Message-ID: <20202856.1075845459275.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 03:47:00 -0800 (PST) From: houstontexans@newsletter.houstontexans.com To: texansnews@newsletter.houstontexans.com Subject: Texans Weekly 12-15 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: HoustonTexans@Newsletter.HoustonTexans.Com X-To: "Texans Newsletter" X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Greg_Whalley_Oct2001\Notes Folders\Discussion threads X-Origin: WHALLEY-G X-FileName: gwhalley.nsf Houston Texans Weekly Update=20 Dec. 15, 2000=20 OUT AND ABOUT=20 The season's final installment of Houston Texans Monday Night Football is= =20 this Monday, Dec. 18, at Jillian's at the Marq?E Entertainment Center. The= =20 Buccaneers host the Rams in a rematch of last January's NFC Championship Ga= me. NFL Alumni including Ken Houston, Bubba McDowell and John Shumacher will=20 serve as celebrity waiters from 7-8 p.m. Their tips will go to Caring For= =20 Kids, NFL Alumni's charity of choice. In addition, the first 100 guests in= =20 the Jillian's video cafe will receive a holiday gift. Those gifts include= =20 Jillian's Party Packs, a Marq?E Entertainment Center prize package and Texa= ns=20 footballs autographed by Bob McNair and Charley Casserly. Academy Sports &= =20 Outdoors will also give away two grand prizes -- a $500 Academy shopping=20 spree and a set of Wilson golf clubs. Join the Texans in celebrating a great season of food, football and fun thi= s=20 Monday night!=20 TOUCHDOWN CLUB AWARDS DINNER=20 Texans Executive Vice President/General Manager Charley Casserly was the=20 keynote speaker Wednesday night at the Houston Touchdown Club=01,s 21st Ann= ual=20 High School Awards Dinner at the JW Marriott on Westheimer. The Texans, as= =20 well as coaches from 29 college football programs, joined the Touchdown Clu= b=20 in recognizing Houston=01,s best gridiron performances from the 2000 season= . Coach of the Year honors went to The Woodlands=01, Weldon Willig, who led t= he=20 Highlanders to an 11-3 mark and their third consecutive District 15-5A=20 championship. Klein Forest RB Yamar Washington took home Offensive Player o= f=20 the Year honors. Jersey Village LB Shawn Brooks won Defensive Player of the= =20 Year honors and Jaxson Appel of Friendswood earned the Iron Man Award for= =20 best two-way player in the city.=20 ?=20 Casserly told the gathering of players, coaches and parents that they shoul= d=20 all be proud of what they collectively accomplished. But in addressing the= =20 players he also did a little coaching himself.=20 =01&Some of you won't play football again. Some of you will go on to play i= n=20 college and some of you might play in the NFL,=018 Casserly said. =01&But i= n each=20 instance your primary goal should be academics. Think about it, if you have= a=20 Hall of Fame career in football, your career will be over 15 years from now= =20 -- even if you're one of the best players in the history of the game. You= =20 have to have something to fall back on. =01&You need to stay in college all four years and get a degree. If you're = good=20 enough to play in the NFL, it will always be there.=018 http://www.houstontexans.com/home/general.cfm?cont_id=3D38318=20 CASSERLY JOINS IN=20 Earlier in the week, Casserly visited the NFL Films offices in Mount Laurel= ,=20 N.J. ESPN analyst and former Eagles QB Ron Jaworski was about to tape his= =20 weekly Edge NFL Matchup Internet show for NFL.com and asked Casserly to joi= n=20 him. Jaworski talked to Casserly during the episode=01,s final 10 minutes. = You=20 can watch the show in its entirety on HoustonTexans.com. Check out the link on the home page at:=20 http://www.houstontexans.com=20 SHOW YOUR PRIDE=20 From casual Friday to a round at the links, you'll look like a pro in this= =20 official Texans team polo from Antigua. This knit polo features a button-do= wn=20 placket, knit collar and cuffs and Texans logo on left chest. http://store.houstontexans.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?associate=3Dtexans&partno= =3DNFL-TE XPOLO-003&error=3D&stype=3Dpolos=20 EARTHLINK EMAIL=20 Wear your Texans pride like a badge of honor; now you can get your own Texa= ns=20 email address (yourname@go.houstontexans.com), courtesy of the Texans and= =20 Earthlink. Sign up for the Texans Internet Service today! http://www.earthlink.net/profootball/houstontexans=20 --- You are currently subscribed to texansnews as: GWHALLE@ENRON.COM To unsubscribe send a blank email to=20 leave-texansnews-179392T@newsletter.houstontexans.com