Welcome to the Bayou City Bandwagon.

This is a home for Houston sports and Houston sports fans by two guys who care about them a lot and know about them a little. We have friends in the media, so we’re not setting out to bash them and what they do (at least not yet), but we’re endeavoring to create something different, something untraditional, something born out of passion and, above all, a sense of humor. We’re Houstonians and proud of it. We love our city and our teams, and we’re not afraid to laugh at them. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we might on occasion act like we’re better than you. We’ll share content that we find interesting, entertaining, random and hilarious. We’ll have insightful posts, and we’ll also have posts that provide absolutely no insight whatsoever and make you feel dumber for having looked at them. We’ll have original content, and we’ll have content that we jacked from someone else that we simply want to pass along and share. We’ll have opinionated blog posts and memes and GIFs and videos and who knows what else. Sometimes we’ll be serious, and many times we won’t. Mostly, we just plan to have fun and celebrate and commiserate about Houston sports. We hope you enjoy it.

Quick background:

I worked for the Houston Texans for six years (2007-13) as “Texans Insider” – covering the team from within Reliant (now NRG) Stadium, going to practices and games and any and all team events and writing about what I saw. I also did podcasts and videos and radio and TV and lots and lots of social media. Saw a lot, learned a lot, did a lot of cool shit.

When I left, I contemplated writing freelance articles on the side somewhere to keep myself in the game but decided not to because I wanted to fully focus on my new career in public relations. Now that I’ve been in my new job for more than a year, I’m sufficiently settled in to know that I can do this for fun on the side without detracting from my work. I left sports because I didn’t want to write about football full-time for the rest of my life, but I love sports so much that I can’t help but want to write about them at least part-time. I tweet about the Texans a lot, but sometimes 140 characters just isn’t enough, and I needed an outlet to let off some steam every once in a while.

So there I was, thinking about how I might jump back in, when lo and behold I ran into my buddy Craig Hlavaty at Free Press Summer Fest in June. He mentioned he was thinking about starting a Texans blog. I said, ‘No way, man. Me, too.’ We got together a month or two later at Fusion Taco in downtown Houston and bounced ideas off each other over queso, guacamole and tacos. I couldn’t type on my laptop fast enough as Craig rattled off a list of funny ideas and off-color content. We realized there was a void in the market for what we wanted to do, even if we weren’t completely sure what exactly it was that we wanted to do. We tossed around some more ideas with one another over the next couple of months, and now here we are.

If you saw me and Craig standing next to each other on the street, you might never guess that we’d be friends, but we have been ever since we met a few years ago when I was with the Texans and he was covering music and other eccentric stuff for the Houston Press. Craig now writes for the Houston Chronicle, does TV segments on KIAH for NewsFix here, and guests on the Outlaw Dave Show on KPRC 950 AM. I’m an Account Executive at On the Mark Communications, a boutique PR firm with clients in a wide array of industries. Together, we are Bayou City Bandwagon (BCB) Sports.

All aboard.