WEBVTT - Janice McNair Remembered 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.480 There is no off season better acceptid. 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:08.879 There's no greater expectases than the expectations we put on 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:09.840 our sales. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.119 Rock and Roll Touchdown Houston. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:14.320 The promise of this team, the talent that we have, 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:15.280 the coaching that we have. 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:16.760 Is right in front of us, and we just got 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:17.880 to keep reaching it going and get it. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.200 Got Duck said's when that's what it's about. 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:20.400 Man. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.239 Now it's Texans All Access. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.080 Hello Texans, Welcome to the show. Always a pleasure to 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.440 have you listening, and tonight we're coming your way with 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.920 heavy hearts and we'll talk about the passing of Janice McNair. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:38.040 Mark VanderMeer with you, John Harris with you. We're in 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:42.120 the Hundai Texans Radio mobile studio tonight. In about ten 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.440 minutes or so, we'll get the General John McClain on 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.240 as well as you probably have heard by now listening 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:51.559 to Sports Radio six' ten following social. Media janie, McNair 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.400 co founder of the, franchise has passed eighty nine years 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.160 old and a lady who meant so much to so. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.920 Many she was A houston. Treasure she was an angel 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.080 and she still is an. Angel so it's so great 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.880 that we can pay tribute to her here tonight on 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.319 this Program Texans All, Access, johnny it is so. 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:16.720 Hard to hear the. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.560 News we just a few weeks ago Saw missus McNair 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.800 on the practice field The Houston Methodist Training, center and, 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.880 man it was so great to see her out, there 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.039 as it always. Is and this is a tough. One 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.360 this is a very tough one to. Digest you AND 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.800 i were on the air When bob McNair passed that. 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.440 Afternoon we went on the air live at, Six so 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.800 we are going to have a celebration For missus McNair. 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:41.800 Tonight my, Friend, yeah. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:46.839 It Was, oh it's just the gut punchy you don't 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:47.760 expect or. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.520 Want and you said. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.640 IT i, mean she was just out there At OTA's 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.960 In mini caamp AND i think there's only one person 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.240 who has a notebook with more notes in it about 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.160 the team than, me, uh and that Was missus. McNair 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.799 i JUST i loved, her uh and for many many. 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:10.239 Ways AND i AND i KNOW i speak for a 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.400 lot of people WHEN i say, THAT i mean she 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:18.920 was just such a, kind beautiful. Soul and when she, 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.680 spoke she sounded so much like my mother in, law 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.160 WHO i loved AND i was always kind of comforted 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.359 in some sense WHEN i WHEN i spoke to her 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.160 and WHEN i talked to, Her AND i remember meeting 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.240 the two of, them mister and missus McNair the first. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:39.800 Time our FORMER pr Director Kevin cooper had kind of 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.359 pointed me out and they walked over and introduced themselves 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.320 and said they were very happy THAT i was there 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.000 in the. Building AND i just thought it was really 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.760 interesting Because coop told me later he, said, yeah they 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.560 had been they had seen, you and they were asking 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.840 who that was and they wanted to meet. You AND 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.280 i thought that was just so emblematic of the way 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.760 that McNair's went about their day today. Business they wanted 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.120 to know who people, Were they wanted to bring in 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.440 good people to the. Organization they wanted everybody to feel 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.120 like they were part of the family in some. Sense, 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.560 so like you, said this is a difficult, day but 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.760 yet it's also a celebration. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.079 For a life very well. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:24.519 Lived, yes And johnny coming to this particular mobile, STUDIO 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.520 i should, say Because i'm doing it from my home studio, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.480 tonight this live, show AND i was leaving the building 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.519 and as you, KNOW i park in a teal a 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.320 lot this time of, year either te a lot or 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.400 loading dock for me most of the, time a lot 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.360 are loading dock for me most of the. TIME i 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.160 love approaching the building from that angle that are studios 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.520 basically on that end of the, building and working in this. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.760 BUSINESS i just love the buzz of where the players 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.760 come in and the whole, bit and coming to work 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:51.360 in a football. 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:52.640 Stadium it's a, joy it's a. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.119 Privilege, Well i'm coming over the bridge to the TiAl 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.840 lot and training camp is being. Constructed all the stands 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:03.960 where the players families, situate VIPs and, fans and the 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.840 covering is up there because the fans have been in 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.760 the shade for the last what five six years. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:09.080 Now it's. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:13.320 Awesome but also THERE i saw missus McNair's tent AND 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.400 i got choked up because there it. Is they built 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.440 it and it's about a ten by fifteen. Tent it's 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.600 got some climate control in, there but she usually waves 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.880 that off and, says Now i'm going. Outside and you 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.760 mentioned it taken copious notes on practice with her roster right. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.800 There there's just something so sweet about it and the 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.440 charisma she, has the effect she has on all of 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.240 those who come into contact with. Her she's one of 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.800 those magical people that after you have an interaction with, 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.960 her you feel like you're walking on. Air she has 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.960 that effect and It's i'm not over selling. This this 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.559 is who she is and her and partnership With bob 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.840 McNair Were houston's greatest couple. PROBABLY i, mean, LOOK i 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.880 don't want to rank, couples but it was better than 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.360 them as far as when you talk about the positive 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.719 attitude that they had that they just they gave off 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.560 those vibes to everybody and that's just the charisma that 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.120 they had as a. Couple now let's talk about the 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:20.520 tangibles bringing professional football back To, houston giving away over 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.599 a half billion dollars to charity and great, causes the, 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:26.760 impact the stamp. 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:27.520 That they have on this. 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:32.279 City you can't go into a public place it feels 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.160 like without seeing something that they. Donated go to the, 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.440 zoo go To Rice, university go to various other, places 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.240 go around the. Country look at all the McNair scholars 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.880 and their lives and the impact that they. Have so 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.920 it has a geometric effect everything that the mcnairs. Did 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.080 BUT i know this is a football. Show we talk 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.719 about the. Team, well let's talk about the. Team it 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.600 was about thirty years ago that they started working on 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:00.360 getting pro football back To. Houston this power couple did 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:05.520 it and we're still celebrating. It And Johnny bob McNair 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:10.120 passed away twenty eighteen on A friday before The monday 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:14.359 night game against The Tennessee, titans and we celebrated his 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.960 life on that night Against tennessee and down ten to, 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.960 nothing The texans came back and you know the rest 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.840 of the. Story you know About lamar miller ninety nine 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.120 yard touchdown run and the rest of. It and it 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:32.080 was an, amazing, wonderful magical night to celebrate mister McNair's. Life, 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:36.080 well here we are basically on the eve in general 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.279 of the twenty fifth season Of Houston Texans, football and 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.039 some of the TWEETS i saw related to the post 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.080 that The texans put out of the passing Of missus. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.040 McNair now we got to go get. It, now we 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.960 got to win it for. Sure this is. It it's 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:51.720 year twenty. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.400 Five missus McNair is looking down on, us the angel 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.960 that she is With, bob and it's time AND i 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:03.200 think that this is going to have a real, positive 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.479 intangible effect BECAUSE i want to pull a positive out of, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.880 this because it's such a sad day to lose the 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.880 first lady of The texans That i'm hoping that this 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:13.360 has that kind of effect on the. 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.120 Team, look we'll all watch it. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.440 Together but AS i talk about, it AS i think about, 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.360 IT i, mean there could be nothing more special to 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.000 honor her life in the McNair legacy than That call 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.520 And hannah are carrying the torch so, brilliantly so beautifully 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.480 in the city Of. Houston BUT i know their hearts 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.920 have to be super heavy here tonight with the passing Of, 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.280 janice AND i just can't wait for the season to 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.800 get started to celebrate it all and honor it. 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.440 All, YEAH i think one of the Things mark you 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:47.240 kind of hit on it that you, know when we you, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.640 know even you AND, i at times when things aren't aren't, 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.160 great you know we can we could, sometimes you, know 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.480 find our negativity probably not where we want. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:57.920 To AND i know a lot of fans can be 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.120 negative about you know, this or they haven't done this. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.080 OFFENSIVELY i haven't done, that you, know missus McNair was 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.640 one of those people that just took your. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.200 Negativity and flushed, it and she wanted to be. 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.800 Positive AND i, REMEMBER i think it was either my 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.160 second or third year with The, texans and there was 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.120 A i can't remember if it was a board meeting 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.880 or what exactly it, was but you AND i were 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:29.920 invited to speak about the season and speak about kind 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.640 of where we, were uh and what we what we were, 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.160 getting you, know ready to do as a, team and you, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:38.640 know kind of give a little. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:39.800 Bit of a season, preview if you. 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.040 Will AND i, remember you, know some of the questions 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.920 that were coming from the board members or people in 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:51.400 the room didn't didn't kind of lean, positive you, know up. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:56.679 Front and finally she spoke AND i remember her essentially, 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.360 saying but we're gonna be, okay, guys, Right we're we 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.840 have a good, team we have a good, coach we 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.199 can be really, good, Right AND i just remember her 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.880 finding the positive out of, things you, know and we 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.280 ended up going to the playoffs with that that particular. 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.920 Team BUT i remember her kind of listening to everything 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.480 and kind of stopping and saying something very positive about the, 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.000 team and you, know wanted to hear positives about the 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.440 team and so at that point and you AND i 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.200 weren't being negative in any, way but we, were you, 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.880 know trying to, accentuate you, know the good things about 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.440 the team at that point and really kind of sell at. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.080 Home AND i remember when we were done with the, 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.040 meeting she walked, over uh AND i remember she kind 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.440 of hugged me and she just said thank. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.320 You AND i was, like thank, me Good, god thank. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:43.439 YOU i, mean we have a. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.160 Football team to talk About houston because of the, mcnairs you, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.640 know we we have a football team In. 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:50.079 Houston you. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.920 Know, look we can gripe and complain about everything That 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.000 texans do or don't do on A, sunday on A thursday, 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:57.160 night whatever it might. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.120 Be whether they, win whether they, lose you know how 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:00.480 this thing. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.880 Goes but we have a football team to talk about 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:09.080 because they took it on themselves as a civil responsibility 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.800 to the city Of houston to bring football, back knowing 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.520 what it meant to the city Of, houston what it 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:15.920 means to the city Of. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.640 Houston and you. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.640 Think about that gargantuan task we Had Charlie, Casher now 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.720 what was that, like probably two three weeks, ago maybe 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:29.360 a little bit, longer and we were talking To charlie about. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.719 How do you start this? Thing you, know it's an expansion. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.240 Team you, know what do you? Do how do you 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:34.560 get it? Going how do you start? 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:38.760 It, well mister and missus McNair started it and got 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.240 it rolling and got it going and gave this city 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.120 the shot in the arm that it probably needed to 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.520 have a football, team have AN nfl team back in 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:53.120 its Midst and you're, right in the twenty fifth season 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:58.079 of this, organization there's nothing that this this team can 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:03.120 do more to rep resent the, McNair's you, know more 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.000 than you, know more than going and winning this thing 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:07.920 in a grand. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:12.439 Way, YEAH i love that you brought Up Charlie casserly 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.920 and the early, days And i'm thinking, about you, Know 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.840 bob McNair And janets, McNair the conversations in their home 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.800 that must have been happening When bob's trying to get 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.960 the team and he's talking, about, well six hundred, million 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.679 seven hundred we're up to seven hundred, million. Honey can 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.960 you imagine that back in those, days this is a 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:40.000 record sum ever paid for a, team, ever seven hundred, 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.920 million And bob's about to do. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.600 It and you look back and. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.960 That's nineteen ninety nine when he got awarded the. Team october, 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.920 sixth nineteen ninety, nine he gets awarded the team for 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.720 the seven hundred, million and you look at that record, 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.800 sum and, now what did The seahawks just go? 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:58.040 For almost ten. 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.600 Point six nine point six billion? 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.280 Dollars, yeah and The giants were just valued in a 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.320 private equity deal at ten. Billion so looks like that 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.680 investment's pretty, sound pretty sound investment of the seven hundred 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:17.040 mil when you can over ten x that by twenty twenty. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.360 Six and, look it's only gonna go. 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:21.040 Up at some. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.080 Point one of these teams is gonna get sold for 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.959 like twenty and it's just gonna take this quantum leap 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.720 it already, HAS i mean into the multi. 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.120 Billions, Anyway let's. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.079 Get a man on who Knows janets McNair well and 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.440 the McNair family and covered the team from the very 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.360 start of. It and we have them on every, week 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.160 usually On, thursday but we're gonna have them on tonight 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:44.080 on this very special night as we honor missus McNair 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.360 let's get The General john McClain on The hall Of. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.240 Famer john your thoughts on the passing Of missus McNair 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:50.679 and her. 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.080 Legacy thanks for joining. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:57.319 Us, well it's my pleasure And i'm honored the tagsans 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:01.199 of as me to write and remembrance On janice And 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:07.320 bob that should be posted on their Website. Friday AND 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:13.280 i met them in nineteen ninety seven When bob started 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:18.679 to get seriously interested in replacing The oilers with an expansion. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:22.760 Team now we Thought Bud adams was leaving after the two, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.400 thousand let's, say after the nineteen ninety five, season and 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.760 they made him fulfill his lease stay one more, year So. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:34.880 Bob bob had already started working With janie to come 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:40.240 to devise a plan to appease THE nfl financially with the, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:46.800 stadium with, partners with everything they, wanted and together they did. 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.439 That bob used to tell me how much he Valued 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:54.600 Janie janis's, opinion how much he trusted. Her and the 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.959 first TIME i met them to do a story on 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.720 him was in ninety, seven AND i went over there 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.800 AND i expected both of them to do the, interview 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.960 And janis was there and she politely. Declined she, SAID 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.679 i prefer to stay in the, background you, Know. Bob 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:16.840 this Is bob's. Baby but she was always so. NICE 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:22.200 i respected her so. Much she had so much. Dignity Tony, 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.720 wiley the FIRST vp Of communications who worked for them for, 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:32.080 years said he never heard her raise her voice to. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:40.120 Anybody and she always, said don't miscons through my kindness for, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:44.280 weakness because she could make tough decisions and she had 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.200 to make some After bob, died really Before bob, died 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:52.720 because he was incapacitated suffering from the skin cancer that 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:57.080 eventually killed. Him AND i remember interviewing her at THE 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.960 nfl meetings In march after he, died and she told 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.320 me she'd never done an interview and she's really nervous 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:09.680 and SAW i interviewed her and she was. Outstanding AND 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.440 i remember when we went to surprise her that she 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.600 was getting A Lifetime achievement award Like bob did from 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.520 The Houston Sports awards in The Houston Sports hall Of, 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.880 fame And John lopez AND i went up to her 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:30.400 suite and surprised, her and of Course hannah And cal 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.720 were there and some of the grandkids And, karen who 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.240 took such great care of, her and we told her 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.000 and she's like she put her hand on her chest 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.560 and she, SAID i don't deserve. THIS i didn't do 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.760 anything to deserve. This AND i, said this is exactly 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:50.240 why you do deserve. This and she never wanted any 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:54.480 credit for, anything AND i thought it was very. Cool 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.240 After bob, Died cal told me one, time every time 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.640 he left the facility to go, home he would call 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.000 his mom and bring her up to date on, practice 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.600 on anything else going, on because she always wants to 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.000 stay on top of. Things and when she had her 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:16.600 stroke that incapacitated her, physically but not. Mentally she was 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:20.320 as sharp as. ATTACK i used to go at saylo 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.880 to her in her suite before games and she would 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.720 be in her wheelchair With karen behind, her and she 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.000 would have her. Roster she would have her, notebook just 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.120 like when she would come to practice and she had 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.720 her air conditioned. TENT i would Ask, Hannah, joeanna CAN 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.320 i go around and say hello To janie and they 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.040 would let, me and she had the same. Thing she 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.480 had her good friends with her and she was making. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:51.640 Notes and so she stayed a fanatical fan of her team, 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:56.120 forever right up until the. End and it's a great 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.520 loss For houston if you think about all the money 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.560 they'd get away When bob. DIED i did his BEST i, 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.480 could figuring out as much money using a bunch of different, 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.920 sources AND i, SAID i think they've giving away about 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:15.920 seven hundred and fifty. Million and they lived to give 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:21.159 to people less fortunate than. Them and remember they came To. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:26.000 Houston they were so. Poor the oldest daughter was when 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:30.479 she was. Born her crib was a drawer in a 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.800 chest of drawers in the little apartment that they went. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:38.000 It and so they made all their money the hard. 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.840 Way and you talk about stand by your. Man janie 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:46.400 McNair did that With bob McNair until he took his last. Breath, 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:48.240 general when you. 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:52.439 Spoke with Both janis And, bob how much of an 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:57.320 understanding of they brought football back to this. Town AND 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:02.560 i remember hearing from from n's interview at some, point you, 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.680 know the civic responsibility that they both felt to bring football, 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.919 back like they felt, Responsible, hey let's let us be 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.880 the ones that bring back. Football did you ever get 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.600 a chance to talk to him about that aspect of 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.480 them bringing back football to a place. 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.200 That had LOST nfl football for three four? 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:24.720 YEARS i sure. Did john they were Big oiler. Fans 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:29.080 once they got in a position to get season, tickets 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.679 they had season tickets. Forever THEY a lot of times 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:34.960 was said With Bud adams in his suite in The, 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:39.119 astrodome And bob at some point knew he wanted to 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.800 own AN nfl, team and he knew what it would. 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:47.880 Take and Because bob was a really good arm, twister 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.040 he knew the, politicians he knew who to donate. To 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:56.760 when We houston went up AGAINST, la THE nfl wanted 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:01.280 to go TO. La THE nfl GAVE la exclusive exclusive 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.399 negotiating period where if they came up was what they needed, 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.560 to they'd get the. Franchise And bob was the only 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.600 person In houston who stepped up to replace The. Oilers 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.320 nobody else. Did we wouldn't have a team if it 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:20.760 wasn't For bob McNair And janis. McNair and they had 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.000 the money for the, stadium they had the money for 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.840 the expansion, fee they had all their ducks in a. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.879 ROW la did. Not and one of the things THAT 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.360 i liked About bob And janie they had so much 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:37.160 grace and dignity and they were kind, people but they 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:41.800 could make tough decisions when they needed to be, made 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.840 And bob would Tell janie what he was thinking about 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:50.359 to get her opinion anytime he made tough decisions because 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.359 he trusted. Her she had a lot of common sense 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:57.080 and she could read the room and she would do 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:01.159 it by being behind the scenes and watching and. Listening you, 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:02.720 know she wasn't going to make a lot of big. 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:08.359 Speeches that's just not her. Style and they knew that 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.680 if they got the team To. Houston he turned down 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:15.160 a chance to Get. Washington he turned down a chance 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.040 to get The, dolphins turned down a chance to Get 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.720 caroline And jacksonville because he had let THE nfl know 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:26.000 that he wanted a, team and they vetted him, everything 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:30.080 including his money, finances so they approved him as an. 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:33.600 Owner and when opportunities would come, up AND i never 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:35.520 knew this till AFTER i got to know, him and 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.080 he told me they would call him and, say, hey 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.080 this may open up for you interesting In. Miami he, 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.760 listened but he wasn't interesting Because Wayne eizinga was still 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:49.720 going to own the. Stadium and he thought about the 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:54.960 one that he thought the most seriously about Was. Washington 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.800 and can you imagine That bob And james McNair had 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:03.560 bought The reds instead Of Dan, snyder how that franchise 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:05.679 would have changed and what it would have meant For, 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.440 houston and the reason he said he had to spend 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.600 so much time In washington and he loved the city 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:15.040 and everything about, it but he always, Said houston's my. 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:19.359 HOME i am A Houston. Homer and he would, SAY 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:22.639 i don't know, why why it is that you get 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:26.520 embarrassed when you say that you're a homer For. HOUSTON i, 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.600 said don't say. That that's. Ridiculous i'm supposed to be. 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.800 Unbiased i'm in the. Media but of course EVERYBODY i 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.760 know here wants their teams to win and do. Well 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:41.200 And bob cared About. Houston he cared about his friends 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:44.719 that had, money friends that did not have. MONEY i 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:47.360 used to call, Him i'd, say CAN i come by your? 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:50.159 HOUSE i need to talk to you about. Something and 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:53.680 one time he, Said i'm in a. HURRY i got 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:56.600 a tea time AND i, said, WELL i like coming 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:58.480 over here because it's the only PLACE i can go 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.160 where a house guy come ask me IF i want 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:02.920 something to, drink AND i can get a dye coke 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:06.760 bot too alive with. It and he called his house 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:09.120 guy and, said BECAUSE i gave him something to. Read 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:12.199 and he told, him can you please bring my reading? 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:15.520 Glasses AND i, said when did you get comfortable asking 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:19.280