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Carlisle Military Academy football team, circa 1906-1907. The UT Arlington football team traces its roots to 1919 when the program was established at Grubbs Vocational College. [2] By 1923, Grubbs was renamed as the North Texas Agricultural College with the football team then playing as the Junior Aggies competing in the Central Texas Conference.
The NFL forbids corporations, religious groups, governments, and non-profit organizations from owning stakes in teams. [38] The NFL requires a controlling owner to hold at minimum a 30% stake in the team and forbids ownership groups of over 24 people; one team, the Green Bay Packers, is exempt from this under a grandfather clause and is owned by shareholders.
Texas is home of several national sports league franchises among other professional sports, being the second most populated U.S. state.Since the state is located in the South Central United States, most teams are part of the Central / South or West league divisions, with the notable exception of the NFL Dallas Cowboys, which is an NFC East franchise.
The Houston Texans have played their home games at NRG Stadium since 2002. The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The Texans are members of the South division in the American Football Conference (AFC) of the National Football League (NFL). They were founded in 1999 and began play as an expansion team in 2002. The team was owned by Bob McNair until ...
As a result, the league dropped from 22 to 12 teams, and a majority of the remaining teams were centered around the East Coast instead of the Midwest, where the NFL had started. The New York Yankees were added from the American Football League (AFL I) and the Cleveland Bulldogs returned.
Victories over the New York Giants in Houston and the Steelers in Pittsburgh (despite just 46 total yards of offense – an NFL low for a winning team) and the Texans finished the season 4–12, sending two players (Gary Walker and Aaron Glenn) to the Pro Bowl, the most ever by an expansion team.
American football teams in Lubbock, Texas (2 C, 2 P) American football teams in San Antonio (10 C, 3 P) American football teams in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (14 C, 14 P)
The Texans have competed in the NFL since their inaugural season in 2002. In that time, the team has compiled 6 winning seasons, finishing 9–7 in 2009, 10–6 in 2011, 12–4 in 2012 and 9-7 in 2014, 2015, and 2016. They have also had two non-losing seasons, as they finished 8–8 in 2007 and 2008.