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Originally Posted by Dienasty
On top of this Houston already has an AHL team (showing they support hockey), and a massive arena (which the rockets play out of), not to mention it is by far the largest market in north america without a hockey team.
As for competing with other sports, the only other sport it would be directly competing with is Basketball, as they are both played during the same time of the year. Football is 8 home games + playoffs, and Baseball is the complete opposite season.
Not sure how this wouldn't work, seems like the perfect market to me. However it would be by far the least cared about franchise in the city, but this is also the case in Dallas and their franchise is doing alright.
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Well the timing of seasons is only part of competing, you're competing for dollars that people may be spending on Texans tickets or Rangers tickets instead. That said, it's also a huge market so you don't need to a ton of market share to be successful.
At the end of the day teams are going to exist where people want to own them. I haven't heard of any substantial interest from a Houston ownership group, but it wouldn't surprise me if there have been inquiries. Plenty of cash down there, and rich Texans generally aren't opposed to spending.