{"id":36277,"date":"2026-06-14T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/36277\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:19:07","slug":"j-j-watt-houston-greet-germanys-freddy-with-swag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/36277\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. Watt, Houston greet Germany’s Freddy with swag"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, the arrival. Freddy, known on X as @FreddyLA7<\/a>, posted a video at around 11 p.m. Saturday on the social media platform. He and his road-trip partner were driving on I-10 into Downtown Houston, appropriately blasting BigXthaPlug’s “Hell At Night” (featuring their new friend Ella Langley), the skyline coming into view. “HOUSTON OMG” read the post.<\/p>\n

Earlier that day Freddy posted that after listening to Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” about 3,000 times on his road trip, he and his friend were gifted the opportunity<\/a> to meet\u00a0Langley at her June 18 concert in Oklahoma City,\u00a0Okla.<\/p>\n

So things have been going well for Freddy. They got better when he arrived at his hotel room in Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The hotel was the Post Oak Houston, the only dual Forbes Travel Guide five-star accommodation<\/a> in Texas. Inside his room: Trill Burgers swag and food, a platter of grub\u00a0from Killen’s Barbecue, a J.J. Watt Texans jersey signed with a special message, merch from the Post Oak and Texans, and an official World Cup ball.<\/p>\n

The warm Houston welcome came courtesy of Watt, the Texans legend and current CBS NFL analyst who wanted to show Freddy a little Southern hospitality.<\/p>\n

“I got you covered in Houston big dog,” Watt replied to Freddy on June 9, after the German reached out for recommendations along his route.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Freddy called Watt the “nicest person ever” in a follow-up response to a commenter.<\/p>\n

Freddy will spend Sunday at NRG Stadium, where the German men’s national team will face Cura\u00e7ao in the city’s first-ever World Cup match. The whistle blows at noon. Fox, which is broadcasting the match, is even shouting out Freddy in a promotion for the match<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First, the arrival. Freddy, known on X as @FreddyLA7, posted a video at around 11 p.m. Saturday on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32131,32881,32130,32133,5],"class_list":["post-36277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-chronculture","tag-chronsports","tag-chronstaff","tag-chronworldcup","tag-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}