Subject: Jerry Jones

• Finally! Mock Draft Version 5.0

  April 26, 2007

• Mean Joe Greene Meets Avril Lavigne: Texans-Cowboys from the Press Box

  August 27, 2007

• Miss Cleo’s Fearless Forecast: Super Bowl XLIII Winner Revealed!

  February 1, 2008

• John Royal’s NFL Season Picks

  September 4, 2008

• Ten Possible Reasons for the Cowboys Missing the Playoffs

  October 15, 2008

• Houston Gets Another Final Four

  They're holding the press conference right now to announce that Houston is getting another Final Four. In 2016. That's a long way away, but you take what you can get. But Dallas, of all places, will get one before us. The plan is to play in Jerry Jones' billion-dollar Cowboys stadium in 2014. The NCAA basketballers will have to settle for dowdy old Reliant Stadium when they come here. The place successfully hosted regionals last year and will host the Final Four in 2011.

  November 19, 2008

• Fort Worth's School Superintendent Has A Bigger Salary Than Houston's

  Houston, you have been dissed by Fort Worth. Fort Worth.That cowtown up north has gone all big-time, paying its school superintendent the highest salary in the state. Abe Saavedra here in Houston has been relegated to the poverty line.Fort Worth ISD superintendent Melody Johnson received a 1.4 percent pay raise last night; it brought her salary to $328,950. That is just above Saavedra's salary of $327,010.We know what you're up to, Fort Worth. Tossing around money like you're Jerry Jones. We can

  December 17, 2008

• The Texans-Broncos Connection: An Inter-Office Memo

  From: Bob McNair, Owner To: Gary Kubiak Re: Defensive Coach Hirings Date: January 14, 2009 Gary: As you know, I've been most supportive of your work as head coach of the Houston Texans, though it might be nice if you would coach the team to a winning record. But I've tried to stay out of the football end of the operation, letting you handle all of those matters. When you told me that David Carr would lead us to the Super Bowl, I went along with you. When you told me that Matt Schaub wo

  January 15, 2009

• Michael Irvin Brings Dallas Cowboys Reality Show to Spike TV

  Are you a Dallas Cowboys fan? Are you disappointed with the way the season ended? Do you think that the problem might have a little something to do with head coach Wade Phillips? Or offensive coordinator Jason Garrett? Perhaps you're like Troy Aikman who thinks the problem is that Tony Romo spends too much time hanging out with Jessica Simpson and not enough time attempting to be a team leader. Or you think Terrell Owens is a cancer. All of that could be true. But I've got some good news

  January 23, 2009

• Vallone (Jr.) Does Dallas

  May 2, 1996

• Michael Irvin Brings Dallas Cowboys Reality Show to Spike TV

  Are you a Dallas Cowboys fan? Are you disappointed with the way the season ended? Do you think that the problem might have a little something to do with head coach Wade Phillips? Or offensive coordinator Jason Garrett? Perhaps you're like Troy Aikman who thinks the problem is that Tony Romo spends too much time hanging out with Jessica Simpson and not enough time attempting to be a team leader. Or you think Terrell Owens is a cancer. All of that could be true. But I've got some good news

  January 23, 2009

• The Texans-Broncos Connection: An Inter-Office Memo

  From: Bob McNair, Owner To: Gary Kubiak Re: Defensive Coach Hirings Date: January 14, 2009 Gary: As you know, I've been most supportive of your work as head coach of the Houston Texans, though it might be nice if you would coach the team to a winning record. But I've tried to stay out of the football end of the operation, letting you handle all of those matters. When you told me that David Carr would lead us to the Super Bowl, I went along with you. When you told me that Matt Schaub wo

  January 15, 2009

• The Year In Film

  Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

  December 27, 2007

• Tuna Season

  Watch our guys take on Bill Parcells and the hated Dallas Cowboys

  August 12, 2004

• Scoring the Super Bowl

  NFL Films' music may be stirring, but these songs tell the real story of the big games

  January 29, 2004

• Incest Is Wrong

  The MFAH shamelessly hops in bed with the Houston Texans

  November 27, 2003

• Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

  December 26, 1996

• Houston Stays Alive In Bid To Host Some World Cup Games

  ​A few years ago, Houston memorably (and hilariously) pushed hard to host a Summer Olympics. It had as much chance of landing one as it did a Winter Olympics, but the effort persevered nonetheless.We seem to have a better shot, however, at seeing some World Cup (that's soccer, you xenophobes) action.The U.S. is putting together a bid to host the Biggest Tournament In The World in either 2018 or 2022, and as part of the process they have to list potential stadiums to be used for the games.Today

  August 20, 2009

• No More Bull

  August 27, 2009

• Oklahoma Football Gets A Houston Radio Outlet; Aggies Still Out Of Luck

  ​As you'll remember from our post on 1560 The Game a few weeks ago, it was mentioned that the station was in negotiations with a Big 12 Conference school to air its football games this season. Now there was some speculation (and hope) in the comments that this team would be the Aggies. But just as the Aggies keep on losing on the playing field, they also keep on losing on the radio front.Chance McLain, 1560's program director, has confirmed to Hair Balls that starting on Saturday, the station

  September 1, 2009

• You Spend A Billion Dollars And Still Get A Crappy New York Times Review

  Courtesy Dallas Cowboys​You spend over a billion dollars on something, you want to at least get a good review out of it in The New York Times.Alas, Jerry Jones, you're out of luck. As a great philosopher once said....The Times's architectural critic (named, as any Times archiectural critic should be, Nicolai Ouroussoff), reviewed the new $1.15 billion No Sponsor Name Yet Stadium, and he wasn't feeling the love.Some excerpts:Still, Cowboys Stadium suffers from its own form of nostalgia: its eno

  September 18, 2009

• The Aggies Know Great Architecture When They See It, Especially If It's Done By An Aggie

  ​Texas A&M University created an architectural award this year, the Spirit of Place medal, "envisioned as becoming one of the world's premier built-environment awards," according to a press release from the school.The university wants its new award to be "viewed in the same light" as the Stirling Prize, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Recent winners of that award include the Museum of Modern Literature in Germany, the Scottish Parliament building and the Gherkin, a sk

  October 2, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: We Are Not Ready for Christmas Music in October... or Ever, Really

  ​Let the Madness begin. No, not March Madness, nincompoop - it's October. Christmas Madness. Lonesome Onry and Mean doesn't know who officially decides these things, all we know is that it's the first week of October, Halloween hasn't even come and gone yet, but in the past 24 hours we've received a Frank Sinatra Christmas CD, a Ray Charles Christmas CD and an email tout for a Lee Greenwood Christmas CD. Nothing depresses LOM more than Christmas music. LOM is not normally subject to the evils

  October 7, 2009

• Texas Bowl Takes A Step Up

  ​Houston's taste for college-football bowl games was soured pretty ferociously by the inanity of Mattress Mac's galleryfurniture.com Bowl. But its successor, the Texas Bowl, has proven to be a well-run, entertaining event that has drawn decent, energetic crowds without frantically papering the house.The game has made the move from the low-visibility NFL Network to ESPN, where it will be part of the heavily promoted slate of bowls in December. And next year, it will take an even bigger step, an

  October 13, 2009