Houston Roughnecks


The Houston Roughnecks are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The team is an owned-and-operated member of the new XFL founded by Vince McMahon's Alpha Entertainment and plays its home games at TDECU Stadium.

History

Houston joined Seattle, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, St. Louis, Tampa Bay and Washington, D.C. as the league's inaugural cities.
Houston has previously hosted several other alternative professional football teams, including the Texans of the World Football League, Gamblers of the United States Football League, and Thunderbears of the Arena Football League. The city has a long association with commissioner Oliver Luck, who played for the Houston Oilers in the National Football League and previously served as president of Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo; Houston was one of the first cities the league visited in September 2018 in regard to a potential XFL team. The team's imagery and name borrows heavily from the Oilers, including sharing an oil-drilling motif, its derrick logo, and red, white and blue colors, as well as incorporating the H and star from the Houston Astros' logo and the proportions of the American Athletic Conference A-star logo.
Houston has one major league winter sport against which the XFL economically competes, the NBA's Houston Rockets. The team will also have to compete against the MLS's Houston Dynamo in March and April.
On May 13, 2019, June Jones left his position with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to become Houston's head coach. The XFL confirmed the hire May 20.
On February 8, 2020, the Roughnecks defeated the Los Angeles Wildcats in the second game in league history by a score of 37-17.
The Roughnecks are in-state rivals with the Dallas Renegades. Games between the two are marketed as the Texas Throwdown.

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