the top free agent quarterback on the market,

1551
01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:53,640
Speaker 1: no question about it. Let's go get him. They got him.

1552
01:20:53,720 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 1: You know, it didn't work, so let's move away from

1553
01:20:56,479 --> 01:20:58,519
Speaker 1: him very quickly, and they were able to do that.

1554
01:20:58,680 --> 01:21:00,840
Speaker 1: Let's go all in on this. The John Watson guy

1555
01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 1: go in, you know, so as an organization. Look, not

1556
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 1: everything works, of course, but he's committed to winning. And

1557
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 1: now you have a quarterback here. Now you have some

1558
01:21:09,520 --> 01:21:12,320
Speaker 1: good things going on. Let's let's not give this short

1559
01:21:12,320 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 1: shrift either. What it's not easy to go to the

1560
01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:18,360
Speaker 1: team's owner and say, listen, we gotta trade this guy

1561
01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:20,880
Speaker 1: that we've got all this money invested in. Yeah, and

1562
01:21:20,920 --> 01:21:22,639
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to give away a second round pick

1563
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:25,720
Speaker 1: as well. Okay, to get rid of him. But can

1564
01:21:25,720 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 1: we do it? Yes? Okay, Um, now the draft has

1565
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 1: come around, we're picking in the twenties. You mind, if

1566
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:33,760
Speaker 1: we move up to twelve is the first round, we're

1567
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 1: gonna give up our first round or next year too,

1568
01:21:35,840 --> 01:21:37,240
Speaker 1: so we're not gonna have a pick in the first

1569
01:21:37,240 --> 01:21:39,479
Speaker 1: two rounds. You're okay with that? I mean, that's not

1570
01:21:39,640 --> 01:21:42,840
Speaker 1: easy to do. It was a mistake, yes, the first

1571
01:21:42,840 --> 01:21:47,240
Speaker 1: two actions. Yeah, but it's not easy to to because

1572
01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:49,559
Speaker 1: he knew they needed a quarterback. But you're right, and

1573
01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:51,760
Speaker 1: then he goes back to the what's you can't go

1574
01:21:51,800 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 1: wrong doing right? And who was built? You know, Charlie

1575
01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:57,400
Speaker 1: casually just said, I mean he gave a lot of

1576
01:21:57,479 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 1: positive accolades to Bill O'Brien when he visited with us

1577
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:04,479
Speaker 1: last hour. And here's the other thing. When they moved

1578
01:22:04,520 --> 01:22:07,599
Speaker 1: on from Gary Kubiak after twenty thirteen, who was the

1579
01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:11,519
Speaker 1: top coach on the market, Bill O'Brien. Bill O'Brien was

1580
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:14,400
Speaker 1: the number one candidate on the market, and they go

1581
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:17,200
Speaker 1: out and get them. So you know, clearly that's what

1582
01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:19,840
Speaker 1: mister McNair is about. Let's do things the right way.

1583
01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:23,360
Speaker 1: Let's do things big, but again the right way, the

1584
01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:26,320
Speaker 1: right people, people who fit in and who want to

1585
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:28,760
Speaker 1: do great things for Houston, for the community, and want

1586
01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:31,680
Speaker 1: to win championship. Yeah, no doubt. And I think what

1587
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:34,000
Speaker 1: gets you know? People are like, well, you have ever

1588
01:22:34,120 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 1: won a championship? How many teams have won a championship

1589
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:39,280
Speaker 1: since two thousand and two. Look, it's that, it's not

1590
01:22:39,320 --> 01:22:42,960
Speaker 1: the it's people make that out to be the easiest

1591
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:44,720
Speaker 1: thing in the world. Well, hey, I'm Madden. I just

1592
01:22:44,760 --> 01:22:47,000
Speaker 1: go into career mode and I can win the championship.

1593
01:22:47,200 --> 01:22:50,080
Speaker 1: This isn't This isn't Madden. This isn't Madden. This is

1594
01:22:50,120 --> 01:22:53,439
Speaker 1: not the way this thing works. But as I as

1595
01:22:53,479 --> 01:22:57,240
Speaker 1: I watched this team being constructed, and I think about this,

1596
01:22:57,240 --> 01:23:00,760
Speaker 1: this organization, Yeah, we all want a championship, trust me, Hell,

1597
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:02,760
Speaker 1: we all want to just go to the FC Championship game,

1598
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:05,520
Speaker 1: you know, just get then do something that this organization

1599
01:23:05,600 --> 01:23:09,519
Speaker 1: has never done. But when we do, and that will happen,

1600
01:23:09,920 --> 01:23:12,320
Speaker 1: and when we do go to a Super Bowl, Bob

1601
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:14,519
Speaker 1: McNair will be on everybody's mind because he's the one

1602
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:16,880
Speaker 1: who set the foundation for this. He's the one that

1603
01:23:16,960 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 1: allowed the city of Houston on Monday night, to come

1604
01:23:19,560 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 1: to a Monday night football game, to experience those things

1605
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:23,800
Speaker 1: that as kids we saw growing up when over in

1606
01:23:23,800 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: the astronome they're shaping, you know, shaking all those you know,

1607
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:29,360
Speaker 1: blue pompoms and you're like, WHOA, I want to experience that. Well,

1608
01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:32,920
Speaker 1: we're able to experience that because Bob McNair did that

1609
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:34,800
Speaker 1: for the city of Houston. He brought the Texans back

1610
01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:37,400
Speaker 1: here in a championship will be one here. It will

1611
01:23:37,439 --> 01:23:40,080
Speaker 1: be one here and it will not be forgotten what

1612
01:23:40,120 --> 01:23:43,120
Speaker 1: he was able to do from a football standpoint, from

1613
01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:46,800
Speaker 1: a person, from a personal standpoint, for everybody that's ever

1614
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:49,120
Speaker 1: come in contact with, and just for the city of Houston.

1615
01:23:49,280 --> 01:23:51,960
Speaker 1: I love reading the tributes and even from people like

1616
01:23:52,439 --> 01:23:55,800
Speaker 1: prolific twitters like Lamont. Bob McNair helped minorities in the

1617
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:58,000
Speaker 1: hood and put his money behind it. My little cousins

1618
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,559
Speaker 1: in South Park are and multiple programs at the Texans

1619
01:24:00,560 --> 01:24:04,800
Speaker 1: Boys and Girls Club. Boys and Girls clubs huge, huge

1620
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:09,080
Speaker 1: benefactors of the Houston Texans. Big supporters the Texans are

1621
01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:12,120
Speaker 1: the Boys and Girls Club. It's just a tremendous organization

1622
01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:14,479
Speaker 1: and all over the city. The Texans helping Boys and

1623
01:24:14,479 --> 01:24:17,360
Speaker 1: Girls clubs, Larry and Stafford paying tribute to Bob McNair.

1624
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:20,240
Speaker 1: I mean, just one after another. I love the guys

1625
01:24:20,240 --> 01:24:24,040
Speaker 1: in the media saying, hey, without professional football, I might

1626
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:27,439
Speaker 1: not have a job here. Yea I said earlier about me.

1627
01:24:27,479 --> 01:24:29,760
Speaker 1: I mean that's you know. I mean, I mean, I

1628
01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:32,439
Speaker 1: always wanted to be into media, but I'm like, you know,

1629
01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:34,120
Speaker 1: how am I gonna get in this thing? And then

1630
01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:37,400
Speaker 1: when the Texans it just belostom. Like I said earlier,

1631
01:24:37,600 --> 01:24:40,560
Speaker 1: you can have one sports station talking about baseball and basketball.

1632
01:24:40,840 --> 01:24:43,040
Speaker 1: You've got one sports station. You can do that. But

1633
01:24:43,160 --> 01:24:46,799
Speaker 1: you bring in football into this sort, into this city,

1634
01:24:47,520 --> 01:24:49,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna blow up. And it really did. I mean,

1635
01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:53,400
Speaker 1: you're you're absolutely right. People that media, people that have jobs. Yep,

1636
01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:55,280
Speaker 1: there are a lot of you that have jobs because

1637
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,599
Speaker 1: of that man. Now you want to see more about

1638
01:24:57,640 --> 01:25:00,320
Speaker 1: mister McNair, you go to Houston Texans dot com or

1639
01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:03,400
Speaker 1: follow us on the social media channels at Houston Texans

1640
01:25:03,439 --> 01:25:06,759
Speaker 1: on Twitter for instance. And we've got a tremendous video

1641
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 1: that was put together by NFL Films on the Life

1642
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:13,160
Speaker 1: of Bob McNair. It is just fantastic. On everything that

1643
01:25:13,240 --> 01:25:17,080
Speaker 1: he's accomplished and on the football field and beyond. We

1644
01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:21,000
Speaker 1: also posted our video of Bob McNair and several of

1645
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:23,720
Speaker 1: the players in the Carolinas as they go back to

1646
01:25:24,120 --> 01:25:28,000
Speaker 1: the church that was victimized, I mean, the shooting that

1647
01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:30,760
Speaker 1: took place. They're so horrendous in the last couple of years,

1648
01:25:30,760 --> 01:25:35,080
Speaker 1: and that tremendous story of parishioners actually forgiving the shooter

1649
01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 1: and it's just so moving and Bob McNair and several

1650
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:43,880
Speaker 1: Texans players including Deshaun Watson and DeAndre Hopkins and Jeneveon Clowney,

1651
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:46,679
Speaker 1: Jonathan Joseph, they went there and we've got that video

1652
01:25:46,760 --> 01:25:48,800
Speaker 1: up as well. So a bunch of stuff on the

1653
01:25:48,800 --> 01:25:50,320
Speaker 1: life of Bob McNair and you know we're gonna be

1654
01:25:50,360 --> 01:25:53,320
Speaker 1: adding to it. We just got the news late today

1655
01:25:53,320 --> 01:25:56,559
Speaker 1: on the passing of Bob McNair. Final thoughts. Yeah, and

1656
01:25:56,600 --> 01:26:00,400
Speaker 1: we'll have something on BBC thirteen ktr K tomorrow six

1657
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:02,800
Speaker 1: thirty as well as eleven. It's going to be in

1658
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 1: place of Texans Extra Points, in place of Texans Buzz,

1659
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:07,360
Speaker 1: but both those shows are going to be devoted to

1660
01:26:07,360 --> 01:26:09,920
Speaker 1: the memory of Bob McNair. Yeah, I think The biggest

1661
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 1: thing I would say is, you guys are like family

1662
01:26:12,080 --> 01:26:14,439
Speaker 1: to me, and I don't have y'all if it wasn't

1663
01:26:14,479 --> 01:26:17,240
Speaker 1: for him, And I probably speak for everybody in this building.

1664
01:26:17,320 --> 01:26:21,679
Speaker 1: So from that standpoint, we just say thanks and thank

1665
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:24,080
Speaker 1: you and much love because without him, there's so much

1666
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:26,040
Speaker 1: this city doesn't have. There's so much that we don't have.

1667
01:26:26,120 --> 01:26:29,240
Speaker 1: Because that's so that's very sweet, Johnnyan's very true. You know,

1668
01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 1: I don't I don't have the relationship I have with

1669
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:33,000
Speaker 1: you guys and the relationship I have with everybody in

1670
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:36,280
Speaker 1: this building. And you know, I know that everybody's got

1671
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:40,000
Speaker 1: their own way of consuming the Houston Texans, whether it's

1672
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:42,800
Speaker 1: on television, radio, whether you read about them every day

1673
01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:44,760
Speaker 1: or listen to us every day, or whatever it is.

1674
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:47,879
Speaker 1: But we all have mister McNair to thank for bringing

1675
01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:51,479
Speaker 1: this to this city, this entity called the Houston Texans.

1676
01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:53,720
Speaker 1: In addition to everything else that we discussed, that he's

1677
01:26:53,720 --> 01:26:56,080
Speaker 1: been able to contribute to the lives of Houstonians and

1678
01:26:56,120 --> 01:26:57,800
Speaker 1: the lives of those beyond. And we said it a

1679
01:26:57,840 --> 01:27:01,040
Speaker 1: few times, but let's say it again. Condolences go out

1680
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Speaker 1: to Hey, the love of his life, Janice. She said,

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Speaker 1: he's lost her sweethearts. Yeah, and his children. They've lost

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Speaker 1: her father, grandchildren. He's even got a great grandchild as well.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, they're all said tonight, a life

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Speaker 1: well lived and he's thankfully he's no longer suffering. Well, yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and we know he's looking down on the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: and hopefully they get the championship sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 1: And many more after the first one. Well, we thank

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Speaker 1: you all for listening to us tonight going live with

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Speaker 1: the tribute that we've been able to put together on

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Speaker 1: short notice for Bob McNair. It'll be up on Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans dot com as a podcast, as you'll hear from

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Speaker 1: John McClain and Charlie Casually and and all the tributes

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Speaker 1: that we relayed to you through social media from so many,

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Speaker 1: including President George H. W. Bush. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for listening. God bless the McNair family. God bless you.

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Speaker 1: Bob McNair, have a great evening and go Texans. Aaron,

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Speaker 1: have a great evening and go Texans. He have a

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Speaker 1: great