My Texan's connection? Well - back in England I used stay up pretty late and started casually watching football after years of criticising it as "rugby for softies in armor". I started watching properly in 2005, and toward the end of that season, I decided I needed a team to root for, and coming from a soccer background where everyone would bandwagon the biggest names such as Manchester United and Liverpool - I decided to make the most un-bandwagony team the one I'd follow.
Unfortunately for everyone here, the Texans happened to be on a roll toward a 2-14 record at that point - so Houston it was for me (although I already had a soft spot towards "Texan" football culture anyhow through things like the Friday Night Lights book/movie). I lurked around this forum for a while until I felt capable of contribution about football above "wow - that dude just got knocked the heck out!".
I have been to Houston once though - back in 2009 during a flight from DC to Vancouver I connected via IAH, and had the pleasure of sitting in the Fox Sports Bar for a few hours having a cold one, staring at the giant banner picture of David Carr, wondering how the heck no one had ripped it down in the 2 years since he left town.