(04-14-2022 12:59 PM)Ourland Wrote:  

(04-14-2022 09:35 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  I'm not sure you CAN shade the east.
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Sure it can be done. Build it off the front of the upper deck and extend it out over the lower seating. That's something very easily done if the money is in hand. An architect designs that in his sleep.

Here's a link to and image from a 2011 Rice History Corner post about a 1966 architect's design for a shade structure/"roof" for Rice Stadium:

https://ricehistorycorner.com/2011/08/25...e-stadium/



As Melissa Kean mentioned in her post, Bud Adams, owner of the then-Houston Oilers, was smack-dab in the middle of all this."