(03-19-2020 12:46 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(03-18-2020 04:11 PM)Jonathan Sadow Wrote:  

(03-18-2020 09:40 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Don't forget, after tearing down the goalposts to celebrate the TCU win, I was told that students watching the game in Lubbock all filed down to HRS and did it again after Tech. THAT to me was pretty dang cool and part of what I meant by 'knowing' each other.

That would've been a pretty long walk for those students watching the game in Lubbock to go all the way to Rice Stadium to tear down the goal posts... but I think we all know what you meant. For those still puzzled, that game was Raycom's "SWC Game of the Week" and was televised all around the state.

Sigh... okay Jonathan lol... Students (on campus) watching the game (in Lubbock).

I was trying to make the cool (to me) point that the game wasn't even in our stadium, but the students (at home, watching on TV) decided to tear down OUR goal posts (in Houston)

I recall someone complaining about the cost and Watson saying he'd pay for it every time... so the story goes anyway

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Quote:As a student, loved watching Rice ALMOST take down (H)Akeem and PSJ.... think it was 1982?

That was 1984, in the SWC tournament semifinals, when the Owls nearly erased a 15-point second-half deficit to fall to the Cougars 53-50. For Houston, which wound up as NCAA tournament final runners-up, it was its lowest point output in a game all season.

Wow, I would have guessed earlier than 84. For some reason I remember Ty Washington TORCHING (H)Akeem (at least relatively) and I thought Ty graduated before then. Thanks for the update

By the time the Lubbock game rolled around, the Campos had gotten a little wiser.

I watched the Tech football game alone in my room at WRC. I didn’t realize how many other students were watching, too.
Until after the winning kick, that is, when windows flew open and the now-familiar cheer of GOAL POSTS reverberated through the quad...

Some folks may have been walking, but most of us excitedly RAN to the stadium, where collectively, the dozens of us were turned back by a locked gate and a friendly campus police officer. The goal posts survived that day... but we definitely made a good effort.

(Also... crazy story to hear that Doran called it two days before... the storyline itself was crazy enough already)