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Houston
team seeks
NFL name
HOUSTON (AP) — The NFL’s
newest member, the Houston
‘Whatevers,’ have the framework of
a new stadium beside the As
trodome. They have a scouting sys
tem with general manager Charlie
Casserly pulling the strings.
And they have an owner who paid
$700 million to join the NFL owner
ship fraternity and bring profession
al football back to the state’s largest
city to replace the Oilers, who left af
ter the 1996 season for Tennessee.
What they don’t have is a name.
That will be rectified Wednesday
when owner Bob McNair officially
christens the NFL’s 30th franchise
after months of research with the
league to come up with the most
pleasing colors and logo.
A delegation of Houston's pro foot
ball past will be on hand for the cere
mony, including former Oilers quar
terback and assistant coach Don Trull.
“I’ll still be an Oiler,’’Trull said.
“Tennessee is not the Oilers. I’ll
embrace what was here, but the Oil
ers are no more.
He’s supported the Tennessee Ti
tans, “because of the people there
that I know from the time I worked
with the Oilers... but I guess if they
ever play each other. I’d have to root
for the Houston Whatevers.”
They won’t be the Whatevers much
longer. McNair has a lavish presenta
tion ceremony planned for Wednesday
with a downtown announcement ac
companied by country music and
Texas Southern University's Ocean of
Soul Marching Band helping out.
Former NFL kicker Raul Allegre
will begin the day with a ceremonial
kickoff at noon CDT in the As
trodome, where the Oilers played.
Former Oilers coach Bum Phillips
also is expected to be among those
helping McNair with the festivities.
A 100-yard section of downtown
Texas Avenue will be closed down
for the naming ceremony with a
football field installed complete
with goalposts.
“We’ll finally have an identity,”
McNair said. “We’ll no longer be the
Houston Whatchamacallits.”
After he announces the nick
name logo and colors, McNair will
go to Enron Field, where the Astros
are hosts the Florida Marlins. Mc
Nair will throw the ceremonial first
pitch with a football to Astros own
er Drayton McLane Jr.
Former Oilers defensive end
Elvin Bethea also plans to be on
hand to see the new era of pro foot
ball in the city.
“1 think it’s great for the city, all
the hype and everything since Mr.
McNair stepped out into the deep
waters of the NFL,” Bethea said.
“There are still a lot of players here
from the old days.
“People can associate the old days
with 2000. We’re just going into a new
era now. I think it’s very exciting.”
A 69,500-seat retractable roof
stadium is under construction about
a football throw from the As
trodome will house the team and the
Houston Livestock Show and
Rodeo beginning in 2002.
STATE
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THE BATTALION
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Texans suffer from
intense heat wave
DALLAS (AP) — The sweltering
heat in parts of Texas is taking its toll.
Forty heat-related deaths have
been confirmed this year in the com
bined Dallas and Houston areas,
which both saw all-time record high
temperatures Monday.
Dallas hit 111 — the hottest ever
recorded in September— while
Houston’s high was 109, the city’s
all-time highest temperature.
Most of the
reached a record 111 degrees, wort
ers at hospital emergency nximsit
ceived at least one confirmed heatu
latcd illness Monday, along wi!
some dehydrated patients duringlii
Labor Day weekend.
Waco’s Labor Day high surpass
the date’s pie\ ions record of 106*
grees set in 1998.
"When you bust a record by 5*
grees like that, that’s something
Alan Moller,
Houston area
heat victims did
not have air con
ditioning or
avoided using it
to save on their
energy bills, ac
cording to the
Harris County
Medical Examin
er’s office, which
has recorded 28
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a record by 5 de
grees like that,
that's something.'
NWS meteor.
— Alan Moller
MWS meteorologist
told the Wacol
bune-Herald.
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week during tl
summer’s bm
heat-related deaths this year. That
number does not include the current
autopsies where heat is the suspect
ed cause of death.
Lack of air conditioning killed the
Dallas area’s most recent of its 12
victims, Lillian S.wanson, authorities
said. The 66-year-old diabetic, whom
authorities said was in poor health,
was found Saturday in her home with
the air conditioner turned off.
Dallas’ previous record was 108,
set in 1980. The city's all-time high
was 113 on June 26-27,1980, accord
ing to the National Weather Service.
In Waco, where the mercury also
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heat and drought, said John Ze®
Weather Service senior forecaste
The state’s all-time high isl-
degrees, which was recorded inti
North Texas town of Seymout
Aug. 23, 1980.
Because of its distance fromit
coast, North Texas is vulnerable
the most extreme temperatures,ffi
teorologists said.
“We usually have more moistt
in the air because we’re influenced
the Gulf, so it’s not as hot,” Carol;
Levert, a weather service meteorol
gist, told the Houston Chronicle.
Levert said the extreme hea
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