Hours Away

Training camp is fine. Scrimmages are fine.

But for me, Houston will officially be an NFL city again tonight, with the kickoff of the Texans' first preseason game, on Monday Night Football.

Apparently it's been raining much of the day across Ohio, so we may not see much of David Carr's arm, which is too bad.

AM 610, which will do Texans radio broadcasts, started their pregame coverage a few hours ago. They have a ways to go. Charlie Pallilo is a good enough broadcast personality, but the rest of their pregame crew -- John Granato, Rich Lord, and Lance Zierlein -- are pretty dim bulbs.

Mark Vandermeer will be excellent doing play-by-play, though local favorite Andre Ware may not be all that impressive doing color analysis.

Tonight will also be John Madden's debut on Monday Night Football. Let's hope it goes well for him. I heard him speaking a couple of times this weekend, and when I could even understand him, he just rambled on about nothing in particular.

[Posted at 17:33 CST on 08/05/02] [Link]