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On 8/25/2018 at 1:10 PM, Baconboy said:

Agree 100%. Not sure why it hasn't been replicated more. Every seat is good and most are great.

Gerald Ford at SMU is pretty immaculate. Not that we ever fill the seats.

Also, granddad was at UT in the late 60s. Told me about a chant they had against Rice that began,

"What comes out of a China Man's ass?"

You can fill in the rest. It was a different time.

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My first 'Horns game was UT-Rice in 1989, when I was 7.  UT won on the last play of the game after some terrible PI call against Rice.  

Only thing I know about them has already been highlighted here.  My 1st cousin married a dude that got his undergrad, grad and PhD at Rice.  Smartest human being I know and a little eccentric, but a good guy.

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Gerald Ford at SMU is pretty immaculate. Not that we ever fill the seats.

Also, granddad was at UT in the late 60s. Told me about a chant they had against Rice that began,

"What comes out of a China Man's ass?"

You can fill in the rest. It was a different time.

Rice Rice Rice.

 

And late 60's? Dude, that chant is waaaaayyyyy older than late 60's.

 

Ps chinaman's is one word not two. You alpos seem to be stupid.

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On 10/5/2018 at 4:25 PM, ztejas said:

Gerald Ford at SMU is pretty immaculate. Not that we ever fill the seats.

Also, granddad was at UT in the late 60s. Told me about a chant they had against Rice that began,

"What comes out of a China Man's ass?"

You can fill in the rest. It was a different time.

Spent my Houston time very close to Rice campus, walking distance to the stadium, went to quite a few Rice home games.

One year at an aTm visitation the agi faithful revisited that chant, the ending of which was "Rice, Rice, Rice!!"

The MOB then led the Brainiacal response: 

"What comes out of a China Man's ass?"

"Little brown Aggys!!"

 

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Spent my Houston time very close to Rice campus, walking distance to the stadium, went to quite a few Rice home games.
One year at an aTm visitation the agi faithful revisited that chant, the ending of which was "Rice, Rice, Rice!!"
The MOB then led the Brainiacal response: 
"What comes out of a China Man's ass?"
"Little brown Aggys!!"
 
What the fuck are "agi"?

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My first 'Horns game was UT-Rice in 1989, when I was 7.  UT won on the last play of the game after some terrible PI call against Rice.  

I had to look it up, fucking sure enough. At different points in that game, it was 17-3 Rice, and later 30-17 early in the fourth. Sounds like the controversy was on whether Gardere got in on a scramble. 

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I had to look it up, fucking sure enough. At different points in that game, it was 17-3 Rice, and later 30-17 early in the fourth. Sounds like the controversy was on whether Gardere got in on a scramble. 

Probably correct, but I really don't remember the specifics.  My uncle, who was a UT student at the time took my cousin and I to the game.  He always tells it as we were the beneficiaries of a bad PI call.  I do, however, remember that we played football on the field after the game...it was awesome as a 7-year old.  I also remember the Cash brothers and of course good 'ol #10.  I still have the program from that game.

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Always here to bitch at any big cigars that may be reading to say F their luxury boxes, tell CDC to move the @Rice games back to Rice Stadium on campus where they belong. The last outstanding concern for the ShagSurl crew was beer availability at an on campus stadium and that was resolved around 2008 or 2009 with a section in the football and baseball stadiums called “the Roost” where the beers flow. 

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Always here to bitch at any big cigars that may be reading to say F their luxury boxes, tell CDC to move the @Rice games back to Rice Stadium on campus where they belong. The last outstanding concern for the ShagSurl crew was beer availability at an on campus stadium and that was resolved around 2008 or 2009 with a section in the football and baseball stadiums called “the Roost” where the beers flow. 

Does Rice stadium still have the wooden benches there to inject splinters into your butt?  Do they have any clue how to staff their concession stands so as not to have half-hour long waits before being informed they are out of almost everything you want?

If those issues have been addressed, then sure.  Otherwise, Reliant is fine.

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Your enemy's enemy is your friend. Rice is okay in my books...

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Jan. 16, 1917: The A&M basketball team defeated Southwest Conference rival Rice, 21-13 in Houston. As a post-victory celebration, A&M cadets stole Rice's unattended mascot, a 6-foot-tall canvas owl. The owl weighed about 200 pounds and was stuffed with sawdust, according to a January 2000 article in Texas Aggie magazine.

Back on campus, the owl was moved around campus where it "attended" chapel and lectures and "watched" the cadets march in review. The student newspaper, The Battalion, published an article taunting the Rice students that if they can come and take their owl back "they can find him at 37 Milner Hall."

Rice students went over in groups disguised as A&M upperclassmen and hired two detectives to find the "bird." The first detective was unsuccessful, the second, who went by "Snowball," "posed as a newspaper reporter gathering information on the 'owl-napping' for an article," according to the Texas Aggie magazine.

By late January, Snowball learned the owl was being kept in the armory and sent a coded telegram letting Rice students know "Sammy is fairly well and would like to see his parents at 11 o'clock," according to The Rice Thresher student newspaper. The detective gave the mascot a name and a group of Rice students made plans to recapture their mascot the night of Jan. 30.

Rice students drove from Houston in two automobiles and invaded the campus and "before their intentions were found out they had taken the big owl from its resting place and started on the return journey," according to an article in The Eagle on Jan. 31, 1917.

When the Aggies found out the owl was missing, some left in automobiles while others jumped aboard the southbound passenger train. The cadets caught up with the fleeing Rice students, who were having car trouble, in Millican. The Rice students emptied the owl and burned all of its canvas body except for its head. "They burned their big owl rather than surrender it to the College Station boys," according to The Eagle.

A&M cadets stole Rice's mascot

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Something new that Rice athletics is doing this season. One pass used a a ticket for every home game for all sports.

$499? For what, baseball? 

I got into every SMU football game as a student for free. You just swiped your ID. If Rice doesn't have the same policy they should. 

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I've gone through eight decades with Rice football.  As a youngster in 1950, the year beautiful Rice Stadium opened, I sold cokes in the stand.  The Stadium was a gift from Brown and Root and was built in record time between the end of 1949 season and beginning of 1950.  At the time, Rice was a powerhouse in football led by Jess Neely who was a thorn in DKR's side for a few years.

Rice only cared about three games.  They opened every season with the big one, LSU and near capacity crowds of 70k when played every other year in Houston.  The biggest two were playing UT and aggy.  In those days all Rice/aggy games were played in Rice Stadium.  They didn't play in College Station until the late 1960's.  When Rice was competitive (Neely won the SWC every four years like clockwork and went to the Cotton Bow) they were a power.  When he wasn't in the Cotton Bowl he was in Sugar or Orange.  In those days, the jocks didn't have to qualify academically.

In the first days of televised games I remember an announcer saying when the Rice band was on the field with the team that over 10% of the entire student body was on the field.

Not too many on here will remember when when DKR beat ou in his second year ('58) and came to Rice undefeated but got blind sided by Neely and lost to Rice by four TD's.

Then there was 1962 when Rice tied us and LSU.  It was the only blemish on our otherwise undefeated season and LSU only lost one game that year.  We played LSU that year in the Cotton Bowl.

The second most famous aggy game was when the Rice students learned the aggy band marched according to the drum major blowing a whistle.  Hundreds of Rice students in the stand brought whistles and the resulting chaos was the aggy band members falling all over themselves, stumbling in formations and running off the field ending the show way early.

The other incident was when Rice spoofed the aggys with the MOB playing like drunk aggys in uniform.  The Rice band was chased into a food truck by aggy corp members.  Fortunately no one was killed like the former riot in Waco.

I'll always have a warm spot for Rice in spite of the fact it took DKR four times to finally get a win over Rice in Houston. 

 

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I've gone through eight decades with Rice football.  As a youngster in 1950, the year beautiful Rice Stadium opened, I sold cokes in the stand.  The Stadium was a gift from Brown and Root and was built in record time between the end of 1949 season and beginning of 1950.  At the time, Rice was a powerhouse in football led by Jess Neely who was a thorn in DKR's side for a few years.

Rice only cared about three games.  They opened every season with the big one, LSU and near capacity crowds of 70k when played every other year in Houston.  The biggest two were playing UT and aggy.  In those days all Rice/aggy games were played in Rice Stadium.  They didn't play in College Station until the late 1960's.  When Rice was competitive (Neely won the SWC every four years like clockwork and went to the Cotton Bow) they were a power.  When he wasn't in the Cotton Bowl he was in Sugar or Orange.  In those days, the jocks didn't have to qualify academically.

In the first days of televised games I remember an announcer saying when the Rice band was on the field with the team that over 10% of the entire student body was on the field.

Not too many on here will remember when when DKR beat ou in his second year ('58) and came to Rice undefeated but got blind sided by Neely and lost to Rice by four TD's.

Then there was 1962 when Rice tied us and LSU.  It was the only blemish on our otherwise undefeated season and LSU only lost one game that year.  We played LSU that year in the Cotton Bowl.

The second most famous aggy game was when the Rice students learned the aggy band marched according to the drum major blowing a whistle.  Hundreds of Rice students in the stand brought whistles and the resulting chaos was the aggy band members falling all over themselves, stumbling in formations and running off the field ending the show way early.

The other incident was when Rice spoofed the aggys with the MOB playing like drunk aggys in uniform.  The Rice band was chased into a food truck by aggy corp members.  Fortunately no one was killed like the former riot in Waco.

I'll always have a warm spot for Rice in spite of the fact it took DKR four times to finally get a win over Rice in Houston. 

 

They were a wonderful chaos agent with a great band.

It's a bit surprising both academically and athletically that they haven't become the Stanford of the (literal, not cultural) South. Houston had a big boom, TXHSFB powers along, but they're still stuck a bit under the radar.

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Fifty years ago this August I enrolled at The Institute on South Main, where I saw guys wearing slide rule holsters.  Total enrollment was 3,400, 5/7 male, 2/7 female, residing in seven residential colleges.  "TRG" meant typical rice girl.  I dated three atypical Rice girls (sorry, pics have disintegrated).  They were cool; one was nubile and rather comely.

It was said that half of the students had to be Texas residents and half of those had to be from Houston.  My three roommates were all Texans, outrageous and extreme Cowboys fans.  Next door just inches away from my head lived a Chinese guy who played CSN&Y's "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" all the fucking time.  Drove me batshit.  Every time I saw a toad on the sidewalk outside our room (often) I would import it into the Chinese guy's room through a cavity in the hole for the radiator when it was quiet over there.  I put about 20 toads over there until one night he said "Ahhhhh-HA! So that's where they came from!  Why, man?"  I told him and he graciously quit playing that damned song so much.   A Burmese prince who drove a Porsche 911 lived in the Chinese guy's room.  

I was a water balloon warrior, holding up an 8-ft 2x4 while another dumbass held up another, and the launch master aimed a small plastic beach bucket attached with surgical tubing to the tops of the 2x4s.  In this way we waged war with neighboring dorms.  Occasionally the balloons were filled with liquid other than water.  If you were a stanchion holder you held your breath when a piss balloon was launched.  The balloons would travel 100 yards to impact.

There were a handful of us Alabamians at Rice and we all pretty much assimilated into the sardonically irreverent Rice culture.  In those days the MOB was just flexing its wings.  There was no actual College of Music at Rice then but the MOB recruited students with band experience and those dudes could play.  The MOB had about 100 members.

Once vs UH (which we called Cougar High) at the Dome, at halftime the MOB took the field and scrambled to form a lopsided shape which sort of resembled the Astrodome.  The MOB's p.a. guy, who had a great FM deejay voice, boomed, "The Rice University Marching Owl Band salutes Judge Roy Hofheinz and the Houston Astrodome,

[long pause],

THE WORRRRLD'S

SMAAALLLLEST

INNNDOOOR

STAAAAAYYYDIUMMM!"  

Judge Roy, who was seated in his box a few steps from the press box, stormed in, yanked the mic out if its socket and took it away.   The MOB completed its show unaccompanied by the words of its announcer.

in 1972, Rice won the SWC in every sport but one (football).  I wonder if any other SWC school ever accomplished that but I'm too lazy to look it up.

Frequent cheer at RU football games, following lost fumbles, botched plays, failed 4th down conversions, drive killing penalties, etc.:  "OOOOOOOOOOOOH SHIT!  GOD DAMN!"

My roommates and I went to Aggieland in 1970 and saw Rice embarass the Aggies 18-17.  I say embarrass because fakery was involved.  I know it was windy and cold as shit.

I delighted in seeing another Rice-at-Aggy game.  Rice was losing at halftime, didnt make a first down in the second half and still won.  Before the game, the Owl suit cheerleader guy strutted around the field before the taunting the Cotps and Aggie fans in general.  He would face the crowd, wave and salute and clap, then turn around and bend over.  He had a little sign sewed to the ass of his costume, under the long tail of his suit.  He would flip the tail up and wiggle his ass at the Aggies, who would hiss and jeer maniacally and shower him with ice, cups and other projectiles.  Finally, we saw why.  The sign included a perfect replica of the Aggie logo, though slightly altered:

E A T M E

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Adding to my Rice memories from above post.  How could I have forgotten the famous 1954 Cotton Bowl Classic when Dicky Moegle got tackled by a Bama man, Tommie Lewis, who came off the Bama sideline bench to tackle Moegle in the field of play lol.

But my all time favorite Rice moment was that November 1957 afternoon when Bear Bryant brought his #1 Texas ags to Rice stadium and lost to Rice 7-6 before 72k, the largest crowd in Texas football history.  King Hill led Rice to the stunning win.  The following Thanksgiving, DKR upset aggy again making that the final game the aggys were coached by Bear Bryant, who upon losing to us, 9-7 (I could have sworn we won 7-0 but Google says we won 9-7) "the Longhorns hate us more then we hate them" lol as he rode out of town to Bama.

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Went to a Texas/Rice game in Houston with a Rice grad buddy. One section over from the Rice students section. We dismembered them starting pretty early on. And while I enjoyed that, I enjoyed the Rice students almost as much. They started a "WE SUCk" chant. A guy went to the concession stand and returned with a Texas pennant then proceeded to tell the rest of the section "LOOK AT ME!!! 4$ freakin' dollars and I'm going to be a WINNER... ALL YEAR LONG!!! The capper was when two of our linemen arrived at the Rice QB at the same time. Kid goes down and stays down. After a few minutes the cart comes out and guy in the MOB starts banging a slow beat on the kettle drum, masses of the student section (between the beats just like in "the Holy Grail") chants "Bring out your dead". My sinuses got a Coka-Cola rise. 

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Beginning of last decade when I was at UH, my favorite game that I always looked forward to was the Rice game. We play them for the Bayou Bucket. They pulled the upset in 2010, beating us by a field goal. Their student section was shocked by exclaiming, "whoa! we actually beat Houston?!" Overall their fans were and still are some of the nicest and friendliest people I've ever met. After the 2010 loss at Rice Stadium, of few of their students introduced me and my friends to Val Halla. I think they said something along the lines of, "we know where to go if you wanna drink to forget." Don't remember much after that afternoon. 

Rice has a beautiful stadium and honestly I wish Texas would play them every year. One exception: let's play them at their home stadium instead of NRG.

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Adding to my Rice memories from above post.  How could I have forgotten the famous 1954 Cotton Bowl Classic when Dicky Moegle got tackled by a Bama man, Tommie Lewis, who came off the Bama sideline bench to tackle Moegle in the field of play lol.
But my all time favorite Rice moment was that November 1957 afternoon when Bear Bryant brought his #1 Texas ags to Rice stadium and lost to Rice 7-6 before 72k, the largest crowd in Texas football history.  King Hill led Rice to the stunning win.  The following Thanksgiving, DKR upset aggy again making that the final game the aggys were coached by Bear Bryant, who upon losing to us, 9-7 (I could have sworn we won 7-0 but Google says we won 9-7) "the Longhorns hate us more then we hate them" lol as he rode out of town to Bama.
dkr beat bryant EVERY time he played him.
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Played football at another SWC school back in the day. Had a buddy that went to Rice.  When folks talk about how smart those folks are, it is no joke.  Rocket surgeon types. Most of them working on dual majors like chemistry and physics at the same time.  Anywho, one spring break I was on my way down to pick him up so we could venture on to South Padre way. He had his college throw me a little soiree.  It got wild.  There was a keg and heavy metal music blaring in the quad for many hours and before you knew it just about the whole school had showed up.  The football team eventually showed up(and had me a little nervous because I was outnumbered by a substantial margin.  But they ended up being cool and loved it that there was a football player from another school there partying with them. I remember the distinct feeling that they thought of themselves as outcasts for playing football at a school like Rice.  But I digress)  Ended up with everyone dragging all their furniture out of the dorm rooms and into their little quad area where it was subsequently smashed into kindling. I think calls of "bonfire" were heard before cooler heads prevailed.  I remember then doing a very drunken tunnel exploration (they have steam tunnels under the entire campus) before we all went back and crashed on mattresses on the floor as all the beds, desks, couches, etc had been destroyed. Next day we left for Padre. On a side note, they have the highest endowment per capita of any  university in the U.S.

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Played football at another SWC school back in the day. Had a buddy that went to Rice.  When folks talk about how smart those folks are, it is no joke.  Rocket surgeon types. Most of them working on dual majors like chemistry and physics at the same time.  Anywho, one spring break I was on my way down to pick him up so we could venture on to South Padre way. He had his college throw me a little soiree.  It got wild.  There was a keg and heavy metal music blaring in the quad for many hours and before you knew it just about the whole school had showed up.  The football team eventually showed up(and had me a little nervous because I was outnumbered by a substantial margin.  But they ended up being cool and loved it that there was a football player from another school there partying with them. I remember the distinct feeling that they thought of themselves as outcasts for playing football at a school like Rice.  But I digress)  Ended up with everyone dragging all their furniture out of the dorm rooms and into their little quad area where it was subsequently smashed into kindling. I think calls of "bonfire" were heard before cooler heads prevailed.  I remember then doing a very drunken tunnel exploration (they have steam tunnels under the entire campus) before we all went back and crashed on mattresses on the floor as all the beds, desks, couches, etc had been destroyed. Next day we left for Padre. On a side note, they have the highest endowment per capita of any  university in the U.S.

Rice undergrad alum here (Texas MBA, hence why I'm on this board).  Some of the biggest nerds you'll ever encounter, but there's a surprising amount of entertaining fuckery that goes on as a student there.  "Baker 13" (co-ed running naked around campus once a month), Night of Decadence (halloween party where you wear as little as possible....one dude arrived in a snickers wrapper around his crank one year...but kind of worth if for the 2-3 decently hot women who show up), over the top binge drinking due to students who have no idea how to drink, etc.   It's also located in the middle of Houston, which offers truly any and all kinds of degeneracy you could want - ie taking football recruits to the "anything goes" all-nude strip clubs south on I-45, any and all drugs readily available, escorts from around the world, etc.  Shady AF.

It's an interesting place, but celebrating top 25 football wins is unfortunately a "once every 25 years" event.  So I'm reporting for duty today.  You'll hear back from me again in 2045 for the next one.

 

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