{"id":373314,"date":"2026-07-15T00:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373314\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:23:08","slug":"houston-texans-ownership-does-janice-mcnairs-death-change-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373314\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Texans ownership: Does Janice McNair’s death change anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Janice\u00a0McNair, the matriarch of the Houston Texans, died Tuesday at 89 years old<\/a>, but the passing of the franchise\u2019s co-founder and senior chair won\u2019t have any impact on the ownership of the team<\/p>\n

When Bob McNair died in 2018<\/a>, Janice took over as the team\u2019s principal owner with their son Cal McNair, the franchise\u2019s CEO and chair, running day-to-day operations. A couple years after Janice suffered a stroke that relegated her to a wheelchair, Cal was approved by the NFL as the Texans’ new principal owner in 2024<\/a>. The vote among other owners in the league was unanimous.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Houston Texans mean so much to our family, and I\u2019m extremely proud that Cal will continue to lead the franchise moving forward,\u201d Janice\u00a0said after the vote. \u201cHe has done such a terrific job as our CEO, and we believe this move is what\u2019s best for everyone involved with the organization to secure our future under Cal\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how pleased Bob would be to see this, and our fans should be incredibly excited about the direction we are headed. I will continue to support Cal and the team in every way that I can and, of course, be rooting for us each and every week.\u201d<\/p>\n

A year before Cal was named principal owner, Cary McNair, Janice and Bob\u2019s oldest son, sued for guardianship of his mother<\/a>, with his attorneys arguing that his Janice\u2019s cognitive health had declined after her stroke. That lawsuit was eventually dropped, but Cary still is suing the NFL<\/a> claiming the league and Cal McNair worked to boot him from the family\u2019s business interests, including the board of the trust that owns the Texans. That lawsuit, which seeks $100 million, is still pending, although it won\u2019t affect the ownership of the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Janice\u00a0McNair, the matriarch of the Houston Texans, died Tuesday at 89 years old, but the passing of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-373314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}