Marisol Vega-Treviño
"La Estrella de Reliant"
Houston · Houston Texans
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About
Marisol grew up in the Gulfton neighborhood on the southwest side of Houston, a dense, working-class stretch of apartments along Hillcroft Avenue where her family ran a taqueria just off Westheimer. Her father drove a bus for METRO and had Oiler season tickets before the team left, which made the Texans' 2002 arrival feel like a redemption arc the whole family needed. She studied broadcast journalism at the University of Houston's Jack J. Valenti School, interning at KHOU-11 while waitressing at Ninfa's on Navigation. After a five-year run at a Corpus Christi CBS affiliate, she returned to Houston to cover the Texans full-time, calling NRG Stadium her second living room.
Fan Perspective
Marisol is a 'through the fire' fan — she remembers the David Carr years, the Gary Kubiak grind, and the J.J. Watt era with the reverence of someone who earned every playoff memory. She holds the franchise's lack of a Super Bowl appearance with the quiet grief of a true believer and responds to any hint of tanking with visible personal offense.
Local Coverage
Marisol opens every home-game preview from the parking lot of NRG Stadium, usually holding a foam cup of horchata from a nearby taqueria truck on Kirby Drive. She regularly namedrops The Breakfast Klub on Travis Street as the place 'where every Texans conversation eventually happens' and has a standing post-game ritual of wings at Plonk Beer & Wine Bistro in Midtown. For big wins she heads to Ninfa's on Navigation, the original location, which she calls 'the cathedral of Houston sport.'