HOUSTON — The league house owners will vote on whether or not to approve Houston Texans chairman and CEO Cal McNair because the franchise’s new principal proprietor on the NFL house owners’ assembly, a supply confirmed to ESPN.
The NFL house owners are anticipated to vote Tuesday morning.
Bob McNair, the Texans’ former proprietor, died in November 2018. His spouse, Janice McNair, turned the Texans’ principal proprietor and is considered one of 10 girls who’re principal house owners.
After his father’s loss of life, Cal took over the Texans’ each day soccer procedures and has represented the group at proprietor’s conferences rather than Janice.
The anticipated vote, which was first reported by The Houston Chronicle, does not imply the group is obtainable for buy, as a supply advised ESPN that the Texans usually are not on the market and “haven’t any plans for that.”
If the opposite NFL house owners vote in favor of Cal, he’ll proceed to run the franchise as he has for the previous 5 seasons. The Texans have gone 31-51-1 since then.
Information of the vote follows the tip of a case final month filed by considered one of Janice’s sons that had sought to have her declared incapacitated and have a guardian appointed. Robert Cary McNair Jr. had filed his software for appointment of a guardian for Janice in November with probate court docket in Harris County, the place Houston is situated.
However Feb. 26, attorneys for Cary McNair, together with others concerned within the case, filed a movement wherein they agreed to collectively drop the lawsuit.
Data from The Related Press contributed to this report.