wonder if there are any trophy lunkers in it ?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BPaDsd_grMy

all the news channels in town have asked permission to rebroadcast this picture, apparently.

Didn't last long. Rice Facilities tweeted at 7:45am:

Quote:Electrical malfunction led to temp. back up. Field is back to normal and ready to go.

https://twitter.com/ricefacilities/statu...3620832256

(01-18-2017 12:49 PM)davidw Wrote:  wonder if there are any trophy lunkers in it ?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BPaDsd_grMy

What's the bright yellow field in the reflection of the south scoreboard?
There's nothing bright or yellow on the old scoreboard to reflect...

What do you think.. 2 feet deep at the wall in front of the stands?

(01-18-2017 04:18 PM)WoodlandsOwl Wrote:  What do you think.. 2 feet deep at the wall in front of the stands?

Seems about right. Water was 2+ ft in the streets around Rice and in Montrose. 6 inches in 3 to 4 hours will always do that.

(01-18-2017 03:22 PM)Grungy Wrote:  

(01-18-2017 12:49 PM)davidw Wrote:  https://www.instagram.com/p/BPaDsd_grMy

What's the bright yellow field in the reflection of the south scoreboard?
There's nothing bright or yellow on the old scoreboard to reflect...

Below the word "Methodist", there's a over-exposed rectangular patch of lights at the bottom of the scoreboard that has a yellow tinge to it, color that's barely visible only around its edges.



Maybe those lights are actually bright yellow, but were so bright they were washed out in the camera sensor's direct view, but became more visible when muted in the reflection.

(01-18-2017 12:51 PM)davidw Wrote:  all the news channels in town have asked permission to rebroadcast this picture, apparently.

It appeared on the local ABC affiliate's 11o'clock news here in the San Francisco Bay Area:

That won't be an effective practice field if one of the NFL teams is practicing at Rice (I want to say in 2004 the AFC team practiced at Rice?). Do we know if one of the two teams is practicing at Rice again this year (although it certainly would be more logical for them to practice on the practice field north of the stadium)??

(01-18-2017 06:12 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  That won't be an effective practice field if one of the NFL teams is practicing at Rice (I want to say in 2004 the AFC team practiced at Rice?). Do we know if one of the two teams is practicing at Rice again this year (although it certainly would be more logical for them to practice on the practice field north of the stadium)??

The pumps have been restored and the field is now clear.

With that said, the NFL is in the process of brining our practice field up to their standard for the purposes of super bowl practice. No idea on which team.

This made more headlines than our football did for the last 2 years.

(01-18-2017 06:31 PM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  

(01-18-2017 06:12 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  That won't be an effective practice field if one of the NFL teams is practicing at Rice (I want to say in 2004 the AFC team practiced at Rice?). Do we know if one of the two teams is practicing at Rice again this year (although it certainly would be more logical for them to practice on the practice field north of the stadium)??

The pumps have been restored and the field is now clear.

With that said, the NFL is in the process of brining our practice field up to their standard for the purposes of super bowl practice. No idea on which team.

I assume you mean the grass field in back of Patterson.

(01-18-2017 07:14 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  This made more headlines than our football did for the last 2 years.

It was more entertaining.

(01-18-2017 07:18 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  

(01-18-2017 06:31 PM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  

(01-18-2017 06:12 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  That won't be an effective practice field if one of the NFL teams is practicing at Rice (I want to say in 2004 the AFC team practiced at Rice?). Do we know if one of the two teams is practicing at Rice again this year (although it certainly would be more logical for them to practice on the practice field north of the stadium)??

The pumps have been restored and the field is now clear.

With that said, the NFL is in the process of brining our practice field up to their standard for the purposes of super bowl practice. No idea on which team.

I assume you mean the grass field in back of Patterson.

Yup!

(01-18-2017 07:19 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(01-18-2017 07:14 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  This made more headlines than our football did for the last 2 years.

It was more entertaining.

(01-18-2017 06:31 PM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  With that said, the NFL is in the process of brining our practice field up to their standard for the purposes of super bowl practice.

Nice!! A good salt-water soak does wonders for grass fields. :-)

(01-18-2017 05:42 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(01-18-2017 12:51 PM)davidw Wrote:  all the news channels in town have asked permission to rebroadcast this picture, apparently.

It appeared on the local ABC affiliate's 11o'clock news here in the San Francisco Bay Area:

THIS is what they meant when they said "Stanford's game at Rice to be played down under"

(01-18-2017 05:36 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(01-18-2017 03:22 PM)Grungy Wrote:  

(01-18-2017 12:49 PM)davidw Wrote:  https://www.instagram.com/p/BPaDsd_grMy

What's the bright yellow field in the reflection of the south scoreboard?
There's nothing bright or yellow on the old scoreboard to reflect...

Below the word "Methodist", there's a over-exposed rectangular patch of lights at the bottom of the scoreboard that has a yellow tinge to it, color that's barely visible only around its edges.



Maybe those lights are actually bright yellow, but were so bright they were washed out in the camera sensor's direct view, but became more visible when muted in the reflection.

That looks right.
It looks so much taller in the reflection, which could happen with long swells, but there doesn't appear to be much wave action of that scale.

On one of the podcasts, JK mentioned that the NFL paid to remove the crown/flatten the surface, improve the drainage, and put in new sod on the grass field behind Patterson. The NFC team will be practicing there for SB week. He seemed quite pleased to get the improvements paid for by the NFL and will be much better conditions for football practices in Spring/Fall.