I'm not joking. When we were looking for new NFL team names, I threw 1836 out. FYI, Texas became a State in 36, a Country in 36, and Houston became a city in 36. My buddy was dating Oliver Luck's niece then, and she said he loved it. Regardless, it didn't make the NFL cut, but did make it to soccer; at which it was determined as racist.
https://orangeintheoven.com/2014/09/25/flashback-series-houston-1836/ This was what happened afterwards.
i was for the team name and the logo...but that was a long time ago and you did not influence it in the least bit. I thought the argument that it was racist and intended to be was stupid. It was merely a traditional soccer type name celebrating the city. The fact that the city and state exists due to a war that was won isn't racist. Though, it seems like they made essentially the same idiotic claim that those in the south make about the Confederacy and their flag. I had many conversations with Oliver Luck during the time this happened. I was connected to him through Glenn Davis (current Dynamo tv p-b-p guy but back then was the soccer writer for the Chronicle and was a former youth team trainer in the years I was playing division 1 U16 - U19 soccer). I still have an "1836" t-shirt that they released right when they initially named the team.
What the hell do you mean he didn’t influence it one bit? It was HIS idea and design, it was his brainchild!
It wasn’t considered racist. It was offensive to “Mexican decent ” soccer fans in the city because if celebrated the defeat of Mexico by the Texas Army. When a large portion of soccer fans you are trying to attract to root for your team could be offended by the team name, it is smart to change it.
The Texas annexation was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_annexation
How does it celebrate anything? It's a year but what is racist or offensive about celebrating Texas independence? Give me a break.
As soccer is huge in the hispanic community and obviously a target market, and Mexicans compromise a large portion of our hispanic community, I can see why not having the year we won a war against Mexico to take what was their land as our mascot.
I don't disbelieve him. Hell, the Skeeters used my idea for a team name and logo without ever acknowledging. (link) But, Fatty... Texas became a state in 1845, not 1836.
