(10-28-2015 08:48 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: (10-27-2015 07:15 PM)Ricefootballnet Wrote: (10-27-2015 04:47 PM)pilot172000 Wrote: This is always my second most favorite game of the season. I love playing Rice every season again.
Why not come on down for the game and make a weekend, or partial weekend, of it? You'll be welcomed. LaTech fans have traveled well to Houston in the past and have been gracious and friendly. Ditto my trips up to Ruston; quality folks up there....
(Weather has actually been wonderful this week....)
I have been to Ruston twice for football games and once for baseball and echo the sentiment about the quality fans.
Optimistic, I'm 65 now so I get to ramble on with boring stories
, so here goes....
It was during the Hatfield era, I think it was the year we were down 31-7 at the half and under Kyle Herm came back and (almost) won at the end, but it was my first trip to Joe Aillet Stadium and I was trying to find a parking place and lug 60 pounds of camera equipment into the stadium and find the media entrance. A few hundred yards from the stadium, I was obviously a Rice visitor and obviously struggling, and a very distinguished looking Southern gentleman of a certain age drives up in an unprepossessing American-make car. He rolls down the window and asks, "Need some help with that equipment, podnah?"
"Well, yessir, but this is where they told me to park."
"Well, let's see if we can do something about that."
The man beckons a policeman over; a brief conversation and the policeman waves me on.
"Just follow me, young man..."
So I followed the gentleman's car as he was waved into a chain-link-fenced VIP lot right underneath the press box. Pointed out a place that said "Parking by permit only" and told me, "Park there."
Then he parked, and I looked over at the curb at his spot, and it said, "Chairman, Board of Trustees."
Good folks.....