You can see it in that convention center video,
I attended an Astros game in June years ago, and the Rockets were playing a playoff game and the Dynamo were playing a regular season gameâŠall on the same day. I will never do that again.
The older I get, the less tolerant I am sitting in traffic.
Rita did not forever kill traffic for you?
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I donât remember the Rockets ever playing in June since the Astros moved downtown. 
I think it must be either 2015 or 2018 when the Rockets were in the Western Conference Finals.
I think both those series ended in May.
June basketball is for winners. 
Doesnât matter, though - we can all agree that traffic sucks.
How often do their games overlap?
Not often.
So just avoid those specific games, to avoid the traffic.
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Got it, Ace.
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Available land and Harris county having to buy land are the first two obstacles in building a downtown football stadium.
Weâre not building a downtown football stadium.
And the most recent reports are that the Texans want to build a headquarters/practice area away from the NRG site. The rodeo and other events create issues for those in the Texans organization who show up to work every day like the rest of us. It makes sense.
The Texans have also said they would be happy with repairs/mods. at NRG.
I donât think anyone is asking for a new stadium, and I feel fairly certain neither Harris County nor the Sports Authority are willing to build a new stadium. The County will find money for upgrades/maintenance.
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What Harris County needs is an audit. How in the world do you not do a âcontract maintenanceâ or not do it right? This is on Harris County and the Texans. After a quarter of maintenance the Texans knew what they were dealing with. This lack of maintenance did not start two months ago. This stadium was built 22 years ago or so. You have to maintain your investment. Clearly Harris County does not see it that way.
At worst the Texans/Rodeo should have been required to split the costs of maintence. You know you should never trust the government to fix anything right when it needs to be fixed.
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Unfortunately you are right. This is another example of it. The public should demand that Harris County heads roll.
This reminds me in the house I grew up in there was a leak under the pavement at the beginning of my parents driveway the city comes out to fix the leak and it was their responsibility to repave the enterance to our driveway. It took 9 months for them to finally come repave the driveway.
The Texans are equally at fault. They knew this was going on. Why did it take thins long for them to come public? This lack of accountability probably started shortly after Harry County started taking care of maintenance, Inexcusable on both sides. If Harris County ask tax payers for money they ought to be defeated.
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In that scenario, you and your family = the Texans.
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They wanted it to get so bad out wouldnât be worth fixing.
As has been stated before, Harris County wanted control over maintenance of NRG Stadium after getting burned by the Houston Astros who was contractually obligated to maintain the Astrodome. The Astros had every incentive to maintain the Astrodome over the years, since the Astros were the main tenant, and they failed on their obligation.
Harris County wanted maintenance responsibility and they got it. This is Harris Countyâs obligation plain and simple.
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