HOUSTON — A sightseer in India recently saw something that made him do a doubletake and turn around.
Editor's note: the video in this story is from Dec. 2020 and reports on JJ Watt's "honest rant" about the status of the Texans organization
Venkat Ramamurthy, a former resident of Houston, says he was “in the middle of sleep South Goa,” in Loutolim, a village in southern India, when he saw a bakery apparently named in honor of the Texans football team.
“The Texans Bake Shop” even features, or flat out uses, the NFL team’s logo.
“I was doing some Portuguese heritage sightseeing in the area,” Ramamurthy tells KHOU 11. “I got my driver to turn around the moment I saw it. I couldn’t believe it!”
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Now before the Texans or the NFL start legal action, it appears the business may already be closed — perhaps permanently.
Ramamurthy’s photo shows the bakery is shuttered. He speculates it was perhaps a victim of the lack of tourism caused by the COVID pandemic.
While there are no prominent online listings for the bakery, India’s official government website lists the Texans bake shop in its database under various permits.