The Texans joined the NFL in 2002 as an expansion team after Houston's previous franchise, the Houston Oilers, moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where they are now the Tennessee Titans.

On March 2, 2000, Houston NFL 2002 announced that the team name search had been narrowed down to five choices: Bobcats, Stallions, Texans, Toros, and Apollos.

The list of names was determined after several months of research conducted jointly by Houston NFL 2002 and NFL Properties.

Supporters of Jacksonville's bid included NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, President Neil Austrian, Vice President Roger Goodell, Bud Adams of the Houston Oilers, Rankin Smith of the Atlanta Falcons and Ken Hofmann of the Seattle Seahawks.

LP Field ( formerly Adelphia Coliseum ) was built after the National Football League's ( NFL ) Houston Oilers agreed to move to the city in 1995.

In the NFL Championship Game against the Cleveland Browns, he collided with linebacker Jim Houston while running for a first down, and Houston had to be helped off the field after the play ended.

This was also the first Super Bowl played in a stadium that was not the current home to an NFL or AFL team, as no team had called Rice Stadium home since the Houston Oilers moved into the Astrodome.

* Rob Carpenter, NFL player New York Giants, Houston Oilers

The NFL's Houston Texans revived the name of the WFL's franchise for that city ; " Texans " has also been used by an NFL Dallas team in 1952 – the remnants of which became the Baltimore / Indianapolis Colts, by an AFL Dallas team in the early 1960s – who became the Kansas City Chiefs, by an arena football team in Dallas in the early 1990s, and by a CFL San Antonio team for one year in the 1990s.

In 2002 the NFL added its 32nd team, the Houston Texans, and significantly reshuffled its divisional alignment.

He was drafted in the first round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Tennessee Titans ( both in Tennessee and in Houston when the franchise was known as the Houston Oilers ).

George was the first-round draft selection ( 14th overall pick ) of the Houston Oilers ( now the Tennessee Titans ) in 1996 NFL Draft.

* Cliff Washburn, NFL offensive tackle, Houston Texans

* James Logan-1991 graduate of Opp High School who played football in the NFL for the Houston Oilers, Cincinnati Bengals, and Seattle Seahawks from 1995 – 2000, and played college football at Memphis State University.

* Frank Murphy, Former NFL Football Player ( Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Houston Texans ).

* Jesse Baker, former NFL defensive end with the Houston Oilers and Dallas Cowboys

ABC News Reporter Christen Craig as well as sports figures Jerry Sloan ( former basketball player and head coach for the Chicago Bulls and former head coach of the Utah Jazz ) and Carl Mauck ( former center for the Houston Oilers and NFL coach ) were also born there.

* Rich Ellender is a professional football player He spent one season with the Houston Oilers, which drafted him in the ninth round of the 1979 NFL Draft.

He is currently a free agent and was last a backup quarterback for the Houston Texans of the NFL.

* Garrett Graham ( born 1986 ), NFL tight end who plays for the Houston Texans.

* Cliff Washburn, NFL offensive tackle, Houston Texans

* Dom Capers-defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers former defensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins and Pittsburgh Steelers, also the first head coach of the NFL Houston Texans and first head coach of the NFL Carolina Panthers

* Free Radicals ( band ), a jazz-funk musical group from Houston, Texas

Hicks was associated with the Texas Outlaw Comics group developed at the Comedy Workshop in Houston in the 1980s.

Two of Hutchings ' first group of tourists, Milton and Houston Mann, built the first toll route into the valley, with development of the first hotels in the area and other trails quickly following.

Eric R. Bittner's group at the University of Houston has advanced a statistical variant of this approach that uses Bayesian sampling technique to sample the quantum density and compute the quantum potential on a structureless mesh of points.

When Andrew Jackson called on volunteers to dislodge a group of Red Sticks from their breastwork, Houston volunteered, but during the assault he was struck by bullets in the shoulder and arm.

During December 1858, Choctaw Tom, at times an interpreter to Sam Houston, and a group of reservation Indians received permission for an off-the-reservation hunt.

During December 1858, Choctaw Tom, at times an interpreter to Sam Houston, and a group of reservation Indians received permission for an off-the-reservation hunt.

* East End, Houston, Texas, a group of neighborhoods

It is part of a group of three cities — Terrell Hills, Alamo Heights, and Olmos Park — located between Uptown San Antonio, Midtown San Antonio, Downtown San Antonio, and Fort Sam Houston ( a U. S. Army post ).

The Tribune is locally owned and operated, while The Observer is part of the larger Houston Community Newspapers group.

" Indeed, as Dr. Lois Parkinson Zamora of the University of Houston writes, " Roh, in his 1925 essay, described a group of painters whom we now categorize generally as Post-Expressionists.

Throughout the Spring of 1966, the group toured extensively in Texas, playing clubs in Austin, Dallas, and Houston.

* October 31 – George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic begin " The P-Funk / Rubber Band Earth Tour " in Houston, a national live series highlighting one of the biggest and revolutionary stage shows in the history of the music industry ( the rock group Kiss would be the other group to do a similar act ), relying on elaborate costumes, special lighting and effects, and extremely large props including " the Mothership ", which would arrive and land on stage, all of what this band is generally known for.

Gibbons founded the Texas psychedelic group in the mid-1960s and quickly drew a large following, especially in the Houston " teen scene ".

Geto Boys ( originally spelled Ghetto Boys ) is a rap group from Houston, Texas, consisting of Scarface, Willie D, and Bushwick Bill.

Based in Houston, Texas, they were joined to a group that performed rapping and dancing.

The group would test routines in the salon, when it was on Montrose Boulevard in Houston, and sometimes would collect tips from the customers.

The Geto Boys, a hip hop group from Houston, were among the first hip hop artists from the Southern United States to gain widespread popularity.

One small sedevacantist group, centered in Houston, Texas still claims him to have been the actual pope, despite Siri's own silence as to this claim.

Conservative Cabinet minister Virginia Bottomley ( Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone ) was born in Dunoon, as were former Manchester United player and QPR manager Stewart Houston, actor Sylvester McCoy, Tom Wisniewski of the Christian punk band MxPx and Lyn-Z, artist and bass player for the rock group Mindless Self Indulgence.

In 1949, Slim expanded his combo to a quintet by adding a drummer ; the group was now spending most of its time on tour, leading to off-contract recording sessions for King in Cincinnati and Peacock in Houston.

* On the international stage Aztek Escobar based in Houston, Colombian Party Cartel based in Nashville, Tres Coronas based in New York, Adassa based in Miami and 3 of the seven-man group of Culcha Candela in Berlin, Germany are representing Colombian urban music worldwide.

Roy Hofheinz, a former mayor of Houston, and his group were granted the franchise after they promised to build a covered stadium.

Public relations theory perspectives on publics are situational, per Dewey and Grunig ; mass, where a public is simply viewed as a population of individuals ; agenda-building, where a public is viewed as a condition of political involvement that is not transitory ; and " homo narrans ", where a public is ( in the words of Gabriel M. Vasquez, assistant Professor in the School of Communication at the University of Houston ) a collection of " individuals that develop a group consciousness around a problematic situation and act to solve the problematic situation "