Political Quotes

“the owners of the National Football League voted Monday to provide Cleveland with an expansion franchise, the 31st NFL team. The Cleveland team will be known as the Browns and will begin playing in 1999. Congratulations to Cleveland and the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Stokes); they are finally going to get a football team. Last year the gentleman from Ohio introduced H.R. 2699 after losing their professional football team. He wanted to protect cities from losing their professional sports teams. I cosponsored this bill. Sports are a way in which people identify with their hometown and take pride in their hometown. As a Member of Congress from Houston, we also lost our team last year. When we think of Houston, we think of oil. We think maybe of the Houston Oilers. Do we really think of the Tennessee Oilers? Houston is the fourth largest city. There should be a professional football team in Houston. I hope the NFL owners will even the number to number 32 and approve an expansion team to Houston. Again, congratulations to Cleveland. Hopefully, with this example of an expansion franchise, we might just see another football team in Houston again soon.”