Wow, 20 years already. I was a 1L at UH with a contracts midterm the next morning (got to love the first and still only? Sunday night football game in Rice history.) Planned on skipping the game to study (sounds like a lot of current Rice students) but listening on the radio made a snap decision to walk over to the stadium and see history in the making. Set my legal career back 10 years with the abysmal grade earned on the exam but worth it for seeing the moment in person.
(10-16-2014 11:51 AM)exowlswimmer Wrote: Wow, 20 years already. I was a 1L at UH with a contracts midterm the next morning (got to love the first and still only? Sunday night football game in Rice history.) Planned on skipping the game to study (sounds like a lot of current Rice students) but listening on the radio made a snap decision to walk over to the stadium and see history in the making. Set my legal career back 10 years with the abysmal grade earned on the exam but worth it for seeing the moment in person.
I miss the SWC!
I had, ironically, gone to Austin to look for a job, and watched the game with my UT-grad brother.
(10-16-2014 01:13 PM)I45owl Wrote: This is an ambivalent milestone because - for as long as I'd been at Rice - it was "Rice hasn't beaten Texas in 20+ years". Now, guess what?
(10-16-2014 01:13 PM)I45owl Wrote: This is an ambivalent milestone because - for as long as I'd been at Rice - it was "Rice hasn't beaten Texas in 20+ years". Now, guess what?
Now, we avert this issue by not playing Texas.
It's a shame as this was the year we could have very realistically taken down the 'horns.
(10-16-2014 01:13 PM)I45owl Wrote: This is an ambivalent milestone because - for as long as I'd been at Rice - it was "Rice hasn't beaten Texas in 20+ years". Now, guess what?
Now, we avert this issue by not playing Texas.
It's a shame as this was the year we could have very realistically taken down the 'horns.
Well we get them next year I think, and I have high hopes for the team next year
The first UT touchdown was clearly an offensive pass interference. Their receiver pushed our guy, who was read to make the catch, away. The refs were right there and didn't call it. I booed and wouldn't stop booing for about a quester!
At the very end I was still thinking that somehow UT would pull this one out. I thought that they would be able to recover their onside kick and get a field goal at the end thus beating us 20-19. Alas, they came close, but we were able to recover the onside kick.
That was awesome! I still say that we beat them 19- 10.
That was a horrible pass interference penalty. I had a perfect view of it and it was Warrick Franklin (I think) who had a perfect bead on an interception when the UT guy pushed him in the back so he would overrun the ball and the receiver could make the catch. Still haunts me today.
(10-16-2014 03:24 PM)Rice81 Wrote: The first UT touchdown was clearly an offensive pass interference. Their receiver pushed our guy, who was read to make the catch, away. The refs were right there and didn't call it. I booed and wouldn't stop booing for about a quester!
There's a good end-zone view of the play at 5:14 of the middle video posted by gsloth above. To my eye, it doesn't look like the UT receiver pushed off that hard, but it certainly had an effect on our defender.
But nothing was as bad as Peter Gardere not being called out of bounds in 1989 and the 10 point play in the clown basketball game in 1978. But you just have to know that they always have the zebras (and umps) playing for them. Personally, I am still not over the two roughing the punter calls in 97.
(10-16-2014 04:33 PM)texowl2 Wrote: But nothing was as bad as Peter Gardere not being called out of bounds in 1989 and the 10 point play in the clown basketball game in 1978. But you just have to know that they always have the zebras (and umps) playing for them. Personally, I am still not over the two roughing the punter calls in 97.
The one problem that I've always had with the roughing the punter call in 1997 is what the heck was any Rice player doing within 10 yards of the punter on that play? We want him to punt the ball. All we want to do is guard against the fake. I can't imagine anything other than a safe punt call there, and that means you don't go near the punter unless it's a fake.
The night Rice beat Texas was just after my family had moved into our then new home, where we still live here in Hudson Oaks. I wasn't too concerned about not seeing the game on TV as we had yet to get any cable or satellite TV. I just figured we would lose big anyway. Interestingly, we didn't even have our son yet, and he is now a freshman at Tarleton State. So we were home Sunday night getting ready for work the next day when the phone rang and it was my Aggie Father-in-law letting me know what was happening. I could only tune it in on a distant (Austin?) AM radio station and lean over the kitchen sink to hear it.
I watched that game on TV... by chance. I was living in New Orleans at the time. My second year as a vascular Fellow at Ochsner. I had just finished a 3 month 24 hour a day on call episode. I was exhausted. My family out of town. Was surprised that it was on and started watching mainly out of curiosity.
At the end of the game I was yelling and screaming at the top of my lungs...to an empty house.
I'll never forget it.
Glad to see we have them on the schedule next year.
I'll be in Austin to see the game. We should just about be ready to start another 20 year cycle.
(10-16-2014 03:24 PM)Rice81 Wrote: At the very end I was still thinking that somehow UT would pull this one out. I thought that they would be able to recover their onside kick and get a field goal at the end thus beating us 20-19. Alas, they came close, but we were able to recover the onside kick.
That onside kick was recovered by Ed Howard. He then took the ball with him off the field as to tell the refs that if they want to somehow award possession to the Longhorns, they were going to have to rip the ball out of his hands. He still had it in his grasp as he left the field after the game was over.
