Hannah McNair, VP of the Houston Texans Foundation

As Vice President of the Houston Texans Foundation, what does your job entail?

It’s figuring out how to impact the community to the greatest degree that we can as an organization and with our platform.

Can you walk me through what you do in that role?

I meet with our community development group; it’s one of the most incredible groups. Amanda Grosdidier and Brittany Hernandez are constantly thinking of ways to best impact the community. A couple of years ago, during the interview process with Amanda, she asked me, “If you could do anything, and pick one thing, that would be most beneficial for the Houston Texans Foundation to make an impact, what would it be?” We are in so many different directions with what we support, but in that interview, I said, “I’d love to impact the community how we best know how, and that’s with girls flag football.” It can change communities and it’s not a huge overhead cost. She ended up getting hired and, six months later, she approached (chair and CEO) Cal (McNair) and I about creating a flag football league.

I couldn’t speak for a moment because I was so excited. We know how football can impact a community, and we do this well. Our players know this, our coaches and players are behind it, everybody in the building knows football and the impact it brings. It’s been two years since we started our girls flag football league, and the growth has been incredible. But on a day-to-day basis, we’re really finding those areas in the community we can best impact, along with flag, on a bigger scale.