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Tony Wyllie
Vice President, Communications
16th NFL Season • 9th with Texans
Executives
Tony Wyllie is entering his 16th season in the
NFL and his ninth campaign as the Texans’ vice
president of communications. He is responsible
for shaping and molding the image of the team in
the public and the community. He serves as the
liaison between the local and national media and
the Texans’ front office, coaches and players.
Wyllie generates publicity for the club while serving
as the team spokesman. He also oversees the
Texans’ public relations, community relations,
media products departments and the Houston
Texans Foundation.
Wyllie began his NFL career as a game day intern
with the Houston Oilers in 1991 before working as
a summer intern with the San Diego Chargers PR
department in 1992. He spent 1993 as an intern
in the PR department with the Dallas Cowboys,
earning a Super Bowl ring before heading west
to Los Angeles to work with the Rams as the assistant
director of public relations. Wyllie moved
with the team to St. Louis in 1995 and became the
youngest PR director in the NFL three years later
when the Tennessee Oilers hired him in 1998.
He picked up an AFC championship ring with
the Titans in 1999 before joining the Texans staff
in the summer of 2000. During his NFL career,
Wyllie has assisted in promoting five players that
have been elected into the Pro Football Hall of
Fame (Aikman and Irvin, Cowboys; Slater, Rams;
Munchak and Matthews, Oilers/Titans).
Wyllie and his staff earned the Pete Rozelle
award, which is presented annually by Pro
Football Writers of America to the best NFL
public relations staff two times with the Texans
(2004 and 2007) and four times overall. The Rams’
PR department won the award in 1997 and the
Titans in 2000.
He also was chosen by the NFL to work the 1996
and 1997 NFC Championship games, the 1999 Pro
Bowl in Hawaii, and the last eight Super Bowls.
He also participated in the NFL’s management
program at Stanford University in 2004 and the
NFL Football Operations Personnel Symposium
in 2007.
Wyllie serves on numerous boards of directors
including the Ensemble Theatre in Houston, the
John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical
Science, the March of Dimes in Houston,
Management Leadership for Tomorrow – Houston
and the Touchdown Club of Houston. He serves
on the advisory board for Inner City Youth and the
Texas Sports Hall of Fame. He also served as a
sub-committee chairman on Houston’s Super
Bowl XXXVIII host committee.
Wyllie worked three years in the sports information
department of Texas Southern University,
where he received his degree in journalism. He
also earned a Masters in Business Administration
from the Jones School of Business at Rice
University.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Wyllie grew up in
Northwest Houston and attended Cy-Fair High
School. He resides in Houston with his wife,
Natasha, and son, James.
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Tidbit
Sack Tandem
The tandem of DE Mario Williams and DT Amobi Okoye quickly
developed into one of the top inside-outside sack tandems in
the NFL. Williams had 14.0 sacks and Okoye had 5.5. Their 19.5
combined sacks were the most by a DT/DE combo in the NFL. With
three combined years of experience, they are by far the youngest
duo in the league.
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