Texans Owner Janice McNair Fighting Claim She’s Incapacitated, Needs Guardian

Scott Polacek@@ScottPolacekFeatured Columnist IVJanuary 11, 2024

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Robert Cary McNair Jr. filed an application in an effort to formally declare his mother and Houston Texans owner Janice McNair as incapacitated and in need of a guardian, but the 87-year-old is fighting back, per Juan A. Lozano of the Associated Press.

Lozano noted Cary McNair filed the application in November, but it was temporarily sealed.

Yet attorneys representing Janice McNair and another one of her sons and Texans chairman and CEO, Cal McNair, said in court documents that the family was “shocked” by such “drastic and unwarranted measures of alleging his mother is incapacitated, seeking to terminate her rights, and appoint himself as her guardian to control her personal, financial, and medical decisions.”

Janice McNair’s attorneys also said the 87-year-old, who became the principal owner of the team when her husband Robert died in 2018, is “firmly against any allegation or implication that Ms. McNair is incapacitated or needs a guardianship.”

The Houston owner requested all court records related to this case be sealed because the information becoming public could “create a needless and baseless media stir regarding the ownership and direction of the Texans, thereby negatively affecting our employees, business partners and the team.”

Lozano reported a judge issued an order for additional information before ruling on her request.

The guardian application from Cary McNair is still temporarily sealed.

This all comes at a time when the football team has found tremendous success on the field.

Houston won the AFC South for the first time since the 2019 campaign behind star rookie quarterback C.J. Stroud. That 2019 season was also the last time the franchise was in the playoffs.

The Texans will host the Cleveland Browns in the AFC Wild Card Round on Saturday.